Marc Jenkins — WordPress developer based in Birmingham, UK

In November last year I passed 10 years of self-employment. After some reflection, I decided 2025 would be the year I rebrand 16by9 to set it up for the next decade.
For those unfamiliar, 16by9 is my primary source of income. It’s my freelance home, where I work with clients across the UK (and sometimes beyond) on a variety of web-related projects....

A daily walk has long been an important part of my workday. Like taking a shower, the lack of screen-based distractions helps my mind process things and come up with ideas.
Cal Newport once said: “Nature has a way of filling your senses without demanding your attention which, when combined with the act of walking, behaves like a performance enhancing drug for deep work.”...

Of course, I’m referring to AI (LLMs, specifically).
A few weeks ago, I downloaded Cursor, an AI-based code editor, and I’m astonished at how good it is. I asked it a few questions about this blog’s codebase, and it responded quickly with detailed and accurate answers. I then prompted it to make a few...

Last week, I migrated my blog from WordPress to Eleventy (11ty). The migration took around 8 hours, but with less tinkering I could have migrated everything in under 2 hours. Impressive considering I've never used 11ty before. The docs are great and...