Open Channels FM: Mistral LeChonk, Open-Source Windows Tools, and Rethinking the Internet’s Platforms

In this episode, Bob and Simon discuss the creative ups and downs of building personal websites, overcoming perfectionism, and finding joy in fun coding projects as part of the indie web journey.

bbPress 2.6.20 is a security and maintenance release. Everyone running bbPress should update. This release strengthens topic and reply password validation and keeps bbPress post shortcodes literal in ordinary WordPress content loops. It also adds a site-wide Forum Status setting with Open, Closed, and Frozen modes. Existing sites remain Open unless that setting is changed….

Ever wished you could update every WordPress site you manage without logging into each one? When you manage multiple WordPress sites, even a simple update becomes a repetitive task. You have to log into each site, check which plugins and themes need updating, run the… Read More » The post Introducing WPVibe Fleet Management: Manage Multiple…

I have so many tools for organization and management across Asana, Google Workspace, P2, and Linear, but they’re not really connected. I’m trying to get everything in one place so there’s no data duplication, a single source of truth, and everything is always linked and accessible. It feels good, like spring cleaning, to go through…

AI-driven growth presents challenges in security and accessibility and infrastructure hurdles that technology teams cannot ignore.