Author: Christopher Ross
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What AI actually is, for someone who has to teach with it
Look down the list you made last week. If you ran the exercise from chapter one, you learned something new with an…
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When does AI cross the line?
Every knowledge worker has felt the flicker by now. You hand a task to AI, it hands back something good, and a…
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Behind the scenes: the week my site kept telling small lies
A week of quiet gaps between what my site claimed and what it did: a podcast feed advertising missing audio, 230 archive…
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Moodle to WordPress: when the move is the upgrade, and when it isn’t
How to migrate from Moodle to a WordPress LMS stack with user mapping, course parity, enrollment continuity, and reporting validation.
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From layoff to consulting: what the first year costs you
Severance and Employment Insurance buy four to eight months. The first consulting payment usually lands in month six or seven. Here is…
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What high-availability WordPress actually requires (and how to tell if you need it)
A hosting quote with high availability on it can be insurance or upsell. Two numbers you can work out yourself decide which,…
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The bandaid and the wither: what dying coal towns taught me about the AI layoffs
The Cape Breton mines died for decades while everyone pretended otherwise. What coal towns, a letter from St Kilda, and “learn to…
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Make a living giving it away, fifteen years on
Fifteen years after WordCamp Toronto 2011, Make a Living Giving It Away goes to WordCamp US in Phoenix on August 18. What…
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Behind the scenes: a forced WordPress security update, and a bug I filed against core
WordPress 7.0 shipped, and a major version is a confidence event before a feature event. How I kept courses, a new plugin,…