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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A bunch of people at #WCUS have asked me about brand storytelling. It's captivating and compelling, but only when it's authentic. If you want to make your WordPress site resonate more deeply with visitors, here's a simple approach you can use starting today! 👉 www.nexcess.com/blog/brand-s...

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Brand storytelling and what actually makes it authentic | Nexcess

Your customers already wrote your brand story in reviews, calls, and tickets. Here's how to find it and put it to work on your site.

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Excellent, good, and no time. Sounds about right!

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Grateful for @courtneyr.dev today, especially for this incredibly insightful walkthrough of her approach to implementing the LLM Wiki pattern Karpathy lobbed out into the world a few months ago: courtneyr.dev/2026/04/15/l... As a habitual note-taker, I found it especially dense with value.

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LLM Wiki: From Brain Fog to AI-Organized Second Brain Clarity

The LLM Wiki pattern builds AI-maintained knowledge bases in Obsidian. Here's how I connected PARA, Zettelkasten, and GTD with 11 compounding wikis.

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Out: "AI will take your job" or "AI is _______________" In: It's people. People making decisions. - @baratunde.com at #PSNext

Baratunde Thurston kicking off the PS/Next Summit '26 in Palm Springs, CA

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Dave Winer @scripting.com · 05/12/2025

I've come to see #WordPress as an API with a widely deployed and stable implementation behind it, where the user is in control and developers can build apps without having to get into the storage-selling business.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 14/11/2025

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Selling one's likeness for a mere $500 and having it talk about its sexual preferences while hawking fiber supplements is like a sad plot device that I would expect from a good science fiction novel. But it's real, via @sapna.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/b...

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He Sold His Likeness. Now His Avatar Is Shilling Supplements on TikTok.

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Looking forward to processing everything we took away from #WCEU with Kyleigh from @itsliquidweb.bsky.social! It was great having her with us in the @stellarwp.bsky.social booth!

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The anticipation and curiosity in this room is PALPABLE. #WCEU

Mary Hubbard & Matt Mullenweg on stage for the fireside chat at WordCamp Europe 2025

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Liquid Web by Nexcess @itsliquidweb.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Missing #WCEU 2025 this week? We've got you covered 😌 Get the insights you need on emerging themes and key #WordPress trends in our recap. Join our free webinar with Kyleigh Fitzgerald & @davidjohnson.bsky.social Register now: ow.ly/tvvs50W2QNi Can't make it? We'll send the slides & recording ✔️

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This was so disorienting 😵‍💫 It was if Chris Cornell had been teleported to the 40s and we were going to the mattresses open.spotify.com/track/7c9UV6...

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Black Hole Sun

Ramin Djawadi · Westworld: Season 1 (Music from the HBO Series) · Song · 2016

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Have you ever noticed that the price paid for the sunglasses is inversely correlated with the length of ownership? or is that just me?

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

EU OS is a project worth keeping an eye on. The future of secure platforms is inevitably going to be open source software, whether it's your desktop OS, your browser, your website's CMS, etc. And not JUST for the public sector. eu-os.gitlab.io

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EU OS

Proof-of-Concept OS for the EU

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I'm not going to ask how the f..k this got out, but I, for one, would not like to FA with the hacker trans community. Authority: friend of dozens of elite trans #infosec allies.

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

"Mornings are for coffee and contemplation," Saturday at Siesta Key Village Edition

Bearded guy sitting at a counter with a journal, a pen, a half-eaten empanada, and a cup of coffee. The view from the barstool through a picture window shows a tropical street scene on a very sunny day

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

"Hey. You're gonna say that device down and pay attention to me, right?"

Tabby cat looking earnestly into the camera

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I was always curious about how to make a Molotov cocktail. Who knew that the knowledge would come to me via my favorite cybersecurity podcast?!🤣 First: a portable dog killer Now: Molotov cocktails What is Steve Gibson really trying to train us to do? /s Hi @leolaporte.me

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

How should we "label" machine-generated speech? This reminds me of the requirement that electric cars make sounds or even Harley-Davidson's efforts to add sound to electric motorcycles. Seems like a good episode idea for @20k.bsky.social www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

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AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic - Schneier on Security

Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those rob...

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

That moment when colleagues who have only known you since you grew "the beard" notice the pre-beard pic still lingering on your Github profile 😳

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Sé Reed @sereedmedia.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Why the majority of people in the #WordPress community do not want it to fork: A thread (x-posted). 🧵 (In which I generalize considerably for ease of language and unverified character limits.) (begin)

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

AI- generated profiles were inevitable. As were AI-generated "influencers." The question is, why is Meta compelled to create their own?

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Shout out to all the neurodivergents, heading into a week of over stimulation, no routine, sky high expectations, and non optional socialising. I see you.

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

These 2 Florida residents will track down any heat source this time of year 🤣

Two cats curled up for a nap on top of a closed laptop running in clamshell mode next to a keyboard and various desk accessories

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I've always heard it was Groucho Marx that said "I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member" And yet: * This is a phenomenal group of people * Only one of them actually consented to my inclusion 🤣 Thanks for building such a great list of WordPress people, @shawnhooper.ca!

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

As much as I despise the thing where every social network is just full of screenshots of the other ones...

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Patrick in open Rebellion @dattil.io · 23/11/2024

I want to be so many things all at the same time

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Holly is unbothered and thinks we could all benefit from just stopping to enjoy the breeze.

A small, big-eyed Burmese cat chilling on a window sill with a beautiful day visible through the open window behind her.

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David G. Johnson @davidjohnson.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

"The intuition was to take the complexity and push it onto the user,” he said. “You take on the complexity instead of making the user deal with it.” www.pcmag.com/news/signal-...

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Signal Developer Explains Why Early Encrypted Messaging Tools Flopped

'The intuition was to take the complexity and push it onto the user,' Moxie Marlinspike says at Black Hat. 'We were just wrong.'

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

*Points to imprisoned wizard* This is where the magic happens!

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