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" ]

Selenium IDE3 Using If and Variables

February 24, 2019Lance Cleveland

Selenium IDE3 is continually evolving and has become my new tool-of-choice for testing web apps from the user experience perspective. Some of the features of the older Selenium IDE, such…Continue readingSelenium IDE3 Using If and Variables

Apps Information Technology Technology Web Presence WordPress

nginx Installing WordPress In A Subdirectory

February 12, 2019February 8, 2023Lance Cleveland

We have recently run into a number of customers using Store Locator Plus® that are having issues with the new REST based geocoding system. It turns out that an overwhelming…Continue readingnginx Installing WordPress In A Subdirectory

Technology

Toshiba FireTV Can’t Connect To Amazon

January 26, 2019Lance Cleveland

The Toshiba 49LF421U19, aka Toshiba Fire TV 49″ Best Buy edition, seems like a great deal. On sale it can be had for well under $300 delivered. For an Alexa-enabled…Continue readingToshiba FireTV Can’t Connect To Amazon

Productivity Technology

Microsoft Teams – Link to Tabs Not Content

January 14, 2019Lance Cleveland

Using the Microsoft Teams native app on your desktop? It it CONSTANTLY opening BROWSER WINDOWS to get to content within Teams? Yeah, happens to me too. Turns out there is…Continue readingMicrosoft Teams – Link to Tabs Not Content

Productivity Technology

Teams Personal Notebook

January 11, 2019Lance Cleveland

A place to store the links and info you can never find. I’m using the Teams app on my MacBook and leveraging the “personal OneNote” notebook to keep track of…Continue readingTeams Personal Notebook

Technology

Ethereum Moves Towards Proof Of Stake

January 3, 2019Lance Cleveland

As a computer scientist, I prefer the design of Ethereum over most blockchain technologies. It as a significant improvement over older peer computing compensation models. Ethereum is a peer computing…Continue readingEthereum Moves Towards Proof Of Stake

WordPress

WordPress.com Video UX Needs Work

January 3, 2019February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

For those that are not aware, Automattic and the entire WordPress “stack” have been moving more-and-more toward an all-inclusive SaaS model. At every turn Automattic’s Jetpack and WordPress users are…Continue readingWordPress.com Video UX Needs Work

WordPress

Automattic was not ready for WordPress 5

January 2, 2019Lance Cleveland

The problems with uploading Jetpack videos in WordPress 5 is just one example of many as to why I continue to recommend not upgrading to WordPress 5 at this time.…Continue readingAutomattic was not ready for WordPress 5

WordPress

Uploading Jetpack Videos on WordPress 5

December 28, 2018February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

If you are uploading Jetpack videos on WordPress 5 you are going to need to go through some specific steps to get that to work. The built-in Video Block of…Continue readingUploading Jetpack Videos on WordPress 5

JavaScript Quality Assurance Technology

Selenium IDE if element exists

December 21, 2018February 8, 2023Lance Cleveland

Did you know you can tell Selenium IDE to execute certain commands only if a specific element exists on the page? The if element exists trick makes your web app…Continue readingSelenium IDE if element exists

Quality Assurance Technology

Web App Testing, Selenium IDE Is Back

December 21, 2018Lance Cleveland

After a year-long hiatus, one of my favorite web app testing tools is back. It is nice to have Selenium IDE back as a viable option. Yes, it is similar…Continue readingWeb App Testing, Selenium IDE Is Back

Security Security Technology WordPress

WordPress Continues To Break Things In The Name Of Security

December 18, 2018Lance Cleveland

In what has become a nearly annual tradition, WordPress has released yet another update that broke thousands of plugins across the Internet. As usual, they claim this is in…Continue readingWordPress Continues To Break Things In The Name Of Security