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2026 has been a warm-up lap for 2027.
My appearance on WP Product Talk Episode 0156
I joined Katie Keith and Zach Katz to chat about AI and WordPress on WP Product Talk.
My appearance on the Leaky Paywall Podcast
Listen or watch Pete and I discuss subscription price increases and AI.
Molly White on the Binance theft
I appreciate her continued coverage of this space.
Computering is so fun again.
Rinku, a to-do app for links that writes Markdown files
I'm fairly certain that most software should be open source. Over several decades I've developed the habit of starting projects that I strongly desire to be around for many years only to…
My wife Eliza loves to play mahjong. She also loves mahjong accessories! She decided to create some herself. Today she opened a store where you can buy mahjong mats. If you, or a friend, or a family member, also like mahjong maybe you can pick up a few as gifts?
John Gruber on X
Gruber writes how X is seemingly getting more friendly.
V.H. Belvadi shares Photographers who inspire me.
NerdPress is sponsoring WordPress Accessibility Day again this year. The event starts in just a few hours.
Introducing the NerdPress Guided Agent Connector, a new service from NerdPress that connects your AI agent to your WordPress site with our guidance built in. I wrote about it on our blog.
Jeremy Keith on open local large language models
Jeremy Keith: I’d love to see the technology decoupled from the current depressing narrative. I’d love to see a thousand homemade software flowers bloom from open local language models. Me too. At…
Catsup, a grocery list app, by Zhenyi Tan
Zhenyi Tan, writing about the inspiration for Catsup, his grocery list app, on his personal blog: I think a grocery app should be designed differently from a todo list app. Forever ago,…
Shadow people by Giles Turnbull. Cool.
Signboard 2.0 will be a line-in-the-sand release. There will be Pro features that are only available to Pro subscribers. The 1.7.x release will always be all free. I’ll likely do a release there that removes the commercial license and keeps the tip jar. Stay tuned!
Side note: It is really, really nice.
TIL you can rest a Stroopwafel on top of a mug of coffee or tea to soften it. Why hadn’t anyone told me all these years?
Upgraded to OSes 27 yesterday. Siri AI is actually helpful! I thought I’d never see the day. To get the new Siri app on macOS Golden Gate I did need to restart, just FYI. Looks like a solid update so far.
2025 Impact Report for NerdPress
Miranda Wicker shares NerdPress' 2025 Impact Report as a Certified B-Corporation: What does it mean when a company says it believes business can be a force for good? Especially in the tech…
Maggie’s August update is worth reading (warning: AI is mentioned, if you’re not into that sort of thing.)
TIL my Tumblog (which reposts my posts from here) turned 17 years old back in March. Tumblr was quite a place in its time. I remember starting The Watercolor Gallery there and it exploding in growth (did you know I’m slowly restoring that website? Go take a look it is getting there).
Remember when Threads promised to join the fediverse and totally botched it and made it only one way?
Aphera – Fast RAW photo editor for the Mac
Aphera: Aphera is the Raw photo editor built natively for Mac, with a from-scratch imaging pipeline and a workflow designed to disappear. Built by Latent Co. (aforelinked) which includes Ryan Carver as…
Josh Ginter on pulling back before getting away
Josh Ginter, in his excellent Sunday Edition from mid-July: We spent five days camping in a one-bar-of-LTE-but-still-won’t-work area last weekend, so this is the first installment of the Sunday Edition in a…
Red Bull’s website has a blog post about photography on it (cool!) that says “Blogs aren’t really a thing anymore.” (ironic, and not cool!). I’m glad I’m not fond of Red Bull.
Christoph Rauscher on agency
Christoph Rauscher, in a post about his 6th year running a weeklong workshop called Writing = Design (which sounds lovely): It was so peaceful, this one week of human writing. We developed…