What Is Web Application Development?
A plain-English explainer of web application development: web apps, websites, databases, workflows, WordPress, custom apps, tools, and testing.
WordPress
What Is WordPress Development?
WordPress development means practical theme, plugin, admin, workflow, API, performance, security, and maintenance work around real site needs.
What Is a WordPress Workflow?
A WordPress workflow is a repeatable path for drafting, reviewing, publishing, automating, or moving work through WordPress with human review.
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.
Make the Bug Smaller Before You Ask AI to Fix It
Before handing a bug to AI, shrink the problem first. A smaller repro saves tokens, reduces bad fixes, and makes debugging less messy.
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.
I Plugged My HTML Promo Video Template Into My WordPress Social Desk
I added my HTML promo video template to a WordPress plugin, so each article can generate social drafts and reusable video HTML from one place.
I Built a Manual Social Posting Desk for Old Stack Journal
I built a WordPress social posting desk that turns articles into platform-ready drafts while keeping the final posting manual and human.
Building the OSJ AI Tool Matrix
I built the OSJ AI Tool Matrix as a custom WordPress plugin, because a hand-edited table of AI tools sounded like a future migraine with admin edits. Oh…