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Copilot Pricing Made Me Switch AI Coding Tools
Eleven days after Copilot changed pricing, Antigravity and Codex have proved better value for real AI-assisted development work.
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GitHub Copilot’s Bait-and-Switch Pricing
GitHub encouraged developers to rely on premium AI models, then repriced usage 50x. My April bill: $39. June equivalent: $1,941.07. Here is what I am switching to.
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Friction in Web Design: Why a 25-Year-Old Concept Is Suddenly Everywhere
You are hearing the word "friction" everywhere in web design circles in 2026. Here is where it came from, what it really means, and why Google is now actively punishing it.
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reCAPTCHA v3 Silently Fails on Microsoft Edge – Default Browser, Default Settings
Edge's default tracking prevention breaks reCAPTCHA v3 for users who haven't engaged with Google's properties. No ad blocker needed. No error shown. Just lost enquiries.
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WordPress 7 Is Coming: What It Means for Your Website
WordPress 7 brings a modernised admin and AI foundations. The bigger news for my clients is what I'm removing from the stack — and why it means faster, leaner websites.
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Designing Analytics Around What Actually Matters
How Tufte's data-ink ratio and Beck's Underground map inspired a WordPress analytics plugin that shows what real visitors actually do on your website.
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Could Vibe Coding Kill the WordPress Plugin Repository?
AI coding agents let me replace bloated WordPress plugins with lean, custom alternatives. Could vibe coding disrupt the entire plugin economy?
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The 2026 Web Design Paradigm Shift
Decades of ads, popups, and clickbait have trained users to distrust the web. The biggest trust signal now is a website that does not try to trick you.
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The Trust Funnel: Why Your Website Copy Probably Starts Wrong
Most client website briefs lead with expertise and credentials. Research shows that's backwards - and here's the trust funnel structure that actually converts.
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How AI Coding Agents Freed Me to Focus on Design
I rebuilt the same app across three frameworks in one day with AI writing every line. The bottleneck was never coding — it was always design.
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How AI Connects to Your WordPress Site: REST, MCP, and SSH Compared
Three ways AI can manage your WordPress site — REST API, MCP, and SSH with WP-CLI. A practical comparison from a developer who uses all three.
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Web Design: Trust, Not Noise
The story of rebuilding my own agency website. Why trust-building matters more than flashy design, and what 30 years of UX taught me about authenticity.
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