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I love all the new discourse about WordPress. It was so quiet until this week, now I'm getting a much better view of the landscape. I started developing seriously around WordPress almost three years ago. I've been developing this kind of software since the late 80s if you c...

On the train, crossing into France.

There’s a fundamental problem with these tools beyond the capacity of any deployment strategy to solve: the tool requires expertise to validate, but its use diminishes expertise and stunts its growth. How does one become an expert? There are no shortcuts; there is only continuous hard work and dedication. I was once told of writing, great writers learn how to break the rules in new and ingenious ways by first learning the rules.

But how is a new developer meant to learn the rules if their day-to-day work is nothing but the babysitting of models? How will they gain the hard-won experience that allows a human in the loop to be a useful safeguard?

These models alter cognition in ways deleterious to human prosperity. In other words, for as much output as they provide, they take something important from us.

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If you’re looking for a good watch this weekend, I couldn’t recommend more the documentary Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. The craft of research, writing, and editing is presented in the most beautiful way possible. Around 400,000 words were removed from The Power Broker, which was ultimately published … Continue reading Turn Every Page →

Sometimes I put test posts on my blog. This is one of those times. Still diggin, amazingly -- in 2026. What makes this post different is that 1. It's a singular item, ie there is no title, and just one paragraph. It's a collection of sentences not paragraphs. 2. It has a right margin image. I have to test this specific case. It has to go on a certain length so that the image that appears in the right margin doesn't leak over to the next item, and the image should be small so it doesn't require so much text to keep it out of the next post. And now I believe I have entered enough text.

Finally I get to watch a Spurs game live even though I’m too many time zones away, because it’s an early afternoon game in Denver. Really good test for the Spurs. Couldn’t quite make it happen in OT. 🏀

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Excellent podcast discussion with John Stewart and Heather Cox Richardson. I desperately wanted to get in the conversation. I think they missed something important and came soooo close to saying it. Trump isn't only a TV star, he's a blogger. Comes naturally to him. Why wasn...

My warm breath steams up my glasses a little bit. I have my cold pillow resting on my chin. I’m still under the covers. I started my morning with a book, Hot Chocolate on Thursday, a cosy tale that took me to Japan and Sydney all without my leaving my bedroom. I love reading ...

Breakfast and coffee at Federal Cafe. Perfecto. ☕️

This Ashlee Vance interview of Pedro Franceschi from Brex contains so many interesting stories it might cause you to reconsider what it means to be a CEO.

March 27 through April 3, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Pacific Wednesday, April 1 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, April 1 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club Edinburgh Tuesday, March 31 at 6:00p...

On December 24, 1968, Christmas Eve, astronaut William Anders took what would become one of the most consequential photographs in human history. He was aboard Apollo 8, orbiting the Moon for the fourth time, when the spacecraft rotated and the Earth appeared in his window. A...

It’s so cool to hear from the Artemis crew. Happy for them. What an extraordinary achievement. Reminds me of the line from Apollo 13: “There’s nothing routine about flying to the moon.” 🚀

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WordPress could have an active developer community creating writing tools for WordPress users. I also want WordPress to form the foundation of a new social network, one that supports all the writing features of the web. With really nice user interfaces for people to choose from. That's a new ecosystem. It may form around ChatGPT and Claude etc. Or it could start with WordPress. I think I can get this bootstrapped, but I need people to work with. That's the summary of what I'm about at this point in 2026.

Feature request for WordPress. If an item doesn't have a title, you can do better than (no title) in the Posts list. Grab the first N chars of the body, or add a tool tip with the same text. I write a lot of "singular" posts, ie posts without titles. This is what I see on the Posts page.

Does EmDash have a feed reader built in??