I think it’s going to become more important to document, journal and share some things as the world moves at a faster pace so I’m going to try and do a weekly review of the things that I found most impactful as well as some SHORT notes.

April 5-10 • Important things I read, watched, listened to this week:

1) The world is changing … fast:


“This didn’t happen because we were bad at what we did. We were extremely good.The problem was that, while we were busy being extremely good, the world had changed.”

“the market said:
“We would like something that is 60% as good, for half the price, and ideally does not require Colin.”

https://www.pootlepress.com/2026/04/redundancy/

Redundancy

2) Excellent Overview of where AI is right now and working with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc8FBhQtdsA

3) EmDash CMS announced & 1st impressions

3rd party hosting company I tried for it: https://dashhost.io/

My 1st impressions:
– Not certain enough to move a major site yet BUT I’m impressed
– Duplicate a content type would be a nice addition? Blog, press releases, projects all similar base but diff types. It’s not obvious how to edit the contact page & css but I think that’s a dashhost.io issue.

I don’t think I can directly access the files with dashhost which is I think where most of my issues are. (I think the Playground has the same issue.)

Contacting the host though just so they know but I think I’ll try a DIY install on one of my servers soon just so I can really get in there and test more thoroughly.

Announcement:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress

Official Playground:
https://emdashcms.com/

Sourcecode:
https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash

4) Really the changes are reflected everywhere…

https://joost.blog/defending-open-web-not-enough

“The structural collapse of the economic open web is well underway, and defending the remains isn’t a strategy. What is?

… one that’s actually competitive, economically sustainable, and legible to both humans and machines from the start.”

Summary of additional content from Joost’s blog post:

“Here’s what that takes.

  • Trust infrastructure
  • Machine-readable architecture
  • Competitive defaults
  • Openness has to pay for itself“

An aside – I am working towards converting this site to either Astro or Ghost or maybe a mix of the two and static sites. Not all eggs one basket AND I’ve lost ALL confidence in the future of WordPress.

Joost (the last link – creator of the Yoast WP plugin) has also switched his website over to Astro.

I’ve done a test deploy of Ghost already and really thought it was an excellent base for a blog even though there were some other aspects I wasn’t as in love with (as in it doesn’t cover everyone’s needs.)

And in the “yeah …. uhhhh….” category
Quantum Computing Timelines ?