Marc Jenkins — WordPress developer based in Birmingham, UK

David Bushell just published a banger of post. It really sums up how I've been thinking about personal blogging:
It’s never been more important to blog. There has never been a better time to blog. I will tell you why. We’re being starved for human conversation and authentic voices. What’s more: everyone is trying to take your voice away. Do not opt-out of using...

Well, yesterday was fun…
I’m working with a charity ahead of a large website redesign. I'm consulting and advising, so won’t be designing and building this particular site. We’re in the process of creating a shortlist of agencies to contact with our project brief....

There’s a narrative circling that doesn’t sit right with me. That if you're not using AI, you’re being left behind. If you're ignoring AI, you’re an idiot.
My insecure-and-anxious-self agrees: of course we should be paying attention to AI. After all, it’s going to take over all of our jobs. (Which raises the question: if it’s going to take over our jobs, what’s the point of paying attention anyway? But...

I was chatting to a friend recently about personal blogging. He asked something like: don’t you feel embarrassed by some of your older posts?
The answer is – of course – yes. I’m embarrassed about quite a few of them.
Here’s an example. In 2014, in a post called Time I wrote:...