01 I CAME FOR WORDPRESS
WordPress + publishing
Essays about keeping WordPress’s superpowers while removing the ceremony, dashboards, and inherited furniture that get between an idea and a published page.
Start with the missing dashboard ↗
TRANSMITTING FROM THE WEIRD LITTLE WEB
Teddy
WORKSHOP ONLINETEDDY DOES NOT RECOGNIZE YOU YETSEASONAL CALIBRATION
NEW HERE? PICK A FREQUENCY.
Start here
No algorithm. No personality quiz. Three doors Teddy labeled with masking tape.
02 I LIKE STRANGE PRODUCT IDEAS
Constraints + products
A trail through proven junk, smaller systems, fewer decisions, and tools that make capable people feel capable instead of managed.
Meet the repairman ↗03 TELL ME ABOUT THE REPAIRMAN
Family business + ideas
The personal frequency: growing up around family businesses, talking ideas through with Dad, and continuing the conversation by putting unfinished thoughts onto the open web.
Begin at the family table ↗Teddy TV
Latest transmissions
Sorted newest to oldest, just like nature intended.
Omarchy Gave Me a Name for OpenStation
Omarchy gave me a word for something I had already been building: a coherent operating system that arrives with an opinion, then lets the person using it reshape the answer.
OPEN ENTRYWordPress Core Already Gives Us a Path to Better Plugin Discovery
The stable Plugins API in Core lets WordPress.org improve search for existing sites now—and leaves room for richer Core features later.
OPEN ENTRYBeeper Built the Inbox. Now Let’s Build the Town Square.
The perfect Beeper-powered community product is a Discord-shaped front end for Matrix, connected to WordPress and launched with OpenStation as its first neighborhood.
OPEN ENTRYWordPress Has Rebuilt Everything Except The Room You Work In
WordPress rebuilt its content model, API, editor, and themes. OpenStation finally rebuilds the room around them—and lets you arrange it like yours.
OPEN ENTRYThe Repairman and the Book
A Nintendo repairman, a 2006 web manifesto, and one stubborn rule: choose your constraints, build less, and make something surprisingly good from proven junk.
OPEN ENTRY
WordPress Without the Dashboard
What if WordPress kept its superpowers and lost the dashboard? A case for publishing by conversation—and getting every panel, notice, and click out of the writer’s way.
OPEN ENTRY
Why Recess Feels Like a Missing Piece for AI-Coded WordPress
AI can produce a WordPress idea in minutes, but sharing it still means files, screenshots, and infrastructure. Recess gives that half-formed idea a clickable place to run around.
OPEN ENTRY
Youish Is My Answer To The Pencils-Are-Holy Club
Bad AI writing sounds like nobody and keeps talking after the point is dead. Youish is my answer: an editor that makes your draft better, tighter, and still unmistakably yours.
OPEN ENTRY
WordPress Is the Doorway, Not the Room
WordPress gets us into the same building. The room should be about making things, surviving clients, trading strange ideas, and meeting people—not another Settings API slide deck.
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We Have Been Here Before
People have feared creative technology before, often for good reasons and with the wrong conclusion. From Sousa to AI, the pattern is worth understanding before anxiety becomes prophecy.
OPEN ENTRYTHE RECEIVER LIST · EMAIL, BUT CIVILIZED
A new transmission only when one exists.
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