Articles
Dustin writes about WordPress hosting, site speed, AI tools, and marketing for local businesses, drawn from his work at Iridium Hosting and 509Brand.
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Why Defining 'Good' Is the Key to Achieving Your Goals
Just heard on a podcast that the biggest reason people fail to hit their goals…
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Future-Proof Your Security in the AI Age
The rules of digital security are changing fast. What worked for decades is being rewritten…
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How Claude Code Fixed Our Fragile Phone System
We had a problem. A complex, fragile phone system that the team was too scared…
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Why Small Businesses Can Finally Compete Again
Right now, an auto mechanic and a freelance graphic designer use the same accounting software.…
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Keeping WordPress Sites Secure: A Morning Cleanup Story
I cleaned another WordPress site this morning. It is one of my least favorite things…
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When AI Finally Spoke My Language
Today marks a new beginning. I was responding to a client email this morning and…
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The Hidden Risk of Copy-Pasting AI Content
This is a reminder and for those who do not know: if you copy and…
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How AI Search Is Bringing Back Old-School Branding
Everyone is talking about how AI will change search, but most of the focus is…
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Industry Rules Revisited
The longer I work in any industry, the clearer one truth becomes: most of what…
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Why Are Big Company Websites So Bad?
I am amazed all the time at how big businesses have such terrible websites. The…
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WordPress Website Speed Optimization Guide
I've been working with WordPress and building websites for clients since 2007. In that time,…
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The AWS Outage Nobody Saw Coming
Today’s AWS outage revealed a critical lesson about modern business infrastructure that I need to…
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Why We Can't Blindly Trust AI Responses
After seeing Anthropic's recent post about how easily language models can be poisoned with just…
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Reasons Why Website Speed Kills Your Business
Guess what: your website speed affects everything. When your site loads slowly, it impacts your…
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Meeting Matt Mullenweg at WCUS
Life update: Jeremy Koering and I got to have a very cool discussion about WordPress…
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How I Optimize Images for Free with Squoosh
One of the biggest culprits I see for slow websites is image size. Large, unoptimized…
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