Search “how to start a blog” and you get two answers that don’t agree. One says the easiest route is a free hosted platform. The other says if you want ad money, self-host WordPress. Both are right — they’re just measuring different things. Easy and profitable pull in opposite directions. I run this blog on … Read more
You’ve got the idea. It’s the PRD, the feature specs, the user flows, and the wireframes that never quite get written. Planning is where the time leaks out. Manyfast (매니패스트) is a tool that writes those planning docs for you by talking them through with an AI. I haven’t used it myself — this is … Read more
Scroll the top-grossing charts on any app store and you keep hitting the same kind of game. Something called “Idle” this or “AFK” that, parked near the top, out-earning games you’d expect to see there. No flashy MMORPG, no twitch skill — and the money is real. I went digging through the revenue charts to … Read more
While building this blog I got curious about its speed, so I measured our own site. The result was a little funny. On desktop the homepage painted in about half a second, and yet one clear problem stood out. So here is the walk-through, using our own site as the example: where to actually start … Read more
I was scrolling the Google Play charts last week and did a small double take. The apps sitting at the top of the free list were not the ones I open every day. A short-drama app and a couple of oddball puzzle games were riding high, while the usual giants were nowhere near the top. … Read more
When you build something that sells online or charges a subscription, you eventually run into the same wall: taking payments. Dropping a “Pay” button onto a page sounds simple, but underneath it you have to connect to card networks and banks, handle card details safely, meet strict security rules, and deal with refunds and payouts. … Read more
When you first install WordPress, the dashboard can feel surprisingly bare. You can write and publish posts, but a lot of the things you will actually want — a way for readers to reach you, a nudge to help your posts show up in search, a safety net for when something breaks — simply are … Read more
You can build software now without writing a single line of code yourself. You describe what you want in plain language, and an AI writes the code for you. This way of working — describing what you want and refining the result, instead of typing the code by hand — is what people call vibe … Read more
When you decide to build a site with WordPress, the first real choice is not your theme or your colors. It is where the site will actually live: your hosting. A theme is easy to swap whenever you feel like it, but hosting is different. Once you settle in, moving somewhere else takes real effort. … Read more
A practical guide to five of the most widely used free WordPress themes as of July 2026 — Astra, GeneratePress, Kadence, OceanWP, and Blocksy — with features and how to choose.