Notes on agentic development.

Journal WooCommerce checkout breaks when state and time stop agreeing

Sep 30, 2026

WooCommerce checkout breaks when state and time stop agreeing

Most WooCommerce bugs are race conditions and retries—fix determinism, not just the symptoms in code.

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Journal Legacy WordPress won’t “optimize” itself—measure or you’re guessing

Sep 29, 2026

Legacy WordPress won’t “optimize” itself—measure or you’re guessing

We rebuilt a legacy WP stack with receipts: real bottlenecks, real baselines, and a plan that survived production traffic.

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Journal LLMs.txt is robots.txt for answer engines, and ignoring it bites later

Sep 28, 2026

LLMs.txt is robots.txt for answer engines, and ignoring it bites later

Your page can rank and still get ignored or misquoted—llms.txt and citation-ready formatting make the difference.

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Journal That “random” Woo checkout bug was an idempotency race

Sep 27, 2026

That “random” Woo checkout bug was an idempotency race

We traced the “random” WooCommerce checkout failures to a webhook/idempotency race and fixed it with locks + idempotent flows.

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Journal Multi-tenant onboarding is a pricing problem, not an auth problem

Sep 26, 2026

Multi-tenant onboarding is a pricing problem, not an auth problem

We fixed onboarding churn by changing pricing mechanics and permissioning defaults—auth was just the symptom.

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Journal ISR-style revalidation can ship stale content—here’s the bug class

Sep 25, 2026

ISR-style revalidation can ship stale content—here’s the bug class

We hit a “stale but valid” cache path in headless WP: pages looked fine, but the data was wrong for hours.

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