iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Statamic @statamic.com · 04/08/2026

Did you know that Laravel.com runs on Statamic? 🫶 statamic.com/blog/laravel-dot-com-r…

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Statamic @statamic.com · 06/08/2026

Hope you enjoy our Laracon wrap-up post! We sure enjoyed our time in Boston with the community. Ya'll are wonderful. statamic.com/blog/laracon-us-2026

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Statamic @statamic.com · 07/08/2026

👀 SNEAK PEEK at a huge feature upgrade COMING SOON — Forms 2.0! youtu.be/oCWMvt22SKw

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Here's a quick demo of Statamic Sidecar seamlessly editing LaraDocs and Jigsaw sites. It's been a productive weekend! www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9mQ...

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Introducing Sidecar – Manage Jigsaw & Laradocs sites with Statamic

YouTube video by Statamic

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

if your team kicks ass, u know what i mean 🫶

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

If anyone is looking for someone to help with your video work, may I suggest my brother Joseph? Full on editing, sound/music/light motion design for long form, short/social, you name it. He's gotten so stinkin' good. josephmcdade.com

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Statamic @statamic.com · 30/01/2026

Alongside Statamic 6, we also shipped SEO Pro 7 — with a whole pile of new features: 🚀 Structured Data/JSON-LD 🚀 Search Engine/OG Image Card previews 🚀 Improved reports 🚀 Localizable site defaults 🚀 Support for URL trailing slashes

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Statamic @statamic.com · 28/01/2026

Statamic 6 is here! 🚀 A redesigned Control Panel, a modern Vue 3 + Inertia foundation, a new UI component library, a long list of architectural & performance improvements, and that's just scratching the surface. This is a new beginning, ready for what comes next. ❤️

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A new addition to my offline desk.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The evolution of the design continues.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I tinkered with a personal site redesign all Christmas break and never really got anywhere. Go figure — as soon as I get back to work the inspiration struck. Ain't that just how it works? Even got to resurrect Kyle Steed's "Steedicons" for this one.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

For 2026 I'm going (more) analog. I'm making effort to do things by hand when I can. Paper, pens, scotch tape. I even set up a second, "offline desk" (a tip from @austinkleon) to make it easier. I'm gonna spend money on art supplies instead of SaaS apps. It's gonna get weird up in here. 🤘

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Just like Florida, except gators.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I still love and use Photoshop almost every single day. AMA

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I got rid of my expensive, ergonomic office chair & now use this basic kitchen chair I bought off Marketplace. It's firm & doesn't encourage me to slouch give into crappy posture. When my butt is tired, I get up and walk around. It's the perfect desk chair. Rage against comfort.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Years of sitting, coding, shipping, scrolling, and pixel peeping destroyed my body. I honestly thought I was DYING. It took me 4 years and 22 specialists to figure out what was ACTUALLY happening and how to fix it. Now I'm sharing everything I learned & more in my new podcast — recoverymode.fm

recoverymode.fm

Pursuing recovery from a mind & body damaged by tech. | Recovery Mode

Pursuing recovery from a mind & body damaged by tech. A podcast hosted by Jack McDade & Marce K.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Just reply & let me know if you do want me to share more and I'll figure out what format it should be. I have a newsletter I never use (jackmcdade.com/newsletter), maybe that would be best? Or maybe it's a podcast, or a blog... I dunno. You tell me. Thanks reading. ❤️

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Newsletter

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Let me know if this is something you'd want me to share more about. I have done tons of research, tried a crap load of stuff that didn't work, have had successes that conventional medicine says is nonsense, & am carving out a barely traveled path here. I cut out 99% of my story.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I've learned a ton and have even more to learn going forward, but if you're going through anything similar (and I've met a bunch of people like me/us, trust me) — nothing would make me happier than to be able to help.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Every day isn't amazing, and sometimes i feel like it's one step forward, two steps back, but looking back at where i was 6 months ago, 2 years ago, 5 years ago... and know I've absolutely found a path towards healing that is proving itself to be effective and fills me with hope.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

So here I am, quite convinced that the *bulk* of all my problems stemmed from a slow-motion self induced injury of extremely poor posture which developed a severe disfunction in my cervical spine, all which can be addressed with patience and persistence.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

TL;DR it's incredible how much damage you can do to yourself by hunching over a computer 8-10 hours a day for 25 years. I started doing weekly Functional Patterns training sessions with a 15 minute cranial/jaw massage and within 2 months started to feel ALMOST normal again. ‼️

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

She actually has a wide range of unusual specialties, including Structural Energetic Therapy (*sounds* like voodoo but isn't, i think it's name poorly) and Functional Patterns. We went through the list of things I'd been through and she told me she dealt with the same exact things.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I actually went back and read my "Struggle Bus" post to remember how all this started and thought harder on the TMJ/nerve side of things and went down a rabbit hole of research, which led me to deciding to go back to this one fantastic massage therapist I had been to a few times.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Now I could start focusing on the remaining issues — lightheadedness, migraines, fatigue, a hyper-sensitive Vegas nerve (touch the side of my neck and i almost pass out) and brain fog.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

After a few weeks I was able to stop cycling in endless unproductive loops of worrying what was wrong with me, not to mention not having the sudden heart racing/passing out sensations and I felt more like a human again. Maybe not my former self exactly, but it brought hope.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

SSRIs block the reabsorption of serotonin, which helps your body get rid of excess cortisol (stress hormone) and allows your brain to transmit proper mood signals to your body. And it helped. A lot.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

These symptoms compounded everything else going on and cause a lot of signal interference. I saw a psychiatrist who promptly diagnosed me with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (as they do with probably everybody) and he put me on Lexapro, an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor).

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

When unchecked and imbalances, these neurohormones cause anxiety (not the only source, but probably the most common one) and can hijack your normal responses to stress. This explained the racing heart, palpitations, panic attacks, and to at least some extent the lightheadedness.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Not only that, but our catecholamines (neurohormones that include dopamine, noradrenaline and adrenaline) can get completely out of wack for a number of reasons, like genetics, nutritional deficiencies, viruses, gut imbalances, and so on.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

(This really resonated with me as I have some pretty severe trauma I have yet to fully metabolize, but I'm getting there thanks to good counseling.)

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Anxiety is so much more complicated, and I'm embarrassed to even admit how naive I had been. Our bodies keep the score — our unresolved traumas live inside us and change us, change our physiology. Anxiety can well up from completely subconscious sources.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

First, and most surprising to me, was anxiety. I had never really been a worrier and thought people who suffer with anxiety were soft people with weak minds that couldn't get over stuff in their past. How wrong and naive I was.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This was a turning point for me. Through good counseling I was able to separate some of the symptoms into two categories, two potential sources for the combined clusterf*** I had become.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I found a few little wins here an there, but overall it got worse, and then much worse, and then so bad I almost gave up on trying to get better. Last year I went to counseling to start working on acceptance.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

For the most part nobody could find anything wrong with me. My bloodwork was nearly perfect. Scans revealed nothing. Chiros couldn't crack the problem away, doctors couldn't prescribe a fix. "Maybe it's just in your head" they would say. Cool. Cool cool cool.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Over the next 4 years I went to 15 different specialists — a functional medicine clinic, 3x different chiropractors, a cardiologist, an allergist, a vestibular clinic, 2 osteopaths, an acupuncturist, a sports medicine physical therapist, a neurologist, and several types of massage therapy.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It's kinda sad to read that post and think "Oh you naive little puppy, you've only scratched the surface and barely started suffering."

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

In August of 2021 I wrote a post called My Struggle Bus where I announced I thought I had figured out what the cause of what I had been dealing with for "quite a while" – which at the time was... a few months. jackmcdade.com/struggle-bus.

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My Struggle Bus

Something's been wrong with me in the health department for quite a while and I finally know what it is.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

For the last 5 years I've been dealing with brain fog, lightheadedness, heart racing or palpitations, sometimes i would suddenly almost pass out, dizziness, fatigue, migraines, poor sleep, and other related symptoms, and eventually — near-crippling anxiety and panic attacks.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I've been on a really long journey with my health and decided that it's time to share a bit more. I've learned so much (and have so much left to learn) and want to put this out there in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Just made some updates to my Radical Design course today — added some resources, refreshed the hero area to better explain what the course is REALLY about. It's every bit as useful as the day I launched it 1 year ago and I'm still freakin proud of it. radicaldesigncourse.com/

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Radical Design – A Rebellious Web Design Course by Jack McDade

Radical Design is a rebellious, potentially life-changing design course by Jack McDade

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

WIP new command palette for Statamic 6 👀

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Do I know any Ess E Oh Experts who use Statamic?

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Jack McDade @jackmcdade.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

What has the best looking dark mode you've ever seen?

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