2026-04

Posts published in 2026-04.

April 15, 20266 min read

Breaking Up With WordPress After Two Decades

Around Black Friday last November, I moved my website from SiteGround to Bluehost. This was not some ambitious infrastructure decision. SiteGround wanted roughly five times more...

April 8, 20264 min read

Your Work Introduces You

Years ago, when I first joined Tripadvisor, we had a tool that moved data to Amazon Redshift. One of the engineers went on holiday, the tool had a few bugs, and people were bloc...

April 2, 20269 min read

Trial By Fire

Teams spend months hiring a strong candidate. Sourcing, interviews, debriefs, approvals, compensation, notice period. Everyone treats the hire like a serious investment. Then th...