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  • Why I love (and how I make) simple, static, minimal-tech websites

    2022-08-04

    There was some interesting chatter a while ago in my tech social bubbles about the tiny decline in WordPress’s CMS market share. This was followed by some interesting Twitter replies. But I chose to pick up on my friend Keith Devon’s response: And it caused me to reflect on how I now build small/quick sites […]

  • Raise your hands! It’s voice controlled WordPress!

    2022-05-14

    I love doing fun coding projects. I was listening to the Syntax podcast yesterday, they did a show about “Nifty Browser APIs“. That is, things you can get code to do in a browser, like locate where you are and play sounds and… do speech recognition…? “That sounds fun”, went my train of thought, “I’d […]

  • WordlePress and nerding out about WordPress function names

    2022-03-27

    Given all the “Wordle” hype these days, I think I was one of the first (of many) people to wonder about what “WordlePress” might look like: Not long after, Taco Verdo did buy the domain, with the aim of preserving it for the good of the WordPress community. Then, one bored weekend, I came up […]

  • Turbo Admin: The Story of a First Software Product

    2022-03-10

    Someone asked me today if and how I had had any success marketing Turbo Admin, as they were developing a software product of their own and wanted to hear some experiences. And the truth is that I have no idea what I’m doing. I hate marketing. I’m a total newbie. And Turbo Admin – a […]

  • Turbo Admin – the WordPress Command Palette – now has a free trial!

    2022-03-01

    You can now try out the Browser Extension version of Turbo Admin for free on up to three sites.

  • Turbo Admin! The command palette for (almost) ALL your WordPress sites

    2021-06-27

    The Turbo Admin browser extension give you a fast-action command palette for all your WordPress sites without needing to install a plugin.

  • We need a common visual language for block editing

    2021-04-18

    Blocks are a new paradigm. They need complex new user interfaces. And we don't have a common visual language for them.

  • Idea: CSS-only spam prevention with a simple allow-list and CAPTCHA

    2021-03-26

    An idea for a CSS-only spam prevention system that uses a white list and simple CAPTCHA, complete with WordPress plugin code.

  • Building WP-UI

    2021-01-01

    A very scattergun, brain dump of thoughts about the WP-UI app that I'm developoing in Electron.

  • Tech note: WordPress multisite in sub-domains redirects without path when you have a domain alias

    2020-12-04

    Well this is a super-niche issue that I came across today. I don't have an answer - maybe you do?

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