Sean Davis

Former Partner at @SandhillsDev. Latest project: Keystone - The Internal Knowledge Base for WordPress Owner of @CrispyDiv.

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

I built an internal knowledge base plugin for #WordPress. Check it out at: https://t.co/fO0okseS6G

It's made for teams operating in WordPress that want a better handle on their organizational knowledge.

Let me know what you think. 🙏

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@dannyvankooten I'm right there with you.

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

I'm still thinking about this article that Danny shared yesterday.

I rarely have my head in the clouds when it comes to AI. I consider myself aware. Something about this article is weighing heavy on me, though. I'm not sure what.

[Danny van Kooten @dannyvankooten]

@SeanChDavis Right? If he just left it at this post (which I think is quite good), I could sympathize. But this path of active resistance and hindering how other people work, meh.

https://t.co/MprJH5E7sd

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@DerekAshauer Wow! That's actually insane. That's one way to get over that initial fear of freelancing and just jump in.

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

Literally any vBulletin forum dedicated to a subject that I cared about.

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010.

What’s the one website/app you still think about?

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@DerekAshauer Nice! I wish I had done the same. I was just a user turned DIYer for my own early side projects. This was long before I ever knew I'd earn a living from it!

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@dimensionmedia Same. And "retweet" is just too satisfying.

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@PineDigitalCo Sorry, re-reading your post and it sounds like you want to keep the actual docs site separate? I originally thought you were talking about changing course and bring the docs in fully. Either way, I've seen both happen. 👌

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@PineDigitalCo Totally possible. That's sort of Keystone is. https://t.co/fO0okseS6G

You'd basically just need to create a custom view in admin for the doc entries, which would most likely be custom post types.

It basically felt like building a theme inside of WP admin.

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@bismaciej @PineDigitalCo That's infuriating. All it takes is one "bad" actor for so much damage to be done.

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@arunaswp @dannyvankooten Yep. I draw a similar conclusion in another response to this thread.

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@dannyvankooten Good read! I'm not mad at that article/position at all. I respect it.

Jumping from that position to literally prompting AI through users' workflows was indeed a wild and ironic decision. It makes me think he was trying to make a specific point, welcoming the smoke.

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@rmelogli I've been in partnerships where someone else handles the marketing, which I am cool with. That's basically how it has to be for me, because I will not put much effort into selling something.

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

I know some folks are still on the fence about using AI to write code. As a developer, I've yet to feel like I've handed over my responsibility to solve problems, which was the point of writing the code.

I don't know. Meticulous prompting feels quite the same.

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@dannyvankooten Yes. Next question.

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@DaronSpence I hear you! I've definitely seen it play out that way. It makes documented knowledge transfer a short-term solution at best.

Thanks for the input!

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

Folks who build and hand off client sites, how do you handle the knowledge transfer? What have you tried and what has actually worked?

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@DaronSpence So you're saying there's never really a clean "here's everything you need to know" moment, but instead an ongoing knowledge transfer (aka support)?

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

This will be really fun to go through.

[Joost de Valk @jdevalk]

Launching https://t.co/36UBUXMmiq.

A platform-agnostic spec of what a good website does: SEO, accessibility, security, agent-readiness, performance, privacy, i18n.

Every claim cites a source. Ships with a checklist, llms.txt, MCP server, and Agent Skill.

Free. Open Source.

[Sean Davis @SeanChDavis]

@PineDigitalCo Got it. That's actually how I've always done it as well.

We almost always had living documents (throughout development) that could eventually serve as reference documentation. Then I would make myself available in some way after the transfer.

Thanks for the input!