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@rogerbikes.com

Partnerships & Community manager at Kinsta. Consultant at Roger Williams Media. Lover of dogs and Kate. Let’s ride!

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Ain’t gonna let no robot get me down!

Had a great time sponsoring and presenting at Digital Summit Dallas this week. Good conversations, great crowd, and excellent event execution.

05.12.2025 23:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

People can be pretty impulsive about their hosting.

01.12.2025 20:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Websites are messy and inconsistent in design and annoyances. I’ve gone back to using a feed reader more and more.

27.11.2025 16:45 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m a sucker for this issue. I enjoy the comments in LinkedIn and get good reach there. I’ve learned to place links in the comments and that seems to help get the traffic somewhere. Maybe.

The problem is convenience. It’s much easier to open an app on my phone and get a consistent experience. 1/2

27.11.2025 16:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Mainly a PHP compatibility?

27.11.2025 16:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My dog zuke on the couch wondering what’s next.

My dog zuke on the couch wondering what’s next.

Been a while since I got sucked into a tech rabbit hole. Thought I wanted to get activitypub going on my website. Dig into using mastodon. Remembered Bluesky exists. Opened app started scrolling. Need to get thanksgiving dinner cooking. Happy thanksgiving y’all!

27.11.2025 16:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seems like a pretty simple fix too, no? (Says the non-dev.)

27.11.2025 16:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Gotcha. Guess I need to see if we do something for this. Thanks!

27.11.2025 16:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah it’s Black Friday deals all the way down. We’ve trained people that this is a deal holiday and now we have to deliver. The thing is that you just need to give some sort of deal. It doesn’t need to be gigantic. Just something.

This is what you get when you arbitrarily discount your services.

27.11.2025 16:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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GitHub - mohemiv/wp-filename-randomizer: Filename Randomizer adds randomization to file names when uploading files into WordPress Filename Randomizer adds randomization to file names when uploading files into WordPress - mohemiv/wp-filename-randomizer

How about randomizing the file name as an option on upload?

github.com/mohemiv/wp-f...

27.11.2025 16:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Automating the Web: How APIs and AI Are Refining Hosting Reselling - Roger Williams Media The role of a hosting reseller has evolved. It is no longer just about buying server space and selling it at a markup; it is about curating a seamless experience for the client. But how do you scale t...

My favorite part of doing interviews is asking questions and having smart people answer them. This conversation with Austin Ginger was a lot of fun. His open source attitude is infectious:

rogerwilliamsmedia.com/reselling-ho...

27.11.2025 16:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ouch. My worry is that this makes WordPress sound insecure. Is there a fix that can be implemented at the project level for this?

27.11.2025 16:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Headed to @brightonseo.com San Diego this week. Will I see you at the @kinsta.com booth?

22.09.2025 13:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Get yer tickets now! Come see me talk next Tuesday. Feel better about yourself and the future of humanity!

I potentially oversold that one. What do you think?

17.09.2025 22:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Welcome @kinsta.com to Bluesky!

17.09.2025 17:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Machines Like Me Check out this great listen on Audible.com. New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winner and international best-selling author of Atonement and The Children Act Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative ...

Fun alternate history sci-fi. Turing lives and creates AI in the 60’s. Britain loses the Falklands due to AI powered French missiles.

www.audible.com/pd/198003238...

05.09.2025 00:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cloudflare's Matthew Prince has a plan to get Google and the AI oliigarchs to pay for your content even though many are used to getting it for free. He might have enough leverage to make them. AI chatbots are blowing up the 30-year economic relationship publishers have had with search engines. Many think this will kill the web if not addressed. Google needs to change first. It's resisting. ...

“it’s entirely possible that publishers will just start using Cloudflare to block Google’s crawler,“
crazystupidtech.com/2025/08/30/c...

Anyone else hearing this from publishers?

01.09.2025 15:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Flying to Portland for WordCamp US 2025!

Will you be there?

25.08.2025 17:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We talk about accessibility and tend to focus on regulations. It’s important to consider how these changes affect users.

If you build websites you need to check this one out.

30.07.2025 15:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for organizing this.

30.07.2025 15:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From Cassette Tapes to Core Commits: Weston Ruter’s WordPress Journey
From Cassette Tapes to Core Commits: Weston Ruter’s WordPress Journey YouTube video by Kinsta

Just posted an interview with @weston.ruter.net and it’s a gem.

We talked web standards, open source, and speeding up WP admin.

🛠️ Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_I_...
🎙️ Brought to you by Kinsta

#WordPress #OpenWeb #DevLife #KinstaTalks

16.07.2025 14:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ThemeSwitcher Pro: Brad Williams on Helping Editors Move Faster in WordPress
ThemeSwitcher Pro: Brad Williams on Helping Editors Move Faster in WordPress YouTube video by Kinsta

@bradw.illiams.com and the @webdevstudios.com team built ThemeSwitcher Pro to solve a real-world problem:
How do you move clients off the Classic Editor without a full redesign?

Turns out, you do it one page at a time. 🧩

We talk about it on today’s Kinsta Talks:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aH9...

14.07.2025 14:10 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Keeping our emotions from running the show is key here.

12.07.2025 11:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you @withinwp.com and @remkusdevries.com for the nice shoutout to Kinsta for our work with WordPress contributors. Its been an interesting journey that I hope to share more details on soon.

11.07.2025 17:19 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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“We have to use AI because everyone else is doing it.”
Red flag, says Kevin Leary. 🚩

Smart take on AI, coding, and why good hosting saves more than money.

🎥 Full interview here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PaO...
#AI #WordPress #WebDev @kinsta.com

08.07.2025 16:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

AISEO mimicking black hat SEO with white text on white backgrounds asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

08.07.2025 04:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Scripting News: Monday, June 30, 2025 Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

Better yet have a system that automates backups and use staging environments. Or just sign up for Kinsta and let us handle it. 😎🚀

30.06.2025 15:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ChatGPT Car coming soon

28.06.2025 22:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anyone going to WordCamp Montclair today here? #wcmontclair can we make Bluesky the app for events?

28.06.2025 11:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Your Infrastructure Should Be Open: A Quick Talk with Valkey's Madelyn Olson - Going forward by looking back At the Open Source Summit in Denver, I grabbed a few minutes with Madelyn Olson, one of the maintainers behind Valkey, a project that’s been making waves in the infrastructure world. Madelyn had just ...

“Your core infrastructure should be vendor neutral and open source.”
Madelyn Olson said it best in her OSS Summit keynote—and in our quick chat about @valkeyio, the open source fork of Redis.

Why it matters, how to adopt it, and what’s next.

#Valkey #OpenSource #Redis #OSSummit #CTO

27.06.2025 17:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0