Red Rooster and the Red V
Throughout Primary school and High school, my uncle Geoff used to take me to watch the Dragons play at Jubilee Oval in the NRL. Well – it was the ARL back then, not the NRL. And Jubilee Oval was still Jubilee Oval, not whatever it's been renamed (and renamed...) to since.…
Loved this sentiment shared by a colleague about how much information is now freely available to everyone..
"You’re not a knowledge worker, you’re a curiosity worker now. When knowledge is freely available, your curiosity about what you can do with that knowledge that is now of high value. "
Wollongong Art Gallery: facilitating collaboration and creativity
The other week our CEO gave us all some homework to do within work time. Homework assignment this week: I’d like you to take an hour or two out of your work day, so yes you’re being paid to do this, and visit a museum. If you come…
Building a Last.fm custom block plugin with Claude
When it turned out there were no WordPress plugins to show my Last.FM feed in blocks - I decided to vibe code my own.
Growing Up Average (and why I’m writing about it anyway)
I grew up in a pretty average middle-class Australian home. Eldest of three kids, Dad worked while mum home-schooled us (until public schools), kinda conservative - but nothing drastic. On paper, there's not much there that screams "tell me…
Film: Thursday Murder Club
I thoroughly enjoyed Thursday Murder Club when I first read it. The combination of a good old-fashioned murder mystery (in the vein of Agatha Christie) along with the subtle and quaint British humour really resonated with me. When I saw the casting for the film…
Photographer: Christian Spencer
A prism of light shines through the wings of hummingbird.
#photography #WildlifePhotography #birds
FALLING 😂✋
Book: Permission to Feel
It's been a long while since I read this book (I started this draft 6 years ago) but it seemed worth publishing to share the quotes - which I think are still super valuable.
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Periodically I get reminded of how great Betchadupa's debut EP was...
"aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private profitability."
- @joanwestenberg.com
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for...
"Your blog is where you can be you. You post what you want, when you want. Algorithms and mad king tech overlords be damned." - @cagrimmett.com
cagrimmett.com/2026/01/08/b...
I’d see a one man Aladdin with Alex Moffat as every character
To cheese, or not to cheese? 🧀
🧵Spotted at the beach in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A very content looking man (40s?) is reclining in an orange inflatable dingy on the sand. Reading a paperback novel. Sailing on a sea of chill. (1)
Film: Good Fortune
I went into Good Fortune optimistically and curious about two things: Aziz Ansari stepping behind the camera for his directorial debut, and Keanu Reeves playing a role unlike anything I'd seen. I was pleasantly surprised :)
🚨 A new episode of Make Some Noise is out now on Dropout!
Join Sam and guests Ross Bryant, Echo Kellum, and Corin Wells for a night of improv pyramid schemes and Star Wars characters!
i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign
A new year site cleanup
Things have been pretty quiet around here for a while. I've realised that I was placing a lot of pressure on writing 'important' or 'meaningful' content here rather than feeling free to just blog. I'd played with the idea of posting shorter rambles on a separate site - but…
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scored big time with an $80 LEGO haul on marketplace. It’s a bit of a mishmash of things that need rebuilding, but some gold in there.
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I've been hearing good things about Telex, the AI Gutenberg block-building tool that my work (Automattic) built, for a while now, and I finally decided to give it a try.
https://jordangillman.blog/trying-out-telex-building-a-ustom-gutenberg-block-with-natural-language/
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ooh - there's a proposal for WP-Admin to get a CSS reskin as a stop-gap (before a full redesign) for WP 7.0. And there's a Playground to see what it is like. #WordPress
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Great start to Enqueue conference - reflections on SEO in the AI age, and a primer on cache improvements in WP6.9.
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Thinking a lot about the benefit of repetitive feedback, and continuing to raise issues that have been acknowledged, but not addressed.
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
Two-day Test could cost Cricket Australia millions in lost revenue after Travis Head brings swift end
I’d been trying to run activitypub and syndicate to Bsky for just _some_ posts in my WordPress site. Switching over to running a separate short notes blog on a subdomain and syndicating that instead.
