Reflections on digital commerce, performance, and the tools shaping our future—told with curiosity, honesty, and a bit of Montana grit.

My llms.txt Got Zero Reads. So I Read My Logs to See Who Actually Crawls My Site.

July 27, 2026

My llms.txt got zero AI reads, and a 137,000-site study agrees. Here is what my server logs say actually crawls a site, and why the fundamentals still win.

July 23, 2026

The DCAPItator: A First-Person History of Headless Commerce

The fuller story of how headless commerce got its name, including the undocumented Elastic Path engineering legend behind the DCAPItator.

March 6, 2026

The End of Bicameral AI: Scale Solved Capability, Not Continuity

Why Continuity-Regulated Intelligence (CRI) Is a Layer 0 Requirement for AGI Scale solved capability. It

February 24, 2026

Commerce Protocols Solved Checkout. The Hard Part Comes Next.

I hate running out of pantry staples and prefer to keep backups of the essentials,

January 28, 2026

From the V-Model to Real User Feedback

For a long time, the dominant question in software delivery wasn’t how fast we could

October 1, 2025

Get Ready for the First Cyborg Monday

In my recent Fast Company article, I introduced the idea that this holiday season won’t

September 23, 2025

Rewrite vs. Enhance: Finally a Data-Driven Answer

Every product manager or engineer who’s inherited someone else’s codebase knows the question: Do we

September 15, 2025

AI Shopping Bots are ghosts

Digital analytics platforms like Google Analytics 4 or Adobe Analytics, along with RUM tools, aren’t

August 15, 2025

AI Agents Need a New Kind of Account Management in E-Commerce

It just dawned on me: account management in e-commerce platforms needs to be completely reimagined to

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