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Alex Standiford
I’ve been spending an increasing amount of time kayaking to beat the heat lately. It’s a good way to beat the heat, and since our seasonal lot is on a lake I figure it’s a good way to get out of the house. It’s nice to go back to the camper afterward, clean up, change out of our wet clothes, then go home after a bit if we want (or stay overnight if we’re feeling up to it!)
Alex Standiford
I’m really beginning to notice that using AI effectively is, itself, a skill. People always position it as a magic solution, but you can DEFINITELY tell when someone lazily copypasta’s an AI response vs using AI to help them cultivate a thoughtful reply.
Alex Standiford
Today was a big day for my agency. We closed a good-sized retainer with a client, and I never met the client myself.
My salesperson worked the deal, another teammate handled the contract, and our ops system is handling the fulfillment.
I’m so giddy I can hardly stand it!
Curiously enough, it’s 1 year (to the DAY) that we launched Siren, to boot!
Alex Standiford
Rocking the OBX cup today
I spent some time re-building the abstractions for background tasks in PHPNomad, but this time it’s through the lens of a Redis integration.
Alex Standiford
How are folks here rewarding repeat customers or partner referrals?
I’ve been building systems that go past affiliate links, but I want to hear what’s working for you. Happy to swap notes if anyone’s deep in this.
Alex Standiford
I feel like I’ve been really re-discovering the ’80s. It was a great time for music.
Summary The phpnomad/tasks package has been rewritten in v2.0.0 to introduce a modern, dependency-injection-friendly, platform-agnostic task system. This update deprecates the legacy TaskScheduler and CanScheduleTasks model and replaces it with a new, unified architecture centered around: This issue proposes refactoring the WordPress integration to fully adopt the new task system. Why The current WordPress integration […]
Alex Standiford
Today, I spelled entrepreneur correctly on the first try. AMA.
Alex Standiford
Here’s a little tip for managing a CRM after a conference – upload photos of the back and front of the business cards to the CRM.
Looking at the card – its design, colors, etc, is often enough to trigger you to remember the conversation you had with them. Super helpful.
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