Blog — Daniel Sjö

Coding with AI can make you move fast, but only if the picture in your head is clear. Here’s what I learned using AI agents as a developer.

I can’t stress this enough. A website checklist is one of those things that feels boring until the day it saves you. You pour your time, your energy, honestly a lot of yourself into building a website. And then months later you stumble across some small issue that quietly discredits all that effort. Makes your brand look bad. Or worse, it’s the reason you’re not getting the results you actually deserve, like not getting indexed properly or not ranking where you should be in search engines.

Let me just say it straight. If your business doesn’t have a website in 2026, you’re missing out on a huge chunk of people looking for you. 81% of consumers research online before making a purchase, and if you’re not there, you don’t exist to them.

I want to tell you the real story behind KingdomPlay — not the polished version, but the honest one. The one that includes 10 years of sitting on an idea, almost giving up, and my wife being the one who wouldn’t let me quit.

Most sites don’t need WordPress. After moving 25+ sites to static site generators like Astro and Hugo, here’s what I learned about cost, security, speed, and when WordPress is just the wrong tool.

Shortcuts feel good but they don’t build real expertise. Here’s why learning the hard way is the only way that actually sticks and how to stay consistent when life is full.