Writing by Moe Loubani, a software developer in Waterloo, Ontario, building AI-native products.https://moe.ca/https://moe.ca/blog/a-year-of-shipping-ai/https://moe.ca/blog/a-year-of-shipping-ai/It's been a year since the last post here. Ten projects later, almost all of them have AI somewhere in the stack. Here's what changed.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/mcp-for-libvips/https://moe.ca/blog/mcp-for-libvips/Over the past weekend I decided to play around with writing an MCP server and I settled on creating one for the libvips image manipulation library to help me cut out images out of a bigger images and ...Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/ramblings-about-ai-reaching-peak-learning/https://moe.ca/blog/ramblings-about-ai-reaching-peak-learning/I listen to this podcast on Spotify called The AI Daily Brief (https://open.spotify.com/show/7gKwwMLFLc6RmjmRpbMtEO) and one of the recent topics I heard mentioned was that people were starting to tal...Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/a-new-plugin-ai-chat-embed/https://moe.ca/blog/a-new-plugin-ai-chat-embed/I was talking to a friend that asked me if there was a way to embed something like ChatGPT into their website but have it act as a certain person from history answering questions that people might hav...Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/changes-and-competition-in-the-ai-coding-world/https://moe.ca/blog/changes-and-competition-in-the-ai-coding-world/This was originally a post I made on LinkedIn but I thought I'd share it here too, just in case anyone stumbles across my site without visiting my LinkedIn first. Some interesting changes in the AI co...Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/building-my-new-site-getting-started/https://moe.ca/blog/building-my-new-site-getting-started/Having used WordPress since 2007 (and developed for it since 2010) I have seen a lot of trends come and go. I remember before custom post types were around and everyone had to use posts categorized in...Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/finally-launching-my-new-site/https://moe.ca/blog/finally-launching-my-new-site/So today I officially launched this new website after spending the last couple of days ironing out a few bugs. It has been a journey making it with newer technologies and not the usual WP stack but it...Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/redoing-my-site-more-about-me/https://moe.ca/blog/redoing-my-site-more-about-me/Hello everyone reading this and welcome to my new website! As a long time WordPress developer this is my first official foray into the SSG world, something that I think has been a long time coming. My...Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/menu-select-in-acf/https://moe.ca/blog/menu-select-in-acf/Today I'm working on a feature where I'll need to be able to select a menu on an options page in ACF inside a repeater field. I took a look and didn't see anyone else offering up how they did this so ...Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/image-annotator/https://moe.ca/blog/image-annotator/Just uploaded a cool plugin that one of my clients let me release publicly, it's a great little tool for people that want to draw on their images and display them on the front end. Best of all the ori...Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/squarespace-wordpress-image-issues-fix/https://moe.ca/blog/squarespace-wordpress-image-issues-fix/If anyone has tried to take a Squarespace site and import it into WordPress then you have come across the issue where the images are still linked externally to Squarespace. No problem, there are plugi...Mon, 16 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/new-plugin-wp-dash-support-released/https://moe.ca/blog/new-plugin-wp-dash-support-released/Just released a new plugin for any fellow WordPress developers out there, it adds a contact form to the dashboard area of the back end of your or your clients' websites so that they can contact you ri...Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/new-version-of-treb-wordpress-plugin/https://moe.ca/blog/new-version-of-treb-wordpress-plugin/I just released a new version of my TREB RETS plugin – this one uses a new and better version of PHRets the underlying software as well as some updates to the way properties are stored. I'm also...Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/for-those-looking-to-do-treb-integrations/https://moe.ca/blog/for-those-looking-to-do-treb-integrations/Need someone to make my plugin work for your site? I'm looking for one or two customers to help build out my plugin – in return I only ask that you help me correspond with TREB to get some addit...Sat, 22 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/installing-laravel-homestead-2-0-on-windows-8-1/https://moe.ca/blog/installing-laravel-homestead-2-0-on-windows-8-1/After having to do this whole process a few times I've realized that there is no clear cut way to do it – there's tutorials for older versions of Homestead and/or Windows but nothing that puts t...Sat, 22 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/wordpress-treb-3pv-plugin/https://moe.ca/blog/wordpress-treb-3pv-plugin/Here is another plugin I made that works with another system TREB has that (apparently) needs less paperwork. I've seen people try to use this one more often than the last one but give both a try if y...Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/treb-idx-integration-plugin/https://moe.ca/blog/treb-idx-integration-plugin/Just finished this plugin for a client to help them integrate listings from a MLS search directly onto their WordPress website instead of going through an iframe. It downloads the images and sets one ...Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/issue-with-woocommerce-extension-customerorder-csv-export/https://moe.ca/blog/issue-with-woocommerce-extension-customerorder-csv-export/Today I ran into a little issue with a Woocommerce extension called Customer/Order CSV Export. Whenever a custom field name ended with a question mark, the export wouldn't return the results for that ...Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/ait-directory-featured-search-plugin/https://moe.ca/blog/ait-directory-featured-search-plugin/This is a plugin I made for the AIT Directory WordPress theme that will give you an option to make listings featured and show them at the top of listings as well as add a CSS class to let you style th...Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/ait-directory-sorting-plugi/https://moe.ca/blog/ait-directory-sorting-plugi/Just created a plugin for the AIT Directory theme that will add a sorter to show results alphabetically. Get the plugin here: https://github.com/moeloubani/ait-dir-sorter If you have any problems plea...Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://moe.ca/blog/how-to-move-wordpress-to-a-new-serverdomain/https://moe.ca/blog/how-to-move-wordpress-to-a-new-serverdomain/Just follow these steps exactly – don't add any extra steps or try to do anything that isn't on the list. Step 1: Download the files from the old site. Not just the theme, the entire installatio...Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT