Author: Tom

WCEU: Banking on WordPress

By Tom on June 19, 2025 — 1 min read

At WordCamp Europe in Basel this past June I was co-presented a session with Jon Ang where we got to share a behind the scenes look at Standard Chartered Bank’s massive WordPress platform. Prior to getting on stage Jon and I were also interviewed by Nathan for the WP Tavern podcast. I’m pleased with how…

The Partially Autonomous CMS

By Tom on June 19, 2025 — 4 mins read

I really like the concept of the “autonomy dial” for software as described by Andrej Karpathy in his recent YC Startup School session “Software in the era of AI” and think it’s worth thinking about how this can apply to CMS and WordPress. “How are you going to make your product and services partially autonomous?”…

Cabel Sasser, Panic – XOXO Festival (2024)

By Tom on October 14, 2024 — 1 min read

Such a lovely, thought-provoking, whimsical, touching, tear-inducing, and heart-warming short talk from Cabal Sasser at XOXO. I would have loved to have seen this live. You only need 20 minutes so do give it a watch.

The Long Peace

By Tom on February 5, 2024 — 1 min read

Speaking of great Youtube documentaries from (nearly) a decade ago, the algorithm recently resurfaced “The Fallen of World War II” to me and so I re-watched it. It’s such a masterclass in using data visualisation to tell a powerful story, the audio is so well done too. It’s one of the most powerful pieces of…

Nor Dog

By Tom on January 23, 2024 — 1 min read

Noel, who founded Human Made with Joe and I back in 2010, is currently on a mini-sabbatical because he is in Ukraine helping lead Nor Dog, a charity which “exists to evacuate, feed, rehome and rehabilitate animals caught in the crossfire of war in Ukraine”. It’s been quite incredible getting a inside view of what’s…