Writing
I write about open source, WordPress, community building, AI, and whatever else is on my mind. I often prefer long form over short takes, but it can go either way.
Two scanners graded my site on how usable it is by AI agents. The highest-scoring thing I added was a text file saying my site has no login.
WordPress now has two AI systems that point in opposite directions: one where WordPress calls an AI, and one where an AI calls WordPress. Here’s how each actually works as of WordPress 7.1, and why the Abilities API sitting underneath them is the part that matters.
I gave a talk at WordCamp US about whether WordPress is ready for the agentic web. My answer: core has the plumbing, the plugin ecosystem hasn’t shown up yet, and most of the agent-readiness checklist we’re all chasing does nothing at all right now.
Most agent-readiness advice is about helping agents read your site. Here is what it took to let one actually do something: send me a message through my contact form, using the same endpoint the form itself uses.
When Claude and I were working on building this WordPress site, I was really pleasantly surprised when it made the decision to build the content form using native WordPress functionality…
I don’t only want my site to be agent-ready; I also want it to be generally healthy and optimized for the web overall. So I have a monthly process running…
Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal and co-founder of Acquia, built a tool called headers.dev that analyzes the HTTP security headers on any website and gives it a score. I came…
I’m a tiny bit obsessed with iterating my site to agenty-ready and web-optimized perfection. That’s why I’ve spent many sessions running my site against specification.website‘s checklist and fixing what it…
A conversation about why WordPress core still ships so few AI abilities and the limitations they have got me thinking: why am I making my site fully dependent on Abilities…
A real example of hidden instructions embedded in a product’s website, why the same risk shows up in AI agent skills and hooks more broadly, and a free scanner worth knowing about before installing one.