// Web engineer · WordPress · AI · Performance · Tooling
I’m Ivan.
I explore WordPress, AI, performance, and developer tooling to build better experiences on the web.
This site is my public notebook: deep technical tutorials, short notes, experiments, talks, and links from years of building for the web.
// Exploring WordPress, AI, performance, and developer tooling.
// FEATURED TOPICS
Where I spend my time on the web
Engineering notes from large-scale WordPress builds.
How I use LLMs day-to-day, and where they actually help.
Real numbers from real sites — caching, queries, Core Web Vitals.
Platform primitives — what's new, what's stable, what's worth using.
Editor setup, CLI scripts, CI tricks, things that compound.
// THINGS I’VE BUILT
Projects
Allowealth
ActivePersonal and family financial application.
Cloudflare API CLI
ActiveManage your Cloudflare accounts through a CLI interface.
Zsh Dotfiles
ActiveOpinionated ZSH settings.
WP Passkey
ActivePasswordless authentication for WordPress.
// LATEST NOTES · TIL · EXPERIMENTS · LINKS
What I’ve been working on
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How to code with AI agents
I use AI agents every day: not just to write code, but for research, brainstorming, planning, and user testing. I wrote an article on Human Made blog:
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Learning to build Machine Learning
This weekend I spent hours learning prediction.io. PredictionIO is an open-source machine learning server for developers and data scientists to build and deploy predictive applications in a fraction of the time. Prediction.io makes machine learning very easy to learn. Its architecture makes it easy to train the machine and deploy it. It is based on…