Open Channels FM: Software Lock-In and AI Tools for Modern Web Businesses

In this episode, Anne Bovelett chats with Dr. Christian Kurze discuss strategies for startups in open source CMS, emphasizing structured sales and sustainable monetization.

I wanted to hook up Claude Code to be able to interact with my local wordpress-develop core development environment via MCP (Model Context Protocol). I couldn’t find documentation specifically for doing this, so I’m sharing how I did it here. Assuming you have set up the environment (with Docker) and started it via npm run…

In this episode, host Matthias Pfefferle chats with software engineer Will Norris, discussing his extensive contributions to open standards, federated identity, and open source, particularly within the WordPress ecosystem and the evolution of decentralized social networking.

Since he spoke to Dean Baquet in 2017, JAŸ-Z hasn’t done an interview. Hov’s back! He sat down with GQ, and it’s a lovely listen and read. We played enough defense, 2026 is all about offense. Your morality defines who you are, not what you’ve attained.

The fastest and easiest way to add a chatbot to your WordPress site is with Hyve, a free WordPress chatbot plugin. It offers enough bandwidth for most light-traffic sites, such as personal blogs, smaller ecommerce stores, or sites representing a local brick-and-mortar business. If you have more extensive needs, it also offers a reasonably priced……