I disagree with Gruber: I think tech CEOs are paid appropriately enough to prepare for a supper with Trump, knowing by now that almost anything could happen and that at minimum, they’ll be expected to kiss his orange ring at any moment with 4K cameras watching.


Without context or any details available to you: what should I do next?


Some days I wish I was a farmer so I knew to keep driving the combine around the field until it was all done.

Working for myself it’s sometimes difficult to know what the next right thing to do is.

It’s my #selfie a day for a year, day 22, Sep 9, 2025 edition.

A bearded man wearing a cap and glasses stands in a field under a blue sky with scattered clouds.

Orange times call for orange iPhones?

Trump with Tim Cook holding a iPhone 17 Pro orange model that’s been photoshopped into his hands overtop of the gaudy Apple art that Tim Cook presented to Trump in the Oval Office earlier this year.


No better time than right now Monday at midnight to order a new iPhone.


The poor dog named Neville Dogbottom some trolls on Threads think I have no business owning because I didn’t love having to clean his poop out of his crate at 5 in the morning. 😆

Time for today’s #selfie a day for a year, day 21, Sep 8, 2025 edition.

Selfie of me, a man with a hat, glasses, and a beard, bent over to include a golden doodle puppy named Neville Dogbottom in the photo. We’re outside on a walk on a sunny, fall day.

I have a lot of sympathy for folks who are getting a surprise (to them) price hike on their Kit email newsletter sending subscription costs. But thinking that moving to a different app will fix the issue of costs when that app is likely to raise prices too in 3-6 months too is very short sighted.


Furnace room “oh crap I haven’t taken a selfie yet” for my #Selfie a day for a year, day 20, Sep 7, 2025 edition.

A person with glasses and a beard is standing in a room with industrial equipment and pipes.

While cleaning my dog’s shit off his crate tray in the yard at 5am, if someone offered me $100 to take him off my hands, I’d have taken $50.


Take out the dock day for today’s #selfie a day for a year, day 19, Sep 6, 2025 edition.

Three men and a dog relax by a lakeside on a sandy beach with a table of food.

Look Jetpack, I appreciate the offer to help but I just don’t think you’re the best way to help me fix my social connections. 😆

Screenshot of an email from Jetpack (WordPress plugin for my website) saying “Fix yoru broken social connections”

New blog post: Still Producing Lemons 14 Years Later 🍋 Happy 14 year anniversary to me starting producing lemons. 🍋


For laughs (and boredom), I’m showing my kids my Minecraft tutorial YouTube channel from 11 years ago. It earned me enough $$ to pay for my copy of Minecraft.


There’s a frost warning for tonight so might as well get some sun for today’s #selfie a day for a year, day 18, Sep 5, 2025 edition.

A person wearing glasses and a "Netlify" t-shirt stands outside on a grassy lawn with a wire fence and some trees in the background.

New blog post: Should Men Be the Head of Every Household? (I’m really leaning in to Betteridge’s law of headlines on this post 😆)


When should a blog post be a podcast episode be a TikTok clip be a YouTube video be a newsletter issue be a faxed paper be a text message be sent by a carrier pigeon?


Nodding along to Dave: Why would anybody start a website?"


I don’t expect Tim Cook to spit on his food, but watching him and other tech executives like Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Safra Catz, and more not just kissing the ring but grovelling for Trump is so gross. Think Different indeed.


I complained about YouTube yesterday, today I’ll give them props for adding a simple “reuse details” so when you upload a new video you can click it and choose a previous video to pull metadata from. Really helpful for podcasts. I wish podcast hosting companies would do it too.

Screenshot of YouTube’s “reuse details” screen showing options of choosing title, description, playlists, etc. to choose from a different video on your channel