Open Channels FM: Growth, Hackathons, and Gratitude Lessons from an Eventful 2025
Zach Stepek and Carl Alexander recap their 2025 experiences, highlighting personal growth, industry events, business developments, and health journeys. They emphasize gratitude and reflect on goals for a promising 2026. Sorry, You're not allowed to submit vote ! Total 0…
Introducing Sugar Calendar Bookings – The Easiest Way to Accept Appointments in WordPress
Tired of losing clients because your booking system is clunky, costly, or confusing? Often, it’s because the booking form felt overwhelming, or your scheduling tool sent customers off-site to finish the booking — breaking the flow and costing you conversions….
Designer Diary: Wedding Seating Chart
by Igor Zuber 1. The Origin Wedding Seating Chart all started with my own wedding, a relatively small one for Polish standards as we invited around 50 people in total. There is a tradition of giving a small gift to…
Matt: DHH & Open Source
I might have a new prayer: God, give me confidence of DHH claiming his proprietary license is Open Source. 37signals/Basecamp has a great new product called Fizzy, whose brilliance and innovative qualities are being distracted from by its co-creator David…
Discover a Blue Moon in Discworld, and Join the Fourth Wing
by W. Eric Martin ▪️ UK publisher Modiphius Entertainment will release multiple new games set in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld in 2026, starting with a crowdfunding campaign in Q1 for Discworld: Readers Digested, a 2-4 player game that’s based on Reiner…
Can You Delete a Google Review? Here’s What You Can Do Instead
Negative Google reviews can be stressful, especially when they’re fake, unfair, or harming your business’s reputation. These reviews don’t just influence customer trust. They can also impact where your business appears in the Google search results. The truth is that…
Matt: Happy Birthday Kinsey
Yesterday I had the great honor and privilege of attending a colleague’s 70th birthday party. You may not have heard his name before, but Kinsey Wilson has been at the center of shaping journalism with a movie-worthy career that started…
Designer Diary: One-Hit Heroes
by AC Atienza Part 1: How Hard Can It Be to Design 1-HP Heroes? One-Hit Heroes ended up with an ambitious design vision, but it didn’t start that way. My coworker Connor Reid just thought the name “One-Hit Heroes” sounded…
Matt: Self-driving
There has been some lovely writing about self-driving this week, first in the New York Times where Jonathan Slotkin makes the medical case for autonomous vehicles. But I was really taken by The Economist’s look at how self-driving cars will…
Become the Queen of Spies, Return to Sherwood Forest, and Talk Smack about Old Movies
by W. Eric Martin Let’s peek at a handful of titles looking for crowds to fund them in what is historically the slowest crowdfunding time of the year: ▪️ Queen of Spies is one of two titles coming from Liz…
