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How to Use Claude Max with OpenCode (Fix the “Out of Extra Usage” Error)

If you’re using OpenCode with a Claude Max subscription, you’ve probably hit this error: You’re not out of usage. Anthropic is detecting that you’re making API calls from OpenCode — not Claude Code — and blocking the request. The error message is misleading. Here’s how to fix it. What’s Happening Anthropic inspects the system[] array […]

April 11, 2026 Read More

WordPress Development in Hyper-Speed: Server-Side Coding Bots

For the past month, I have been coding directly on my live WordPress sites. This has massively sped up my workflows, helped me contribute bug fixes to both WP-CLI and Gutenberg, and opened my eyes to what the future holds. It started when OpenClaw went viral, and I decided to give it a shot. I […]

March 17, 2026 Read More

Claude Code Prompts

Note: This post is outdated. It was written before slash commands, skills, custom agents, etc, existed. Still good for reference material when writing prompts. On this page, I will create a collection of reusable prompts for Claude Code that I found helpful and worth saving. You may find some of these helpful in your workflow […]

July 24, 2025 Read More

How to Successfully Submit Your Plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory: A Comprehensive Guide

If you are a developer ready to share your innovative plugin with the WordPress community, this guide is your roadmap to a successful submission. In this post, we’ll walk through all the required steps and detailed guidelines to ensure your plugin not only meets WordPress.org standards but also provides a solid, secure experience for your […]

April 7, 2025 Read More

How I Used AI to Become a One-Man Digital Powerhouse

Before AI, I was just a writer who knew how to game keywords. But after adopting the technology for my business, I’ve become a digital powerhouse, doing the work that once required a full team. As an early adopter who subscribed to ChatGPT Plus the moment it launched in February 2023, AI has completely transformed […]

February 27, 2025 Read More

The Truth About Digital Gurus (They’re All Frauds)

You’ve seen the business gurus. They offer the keys to the kingdom in exchange for your hard-earned money, usually in the form of a course or series of courses. Their promises include things like a step-by-step guide to earning passive income, or any number of get-rich-quick schemes. What if I told you that all of […]

February 25, 2025 Read More

The Myth of Passive Income (It Doesn’t Exist)

Every entrepreneur dreams of printing money in their sleep. A completely passive income stream that requires no manual intervention and lasts forever. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Well, I can tell you from firsthand experience that true passive income does not exist. Anybody who claims to know a way to make passive income is nothing more […]

February 24, 2025 Read More

The Death of Blogging

Blogging as a business model is almost completely dead, and I am living proof. There are several reasons for this, which I will go over in this blog post, ironically enough. The reason I’m writing it here is because I’m a writer at heart, and it’s the strength that I spent most of my young […]

February 23, 2025 Read More

Using Midjourney to Grow a Pinterest Account and Monetize a WordPress Site

Midjourney, the AI image generator, is an incredible and fascinating tool that can be used in many different ways, including for driving traffic to a blog. This post outlines one such strategy that I have discovered and developed by way of Builder Society in the aftermath of Google’s 2023 and 2024 algorithm updates, which has […]

October 6, 2024 Read More

Using ChatGPT for WordPress Development

Like many WordPress users, for a long time I was not very good at coding, and I patched together customizations based on random things I would find on Stack Overflow and elsewhere. The rise of AI completely changed that for me, because ChatGPT is very good at WordPress. ChatGPT and WordPress WordPress has been around […]

April 2, 2024 Read More