Zao. Adores the heck out of @MelissaSainton. Cold takes and warm optimism. Former member of the WordPress Plugin Review Team.

Joined March 2009
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27 Aug 2025
20 years in WordPress eCommerce has taught me one thing: the premium plugin ecosystem is broken. So we built something new. ✨ Simple. ✨ Honest. ✨ Anxiety-free. Meet Simpull → simpull.co

17 Jul 2025
Planning for a launch at @WordCampUS 🤩. Let's just say that we're gonna keep it simple, and that's a good thing.
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May 29
Must read.
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Between @ollie_wp and @bymilesai - i don't actually know that I'll ever get another WordPress theme.
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you need to be delusionally optimistic negative thinking poisons your brain and leads to congitive decline whereas positive thinking, and gaslighting yourself into thinking everything is amazing, ACTUALLY makes your life amazing too. you must be a silly goose
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stop developing locally start developing on a VPS trust me
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🗓️ Mark your calendars! Early Bird tickets for #LoopConf 2026 go live on May 11th. Register and join the people driving innovation in the #WordPress space. loopconf.com/
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"...engineers can fly now. One engineer in 2026 has the output of a 100 person team in 2013, working the same hours, at the same day job, with the same brain. The code-generation cost curve collapsed by two orders of magnitude." This is why agencies must transform or die.
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The most effective people I know operate in two modes that appear conflicting. In one, they know what a subway ticket costs, wait in line for coffee, can have an ordinary conversation with anyone in the room. In the other, they’re a professional heat-seeking missile.
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This is probably the top thing I didn’t have on my bingo card for today: @Cloudflare going after @WordPress. #OpenSource
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress. Serverless. TypeScript. Securely sandboxed plugins via Dynamic Workers. cfl.re/3NPVfev
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Mar 31
‼️Do not npm install or deploy anything right now Supply chain attack on axios 1.14.1 - even if you don’t use axios it may be a nested dep. Pin versions or wait until this is resolved
Replying to @npmjs
@npmjs @GHSecurityLab there is an active supply chain attack on axios@1.14.1 which pulls in a malicious package published today - plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 - someone took over a maintainer account for Axios
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I wanted to share a bunch of my favorite hidden and under-utilized features in Claude Code. I'll focus on the ones I use the most. Here goes.
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The desire to keep the next generation away from generationally transformative tools is strange and unhealthy.
🇺🇸 U.S. adults: “Ban AI in schools.” 🇨🇳 China: students (and adults) lining up by the thousands to learn OpenClaw. 🚀 Alpha School: our students getting recognized by OpenClaw’s creator @steipete and presenting at ClawCon. One of them is 15 and has earned $30,000 in contracts. American schools are debating whether kids should touch AI. Our kids are building with it. 🛠️
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Death once had a near-Chuck-Norris experience.
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Not to be a killjoy but that monkey's not gonna learn how to read
Literacy starts at home.
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Predicting the future isn’t hard when we’ve seen the pattern over and over again. Here’s what it means for every kind of vibe coder, and what will become really important in the near future. chrislema.com/when-everyone-…
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Google just dropped an official CLI for gmail, drive, calendar sheets and more complete with skills and an MCP server 👌
Introducing the Google Workspace CLI: github.com/googleworkspace/c… - built for humans and agents. Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and every Workspace API. 40 agent skills included.
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We are sending our kids to school to memorize facts that AI can retrieve in 0.3 seconds. We're grading them on essays that AI writes better than their teachers. We're preparing them for jobs that won't exist by the time they graduate. The entire education system is training humans to compete with machines at what machines do best. That's not education. That's sabotage. The schools that survive will teach thinking, not memorizing. Creating, not repeating. Discerning, not obeying. Every other school is a museum that doesn't know it yet.
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