Ask Joost: AI-powered answers from my blog
I built an AI-powered Q&A feature that lets you ask questions about anything I've written. Here's how it works, and why I built it on Cloudflare Workers AI.
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Do you need a CMS?
For twenty years, wanting a website meant needing a CMS. That's no longer true. The real question people ask now is simpler: how do I get my content on the web?
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Do you need a CMS?
For twenty years, wanting a website meant needing a CMS. That's no longer true. The real question people ask now is simpler: how do I get my content on the web?
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AI optimization is replaying early SEO, just faster
If you were around for early SEO, the current AI-content wave should feel familiar. The difference is speed: what used to take years now takes weeks.
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FAIR, WordPress, and Knowing When to Stop
Over the past year, we, Karim & Joost, have written and talked extensively about the challenges facing WordPress. We’ve been critical. At times, very critical.
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Share Obsidian links that actually work everywhere
I’ve been playing with OpenClaw a lot, and I’m using Obsidian intensely with it. All my processes and even my OpenClaw’s core files live in my Obsidian vault. I
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Why healthy doubt beats AI confidence theater
AI will confidently sign off on anything. The question is whether you will too.
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Building an Autonomous Feedback Agent
What if your users could submit a bug report and have a pull request ready for review before you’ve even seen the ticket? That’s what we built for Rondo Club, a
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Great minds think alike? My WordPress take on Markdown for Agents
Today, Cloudflare announced Markdown for Agents, a feature that automatically converts HTML to markdown at the edge when AI agents request it. Reading their ann
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The silence is deafening: Google’s “agentic” future leaves the WordPress economy behind
Google just announced a massive shift in how the internet shops, and the biggest platform on the web wasn’t even in the room.
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The Tailwind paradox: the high price of “enough”
The news hit the developer community like a cold bucket of water. Adam Wathan, the creator of Tailwind CSS, recently announced that he had to lay off 75% of his
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From installation to integration: Making plugins “agent-ready”
In my last post, I discussed why a design system is the “visual rail” AI needs. But the “Architect” I’ve been describing doesn’t just care about how a site look
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Vibe coding is a trap: why WordPress needs a design system NOW
In my last post, I argued that WordPress needs to become a “Base AI”: a structured foundation that AI can understand and build upon. Before that, I wrote about
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