CraftEntries

Michael Thomas has been building with Craft CMS for over ten years. In February 2026 he left a 130-person agency to start Bleu Chaud with a team of five, and he's spent the months since building Craft CMS skills for Claude Code that are now installed about a thousand times a month. We talk about compliance-heavy platform work, where the skills came from, what he really means by "AI slop", and why twenty-five years of tooling changes have convinced him that developers aren't losing their jobs to AI.

In this podcast episode, Thomas interviews Moritz L'Hoest, an experienced web developer, about his career journey and his experiences with various content management systems, particularly Craft CMS. Moritz discusses the challenges he encountered with ProcessWire and highlights the advantages of Craft CMS, including features like version control and Project Config, which encourage better teamwork.

In this episode of the, host Thomas engages with Travis Gertz, a Developer Relations Engineer at Pixel & Tonic, to discuss the latest release of Craft CMS 5.7. Travis highlights key improvements, such as enhanced user experience with nested content, new duplication features, and UI updates.

In Episode 21 of the CraftEntries podcast, host Thomas interviews Ben Croker from PutYourLightsOn about Datastar. This hypermedia framework aims to simplify web development by allowing the backend to drive the frontend, contrasting with frameworks like React or Vue.js.

In episode 20 of the Craft Entries podcast, host Thomas speaks with Matt Ellis and Michael Westwood from Honcho, an agency specializing in Craft CMS. They discuss Honcho's unique branding as "not an award-winning agency," their journey in web development, and their preference for Craft CMS over WordPress.