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Jem Turner

@jemjabella.com
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PHP dev & founder of WordPress agency; into fitness shenanigans, food & fancy cocktails. Mostly post random thoughts. 🏳️‍🌈. AuDHD. Mum to two teenagers. (She/her) Blog: www.jemjabella.co.uk Work: ultimatelybetter.com

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Chris Johnson @defaced.dev · 01/10/2026
Heads up if you use the Google Analytics for WooCommerce plugin, an update late August changed how it reports revenue to GA4. Prior to the update revenue inc. shipping, and now it's excluded. So comparing MoM or YoY data won't be like-for-like.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off.
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thread on Dan Boultwood's victim who waives her anomity to talk about the experience. For those who didn't see the original reporting, this is the only significant coverage. Maddie says how she's disappointed there wasn't more public introspection and conversation over this, and she's right.
bleedingcool.com
Dan Boultwood Sentenced After Pleading Guilty To Child Sex Offences
Comic book creator Dan Boultwood was sentenced in court yesterday, after pleading guilty to child sex offences
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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I don't approve of talking about food as naughty; we take our pleasures where we can" YES NIGELLA YOU ARE THE BAKE OFF PERSON WE NEEDED THANK YOU.
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Ramon Eijkemans @eikhart.com · 29/09/2026
I *don’t* care how good your outreach is, how smart your agent can hook into posts i’ve written. If you email me without me asking, and especially if you keep doing that, i’ll block you out of principle and will surely never ever buy from you.
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Manchester WordPress User Group @mwug.uk · 28/09/2026
WordCamp Manchester is on it's way! We're meeting on November 6th, 2026 in Whitworth Locke Hotel in Manchester for a day of relaxed networking, learning about WordPress and collaboration. Hope you can join us! manchester.wordcamp.org/2026/
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 26/09/2026
Was hoping to make it SearchNorwichXL this week but had to cancel because it clashes with my kickboxing grading. Well, the good news is, I passed my grading 🎉
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 26/09/2026
Yeah I miss pre-X twitter. I miss the people and the little communities that kinda grew up naturally on there. Bluesky is ok but not the same.
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 24/09/2026
Just called someone a melt on LinkedIn, so that's a nice way to end my day 👌
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 24/09/2026
Well, that's certainly an interesting dark pattern I've not seen before...
Screenshot of an unsubscribe page that switches language halfway through to make it more difficult to update the unsubscribe form
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 24/09/2026
Interesting take, but not sure you can call football "dry". Everyone I know who goes to football matches drinks in the pub beforehand and/or in the grounds at the bar at half time, not sure the ban realistically makes any difference. None of them are "far right football thugs" though. 🤔
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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Its What3Words accounts filing day! They're doing so great. Nothing to worry about. I'm sure "the launch of our advertising revenue stream" will offset the "lost major Enterprise customer". Ads are really profitable now, right? find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0843...
WHAT3WORDS LIMITED
GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025

Financial key performance indicators

The Group's total loss for the year was £12,234,738 (2024: loss £10,644,836)
The increase in reported loss compared with the prior year was driven primarily by the fair value adjustment
relating to convertible loan notes recognised in 2024, which reduced the overall reported loss in that year.
Operating loss for the year was £12,828,534 (compared with £14,133,347 in 2024). The underlying operating
performance of the business remained focused on revenue growth, product investment and disciplined cost
management.

The group has continued to maintain a dynamic operating model, balancing investment in growth initiatives
across key markets with careful control of operating expenditure and cash runway.

At 31 December 2025, the group had net assets of £10,925,686 (2024: £15,659,513). Assets were
predominantly comprised of cash and cash equivalents totaling £6,493,450 (2024: £11,705,453) and term
deposits of £2,649,047 (2024: £5,948,370).
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 24/09/2026
Booked tickets to pressconf.events this morning, never been before. Any of my other WP buddies going?
pressconf.events
PressConf | WordPress Business Conference
PressConf brings WordPress founders, product leaders, agencies, hosts, and operators together for candid talks and meaningful connections.
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 23/09/2026
That's so lovely :)
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 23/09/2026
haha i'm eternally grateful that the majority of the forums/bbs/etc that were around >20 years ago closed down, because i spouted some absolute shite as a teenager
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 23/09/2026
My reddit account is now old enough to drink. 🤯
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Rhys Wynne @rhys.wales · 23/09/2026
Tesco have a competition where you can win a £10,000 tech bundle with your Clubcard. Otherwise known as 16GB of RAM.
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 22/09/2026
Fucking love trifle.
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 22/09/2026
I survived!
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 22/09/2026
Normally do kickboxing on a Monday PM, but delayed it to tonight because I was still feeling rough yesterday. Except I'm still feeling rough today 😭 Would normally rest if I'm in a bad way but have a grading at the end of the week so literally have no choice but to suck it up. 🥲
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 21/09/2026
I opened an account last week and chucked £50 in for the lols and I've made 8p! Go me 🎉
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 21/09/2026
Fair point 😂
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 21/09/2026
WHAT I don't believe you 😂 I know it *means* "number used once" but who tf pronounces it en once?
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 21/09/2026
Haha straight over my head 😂
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 21/09/2026
Customer payment failed because of an issue on the bank end, Square payment gateway (on Woo) throwing a missing nonce error at checkout. Nothing to fix from a tech POV, although Square could do with making their customer-facing error messages a little more ... culturally aware.
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 21/09/2026
Hahaha that's brilliant 👌
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 21/09/2026
Looks like my "days since client queried why the word 'nonce' appears on their website" counter can be reset to 0 again. (I know @rhys.wales can relate to this one 🫠)
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 20/09/2026
Random fact: Original Hula Hoops were one of the only things I could tolerate without immediately bringing them back up when I was pregnant with my eldest. (Yay HG.) I would have spent a lot more time in hospital without them.
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 19/09/2026
These are all freelancers who've made their own choices. What's your plan to refresh your old skills and regain confidence? Anything I can help with?
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 18/09/2026
Huge uptick in emails to my biz email from "developers" asking for work & every single one I've looked at has sent me AI slop websites as evidence of 'their' skills. This is going to be a frickin' nightmare next time I hire.
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 16/09/2026
My cold went from "this is manageable, will probably even run later" to googling symptoms of my impending death at 4am, so that's nice. (Think I might have covid or the flu, yay.)
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 15/09/2026
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Simpsons: Homer Yells 'NERRRRD!'
Alt: Simpsons: Homer Yells 'NERRRRD!'
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 10/09/2026
Finally! 👏
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David Fry @davidfry.com · 10/09/2026
Matt Mullenweg is now on a leave of absence from Automattic. About time! www.404media.co/wordpress-au... #wordpress
404media.co
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'
Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, wrote in a company-wide Slack messages on Wednesday, viewed by 404 Media, that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The operative word in "Protect our women!" is not "women" but "our".
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 08/09/2026
I have rage quit (died, can't get my stuff back and get fed up trying) and come back to it so many times 😂 so pleased to have made this discovery 🥳
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 08/09/2026
Today I learned that one of my favourite PC games is coming to the Switch 2. Viking raids from my bed, YES! www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
nintendo.com
Valheim
Valheim is a collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players set in a procedurally generated world inspired by Norse mythology.
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Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.
theguardian.com
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 08/09/2026
Happy birthday to @gazchap.com who is basically ancient today, but it's ok because we love him. 🎉🥳
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 08/09/2026
The garden is grateful for another sprinkling of rain after such a dry summer 🌱
A close up photo of a pink rose in bloom, showered in tiny rain droplets
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 07/09/2026
I'm not normally a "Monday dread" sort of person but I really don't wanna get up and be a grown up today, so if everyone could just fill in for me that'd be great.
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 04/09/2026
Another solid day of being paid to use leccy tomorrow by the looks 👌
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 03/09/2026
This is where I learn that you can zoom in?? That would make it easier I guess 🤔
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 03/09/2026
Got 99 for the first one and the rest are too embarrassing to share 😂
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 27/08/2026
I think what really bothers me is that the affected client caught out by the auto-scaling is a charity, so they don't really have the money to spend on a $1200 hosting bill 😔
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 26/08/2026
Kudos if you get to the part about the atomic mutex and your face isn't like this:
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Tom Delonge Blink182 Wtf Meme
Alt: Tom Delonge Blink182 Wtf Meme
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 26/08/2026
Wrote a ranty blog post about it all, because why not (didn't mention the security issue because I was already pushing my luck with the irresponsible disclosure 😂) www.jemjabella.co.uk/2026/cloudwa...
jemjabella.co.uk
Cloudways’ Cloudflare Enterprise integration is a crock of shit - Jem’s field notes
We have a few clients with larger e-commerce (WordPress + WooCommerce) stores hosted on UK servers via Cloudways. Generally speaking, the service is fine and the cost is decent for what we get.
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 26/08/2026
As the bandwidth usage (and costs) continued to climb, I finally managed to persuade the client to moved to a fixed server routed through Cloudflare 'proper' and would you look at that, b/w use is back at normal levels and they'll only have to pay ~$50 per month instead of ~$1200+
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Jem Turner @jemjabella.com · 25/08/2026
Looking forward to the photos of you trying to fit a massive labrador in that.
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
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