Every few months a new framework, tool, or platform emerges promising to change everything. And sometimes they do. But most of the time, the quiet, established tools are the ones that actually ship projects.

WordPress has been around for over twenty years. It powers a staggering percentage of the web. It’s not glamorous. It’s not going to win you points at a tech meetup. But it works, it’s well-understood, and when something goes wrong at 2am, you can find the answer on Stack Overflow in under five minutes.

There’s a Dan McKinley talk called “Choose Boring Technology” that I come back to regularly. His core argument: every team has a limited budget for novelty. Spend it on the things that genuinely matter — your product, your user experience — not on reinventing your deployment pipeline.

I’ve adopted this as a guiding principle. Stable, proven, well-documented. Boring is beautiful.