Scripting News: Thursday, August 28, 2025
Thursday, August 28, 2025 Think Different about WordPress # Steve Jobs asked you to think differently about computers. # I'm going to ask you to think differently about WordPress. # I'm not going to make you wait to hear what it is. I want you to see WordPress as comparable to Bluesky or Mastodon. # I've done this before -- asked people to think differently about things, like public writing, with blogging. In the 90s I was running around the Vallley trying to explain to everyone that blogging was going to change everything, all I got was blank stares from people who said "we don't do that." They of course eventually did do it. But at first the ideas seemed foreign, unreasonable. # I did it with RSS and podcasting. We needed to seed these things, get the ideas in front of people with actual products, with real utility for users. And eventually they came around. # Now I'm going to ask you to think differ...