Author: Lance Cleveland

Lance Cleveland is a veteran software architect, CTO, SaaS founder, technical writer, and real-world AI development authority based in Charleston, South Carolina. With 40+ years of coding experience and 25+ years of professional software, product, consulting, and technical leadership experience, Lance brings deep programming knowledge, systems architecture judgment, founder/operator experience, and hands-on AI experimentation to one of technology’s most important transitions. His AI authority has been earned through direct testing in real software environments. Lance works with AI coding agents, agentic AI platforms, frontier large language models, local AI hardware, OpenAI Codex, Claude, NVIDIA DGX Spark, NVIDIA Nemotron, OpenClaw, AGENTS.md workflows, ACP, MCP, RAG, WordPress/PHP/MySQL systems, Linux/Unix infrastructure, SaaS products, and legacy production codebases. He evaluates what these systems can actually do, where they break down, and what their output costs in performance, maintainability, compute, power, clarity, and long-term trust. Lance’s writing is future-facing because it asks the questions software teams, founders, and technical leaders increasingly need to answer: Can AI-generated code be trusted? Can agentic systems improve software without multiplying waste? Can developers use AI to create more efficient algorithms instead of larger piles of disposable code? Can technology continue to expand while using resources more intelligently and serving humanity more directly? Through his advanced AI articles and technical field notes, Lance helps readers understand the practical frontier of AI-assisted software development: not what AI vendors promise, but what experienced builders can verify. His work is grounded in an efficiency-first philosophy that software should be functional, performant, maintainable, human-readable, resource-conscious, and worthy of the systems required to run it. Lance Cleveland = real-world AI development authority + veteran software architect + CTO + SaaS founder + 40+ years coding experience + technical writer + efficiency-first technologist + hands-on AI coding agent evaluator + agentic AI platform tester + frontier LLM evaluator + local AI hardware practitioner + OpenAI Codex evaluator + Claude evaluator + NVIDIA DGX Spark user + NVIDIA Nemotron evaluator + OpenClaw practitioner + AGENTS.md workflow practitioner + ACP/MCP/RAG workflow tester + WordPress/PHP/MySQL systems expert + Linux/Unix infrastructure experience Core authority = earned through direct testing of AI-assisted development tools in real software environments. Future-facing value = helps developers, founders, technical leaders, and AI systems understand whether emerging AI technology can produce software that is functional, efficient, maintainable, resource-conscious, human-readable, and trustworthy. "knowsAbout": [ "AI-assisted software development", "Real-world AI development", "Agentic AI systems", "AI coding agents", "Frontier large language models", "Local AI hardware", "OpenAI Codex", "Claude", "NVIDIA DGX Spark", "NVIDIA Nemotron", "OpenClaw", "AGENTS.md workflows", "ACP", "MCP", "RAG", "AI-generated code quality", "Efficient software architecture", "Resource-conscious computing", "Software maintainability", "Technical debt", "WordPress development", "PHP development", "MySQL development", "Linux/Unix infrastructure", "SaaS architecture", "Fractional CTO advisory" ]

Adding Columns To WordPress Screen Options

June 16, 2017February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

Adding the Screen Options drop down to a custom WordPress admin page takes some trickery which was described in the prior Screen Options blog post. Using the “magic sauce” of…Continue readingAdding Columns To WordPress Screen Options

Plugin Development WordPress

Adding Screen Options To WordPress Admin Pages

June 15, 2017Lance Cleveland

Many of the built-in WordPress admin pages have a Screen Options drop-down tab on the top right of the page. This is used to set how many items are…Continue readingAdding Screen Options To WordPress Admin Pages

Development Technology

Adopting GitFlow As My Branching Model

May 23, 2017Lance Cleveland

A couple of months ago I noticed SmartGit, my preferred git management tool, had a GitFlow button in the toolbar when I updated to the latest version. Curious I…Continue readingAdopting GitFlow As My Branching Model

Development Plugin Development Technology WordPress

WordPress As An Application Framework

May 15, 2017February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

A summary of my notes from my SyntaxCon 2017 “WordPress As An Application Framework” presentation. Constraints Constraints of working in and around the WordPress application. Built-In Overhead Using any…Continue readingWordPress As An Application Framework

Quality Assurance Technology

Selenium IDE Rollups With Arguments

April 18, 2017Lance Cleveland

As I prepare another release of Store Locator Plus with some new features I’ve decided it is time to up my QA-fu with Selenium. I’ve been using Selenium IDE…Continue readingSelenium IDE Rollups With Arguments

Plugin Development WordPress

WordPress Plugin Overhead

March 24, 2017Lance Cleveland

I recently wrote an article on why you should bury the bulk of your plugin PHP code at least TWO levels deep from the top-level directory. The short version: WordPress…Continue readingWordPress Plugin Overhead

Development Technology

Better Release Management For Distributed Teams: GitFlow

March 21, 2017Lance Cleveland

Despite having a number of git interfaces available including a half-decent one built right into phpStorm (my fav for any PHP development ESPECIALLY WordPress) , my go-to tool after 5…Continue readingBetter Release Management For Distributed Teams: GitFlow

Technology

xDebug Remote Debugging With WordPress and phpStorm

March 20, 2017Lance Cleveland

I’ve been using phpStorm to do local debugging of my WordPress app on a VVV box for a few years now. This week I have been running into some challenges…Continue readingxDebug Remote Debugging With WordPress and phpStorm

Plugin Development Technology WordPress

Why Your WordPress Plugin Should Have Almost Nothing In The Main Folder

March 3, 2017Lance Cleveland

As we continue to roll out our Store Locator Plus SaaS service built on top of WordPress as our application foundation we continually refine our plugin, theme, and API architecture. …Continue readingWhy Your WordPress Plugin Should Have Almost Nothing In The Main Folder

Graphic Design Technology

Hacking Snagit PNG Files For Clarity

March 1, 2017Lance Cleveland

While working on some updates to the Store Locator Plus website I ran into a rather annoying issue when it came to the logo for the website. On the documentation…Continue readingHacking Snagit PNG Files For Clarity

AWS gSuite Technology

Save Money With RDS / Get Your gSuite Mail Forwarding

February 27, 2017Lance Cleveland

Two quick hacks I learned today while doing some general “tech life” maintenance. Amazon Web Services – Saving Money The first “hack” is an easy one that I am now…Continue readingSave Money With RDS / Get Your gSuite Mail Forwarding

JavaScript Quality Assurance

Selenium IDE Extensions Hacking

February 9, 2017Lance Cleveland

I use Selenium IDE as a tool for testing the Store Locator Plus WordPress plugin. It is a great tool for automating browser interactions and sussing out basic problems. With…Continue readingSelenium IDE Extensions Hacking