This is why I don’t use #Cloudflare, a centralized gatekeeper is a good CDN strategy, but a massive choke point. Small & mid-sized projects on robust platforms suffer the dependency on massive sites.

Let the Internet be the Internet—find failures, protect protocols, but not with magic solutions.

After watching the first two #Pluribus episodes, seeing some odd little things differently. Not just social media memes & such. More low-level, like:

*Yes, David there’s a GIF for that emotion you can view & transmit via the HIVE…

How can one person and a ladder show Minneapolis how to fix darkened parks and pathways after copper theft? #DIY #Solar MinnPost article

Gigging the Long Tail

About to start live blogging this book project, pivoting off working title Every Job I Ever Had, now a subtitle. Premise is to review changes in late 20th Century employment and job roles.

Question now is how to illustrate the Long Tail instead of this guy…

Drupal 11 was an easy install on Cloudways. Will play in the demo app for a while, then eventually load the new CMS on top. Been a while since using Drupal. Hoping for the ideal UXs for both admin & users. Could be a sweet off-ramp from WordPress drama.

The WordPress Morph is a WordPress Advisory 2025 for my consulting clients. WordPress enters 2025 disrupting the global ecosystem powering 42% of the web. Users need options for safe and continuing web services. Word & Image explores options:

wordimage.com/blog/wordpress-advisory/

Been a year since Barber Bob closed the MGEX Barbershop 💈 and fun to see the Media blitz we got. But mothballing the site to the old WordPress morgue on anniversary tomorrow.

Finally finished transferring domains out of Google before migration to Squarespace. Porkbun has been handy to use as a new registrar, especially the External Domain feature to set up DNS before transfer to eliminate any downtime or anomalies. Porkbun was recommended here on Micro.blog. Thanks!

Reviving Help Desk service on my indie web & publishing consulting biz to manage client email threads & workflow. Freemium SASS solutions abound all the way up to Atlassian Jira, a massive platform. Instead, opting to own data & massage GPL code with solid WordPress plugin WSDesk by ELEX.

Daily photo of Little Free Library box to update my LibraryThing collection for status of books available or gone. Some 600 titles logged for 2022. Tiny HTML/CSS/JS site embeds current LibraryThing shelf plus a local Tweet feed. Longfellow.Life