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description: Personal blog by Joost de Valk about SEO, WordPress, the open web, AI, and building things.
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# joost.blog

Personal blog by Joost de Valk. I write about SEO, WordPress, the open web, AI, and building things.

## Recent articles

- [A new home for Progress Planner, and for us](/progress-planner-joins-your-online/)
- [Lovable should sponsor TanStack](/sponsor-tanstack/)
- [Block the abuse, not the future](/block-the-abuse/)
- [Fixing the plumbing of the web](/fixing-the-plumbing/)
- [Open Source First is right, but not enough.](/open-source-first-not-enough/)
- [Agent-ready by design](/agent-native/)
- [What's a visitor in the age of AI?](/what-is-a-visitor/)
- [FAQ schema died twice. The fix is FAQSection.](/faq-schema-cycle/)
- [Vol. XV: out with the AI slop](/vol-xv/)
- [If WordPress gets CPTs in Core, we also need custom fields](/wordpress-custom-fields-in-core/)

[Full archive](/blog/) — 90 articles total