Who Pays for the Information Behind AI Answers?
AI answers depend on original web sources, but citations and occasional referrals won’t fund all the reporting, testing and data behind them.
Old Stack Opinions
Opinionated notes on old-stack and simple-stack development, including PHP, WordPress, LAMP, mature tools, and avoiding unnecessary complexity.
What Is a Website For When People Stop Visiting It for Information?
When AI answers replace the visit, useful websites become sources, proof layers and working systems rather than collections of interchangeable pages.
Does Building in Public Still work?
Building in public still has value, but AI has changed what’s worth sharing. The real story now is ideas, customers, distribution, and business.
What Does Old Stack Mean in Web Development?
Old stack means practical, mature web tools that are easy to host, debug, maintain, and explain to AI coding assistants.
What I Want Old Stack Journal to Be
Practical builders don’t need more hype. They need honest build notes, safer AI habits, useful replies, and people who help them keep going.
The Token Tax of New Tech
AI-assisted development adds a new cost to tech choices: how much context, correction, and retrying your stack needs before it works.
Why I Rebuilt the Automation Receipts UI With Tabler
I rebuilt Automation Receipts around Tabler so every new page didn’t become another custom CSS decision, while keeping the PHP/MySQL app simple.
Codex Makes Old-School Web Development Feel New Again
Codex makes old-school web development feel fresh again by helping with real code, small fixes, repo context, and practical solo builder workflows.
LAMP Is Still Enough for Most Web Projects
Most developers aren’t building Netflix. For normal web projects, PHP, MySQL, Apache and cron still do the job without startup architecture up front. Usually.
Not Every Side Project Needs a Modern JavaScript Stack
Simple stacks like PHP, MySQL, Apache, and cron jobs are still enough for many solo builder projects. Not every web app needs JavaScript complexity.