The WordPress Deployment Problem Nobody Talks About Here’s what most WordPress agencies won’t tell you: deployment is a nightmare. Sure — WordPress powers ~43% of the web — but behind those millions of sites lies a dirty secret: most teams are still deploying like it’s 2010. FTP uploads, manual database exports/imports, hoping you remembered to update …

The Challenge: Investment Deal Distribution at Scale Imagine you’re managing an investment deal that needs to reach hundreds of potential investors. Each investor needs: Researching startups and mapping corresponding markets was traditionally a very manual, time-consuming, and imprecise process, and the same holds for investment deal distribution. The M&A industry is known to be challenging, partially …

When I joined a small blockchain startup in Reno, Nevada, I didn’t think I’d end up leading the team that built its core web application. I just wanted to build better React apps. Two years later, I’d learned lessons about leadership, communication, and simplicity that reshaped how I think about software development. Building in the …

Part of the “Conversations with AI” series where I share interesting and useful discussions with AI assistants. These conversations are lightly edited for clarity. The Problem Now that I’ve posted to my blog over ten times, I ran into the scaling issue of only seeing the ten most recent posts on my homepage. When requesting …

I’m going to shake things up a little. This post will be a technical overview of the website I recently built from scratch and deployed at spenpo.com. My blog will still come back to introspection, but its purpose has always been to explain the things I do. Creating content is an attempt at teaching. It’s …