Andy Brudtkuhl

I started WordPressSharp in 2014 to make it easier for C# applications to talk to WordPress.

A couple of years ago, a few engineers and I spent a month or two and thousands of dollars teaching a model one thing: when someone types a search, are they looking for help, checking inventory, or shopping?

I stopped asking the language model whether an answer was right.

I kept seeing agent demos that looked magical.

I've been trying to make PM work more repeatable.

A practical guide to building a PM practice platform using Laravel, AI for scenario extraction and grading, and real product decisions from industry leaders.

A practical guide to setting up AI coding agents that learn (and keep learning) your Laravel conventions.

I recently built Snooji, a modern take on the classic Snood puzzle game using Laravel 12 and HTML5 Canvas.

Working with large JSONL files can be a real pain.

Ever wanted to build a search system that's both powerful and globally distributed without managing servers?

Ever tried implementing search on your Laravel site and ended up with slow, irrelevant results?

I recently built a pricing calculator for Laravel Cloud to help developers better understand and estimate their potential hosting costs.

Ever tried searching your site and got a bunch of irrelevant results?

I recently launched Site Spell Checker, a tool that helps website owners find and fix spelling errors before their visitors do.

When I set out to build SiteSearch, I wanted to create more than just another search tool.

While building data processing pipelines at work, I kept running into a simple but annoying problem - converting JSON files to JSONL format.

I recently launched PMPrompt, a curated collection of AI prompts for product managers and AI tools for PMs.

I recently launched SurveySnaps, a platform that makes collecting location-based feedback dead simple using QR codes.

Working with JSON Lines (JSONL) data shouldn't be a headache.

Migrating a WordPress website to a new web host can be a straightforward process, but it's important to plan and prepare in advance to ensure a smooth transition.

A couple years ago we set out to build a service to send an online fax half jokingly as a way to launch a micro SaaS and play with the Stripe API and the Twilio API.

A goal I had in 2020 was to build and launch a micro SaaS product.

Today I launched a new project for 2019 - an Agtech focused email newsletter.

My first project of 2019 was to migrate this 10+ year old WordPress website to a static website.

Full Stack Marketing is the concept of building analytics into your tech stack.

I recently launched a small product for Amazon Affiliates built with Laravel.

Once upon a time SEO was easy...

I had the urge to build and ship something since I gave Hey Kramer to the world.

Updated May 2016.

Some of my first experiments in the world of building a slack bot was to develop a basic Slash command using the WordPress REST API as a backend.

I've spent the last several weeks building Slack bots and other custom integrations.

If you are familiar with building WordPress themes you've likely caught onto the naming convention used for page templates.

Notes and slides from my WordCamp Kansas City 2015 presentation 'Cowboy Coding To Professional Developer'.

I've recently moved several of my content based WordPress sites over to the Twenty Fifteen theme.

When managing dozens of WordPress sites for dozens of different users, streamlining the support process using an excellent help desk system quickly becomes a priority.

TL;DR - I wrote a WordPress plugin to add Terms and Conditions to the registration form when using the Restrict Content Pro plugin .

This is a brief intro to using WordPressSharp to publish a post with C# via the WordPress XML-RPC API.

On a recent WordPress project I had a requirement that any files be opened in a new tab or window.

Data Tables makes it super easy to add pagination, searching, and sorting to tabular data bound with KnockoutJS TL;DR: DataTables provides simple pagination, sorting, and searching capabilties to tabular data bound with KnockoutJS - DEMO So I was working…

TL;DR: WordPress Plugin to apply Bootstrap Styles to Gravity Forms Everyone loves Gravity Forms and everyone loves Bootstrap.

I'm working on a massive WordPress migration project and after we defined taxonomies they needed to be changed or updated.

If you have already defined your custom taxonomy in another plugin and want to use it in a custom post type that you might register in a second plugin, you'll need to add something like this in your custom post type definition.

We have an entire post on tips for running WordPress on IIS, but it seems one of the biggest questions that come up in forums is how to get WordPress permalinks on IIS working properly.

Searching for posts or pages in the WordPress admin by default only includes titles and body content.

I've been testing a massive migration from a proprietary CMS to WordPress (using my WordPress C# client).

Hosted Elasticsearch provides you with the awesomeness that is Elasticsearch without the headaches of managing the server.

Securing Elasticsearch is extremely important if you are running it in production.

While it's not ideal (I prefer NGINX), sometimes you do need to run a WordPress site on a Windows Server running IIS.

This is a short tutorial to install Elasticsearch in 5 minutes on Ubuntu in a Digital Ocean droplet.

There are three basic concepts you need to learn when start to advertise on twitter.