Marc Jenkins

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Web developer. Agency owner.

Interests: Web dev & design, WordPress, PKM, books, photography, F1, whisky.

Personalhttps://marcjenkins.co.uk/
Workhttps://16by9.net/

I soft-launched my new website a few weeks back. Very pleased with how it turned out.

I used Kirby CMS for the first time in years. It's a really lovely and very capable CMS.

Now, to get back to writing the handbook!

https://16by9.net/

16by9 · Building great websites for good causes

We help charities, non-profits and purpose-led organisations redesign their websites.

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I tried to distill my conflicting thoughts on AI: https://marcjenkins.co.uk/conflicted-about-ai/
I’ve never been so conflicted about a technology

I am writing about my experiences as a self-employed web developer and designer.

I wrote up some thoughts on the recent WordPress drama: https://marcjenkins.co.uk/wordpress-drama/
Thoughts on the recent WordPress drama — Marc Jenkins

I spend most of my day using WordPress. My consulting business is focused on WordPress, and clients hire me to build bespoke WordPress themes, optimise their WordPress site, or migrate a site from…

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Cybertruck Deliveries Halted Due To Car Being A Big Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Work | Defector

Tesla, a future case study for securities law classes across America, had to stop delivering Cybertrucks this past weekend. No, not because the hundred-thousand–dollar medium-duty pickup, which is only any of those things in the loosest interpretive sense, tends to brick when it gets rained on; nor because its stainless steel panels get all rusty […]

Most people over use email auto-responders. Just had an auto-response that said it might take them a day to reply – which seems a perfectly time amount of time to reply to an email regardless.

I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates

It means that every post published was important to the writer

Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most

You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters

Marketing pro-tip: when taking photos for your website, always include a cute dog.

https://16by9.net/blog/my-favourite-web-related-books/

My favourite web-related books – 16by9

My home office is filled with books. I’m often asked about recommendations, so here are some of my favourite web-related books.

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Spare a thought for the folks who pushed an update to Sainsbury's and Tesco's payment systems on a Friday as they have the worst weekend of their lives.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68584235

Sainsbury's and some Tesco deliveries cancelled over technical issues

Sainsbury's cancels deliveries due on Saturday as Tesco also apologises over cancellations.

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Seeing Dune 2 tonight. Been a while since I've been this excited about a film.
So @andycarolan made these nifty not-by-AI 88x31 badges which you should totally go and get and put on your website like I have https://ko-fi.com/s/4662b19f61
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