Roger Williams

Ain’t gonna let no robot get me down! Had a great time sponsoring and presenting at Digital Summit Dallas this week. Good conversations, great crowd, and excellent event execution.

Been a while since I got sucked into a tech rabbit hole. Thought I wanted to get activitypub going on my website. Dig into using mastodon. Remembered Bluesky exists. Opened app started scrolling. Need to get thanksgiving dinner cooking. Happy thanksgiving y’all!

My favorite part of doing interviews is asking questions and having smart people answer them. This conversation with Austin Ginger was a lot of fun. His open source attitude is infectious: rogerwilliamsmedia.com/reselling-ho...

Headed to @brightonseo.com San Diego this week. Will I see you at the @kinsta.com booth?

Get yer tickets now! Come see me talk next Tuesday. Feel better about yourself and the future of humanity! I potentially oversold that one. What do you think?

Welcome @kinsta.com to Bluesky!

Fun alternate history sci-fi. Turing lives and creates AI in the 60’s. Britain loses the Falklands due to AI powered French missiles. www.audible.com/pd/198003238...

“it’s entirely possible that publishers will just start using Cloudflare to block Google’s crawler,“ crazystupidtech.com/2025/08/30/c... Anyone else hearing this from publishers?

Flying to Portland for WordCamp US 2025! Will you be there?

We talk about accessibility and tend to focus on regulations. It’s important to consider how these changes affect users. If you build websites you need to check this one out.

Just posted an interview with @weston.ruter.net and it’s a gem. We talked web standards, open source, and speeding up WP admin. 🛠️ Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_I_... 🎙️ Brought to you by Kinsta #WordPress #OpenWeb #DevLife #KinstaTalks

@bradw.illiams.com and the @webdevstudios.com team built ThemeSwitcher Pro to solve a real-world problem: How do you move clients off the Classic Editor without a full redesign? Turns out, you do it one page at a time. 🧩 We talk about it on today’s Kinsta Talks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aH9...

Thank you @withinwp.com and @remkusdevries.com for the nice shoutout to Kinsta for our work with WordPress contributors. Its been an interesting journey that I hope to share more details on soon.

“We have to use AI because everyone else is doing it.” Red flag, says Kevin Leary. 🚩 Smart take on AI, coding, and why good hosting saves more than money. 🎥 Full interview here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PaO... #AI #WordPress #WebDev @kinsta.com

AISEO mimicking black hat SEO with white text on white backgrounds asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

Better yet have a system that automates backups and use staging environments. Or just sign up for Kinsta and let us handle it. 😎🚀

Anyone going to WordCamp Montclair today here? #wcmontclair can we make Bluesky the app for events?

“Your core infrastructure should be vendor neutral and open source.” Madelyn Olson said it best in her OSS Summit keynote—and in our quick chat about @valkeyio, the open source fork of Redis. Why it matters, how to adopt it, and what’s next. #Valkey #OpenSource #Redis #OSSummit #CTO

Quick 3-min chat with Sarah from Openlane 🎙️ We talked about rethinking compliance, building AI safety into the stack, and lowering costs for SOC 2 / ISO 27001. #opensource #compliance #AI #startups #SOC2 #Openlane

$8.8T is the conservative value of open source—and most of it’s held up by overworked volunteers. Just dropped a post on what I saw at #OpenSourceSummit: FAIR, OSPOs, Gen Z, governance, and more. Feat. @marucchi.com & @joost.blog 👇 rogerwilliamsmedia.com/the-8-8-tril... #opensource #wordpress

Thank you internet: owlsintowels.org

Fun game. Guess which year a photo was taken. WhichYear 4/20/25 4367 pts (top 11%) 5️⃣ avg. years off 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 🎯 ❌ 4️⃣ whichyr.com

Looking forward to @pressconf.events. are you going?

Been editing with CapCut(iOS). way better than iMovie, plus templates allow for quick drafts. Other suggested apps? multiple timelines would be nice. #donewithdesktopediting

Had a great trip to Chicago this week.

“If you can remove 103 paper cuts, the whole experience just gets smoother.” That’s @joedolson.bsky.social on why WordPress 6.8 is a big win for accessibility. Catch the full convo here 🎧 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Uf... #WordPress #Accessibility #WP68

Last day of the season. Snow is thin but there’s snow.

Want to get more out of your WordPress page builder? The Page Builder Summit (May 12–16) is free and packed with value. I spoke with @nathanwrigley.com and @danmaby.com about what’s coming this year. Watch the full convo here: youtu.be/nPoUdnFCxkQ?si… Thanks to Kinsta for sponsoring!

Fun time in the sun time

Fun times on the mountain. End of the season.

Nice morning stroll through Basel. I’m looking forward to WordCamp Europe this year.

Next weekend, I’ll be at WordCamp Madrid along with some colleagues from the Plugin Review Team. We will participate in the Contributor Day and give a workshop on how to create a plugin for WordPress.

It hasn’t been the best snow year in southwestern Colorado but we’re still having fun.

I like this proactive approach to helping kids get acquainted with these tools early. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Seem like pretty sound rules to go by what do you think @cdils.bsky.social ? refactoringenglish.com/chapters/rul...

CRiTicAL rEaSEARcH: Who’s your pick for most underrated dj today? I’ll go first: youtube.com/watch?v=L2r_...

I keep forgetting about the Apple Classical music app. It’s got a lot of good stuff like this. Sharing the YouTube link in case you don’t have the app. youtube.com/watch?v=ktag...

Looking for some collabs with WordPress product folks... I'm going to be doing some giveaways in 2025 as a perk of our Barfly membership. If you want to have your product mentioned & promoted in exchange for a free license for the giveaways, let me know!

What a name! www.flightaware.com/miserymap/

If you run a digital agency and are trying to figure things out this is your shortcut!

Hey Boston I’m talking tonight at the Boston WordPress meetup. If you’re around come check it out! It says RSVPs are closed but I’ve heard we can still sneak you in and by sneak I mean you can come in the front door. www.meetup.com/boston-wordp...

Happy Monday! Anyone gonna get anything done in the US before Thursday, or are you cruising this week?

Oh hai!