Open Channels FM: Making Accessibility Fun and Brain-Friendly for Web Developers and Designers
In this episode, Anne Bovelett chats with Gehirngerecht founders Nina Jameson and Tobias Ruppelt, discussing their mission to promote digital accessibility through engaging workshops and tools.
Matt: Shorter Speech
One of the great WordPress blogs is Quote Investigator. In their investigation into the original source of “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter,” I came across this great variation from Woodrow Wilson on the amount of time he spent preparing speeches. “That depends on the length of the speech,” […]
Create AI-Powered Calculators in WordPress in Minutes (No Code)
When visitors land on your website, they’re usually looking for answers. What if you could give them a tool that provides instant, personalized results? That’s exactly what interactive calculators do, and they’re easier to build than you might think. For example, simple loan calculators have become the highest-traffic pages on many financial websites, generating more […]
Matt: Matt 4.2
It’s that time of the year again for a new version release. Forty-two is a fun number, of course, famous from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I’m in Miami, where I’m attending a conference by Richard Saul Wurman. I decided that it would be a great way to fill my brain on my birthday. […]
Matt: Classical Accordian
So my new obsession is a Ukrainian-born musician, Alexander Hrustevich, who plays a type of chromatic Russian accordion called a Bayan. He plays incredible transcriptions of classical pieces, replicating the parts of an entire orchestra with just two hands. If you’re familiar with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, you know the Presto for Summer is one of […]
Matt: Mad Ones
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. […]
8 Best WhatsApp Plugins for WordPress (I Tested Them All)
A few months ago, I needed to add WhatsApp chat to my WordPress site. It sounded simple at first, but once I started looking, things got messy quickly. There were dozens of plugins that looked similar, vague feature lists, and very little clarity about which ones actually worked well in real situations. That’s a problem, […]
Matt: Small Hit
The NY Times has a profile of John Ternus as a possible successor to Tim Cook that has a number of ridiculous lines; it’s quite bad, but this is one of my favorites: Apple has had many small hits under Mr. Cook and continues to be one of the most profitable companies in the world. […]
Open Channels FM: Eight Years and 1.53 Million Seconds Later
With enough words spoken to fill the Harry Potter series three times over, BobWP shares some fun numbers on this 8th year of the podcast.
Matt: Beeper & Day One
Pankil Shah writes I replaced WhatsApp, Telegram, and Messenger with this one app. (It’s Beeper.) And Wirecutter picks the 3 best journaling apps of 2026. (It’s Day One.)