With Chartable, a podcast analytics app, being shut down by Spotify after they acquired it 2 years ago (who saw that coming??), Dan at Bumper has some good options for what should you use instead..

Would you believe that 2 weeks in to puppy ownership, my kids are shocked that they have to help take care of said puppy? Who could have seen this coming??? 😆

Neville Dogbottom naps with his head on a mic stand in my office.

WordPress Vs. WP Engine? It Doesn’t Matter. It’s Bad For The Internet. #WordPress shouldn’t be in the news this much.

I can’t wait to tell my kids when our family is post-economic. đŸ€Ą #WordPress

Screnshoot of a Slack converesation between Matt Mullenweg and Lawrence and Alex:@matt - this was asked on X: is all this driven by an increasingly difficult financial position&10;Automattic is finding itself in?&10;Matt 8:20 PM&10;Mb Nope, Automattic is in an amazing financial position&10;1&10;and l've been post-economic for probably 19 years now, l've made more than I could ever spend in my lifetime. That's why I give so much away&10;Alex Standiford → 8:21 PM&10;Literally nobody cares about that Matt&10;We're over here trying to protect our integrity and our clients and you're talking about A8Cs&10;finance.

I’m not really ready to process that it’s the 20th anniversary of #U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb release.

I should clarify that the #WordPress situation is bad in the big picture sense of the word.. but not like “nazi” big picture. More like “bad business dbag” picture. So don’t panic if you’ve got WordPress sites. Even if you’re on WP Engine hosting, you’ll be ok.

One perk of having a puppy is that you get to use the phrase “don’t bite the hand that feeds you” a lot more.

Good lord what a way to poop on a huge part of the #WordPress ecoysystem. Matt Mullenweg’s truly gone off the deep end with this. No more WordPress for me after 15? years.

New on my blog: The Contractor’s Dilemma: Coping When Clients Disappear I’m sure others have gone through similar experiences when working with clients. I try to keep a thick skin about it, but I’m still a bag of fleshy feelings. 😆

Anyone want to help me test out the (beta) Descript recording studio? Join me now (for the next ~15m?) and chat web.descript.com/room/c8c9
 (you’ll be able to turn off video, etc. before joining)

Great recap of everything announced at TwitchCon 2024 if, like me, you’re curious about streaming but rarely have the guts to actually do it. 😆

High of 31C at the end of September is certainly a choice.

Turns out all it took was a venti iced shaken espresso at 2:30pm to fix me. (See you at 3am!)

I edited this episode for ShopTalk talking all about the fun and challenges of developing with #WordPress just last week and I, and I think developers, felt motivated to dig into WordPress again. And then Mullenweg flips the table and poops all over the floor. So bizarre.

Can’t anybody at #WordPress / #Automattic take away Matt Mullenweg’s internet for a week before he causes more damage to himself and the community?

Putting a link to his petty whinging in the WordPress Events + News tab of every WordPress install is bonkers.

A screenshot of the WordPress dashboard with an arrow pointing to the link to "WP Engine is Not WordPress" in the WordPress Events and News.

Finally our long nightmare of using QuickTake to record iPhone audio while recording video is over.

I spend far too much time checking out team communication apps for a person with a sole proprietorship business.

Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚

Weekends are for napping on the deck after a hard day of trying to eat wood chips, barking at hammers, and biting anything and everything.

A dog lays in the background sleeping, while in the closeup foreground I’m facing the camera about to lay down on the deck as well.

Shoutout to everyone on 256GB Mac hardware, Apple Watch Series 3, or an iPhone 12 or earlier attempting to update their software this weekend. đŸ’Ș You got this!