Dave Foy

The most fun I've had in my business in ages.

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The ability to send emails in timed batches (for better deliverability) AND to be able to pause sending to make changes to the email is one of many killer features of Bento.

Developer Jesse Hanley has made an amazing thing.

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Pleased to announce I'm the proud recipient of the Grand Prize of Clarity™, a highly coveted award in the world of online course structuring. 🏆

It's taken me a week of metaphorically bashing my head against my desk with this tricky little bugger. But I've got there.

Oh wow. Congratulations! Sounds like a really interesting role. Can't think of anyone better suited.

 quack, quick, quick, quack, quick, quack, quack, quack.  sma, fa, smaft, smaft.

Does WordPress Need a Radical Rethink in 2025 - Response to @jamiewp and @BrianCoords YouTube video by Jonathan Jernigan

The answer is yes. Yes, it does.

Nodding along furiously with @jonathandot.bsky.social's every word.

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Barfly

One thing I love about being a barfly is getting @theadminbar.com's excellent newsletter a day early.

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Fun fact: I once made an online course in TV chef Jamie Oliver's apartment.

Joshua Redman: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

I could listen to Joshua Redman all day every day.

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The 100-Year Plan on WordPress.com Read the announcement Crafting Legacies,One Century at a Time Get the 100-Year Plan Read the announcement The 100-Year Plan ensures that your stories, achievements, and memories are prese…

This is real, isn't it?

wordpress.com/100-year/

Thanks for sharing, @srhdesign.co.uk!

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This week featuring THE Douglas Adams.

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Absolutely agree, Dan. I actually shared your article with my email list, goes out tomorrow.

Why CMS Minute? A bit of background about me: I started a WordPress agency back in 2007. I didn't know anything about the WordPress community, how to find clients, or where to recruit talent. Back then, WordPress wa...

I'm absolutely down for this from @matthewmedeiros.bsky.social

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Happy hump day! 🐪 Building on the positivity of last week's "Loop WP" (my newsletter about #WordPress) Issue #142 will be dropping later today as we look at The WP Community Collective.

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Changelogs

Major new release of Advanced Themer just landed - v3.0! 🎉

Shit ton of new features, improvements, and rewritten code.

advancedthemer.com/changelogs/

WAF WAF WAF WAF WAF WAF

Are Matt’s AI Skills Making WordPress Developers Obsolete? YouTube video by Brian Coords

Catch @briancoords.com and @matthewmedeiros.bsky.social chatting live TODAY about whether AI is making WP developers obsolete.

www.youtube.com/live/NTDpJsd...

"So, if I don't like the block editor for developing pages, and I also don't like the block editor for writing. What's its purpose?"

Thoughtful musings from @danmaby.com with a surprising outcome.

www.danmaby.com/posts/2025/0...

For me, 'contributions' and 'taking more control of WordPress' could well be two very different things.

Thank you, sir! And me to yours. :)

I started a new thing for my email list today:

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Today's features @westguard.co.uk, @matthewmedeiros.bsky.social, and others I'm not sure are on Bluesky or not.

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Plenty of things about the modern world concern and confuse me, but none more so than the baffling resurgence of the mullet 'hairstyle.'

Cancelled Netflix. It's way tipped over into quantity over quality.

Been highly enjoying evenings reading, listening to music, playing chess with my wife, playing guitar/sax.

Bricks 1.12 Components (experimental) Components, probably the biggest missing building blocks in Bricks, are now available as an experimental feature in Bricks 1.12. Components allow you create reusable and cust...

Bricks 1.12 was released today.

bricksbuilder.io/release/bric...

Do you use Advanced Themer? If so, don't update to Bricks 1.12 yet. Wait for the forthcoming AT 3.0 to be released in the next week or so before updating.

Not directly. But I think a psychotherapist might say otherwise. :)

Still awake at 1am last night, couldn't sleep. Before I knew it, I'd availed Apple of their offer of 3 free months of Apple Arcade and was 2 hours into a depraved Solitaire binge.

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I'm at the "just bought a shitload of domain names" stage of a new project for 2025 and I'm obviously very excited.

("Obviously" cos obviously the hard work hasn't begun yet.)

Making Layouts UNBREAKABLE! Using nth-of-type to solve this annoying problem! YouTube video by The Admin Bar

A selector like :nth-of-type(odd) might look intimidating for anyone newer to CSS... but it's not that complicated and it's extremely powerful.

In this week's video I show you how I used it to help refactor my client's page to make it unbreakable for their content editors!

youtu.be/2oiTYXZZB_E?...