Marcin Dudek — Blog https://marcindudek.dev/blog/ Notes on building software, AI experiments, and shipping products. en mythug@gmail.com (Marcin Dudek) mythug@gmail.com (Marcin Dudek) Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Hook That Won't Let the Agent Say "Done" https://marcindudek.dev/blog/claude-code-quality-gates-stop-hook/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/claude-code-quality-gates-stop-hook/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Claude Code AI Engineering Hooks That Won't Let the AI Shoot Me in the Foot https://marcindudek.dev/blog/claude-code-guardrails-pretooluse/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/claude-code-guardrails-pretooluse/ Mon, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Claude Code AI Engineering How I Stop My Claude Code Sessions From Rotting https://marcindudek.dev/blog/claude-code-context-rot-handoff/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/claude-code-context-rot-handoff/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Claude Code AI Engineering Scrape Pass — Get paid when AI reads your site https://marcindudek.dev/blog/scrape-pass/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/scrape-pass/ Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI Monetization Build Your Own Morning Dashboard - A One-Page Recipe https://marcindudek.dev/blog/build-your-own-morning-dashboard/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/build-your-own-morning-dashboard/ Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Engineering DevOps WordPress Plugin Auto-Update via Polar — and the 3 Bugs I Shipped in 24 Hours https://marcindudek.dev/blog/wordpress-plugin-auto-update-polar/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/wordpress-plugin-auto-update-polar/ Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 WordPress Engineering Post-Mortem I Checked If Ghost Is The Answer To WordPress Problems https://marcindudek.dev/blog/ghost-vs-wordpress/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/ghost-vs-wordpress/ Tue, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 WordPress Ghost CMS 30 WooCommerce Performance Tips That Actually Work (2026) https://marcindudek.dev/blog/30-wordpress-woocommerce-performance-tips-2026/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/30-wordpress-woocommerce-performance-tips-2026/ Mon, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 WordPress Performance My Morning Dashboard Went Blank for a Day — The Dropbox Pattern That Should Have Saved It https://marcindudek.dev/blog/self-healing-morning-dashboard-dropbox-pattern/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/self-healing-morning-dashboard-dropbox-pattern/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Engineering DevOps WordPress Manifesto - 15 Years In, Here's What's Actually Broken https://marcindudek.dev/blog/wordpress-manifesto/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/wordpress-manifesto/ Mon, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 WordPress Opinion 288,493 Requests in 24 Hours — How I Spotted an XML-RPC Brute Force From a Weird Cache Ratio https://marcindudek.dev/blog/xmlrpc-brute-force-cache-rate/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/xmlrpc-brute-force-cache-rate/ Sun, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 WordPress Security Oxford Debate: API vs MCP — The Future of AI Tool Integration https://marcindudek.dev/blog/oxford-debate-api-vs-mcp/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/oxford-debate-api-vs-mcp/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI Debate I Ran 56 Experiments to Find the Best Way to Make AI Watch Videos https://marcindudek.dev/blog/56-experiments-ai-video-captioning/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/56-experiments-ai-video-captioning/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI Exit Interview: The AI Hustler Speaks https://marcindudek.dev/blog/ai-hustler-interview/ https://marcindudek.dev/blog/ai-hustler-interview/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Interview