Category: asides

  • Comparing AI models: The “what band am I thinking of?” version

    Comparing AI models: The “what band am I thinking of?” version

    I have several other posts to write about different things I’ve been playing with on ChatGPT, especially since they’ve dropped a ton of new stuff into Plus, but today, I want to talk about an experiment I like to call “what band am I thinking of?” The test This didn’t even start out being an…

  • I was on the WP Tavern podcast

    If you want to hear me talk about how great I think Composer is (and sound relatively intelligent doing so), check out the WP Tavern podcast episode I recorded a while ago which just went live. Thanks Nathan for having me on!

  • WordPress 5.9: Full Site Editing Is Here

    WordPress 5.9: Full Site Editing Is Here

    Block Themes Change the Way Site Owners Interact With Their Site, but What Does It All Mean? Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.  You’re a WordPress developer. You’re building a site for a client. The site is complex, with a lot of different layouts, depending on the page and the marketing objective. Your…

  • New beginnings

    New beginnings

    After four years of agency (and some product) work at Human Made, the time has come to say goodbye and start a new adventure. As of September, I have been working as an engineer at Pantheon on the new CMS Ecosystems team as a WordPress specialist. I’m sad to be leaving my friends at Human…

  • ps

    Like a Macbook Retina. That’s how detailed this @pluralsight intro to #WordPress course I’m working on is going to be. — Chris Reynolds (@jazzs3quence) February 1, 2013

  • Dear @a_crutch…

    Dear @a_crutch…

  • The about.me WordPress widget in the wild

    Well, it’s a good thing I prettied up my site recently.  Because I started using the About.me widget shortly after they launched it, I got featured on their blog. The about.me WordPress widget in the wild | About.me Blog.

  • Close to 8,000 words on my story-thing…when I hit 30k or so, I’ll stop calling it a “thing”…

  • overheard on Twitter…

    RT @infinitechicken: I’m 38, getting fatter and uglier. I think it’s time to go back to Goth. — Mike Doughty (@Mike_Doughty_) August 4, 2012

  • Why I’m removing sharing links from my blog

    @iA wrote up an excellent post on rethinking the actual value of those social media buttons. Sweep the Sleaze | Information Architects.