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A rotating selection of guides worth your time.
Positioning for Solo Founders: For Whom, Against What, Why You
Most founder positioning is a slogan back-filled from "we are the easy X for everyone." The real method runs the other way: the alternative the buyer would actually pick, the attribute only you have, the value it creates, the one segment that cares most.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): How to Get Cited by AI Search
AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity answer the question instead of handing over ten blue links. AEO is how you get cited in that answer. Here is what it is, how it differs from classic SEO, and the method to make a page quotable.
Why Your AI Skills Should Talk to Each Other
Thirty great prompts in a folder is not a system. The value is prompts that know when to call each other: a review that convenes a security pass on auth code, on a concrete trigger, without you remembering to ask.
Make Your AI Code-Review Like a Senior
Most AI reviews hand you twenty nitpicks and miss the one thing that should block the merge. The lane method fixes that: four ordered passes, real severity tiers, and the rule that makes a review feel senior.
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Fresh tutorials and guides from the MaxtDesign team.
Half of a dev team's meeting decisions could not be found later
One month, 26 recorded meetings, 45 engineering decisions, four systems of record. Here is where each decision ended up, and why half of them are gone.
Why WordPress plugins are not cryptographically signed
WordPress shipped Ed25519 signature verification in 5.2 and has never once enforced it. Why turning it on is harder than writing it was.
How to tell whether a WordPress plugin is still maintained
Review support responses, release history, compatibility and security issues before deciding whether to keep a WordPress plugin.
Does the EU Cyber Resilience Act apply to your WordPress plugin?
Check your product and CRA role before applying a reporting deadline. Current Commission guidance distinguishes manufacturers and open-source software stewards.
Why WordPress still cannot tell you who published your plugins
WordPress has tried three times to sign its plugins and failed three times, never on the cryptography. What I found when I went looking for the next attack.
Marketing Attribution Without Fooling Yourself
Last-click attribution quietly kills the channels that created your demand. The honest method: one north-star, clean UTMs, a stated attribution model, and triangulation against a self-report survey.
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