Putting AI Coding Agents on Rails: What a Constrained Harness Looks Like
What a constrained AI coding harness looks like — curated project memory, enforced TDD, policy gates, and living codebase docs. Practical lessons from building one.
Notes from the workshop
Field notes on WordPress, custom software, and putting AI coding agents on rails — written from 25+ years of building and maintaining real sites for real teams. Practical lessons, the occasional war story, and the reasoning behind how I work.
Empowering Event Management: a Convenely Case Study
Convenely — a config-driven WordPress platform for festival and event organisations: CRM, flexible payment plans, ticketing, mailing lists, automations, and multi-site fleet management.
Inside a Multi-Year Product Engineering Engagement with Iconic Group
A look at a multi-year contract engineering engagement with Iconic Group — building page and form tooling, a brand-asset pipeline, and an AI-assisted delivery harness on a shared WordPress platform, all under automated quality controls.
Why Flexible Payment Plans Change Event Ticketing
Why flexible payment plans change event ticketing economics — how to implement installment payments with Stripe, and what the data model looks like.
How I Keep AI Coding Agents on Rails: A Gated, Test-Driven Harness
AI coding agents are fast and confidently wrong. Here is the gated, test-driven harness I wrap around them — a finite-state workflow with hard gates, docs-first context loading, and a failing test before any change — so speed never costs discipline.
React + MapBox Property Mapping Inside WordPress/ClassicPress
How to build a React/MapBox property search application inside a WordPress or ClassicPress site — architecture, filtering, REST API data layer, and performance.
Riverwood Properties: WordPress Rebuild and Custom React/MapBox Property Search
Earthman Media rebuilt Riverwood Properties’ site on a custom WordPress/ClassicPress theme and built a React/MapBox property search application with advanced filtering — delivered on time and within budget.
Coradine / LogTenPro: Gutenberg Blocks, SCSS Design System, and Static Deploys
How Earthman Media built pixel-perfect Gutenberg blocks from Figma designs for Coradine/LogTenPro, established a SCSS design system, and implemented Simply Static CI deploys.
Seattle Public Schools: 106-Site WordPress Multisite at Scale
How Earthman Media built and maintains a 106-site WordPress multisite network for Seattle Public Schools — custom Gutenberg blocks, role-based admin, and hundreds of editors.