Weeknotes 25:11

Posted 6 days ago

Week of March 9–15

• I published an article, A business case for Craft versus WordPress 2025. Nine years ago, I wrote a business case to help a client understand why our agency chose Craft over WordPress. Given my renewed experience with Craft and the situation in the WordPress community, I decided to revisit the subject for 2025.
• The article and another recent article I wrote about my experience converting a project from WordPress to Craft CMS were featured in the March Craft CMS newsletter.
• Late on Friday, I started another personal project to convert a WordPress site to Craft. That project had several custom WordPress blocks. I could not import the project from WordPress because I no longer have access to the server. I want to think through how to translate WordPress block strategy into Craft.

Articles I read

• Overflow Clip (Ahmad Shadeed)
• Kind of annoyed at React (Cassidy Williams)
• Arrogance & Eloquence (Tim Challies)
• When The Path That I Fear Is the Way He Has Set (Tim Challies) – This was a timely article that addressed some anxiety in my heart about the future.
• 100 things you can do on your personal website (James) – I believe I have read this before but good to revisit.
• In defense of unpolished personal websites (Ana Rodrigues)
• Mullenweg Considers Delaying WordPress Releases Through 2027 (Search Engine Journal)
• Tools & Rules (Dan Mall)
• Durable technology (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 – Fascism! (Internet Archive)
• 2024 in review (Elliot Jay Stocks)
• Web­men­tion for Craft CMS 5 (Matthias Ott)
• There are two political movements in America right now (The White Pages)
• Add Lightness and Simplicity: Dumb Church Means Dumbing Up Not Dumbing Down (Stephen McAlpine)
• Google Being Forced To Sell Chrome is Not Good for the Web (Chris Coyier)
• Our interfaces have lost their senses (Amelia Wattenberger) – Read this one on her site. Great storytelling and visuals.

What I watched

• NCIS (Netflix)
• Mad About You (Samsung TV Plus)
• The Good Place (Netflix)
• Creighton-U Conn (FOX) – We watched the second half
• Creighton-St. John’s (FOX) – Started watching with about 4 minutes left in first half
• Court of Gold (Netflix) – I started watching this series when I had trouble sleeping on Friday night.

Books I am reading

• Sunday Matters (Paul David Tripp) – I read one devotional a week.
• Everyday Gospel (Paul David Tripp) – Reading through the Bible this year with this devotional. Read a really good one on Wednesday about when God asks us to do things that on a human level seem absurd.
• Forgive (Tim Keller) – I finished this one on Thursday.
• The Customer is Always Wrong (Scott Seiss)
• The Lord of Psalm 23 (David Gibson) – I started this one on Friday.
• The Craftsman (Richard Sennett) – I had read this book years ago. Just bought a copy off of Amazon Marketplace.

Walking – 21.4 miles

I hit a milestone this week. I have been using Strava for a year to track my walking. I ended up just short of 750 miles for the year, 741.4. This was also my most active week since the first of February.

• Monday – 4.62 miles in 1 hour 22 minutes
• Tuesday – 4.33 miles in 1 hour 16 minutes
• Wednesday – 3.9 miles in 1 hour 10 minutes
• Thursday – 4.39 miles in 1 hour 18 minutes
• Saturday – 4.16 miles in 1 hour 15 minutes

What I played

• MLB The Show 20 (Twins) – After losing the first four games of the season, I swept the second series and end the week at 3-4. I went 3-2 for the week.
• NBA 2K25 (Nuggets) – I won all 4 of the games I played this week.