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Last week I ordered @LittleCaesarsPizza online for the first time. The weird part is I was already sitting in their lobby when I did it. --- Photo by Terrance Barksdale on Pexels

So the question is not only what role your website plays. It's this: what do your customers still believe about you that stopped being true a while ago, and how are are you actually correcting it (digitally and in IRL)?

Last week I ordered @LittleCaesarsPizza online for the first time. The weird part is I was already sitting in their lobby when I did it. --- Photo by Terrance Barksdale on Pexels

I had carried that mental model for thirty years and never once thought to check whether it was still true. It wasn't. They'd built something genuinely good, and I almost missed it because of a story I'd been telling myself since childhood.

Last week I ordered @LittleCaesarsPizza online for the first time. The weird part is I was already sitting in their lobby when I did it. --- Photo by Terrance Barksdale on Pexels

The team looked slammed and there was someone ahead of me in line, so I took a seat, pulled up their website, and ordered from a chair ten feet from the counter. It was one of the best online ordering experiences I've had anywhere. It rivaled Amazon.

Red Hat published a piece last week framing #DigitalSovereignty not as a compliance requirement but as a control question: the ability to maintain ownership and oversight of your own technology path regardless of geopolitical shifts, market dynamics, or vendor terms.

gradual and, honestly, easier than I expected. I captured the results of my journey under Deggl.com, a reference site I built cataloging privacy-respecting alternatives to common big tech tools. Tools are organized into three tiers depending on how much control you want to establish.

Red Hat published a piece last week framing #DigitalSovereignty not as a compliance requirement but as a control question: the ability to maintain ownership and oversight of your own technology path regardless of geopolitical shifts, market dynamics, or vendor terms.

It's a conversation that's been building for a while. The EU has been moving toward digital autonomy at the policy level for years. Organizations across EMEA, APAC, and beyond are treating sovereignty as a strategic priority rather than a checkbox.

Yesterday I built an ecommerce website start to finish. Yes, 1 day for a full ecommerce website build. I started with only a domain name at 8 am. By 5pm I had built a fully functional ecommerce dropshipping website with products and a checkout process. I even ran a few errands with my kids midday.

The website is a project I chose to build for myself, but the timeline was a challenge just to see if I could do it. Here are the high-level details: - #WordPress website - #WooCommerce for the shopping cart - Checkout process with #WooPayments and #PayPal - #Dropshipping with #Spocket

I built something and published it this weekend. BookCx is a Chrome extension that helps you find the same book across reading platforms. See something on Amazon you want to add to Goodreads? Want to check if it is available on Libby before you buy it? BookCx surfaces the links so you do not have

to search manually on every platform. I built it using Claude Code. I am not a software engineer, but I had a clear vision for what I wanted, I knew how to give precise instructions, and I knew how to evaluate the output at each step. The result is a working, published Chrome extension.

One of the most interesting challenges I have solved in my career was focused on delivering emails. A marketing platform built around email was not delivering the results clients expected. Campaigns were going out. But a meaningful number of emails were landing in spam or being blocked before they

ROI for clients. The fix involved custom scripts in Google Sheets, client outreach, working across technical capabilities, and updated DNS records. Within a few weeks, 97% of domains were fully compliant. Emails started landing in inboxes. The platform performed the way it was supposed to.

One of the most interesting challenges I have solved in my career was focused on delivering emails. A marketing platform built around email was not delivering the results clients expected. Campaigns were going out. But a meaningful number of emails were landing in spam or being blocked before they

My friend Cody tried to get me interested in a reality TV show about two brothers digging holes on a Canadian island looking for buried treasure. I gave him a hard time about it when I started watching. Eventually it started to make sense. I am now at the end of season eleven, and I am not going to

admit how invested I am. What I did not expect was how often I found myself thinking about work while watching it. The way the team handles inherited history, unexpected setbacks, inconvenient data, and the kind of problems that require you to get genuinely uncomfortable before anything useful

A few things I did with hashtag#AI this week: Mocked up two rooms in my house that need to be refreshed. Created a custom WordPress plugin for a current project. Drafted copy for social and web content. Iterated on resumes and cover letters. Made a one-pager pricing sheet for a rummage sale. None

of it was AI-first. Every one of those tasks started somewhere else. An idea, a problem to solve, a conversation that sparked something, a decision about what I actually wanted. The AI did not show up with any of that. That is the part that does not get talked about enough. AI is genuinely

I found a stash of mini DV tapes while cleaning out my workshop last weekend. Not lost, exactly. Not really forgotten, just tucked away with good intentions for about twenty years. I have spent a few evenings this week converting them to digital files before the tapes deteriorate any further.

not seen in two decades. Our wedding ceremony (!). What strikes me most is how ordinary all of it looked at the time. Nobody was performing for the camera. We were just going places, doing things, having conversations, sharing life together. Nobody was thinking about what it would mean twenty

I found a stash of mini DV tapes while cleaning out my workshop last weekend. Not lost, exactly. Not really forgotten, just tucked away with good intentions for about twenty years. I have spent a few evenings this week converting them to digital files before the tapes deteriorate any further.

A national news org came to me with a problem. Their site was on Joomla 1.0 — past end of life, never redesigned for mobile, slow, and fragile. And they published original journalism every day.

home to 10,500+ articles and 12,000+ media items. Full case study here - wearespeak.com/2026/04/09/m... #WordPress #CMS #WebMigration #ContentStrategy

A national news org came to me with a problem. Their site was on Joomla 1.0 — past end of life, never redesigned for mobile, slow, and fragile. And they published original journalism every day.

There is no direct migration path from Joomla 1.0 to WordPress. The content had to move through Joomla 1.5 first. Three platforms. Two migration phases. Nearly 7,000 articles and 8,000 media items dating back to 2004. Manual MySQL work. A third-party publishing plugin that stored content