MECANIK DEV LTD · London, UK

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Stay up-to-date with my most recent blog posts, covering a wide range of topics in web development, programming, security, infrastructure, and artificial intelligence. Explore new techniques and stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of technology.

Drupal Commerce: When It Beats Shopify

Drupal Commerce: When It Beats Shopify

Drupal Commerce is the wrong answer for most online shops. That is not a criticism of the project, which is well engineered and has been for fifteen years. It is a statement about what most shops are: a few hundred SKUs, one currency, consumer customers, a card payment at the end. For that shape of...

Drupal 12: What Changes and When to Move

Drupal 12: What Changes and When to Move

Drupal 12 is scheduled for the week of 7 December 2026, and Drupal 10 reaches end of life on 9 December 2026. Both dates sit on the same page of the Drupal core release schedule, two lines apart, and most people running a Drupal 10 site have noticed neither. The first alpha of the new major was...

AI Detector Accuracy: Why They Get It Wrong

AI Detector Accuracy: Why They Get It Wrong

Two very different people type ai detector into a search box in the same hour. One is a marketing manager who has published forty pages drafted with help from a language model and has been told that Google will punish the site for it. The other has been accused of cheating because a tool returned a...

AI Agent Payments: What Agentic Commerce Means for Merchants

AI Agent Payments: What Agentic Commerce Means for Merchants

AI agent payments have produced four competing specifications, two industry foundations and an enormous amount of coverage in about a year. What they have not yet produced, for the overwhelming majority of merchants, is revenue. The gap between the noise and the numbers is the useful part to...

Cloudflare AI Gateway: Control Your LLM Costs

Cloudflare AI Gateway: Control Your LLM Costs

Most teams call a model provider straight from application code. The API key sits in an environment variable, the SDK call is three lines, and it works first time. Cloudflare AI Gateway exists because of what happens next. The bill arrives and nobody can say which feature caused it. The provider has...

Agentforce: What Salesforce AI Agents Actually Cost

Agentforce: What Salesforce AI Agents Actually Cost

Agentforce is priced by consumption, and that single fact should change how you budget for it. Most Salesforce buyers arrive with a seat-licence mental model, ask what an agent costs per user per month, and get a number that does not describe their bill. The bill is a function of how many actions...

Salesforce Integration: Limits, Rails and Real Cost

Salesforce Integration: Limits, Rails and Real Cost

A salesforce integration almost never fails on protocol. Authenticating is a solved problem and posting a record is a solved problem. What ends projects is the daily request allocation and the shape of the data model, both usually discovered about three weeks after go-live, when the nightly job...

Elementor vs a Custom Theme: The Real Cost

Elementor vs a Custom Theme: The Real Cost

The Elementor vs custom theme argument is usually conducted as a matter of taste, and occasionally as tribal identity. It is neither. It is a cost question with a predictable shape: a page builder moves cost out of the build and into the operating life of the site. Whether that is a good trade...

WordPress Plugin Development That Survives Core Updates

WordPress Plugin Development That Survives Core Updates

Most WordPress plugin development follows the same arc. Somebody needs a booking form, a feed importer or an extra field at checkout, a developer writes it, it works, everyone moves on. Two years later the site is stuck on an old version of WordPress because nobody is confident that plugin will...

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