Alex
Alex
@alex@www.alexstandiford.com

Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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  • I miss using em dashes. Thanks a lot AI

  • The biggest benefit of Dinnerly is proving to be the recipe cards they ship along with their subscriptions. We three-hole punch those things and put them in a binder so we can re-make the hits. It’s made it easy for the kids to participate in meal planning because they can look at the nice big…

  • My Rules of Productivity

    Bootstrapped founders can’t rely on cleared runways. Here are the rules I use to earn deep work.

  • Watching Nightmare Before Christmas with the family. I love this movie so much.

  • One of my favorite AI prompts to leverage ChatGPT to help me edit: You’re an editor and you’re going to help me fine tune this post so I can get it published. Let’s start with a chainsaw, then an axe, then a knife. Hack away, move, and organize paragraphs with the chainsaw, Then cut at…

  • Me: *Tired AF* Devin (6yo son): “Dad, can I cook dinner with you?” Me: *ENERGIZED* Love this kid! I’ll remember his willingness to cook with me for the rest of my life.

  • That Time Ben Ate a Vegetable

    Ben chose an inopportune time to decide vegetables smell good.

  • Well I just lost a day going down a rabbit hole of improving my personal website. I’m glad it’s done because it’s much better now, but I’m disappointed in myself for losing focus on the work I was supposed to be doing today. That’s alright, I think I can just swap my plans for Friday…

  • Making some minor updates and upgrades to my site, and it just makes me so happy. When I made this site originally, I was on a mission to make it something I use regularly, and is something that reflects my personality online. Something that 13 year old me would have looked at and said wow…

  • The Friends WordPress plugin, Mastodon Apps, and ActivityPub plugins have come a LONG way in the last few years. With some setup, and a few tightly-coupled plugins, you can make your blog a fully-functioning WordPress-based private Mastodon instance. It’s amazing!