Category: Blog

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…

Open Source Code is a Remix

By Tom on January 22, 2024 — 1 min read

I recently re-watched Kirby Ferguson‘s excellent Everything is a Remix which, 10 years after it’s original release, he has significantly updated and re-released. If you haven’t watched I really recommend it, it really is delightful and though-provoking watch. The central theory Kirby presents is that all art is created by remixing other work. This got…