David G. Johnson
@davidjohnson.bsky.social
Dad • Geek • Sometime Podcaster Coachella Valley, CA Brand Storyteller at Nexcess Formerly: - Brand Bard at @itsliquidweb.bsky.social - Brand Bard at @stellarwp.bsky.social - Product at SolidWP
Grateful for @courtneyr.dev today, especially for this incredibly insightful walkthrough of her approach to implementing the LLM Wiki pattern Karpathy lobbed out into the world a few months ago: courtneyr.dev/2026/04/15/l... As a habitual note-taker, I found it especially dense with value.
LLM Wiki: From Brain Fog to AI-Organized Second Brain Clarity
The LLM Wiki pattern builds AI-maintained knowledge bases in Obsidian. Here's how I connected PARA, Zettelkasten, and GTD with 11 compounding wikis.
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Out: "AI will take your job" or "AI is _______________" In: It's people. People making decisions. - @baratunde.com at #PSNext
I've come to see #WordPress as an API with a widely deployed and stable implementation behind it, where the user is in control and developers can build apps without having to get into the storage-selling business.
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
Selling one's likeness for a mere $500 and having it talk about its sexual preferences while hawking fiber supplements is like a sad plot device that I would expect from a good science fiction novel. But it's real, via @sapna.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/b...
He Sold His Likeness. Now His Avatar Is Shilling Supplements on TikTok.
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Looking forward to processing everything we took away from #WCEU with Kyleigh from @itsliquidweb.bsky.social! It was great having her with us in the @stellarwp.bsky.social booth!
Kyleigh and @davidjohnson.bsky.social had a great time at #WCEU 2025 in Basel 🤩 And now they’re ready to share their #WordPress learnings with you in our Thursday webinar 📣 💻 📍 Top WordPress Trends and Takeaways from WordCamp EU 2025 📅 Date: 6/26 🕑 Time: 2 PM EST 👉 Register now: ow.ly/1Op150W2QXe
Missing #WCEU 2025 this week? We've got you covered 😌 Get the insights you need on emerging themes and key #WordPress trends in our recap. Join our free webinar with Kyleigh Fitzgerald & @davidjohnson.bsky.social Register now: ow.ly/tvvs50W2QNi Can't make it? We'll send the slides & recording ✔️
Glad to see @stellarwp.bsky.social and @itsliquidweb.bsky.social becoming active here!
📣 Big news from our friends at @stellarwp.bsky.social They just launched StellarSites — the fastest, easiest way to build and launch a WordPress site. No code, no hassle, all power. Congrats to the team! 👉 Read the full press release for more: ow.ly/ugNb50VZrAq #WordPress #LiquidWeb
This was so disorienting 😵💫 It was if Chris Cornell had been teleported to the 40s and we were going to the mattresses open.spotify.com/track/7c9UV6...
Black Hole Sun
Ramin Djawadi · Westworld: Season 1 (Music from the HBO Series) · Song · 2016
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Have you ever noticed that the price paid for the sunglasses is inversely correlated with the length of ownership? or is that just me?
Hey look! It's @telizarose.bsky.social on "Women in WordPress" from @poststatus.com with the one and only @michellefrechette.bsky.social 🤩😁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_os...
Women in WordPress: Taylor Waldon
YouTube video by Post Status
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EU OS is a project worth keeping an eye on. The future of secure platforms is inevitably going to be open source software, whether it's your desktop OS, your browser, your website's CMS, etc. And not JUST for the public sector. eu-os.gitlab.io
EU OS
Proof-of-Concept OS for the EU
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
Not me weeping in my kitchen listening to the latest episode of Twenty Thousand Hertz 😭😭😭 www.20k.org/episodes/the... @20k.bsky.social
“The Autumn, She’s Been Hit!” The wish that changed Halo forever — Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
In the late ‘90s, Brian Johnson and Brian Morden were suburban teenagers obsessed with video games and music. And then, through an extraordinary wish, the two friends found themselves on a journey tha...
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I'm not going to ask how the f..k this got out, but I, for one, would not like to FA with the hacker trans community. Authority: friend of dozens of elite trans #infosec allies.
Over on X, Chris Rufo is out with a series of leaked internal chats between trans intelligence analysts at NSA, where they talked about things like coming out, bottom surgery, and their sex lives. So yeah, employees should be afraid of things like that even if they’re not fired.
"Mornings are for coffee and contemplation," Saturday at Siesta Key Village Edition
"Hey. You're gonna say that device down and pay attention to me, right?"
I was always curious about how to make a Molotov cocktail. Who knew that the knowledge would come to me via my favorite cybersecurity podcast?!🤣 First: a portable dog killer Now: Molotov cocktails What is Steve Gibson really trying to train us to do? /s Hi @leolaporte.me
How should we "label" machine-generated speech? This reminds me of the requirement that electric cars make sounds or even Harley-Davidson's efforts to add sound to electric motorcycles. Seems like a good episode idea for @20k.bsky.social www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic - Schneier on Security
Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those rob...
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That moment when colleagues who have only known you since you grew "the beard" notice the pre-beard pic still lingering on your Github profile 😳
Why the majority of people in the #WordPress community do not want it to fork: A thread (x-posted). 🧵 (In which I generalize considerably for ease of language and unverified character limits.) (begin)
AI- generated profiles were inevitable. As were AI-generated "influencers." The question is, why is Meta compelled to create their own?
why do we need AI-generated profiles. why
Shout out to all the neurodivergents, heading into a week of over stimulation, no routine, sky high expectations, and non optional socialising. I see you.
These 2 Florida residents will track down any heat source this time of year 🤣
I've always heard it was Groucho Marx that said "I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member" And yet: * This is a phenomenal group of people * Only one of them actually consented to my inclusion 🤣 Thanks for building such a great list of WordPress people, @shawnhooper.ca!
I made my first Starter Pack today. Lots of folks in here I would consider the "old school" WordPress people. Some aren't as active community anymore, but are still great to keep in touch with. go.bsky.app/FDnJuyf #WordPress #StarterPack
As much as I despise the thing where every social network is just full of screenshots of the other ones...