Johnathon Williams
@johnofhousejohn
Indie dev building WordPress plugins and web apps for fun and profit. Sharing what I learn about AI, marketing, and running a solo dev shop.
🚨 Calling all Gravity Forms users. 25% off flash sale for the next 48 hours. Use coupon 25JULY25 to save on any of my @gravityforms add-ons, including the recently updated Global Search. Link below.
Why the heck do we still not have a Google Home/Alexa/Siri powered by multimodal LLMs!? One of the most obvious wide practical uses of AI an no-one has cracked it yet. Every night I'm yelling "goodnight" to my g-home 3x, hoping it understands me...
A bunch of updates to Claude Code just got published: - Can now read PDFs - Specify a model in custom slash commands - Shift+Tab mode switch on Windows - PermissionDecision available in hooks Check link below for updates 1.0.55 to 1.0.59
Question for my fellow WP devs: What do you use for project management? I have a great long term client but we're struggling to find a platform that they don't hate. We tried BaseCamp, Trello, and even Teams. Needs to be incredibly easy for non techies.
If you could hire for a fractional role in your company, what would it be?
One of the most useful apps I've created with AI: an automated web scraper that posts obituaries to a regional news site. Made this one with @Replit and @firecrawl_dev
Renoir believed photography, “freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores.” Writers should feel the same about AI.
Not gonna be able to afford any kind of summer vacation for my kids and it's killing me. Unless a blessing falls from the sky. Which I'll take. I've still got 7 days to find the money.
More #WordPress stories in WP Weekly 252 from: @atarim_io @beeper @FerdyKorper @freemius @mikemcalister @tutorlms @sumitsinghwp @felixarntz @softaculous @andrewhoyer @kiravohosting @Pressidium @FlyWPOfficial thewpweekly.com/issue-252/
Vide Coding Day 11, So today’s been a time of introspection and reflection. I have learned a lot becoming a ‘vibe coder’ and it has been addictive. For real. My #1 learning is an old one, re-learned: Building Great Software is Still Hard. Getting going is easier than ever. 🧵
Can’t express how much of a fan I am of all things WP CLI / Bash, so Austin Ginder sharing years of experience with WordPress bash scripts into a new standalone CLI: CaptainCore Do is cool! It’s 100% open source, MIT licensed, and built to streamline WP site management from the…
🚀 Global Search for Gravity Forms has been updated with a handy new command bar search option. One hotkey to search all your forms, entries, and notes. oddjar.com/wordpress-plug… @gravityforms
