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In episode 131 of the Gutenberg Changelog, Birgit Pauli-Haack welcomes Isabel Brison to discuss the latest developments in Gutenberg plugin releases 23.1, 23.2, and 23.3, as well as progress leading up to WordPress 7.1. The hosts highlight recent calls for testing, including collaborative editing—previously delayed from 7.0 due to stability concerns—and the new media editor…

Introducing Russell Aaron I didn't learn WordPress at a fancy college or career academy. I graduated from the University of YouTube. My internship was the Las Vegas WordPress Meetup and WordCamp Vegas. The rest I learned building mortgage company platforms, working for casinos, inside managed WordPress hosts, and at some of the best WordPress development and support shops on the planet. Show Notes For more on Russell, check out his website: https://russellenvy.com Transcript: Topher DeRosia: All right. Here we go. Hey folks. Russell Aaron: And three, two, one. Topher DeRosia: Hey folks. Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Topher, and I’m here with Russell Aaron. I assume I pronounced that right, because it’s not that hard, but you never know. Russell Aaron: You know, so many people call me Aaron. They’ll tag me and they go, “Thanks, Aaron.” And I’m like, “You know, it’s Russell, but it’s cool.” Topher DeRosia: Yeah, nice. All right. Well, I saw a post on LinkedIn the other day from you talking about podcasts having the same people on episodes all the time. I thought, “Oh, I gotta have that guy on my podcast.” Because then you can’t go on any other ever again, because then you’ll be that guy. Russell Aaron: Maybe. Topher DeRosia: So, I snooped a little. You live much closer to me than I expected. Have we met? Did we meet at a WordCamp? Russell Aaron: I think we met at WordCamp Ann Arbor one year. Topher DeRosia: Oh, okay. I went to a whole bunch of those. Russell Aaron: Yeah. I think I spoke 2018, something like that. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. I was probably there. Russell Aaron: Yeah. Topher DeRosia: All right. So tell me where you live, what you do, all that kind of stuff. Russell Aaron: I currently reside in Indianapolis, Indiana, and I am just freelancing as of right now. You know, I live in a pretty small town where it’s kind of old school WordPress, if you will. Anyone who is worth their salt keys will remember a day when websites were not responsive or a business has a cousin of a friend of a brother who builds websites and, “Hey, he’s working on it,” and three years later, there’s still no new website. I kind of live in a town where I’m kind of getting back to my grassroots, where I stay up late at night with my insomnia, and I will roll up to a business and I will say, “Your new website can look like this today. If you pay me this much money, I will install it today, and this is your new website.” And it’s got your updated menu, and it’s responsive, and it works on mobile, and we can connect it to AppPresser and make it an app and stuff like that. So I’m kind of reliving the glory days of what I remember WordPress to be. Topher DeRosia: I’m also freelancing right now, sort of by choice, sort of not by choice. Somebody I’m married to would rather I had regular pay and insurance. Russell Aaron: Heard that. Topher DeRosia: Are you in the same boat, or did you do this on purpose? Russell Aaron: I did this on purpose. I was not working for the man, but I was working with some people. I’m over the tiny little granular things that somebody can fire you over. Like they’re watching if your mouse moves or they’re watching if you haven’t logged in. There’s just no more trust, I feel like, in so many cases. And so I know that I can do things better on my own, and I’m going to. Topher DeRosia: I have to admit, I love the freelance life. It is pretty special. Russell Aaron: Right. It’s almost like… what’s that movie? The 40-Year-Old Virgin, where they are making a website and they’re like, “Hey, Spider-Man 3’s on in five minutes. Let’s go watch it.” Like they totally ignore their job and they just go watch this movie now. It’s kind of like that. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. Yeah. For me, it’s doing stuff with my wife. She has a day job, but it has kind of chaotic hours and not specific days of the week. And so I work when she does, which sometimes is Saturday and Sunday, and then I just don’t on Tuesday and Thursday. That’s pretty great. Russell Aaron: I’m kind of in the same boat. My wife has a wonderful job, and she is with a great group, and she does global advocacy. I mean, she just deals with people that are happy with the product, and she keeps them happy. She does lots of stuff like that. I’m kind of the same thing, where their company is now starting to get into AI, and they have so many questions, and I’m over here building things with AI and doing things like that. So I’m not exactly consulting, but my ideas are going into their company through my wife. Topher DeRosia: My wife works at a grocery store, and they have a cash machine they use in the back office that runs Linux. Russell Aaron: Oh, wow Topher DeRosia: And the IT guys had to come in and do some work on it, and she saw the screen and she’s like, “Oh, is that Linux?” And I’m like, “Who are you, and what do you know?” Super nerd. So what’s your company name? Do you have one, or is it just WP Pro Support? Russell Aaron: WP Pro Support. Topher DeRosia: WP Pro Support. Okay. Do you concentrate more on support, or do you build more? Russell Aaron: I have been doing support since 2011. I formed my very first support company, and I launched it the same day that Shane Sanderson launched Maintainn. My buddy, who you might know, John Hawkins, I was at the Vegas WordPress Meetup Group, and I had the idea in Vegas WordPress Meetup Group where there’s 70 people sitting right here behind me and they all want help. And I was like, “How do I do this?” So I built my first thing where I gave everybody free-for-life support, and they were my test group, if you will. And they helped me work out my bugs and tickets, and they helped me work out how I actually operate and do stuff like that. Then when I launched it, literally that day, John goes, “Wait, have you seen this?” And we had no idea about each other, but we literally launched them the same day. Fast forward three years down the road, I ended up working for Maintainn when it was owned by WebDevStudios. But everything I’ve done in WordPress has been support, whether I’ve worked for a mortgage company, a casino in Vegas, hosting with Liquid Web, doing stuff with NerdPress or AppPresser. Everything I’ve done is support. That’s really where my passion is because I remember what it’s like being a first timer. I think that there is a huge market potential here of people are always going to be new. I don’t care who you are. There’s always somebody new walking in the door, and there has to be a person who will sit down and say, “Come here, I’ll hold your hand.” And I am that person. I always try to look at WordPress from that lens is if a new person is looking at this today, are they going to be happy? Are they going to be confused? And I go from there. So currently today I’m transitioning away from support as we know it, where you write a ticket and then somebody on the other end is like, “Hey, I fixed your site,” or whatever. And I’m transitioning to a new product that I’m working on. So I’m going to be getting away from traditional support, but I’m still going to be doing things in the support space, if that makes sense. Topher DeRosia: Yeah, that makes sense. When I first got into WordPress, it was 2010, and custom post types were brand new. Russell Aaron: Right? Topher DeRosia: And I was out of my element with WordPress. I did not know what I was doing, but I did know PHP, and no one else knew post types yet. So when it comes to that, I was on an equal footing, and that was my way in. That was my leverage. I made a lot of money in the early days just building custom post types. Russell Aaron: Custom post types and single-posttype.php or whatever. Yeah. Topher DeRosia: So I was a competent PHP guy who didn’t know WordPress. And I feel like we’re in kind of the same transition space right now with AI, where we have tons of competent WordPressers who don’t really know AI yet. I think there’s a great space for that, teaching our friends, teaching everybody we’ve known for 10 years in WordPress. You know what I mean? Russell Aaron: I do. That’s one of the things that I really love about WordPress is that… let’s take the new 7.0 that just came out, I think it re-leveled the playing field. Before this came out, there were people that were ahead of others when it comes to patterns or blocks or the command palette and stuff like that. But now I think with this, we’re back to an even playing field because every… I mean, not exactly. There’s still some people who know AI a lot better than others, but you’re always five minutes ahead of somebody and five minutes behind somebody else. Topher DeRosia: Oh, yeah. Russell Aaron: But I do think that with 7.0, a new level playing field has come out. And now is the time to start learning, or you got to wait until 7.1 comes out where that new level playing field comes out. But that’s what I love about WordPress is that it continues to happen. Like you said, CPTs. I still love CPTs. I think they’re one of my favorite things. I look at all of these features, you know, page builders, another time when the playing field was leveled again. Now you learn page builders and then shortcodes and then this and then that. I think that’s the one gift that WordPress keeps giving is that you might be out of date six months from now, but then 7.1 comes out and you’re caught right back up. Topher DeRosia: Right. Yeah. And while you’re five minutes ahead, you quick do a WordCamp talk. Russell Aaron: Yes. Yeah. Topher DeRosia: For that long, you know more than other people, right? Russell Aaron: At least it’s on video, right? Topher DeRosia: Right. I was an expert for a minute and a half. Russell Aaron: That was my 15 minutes of fame. Topher DeRosia: What is your WordCamp life like these days? When was the last one you went to? Russell Aaron: The last one I went to was in Vegas, 2018. It was at the Plaza Hotel, which I worked at. When John was putting that together, in Vegas we had a wonderful space, and it was called The Innevation Center, and it was at a data facility called Switch. And they donated so much to us, and we are so grateful to them. And then they kind of had a change in their policy where they weren’t doing things, and then they overpriced how much it would cost to hold events and stuff like that. I was working at a hotel, and so we had this giant convention space, if you will. And so because I was able to pull some strings, we got a great, great discount, all food paid for. I mean, all of it. So that was my last WordCamp. The after party was on top of a pool deck, and there was pickleball courts, and there was a pool, and there was an open bar. I mean, it was rad. That was my last one. I have kids now. My kids are seven and eight and so my WordPress travels have slowed. No, I’m sorry. I take it back. WordCamp US last year was my last one, where we went scorched earth. That’s what I call it. I call it WordCamp scorched earth. Topher DeRosia: I was there for that one. I used to go to a lot every year. Go to- Russell Aaron: Five, six? Topher DeRosia: Five and 10. But since COVID, I think maybe just US every year. It’s weird to just go to one. Russell Aaron: It is. And just US, it’s almost like we used to have what I used to call regional events, where I lived in Vegas, I would hit up WordCamp Orange County, then I’d hit up San Diego, then we’d hit up LA, and then we’d make our way up to Portland, and then maybe if San Francisco did one, and then Phoenix. I did all my regional stuff. And then every once in a while I would venture… I mean, I love WordCamp Minneapolis. Love the people up there. Love so much about that event. Used to do that a lot. What’s the one in Ohio that I used to go to? Topher DeRosia: In the teens, there were five in Ohio. And being in Michigan, I used to just cruise down there. Russell Aaron: It’s a three-hour, three-and-a-half-hour drive, huh? Topher DeRosia: Yeah. Russell Aaron: About that. Yeah. Topher DeRosia: At the time, I was working for a company that was paying me to go to WordCamps. I had to make the case for each one, but it was a really simple case for all the Ohio ones because I didn’t need a plane ticket. I just drive over there. It’s like five in Ohio. There was Ann Arbor, there was Detroit, there was Grand Rapids, there was Chicago. I mean, there was almost 10 WordCamps within a three-hour drive of me. Russell Aaron: That’s beautiful. Topher DeRosia: It’s just not there anymore. Russell Aaron: I was very fortunate to work for companies like WebDevStudios, where I could tell them, “Hey, I got into WordCamp Minneapolis. I’m going to speak there.” And because I’m speaking there, they would reimburse me X amount of dollars for something, and then they would sponsor the WordCamp, and then they would make a thing out of it. I mean, I was very fortunate in being able to do that. Then I worked with a really great company called NerdPress, and they are a fantastic group of people that do the same thing. And then I ventured out into different straits, and it was very much different. I’ll say that much. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. Those are good times. Russell Aaron: It’s almost like… the way that I put it is it’s like we all graduated. We all did our four years of college, we all graduated, and now we went to our temp jobs or we went to our internships. Like the band broke up. Topher DeRosia: Yep. Yeah, it is a lot like that. I have seen generations of WordPressers. There was all the crew before 2010 that were downloading zip files and hacking themes to even get them to run. Then there was after 2010, and custom post types were new and stuff. And then there’s the whole Gutenberg generation that never experienced all that crazy theme stuff. Russell Aaron: I mean, you tell people that child themes were so new that people didn’t even grasp the concept of a child theme, and today it’s so baked in. It’s not even something that people think about. It’s just you install this and the child theme, and it’s a thing. But I remember writing those by hand. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. No kidding. Then to a certain extent, not even having child themes anymore because nothing is stored on the file system. Russell Aaron: I love it. I love it. In my very first WordCamp talk in Vegas 2012, I made a prediction that everything was powered by the theme. Everything used to… I mean, that’s as far as I go back is every template was the same. It was left column, right sidebar, header, and every page, whether you liked it or not, looked like a blog post. And it wasn’t full-width, responsive. I remember a lot of that. And then corporate themes came out, and then cupcake themes came out, then lawn company themes came out, and then the rise of Envato and stuff like that. That’s a good name for a band, The Rise of Envato. Topher DeRosia: I’d go see them. Russell Aaron: But all that stuff comes out. And then you look at it now and it’s like, that seems so far away. I still remember the day that I learned about child themes, and I’ve never forgotten that. And I think, coming back full circle, that’s why I stay in this beginner support space because I’m kind of keeping that nostalgia around, I guess. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. There’s a lot of joy in watching people’s eyes light up when they get it. Russell Aaron: That’s the best part is just telling people what’s possible. When they’re frustrated with something and you go, “Oh, hey, Gravity Forms can do that.” And they’re like, “Wait, what?” And I’m like, “Yeah.” And they can also do… And I just start naming stuff. And I show all 50 extensions that they have and they’re just like, “Wait, what?” And I’m like, “Yeah.” I’m like, “This starts getting radical when you’re into it.” Topher DeRosia: There’s something I miss from old WordPress that I don’t see in modern WordPress. It might not be a thing. And that is dramatic new styling with a theme the instant you install it. My wife is not a computer person and does not care about computers. She loves design stuff. There was a time we used Winamp. Russell Aaron: Wow. Topher DeRosia: And she loved getting skins for Winamp. And she would download 30 in a day and try them all out. And then when I set her up for the blog the first time and showed her the theme repo on .org, this is in 2011, she would literally spend a day just downloading theme after theme after theme. Russell Aaron: Same way. Topher DeRosia: And you just install it and poof, your site looks amazingly different. These days, I mean, you install something like Kadence or GeneratePress or Ollie or any of them, really, and it’s kind of a blank canvas. Russell Aaron: It’s very minimalist. It’s very minimalist. Topher DeRosia: I miss the ability to say, “I feel like making a change today,” and two minutes later, your site looks completely different because you’re using… Russell Aaron: Couldn’t agree more. Couldn’t agree more. I mean, I look back at old pictures from when I would host the meetup group in Vegas, and there’s pictures of me talking, and then on the screen behind me is my old site, and it was this old layout. I bought the theme from Envato because I was just fascinated with it. It was everything that I wanted it to look like. But same thing is now when you change your theme from this one to that one, that dark grunge kind of thing is gone, and now you’ve got this bootstrap-looking thing or whatever. I agree with you. I think that comes from my days of being in MySpace. That’s how I got started with all this. So you could change your MySpace template like that, and I think that’s where it comes from, at least for me. Topher DeRosia: I haven’t even looked into it. Can you make a Gutenberg-based blog theme that has a very striking look and just release it? And then, I don’t know, just release a whole bunch of them like in the old days? Theme shops had 35 themes for sale, and they all looked different because they were all totally different themes. Russell Aaron: I remember there was a day on Envato where it was the same theme, it was just rebranded. So it was like theme name 1.0, and it was called Atlas. And then it’s the same theme but in orange, and now it’s 1.2, and it’s called Dungeon or something. And then we have 1.3 again. Same theme, same framework, but each version was named something different. It made that developer look like they had five different products instead of just one over and over. Now you look at something like a page builder, and it’s like, “We’ve got 500 different templates in one thing.” I can’t do that. I think that’s too much for me. Topher DeRosia: It’s like the days of the CSS Zen Garden. Russell Aaron: Right. Topher DeRosia: HTML is the same, CSS changes. Before I used WordPress, I built my own blog system. Russell Aaron: Oh, wow. Topher DeRosia: It never got super advanced, but I used it for 10 years. One of the things you can do in your HTML is register alternate stylesheets. It’s the same tag, it’s just an alternate word in there. And then in Firefox, at least, you can go under “view Page Style”, and they would all be listed there, and you can just choose different themes. I figured out the JavaScript, even though I didn’t know JavaScript. I figured out the JavaScript to make a little dropdown box in my sidebar so my visitors could say, “Oh, I want to change my theme here.” I never figured out how to do that in WordPress because everything was so tied to style.css. I didn’t know how to make a different one be the main one. But that’s something else I miss in WordPress is the ability to just so dramatically and dynamically change your design because your content is structured so well. Russell Aaron: You know, not only that, but I really liked the websites where there was a demo, and then it gave you a basic username. The username was demo, the password was demo. But then the one thing I never figured out was how every 24 hours the site would just reset. So somebody can go in there and they could do whatever they wanted to do. They could create their own pages. They could create their own blog posts. And for 24 hours, there was a page called Russell’s Awesome. But then after 24 hours, it would just reset. I always thought that was so cool, but I could never figure out how to do that. Topher DeRosia: Oh, yeah. And everybody was editing all at the same time, within that 24-hour period. Russell Aaron: I have since restructured my website. I use the block theme from WebDevStudios. I kind of feel like that’s where I got my education from. I was somebody who kind of dabbled around in WordPress, and then when I went to go work with them for three years, they had a set of standards that I couldn’t even fathom to begin with. But then as we built things and I saw how their machine works, how their business revolves, I was like, “You know, for me, this is the way that I like to do things, is the way that they like to do things.” And so my new website… I mean, not new website, but it’s my new theme, I actually had AI build it for me. I had Claude. I was using… It’s by ThemeIsle. Neve. I was using Neve, one of my favorite themes. Love them. So I was using that, and then my site was kind of all over the place. It was an “I’ll teach you how to do this”. That’s kind of the main focus of my site is I will jump on a call with you, and whatever questions you have, I’ll sit here for five hours with you if you want. I will teach you and until you get it. But then I also had this section about band names that were just… earlier when we were talking about the rise of Envato, you know, like I would have a section on my blog where you could create a new band name and then I had all these random blog posts. And so my website was kind of like this potluck, if you will, just like this random stuff. And I was like, you know, I want to be doing something else. I think my website needs to change. And I have those old blog posts still, but they’re hidden. So now with my new theme, I had AI look at my old site and say, this is what I think we should do. I picked out some colors and over like five days, I had it build me five different HTML pages, like completely different, you know? And then I started giving AI and I said like, “Okay, I want to look like this.” And then I was like, well, okay, I like this and I like this, but I also like this from this other site.” So I started feeding it information and like when the HTML came out, I had 12 different templates. I had my blog posts, I had my archive, but I had everything built in HTML. And the cool thing about the WDS block theme is that it serves everything as an HTML page. So I literally just took AI and said, “Take these HTML pages, bake them into how this theme does it,” and bam, my site came up. I had it done in maybe two days. Topher DeRosia: Wow. Russell Aaron: And then after that, I had it take all of those HTML pages and create me patterns. So now I can go in, and when I go into my full site editor, I can go to patterns, I have all my homepage patterns, my blog patterns, I sliced everything up, and they’re all WordPress native blocks. So I can literally go in and change the coloring on any page I want instead of having to edit the HTML or anything. And now that I have that, I feel this sense of freedom where I’m not worrying about an update coming tomorrow, if my update is gonna break or I don’t have to read a changelog that is not specific anymore. I can’t stress how much I love not having to read changelogs or the lack of changelogs. I mean, I’m fully happy with how things have come out. And over time, I’m gonna keep fine-tuning it, but I’m pretty much where I’m at right now. With all of this new technology that’s come out, I’ve really kind of found my love again for WordPress. I was kind of in a slump where I just wasn’t really doing anything. Now I take my son and we’ll drive down to Louisville, Kentucky. He rides BMX. So while he’s racing, I will literally have Claude Code open on my computer and I will log into the Claude app on my phone and I can keep sitting there having the same conversation. So this new thing that I’m building, I can still do it while I’m sitting there watching him race or while I’m doing something else. I was just like, this is fantastic. And then my wife will drive home and I’ll just sit there and I talk into my phone, I literally put the microphone on and I’ll be like, “You know, I don’t like that. And here’s my thoughts about this.” And you know, my phone dictates all of that and then I send it to my computer through the app and it just keeps spinning things up. Then by the time I get home, I have a new version that I can demo or I have a new version that I can test. I mean, I am just so fascinated by it. Topher DeRosia: That’s cool. Were we at WebDev at the same time? Russel Aaron: I don’t think so. Topher DeRosia: I was there just over three years ago. Russel Aaron: I was there 2015 through 2018. Topher DeRosia: Oh, yeah. I came much later. I was only there for like two months. Russell Aaron: Oh, wow. Sometimes that’s the way it goes. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. They were gonna get a big contract that hired a bunch of people and two months later didn’t get the contract and let us all go. Russell Aaron: As much as I hate that, that also taught me that the people that do great work or the people that show up every day and are putting in more than they’re getting out, those are usually the people that stay in companies like that. That really changed my work ethic. I used to be somebody who wanted to be not lazy, but I didn’t wanna be pressed for time or having to go, go, go and having to be on all the time. Now, I’m the opposite. Now, I’m like, now that I’ve done that, I kind of earn for that stretch for a little bit. I mean, you were just saying that how you’ve transitioned to where you are. I was watching a Barstool Sports interview with a guy who runs a pizza shop in… it’s either New Jersey or New York. The guy’s only open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. And he’s only open nine to six or something like that. And he built that business… well, it’s been in his family for like 60 years or something. He has one of the last original pizza ovens ever. But anyways, the point is, is that he lives at the pizza place, that’s where his entire life is, but he built the business around his life. I’m doing the same thing where if I wanna literally go jump on my bike right now and go for a two-mile ride, I’m gonna go do that. And I don’t have to feel like, hey, you’re not logged in and we’re not tracking your mouse. Like what’s happening? How come you’re not on Slack? You know what I mean? I’m not tied down to that. And I can’t stress that enough of like, that is where I wanna be. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. Yeah, it is a good life. We are at about the time to wrap it up. Okay. So I’m gonna do that. Where do you hang out online? Russel Aaron: Where do I hang out online? Topher DeRosia: Are you in any common WordPress Slacks? Russel Aaron: I’m on the main WordPress Slack sometimes. I tend to watch more than I do involve anymore. A long time ago, I used to be very vocal and I used to be not afraid to walk in to a room guns blazing. With the big cultural shift that happened in WordPress, I tend to just sit back now and be more self-reserved. So I post on my website, russellenvy.com. I’m on LinkedIn. I’ve been utilizing Reddit a lot too. I think for me, Reddit is a place where I kind of disagree with the fact that you can hide behind a pseudonym, but I do like the brutal honesty that people will have because they are hiding behind something and they will say, dude, this flat out sucks. Or they’ll be like, Hey, this is great, but it would be cool if, or somebody can be like, “Hey, that already exists. You’re not doing anything new.” I do like that. Because it kind of not puts me in my place, but it shows me either how connected or disconnected I am to what I think I’m doing. And so Reddit is a very great place. I mean, everything is russellenvy.com except for Twitter or X, whatever you want to call it. Topher DeRosia: All right, cool. Russel Aaron: Where do you hang out at? Topher DeRosia: I am in probably 40 slacks, but the vast majority of them, I don’t look at. I’m there so that someone can ping me. I’m in a couple of slacks in India. Okay. I’m in the WordPress Italian community Slack. Russel Aaron: That’s interesting. Topher DeRosia: Post status make, of course there’s a hero press Slack. I have my own company Slack, my local meetup has a Slack. There’s just a lot of them. I wouldn’t say I’m super active on any of them. I just occasionally interact with somebody. I use my own company Slack to invite my clients in when we talk there. Russel Aaron: Right. Do you find yourself reading things more than, you know… from the outsider looking in, I post a lot and it looks like I post a lot… I mean, especially on LinkedIn, but I’m always consuming more than I’m posting. Do you find yourself doing that? Like where you’re… maybe not keeping up with the trades anymore, but like, you know… I used to read maybe 1,500 blog posts a week and then… what was that service where you could like save…? I used to have a service where you could save articles and then that way, late at night, I would just read, you know, maybe 10 or 15 of them a night. But now I look at things like Reddit where I see… I just look at somebody who’s going on there and asking for help. Again, it’s a standard WordPress person that, hey, I’m new to this, I don’t know how, and I’m looking at it and I’m just like, how can we make that better? That’s kind of where I’m at these days. Topher DeRosia: I don’t read a whole lot in Slack. It really is for my convenience. I’m pretty active with my RSS reader. I follow a lot of stuff. Russell Aaron: Oh, wow. Topher DeRosia: Because I don’t wanna go chase it all down all over the internet. So, you know, there’s that. I’m on LinkedIn a fair amount, Facebook a little bit. I’m on Mastodon and Blue Sky mostly just to post stuff. It’s funny, I have more followers… No, let me say it this way. Mastodon, I have the fewest followers, but the most engagement from those followers. Russell Aaron: Isn’t that interesting? Topher DeRosia: Yeah, I’ll post something and I’ll get some favorites or reposts or whatever. Blue Sky, I get almost nothing at all, despite the fact that I have like a thousand followers there. Russell Aaron: But Blue Sky is a community that is fast-moving. I almost compare it to anything Meta has, which is you can post today right now and in three minutes you’re 785 posts down. That’s what I really love about Reddit is that I posted something about this AI team that I’m building that I give away for free on GitHub, and so for like five days, I was the number two post on that subreddit. And the volume that I saw from that. I mean, Reddit really loves human writing. If you go in there, you post something that somewhat seemingly might suggest that you had AI do anything with it, they will just downvote it. But if you write original and you write from the heart and stuff, like your stuff skyrockets there. I’ve learned a lot from Reddit because of that. Topher DeRosia: That’s really cool. Russell Aaron: It’s interesting. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. All right, well, thanks for chatting with me. Russell Aaron: Thank you for the time. Topher DeRosia: And now you can’t be on anybody else’s podcast. Russell Aaron: I’m actually starting my own, sir. Topher DeRosia: Are you? All right. Russell Aaron: I have, like you said, the reason why we started this is because you saw something from me that says, “I’m tired of the indie circuit,” if you will. I put out a LinkedIn post, I don’t know, maybe a month ago at this point and I asked people if they wanted to be on a show. So I have WP Roundtable. I got that from Kyle Mahler, a person who I love in WordPress more than I can express. One of the best people on the planet, I feel like. I was thinking about starting that up again, because we don’t have WP Watercooler anymore. We don’t have anything like that. That’s kind of where I got my start from. But again, I also identify that that’s kind of the problem is that every Monday or Friday I was on a show and I was one of the people that you would see constantly. And so I was sitting there thinking and I was like, what doesn’t the space have? What kind of show do I wanna watch? Because I don’t watch shows when they come out, do you? Topher DeRosia: No. Russell Aaron: I always watch them maybe four weeks down the road at like 2:30 in the morning when I have nothing going on. And by that point, the information is almost stale. I mean, the way that anything works these days. And there’s a few that I might watch maybe within 48 hours of coming out, but at this point, there is something… a new idea that myself and… the guy’s actually an automatician. And so it’s actually kind of interesting because we don’t wanna say anything that would put him in a position to where he’s saying something bad about the company he works for, but I’m also the person where I get to say something to the person who works at Automattic to maybe incite some change. So we are working on something like that, but it’s not going to be an interview show. It is not going to be something where you tune it out or you put it on a 2.5 playback speed just to get through it. You know what I mean? And that’s really what the emphasis of my post was about is that so many of the interviews go that way. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. Are you familiar with wppodcasts.com? Russell Aaron: Yes. Topher DeRosia: Okay, good. So when you get it started up, submit it there. Russell Aaron: That’s a place. I’m very fascinated by Gary Vaynerchuk. Are you familiar with Gary V? Topher DeRosia: No. Russell Aaron: I watch something Gary V every day. That guy makes me feel like I’m lazy every single day, but he is also one of the people that says like, “Hey, you’re 40, you’re still just a baby.” A lot of people feel like I should be two kids, a house, marriage, this, that, and because I’m not, I’m behind the ball. And he’s one person that’s like, “Listen, you’re still a kid.” And he’s like, “You’re 40, I’m 40, and you have 10 years until you’re 50.” And even then you’re still so young to where you can generate something again and from 50 to 60, you can now do. That kind of mentality really moved me around. Why I bring that up is, I’m trying not to post on the same places that everybody else is. I wanna find that new venture. Substack is a great one. And they also have a way to release podcast episodes through them. So they can actually be your entire engine. So like you don’t have to host them on different places and stuff like that. So I’m looking for different plays like that. Topher DeRosia: All right, cool. Well, I look forward to hearing about it when it comes out. I’m sure you’ll post on LinkedIn. Russell Aaron: Yes, yeah. Topher DeRosia: All right. All right then, well, I will maybe find you on Slack or Reddit or someplace. Russell Aaron: Slack, Reddit, LinkedIn. Either way, please keep in touch. First of all, it’s great to see somebody familiar in the space. It’s great. I mean, just talking about the old days, I could sit here and do it forever. Topher DeRosia: All right, I’ll see ya. Russell Aaron: Have a good one. Topher DeRosia: All right, so that was the end of the podcast. If you could send me a headshot. And yep, that’s the one. Cool. And any links you want in the liner notes. Russell Aaron: Cool. Topher DeRosia: And two or three sentences about you and what you do and whatnot. Russell Aaron: Cool. I noticed that you… are you trying to revive Hallway Chats? Or is it something that when you just find something interesting, you’re like, hey, I’ll go do that. Topher DeRosia: That’s it right there. Russell Aaron: Okay. Sure, sure. Topher DeRosia: There was a time when it was a weekly podcast and now it’s a whenever I feel like it podcast. Russell Aaron: I love it. I think that’s the biggest reason why I’m trying to do something different is I really dislike watching a podcast. The first thing they do is they come on and they go, “Hey, welcome to WP whatever. Hey, sorry we didn’t post this week. I was bit…” If you are gonna say you’re gonna post every Wednesday at one, that’s on you. But I do not like when things start off with an apology. Like just get to it. Because I’m not watching it Wednesday at one. I mean, unless you’re Joe Rogan, or unless you are somebody who has a huge following that people will watch you live because it’s important. Otherwise, it’s just consumable stuff, you know? Topher DeRosia: Yeah. For years, I posted it Heropress weekly on Wednesday without fail. I would ignore my family to go get it done. Then I was talking to Morton Rand Hendrickson. You know him? Russell Aaron: Uh-huh. Topher DeRosia: Yeah, he’s a huge fan of Heropress. And I said to him, “Do you read every week?” He’s like, “Oh no, not at all.” He’s like, “Oh, I thought you really liked it.” And he said, “Oh, I love it. But I don’t have time to read every week.” Every few months I’ll get depressed about the WordPress community and I’ll go read 10 essays. And then one time I was at WordCamp Ann Arbor, probably the same one you were at and Josepha came to me and said that… she was kind of a sounding board for employees that come to her and said, “Listen, I’ve been working support all day and people suck and I’m depressed and I hate life.” And she would just listen for a while and then at the end they would say, “Okay, I’m gonna go read a bunch of Heropress and I’ll feel better.” And it really changed my perspective of what I was making. I wasn’t making a weekly publication. I was making an archive, a collection to be used as a tool, a library. Russell Aaron: I’m gonna say this poorly, but it’s almost like you are creating a support help hotline where it’s like, if you’re on the verge of blowing up your website, please call this number. We’ll talk you down from it. It’s almost like you’re building that. Topher DeRosia: That’s funny. Russell Aaron: That’s interesting. And then now you’re just selective about it or you’re so far- Topher DeRosia: I’m less aggressive about finding essayists and less insistent that they get it to me by a certain time. Like I would find somebody and say, listen, I need it by Sunday on this date. And they were like, “Okay.” And that worked for a while. Russell Aaron: Oh, before, before. Okay. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. But now I’ll find somebody… No, I don’t go looking as often. Russell Aaron: You’ll maybe find something that somebody wrote and you’ll be like, “Hey, are you interested in doing this?” Topher DeRosia: Yes. And I don’t find people as often. I used to find my people on Twitter and I’m not on there anymore. Russell Aaron: Like by personal choice? Topher DeRosia: Yeah. Russell Aaron: Okay. Topher DeRosia: I just left Twitter. Russell Aaron: Oh, wow. You feel like your life improved? Topher DeRosia: Yes and no. Russell Aaron: Okay. Topher DeRosia: I feel the loss of what Twitter was. And it’s not there anymore. It’s just gone. Russell Aaron: Especially around WordCamp and stuff like that. That used to have to be the place that you’d be on, you know? Topher DeRosia: The Twitter I loved doesn’t exist anymore. And so, yeah, I feel that loss. Russell Aaron: I need a t-shirt that says that. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. Wow. I’m in the process of making a printable store. Printable? Printful. Printful store. Russell Aaron: Cool. Topher DeRosia: With Woo, to make a video with. I need to make a bunch of products. Maybe I’ll make one of those. Russell Aaron: It’s interesting. Wow. You just flat-out left X. Do you feel like with Heropress, it was… and again, this is why I made that post, is that people almost see it like they can make the rounds. And it’s like, well, I haven’t gone there yet. And so they’re gonna submit something to you because they’re gonna get some press out of it. And it’s not so much what’s best for your brand or it’s not best for your website. They just see it as, well, I’m gonna get some exposure there. Do you feel like it used to be that? Topher DeRosia: No. I’ve gotten maybe two or three submissions ever like that. And a couple of them, I was able to say, “No, that’s not what we’re about. It’s this other thing, what Heropress is actually about.” And they’re like, “Oh, well, okay, that’d be great.” And they do that. And maybe one or two people have said, “I built this great company and everyone should come use my company.” Like, no, not so much. Russell Aaron: Interesting. Topher DeRosia: And that’s the end of it. Russell Aaron: I remember back in, I wanna say like 2013, people used to call each other out and be like, why are you giving the same speech at WordCamp Miami, WordCamp Minneapolis, WordCamp San Diego. And that’s kind of where I was at with that same LinkedIn post. It’s like, I really, really enjoy watching Matt Cromwell’s show, but the guy that he just had on also was on Jonathan Denwood and was also on this one. It was also on, I was like, I’ve already seen this. Maybe I get three more percent information that wasn’t in that last, or because Matt knows a little bit more about personal stuff in WordPress or building a business, he might have some more insight there, but it’s like, I’ve already heard this and I’m kind of already over it. And that’s kind of where I was at is you don’t have to just say, I’m gonna do this one and that’s it. But it’s almost like, you’re making yourself not… what’s the word. Not credible because you’re going around and saying the same thing and it’s just, you’re not doing anything different than a blog post could have done. Topher DeRosia: You know what I mean? I don’t feel too bad about repeating WordCamp talks because, especially at small camps, because a lot of people are just gonna go to their local camp and never go to another one. And unless they cruise.tv, they’re not gonna see it. I struggle a little bit with podcasts because I’ve been asked a lot over the last 10 years to come on a podcast and talk about the story of WordPress. And it’s the same story every time, you know? And so, I’ll try to mix it up a little bit, give different information that I’ve never given before, that sort of thing. But it is something I think about and struggle with a little bit. Russell Aaron: What do you struggle with about it? Topher DeRosia: I don’t wanna just say the same thing over and over again. You know, I don’t want people to go, oh, Topher’s on another podcast episode. Oh, I’ve heard this story. I don’t need to be on this episode. Fortunately, it’s been around long enough that I can give a brief synopsis of the beginning and talk about stuff that’s happened in the last couple of years. Russell Aaron: Right. Topher DeRosia: Which is gonna be really different from the podcast episode I was on in 2020. Russell Aaron: You know? Right. Topher DeRosia: It’s an interesting dilemma when you have one story to tell and everybody wants you to tell it. How do you deal with that? Russell Aaron: Well, I’ve noticed that too. It is like, you know, I’ll watch [Insert Famous Name Here], and they have a podcast, and they’re interviewing, again, [Insert Famous Name Here], and that person was also just on That Famous Name and That Famous Name. I actually saw somebody, it’s like almost a year ago, and they were just like, “Do you want me just to say this so your show has this speech in it or are you genuinely asking me?” Because, you know, like you want this story so you can post it on your social media. But I’ve already given that story 15 different times because they wanted it for their own, you know? And it’s almost going that way where I kind of respect it in a way because you don’t want to post other people’s content. But I also feel like I’m tired of saying the same shit over and over again. It’s interesting, man. Topher DeRosia: Yeah, that’s a dilemma. Russell Aaron: So you’re just like kicking back and… are you building something for you that you think is gonna scale or are you trying to get away from WordPress? That’s kind of where I’m at right now. Topher DeRosia: Yes and no. I have always wanted to… I’ve always been better with people than code. I’m a life coach. Russell Aaron: Yeah. I did not know that about you. Topher DeRosia: I love talking to the client more than coding. I love helping people learn things. And so those skills could be anywhere in WordPress, but also could be anywhere outside of WordPress. So I’m looking for those jobs and they are not out there. Russell Aaron: Right. Topher DeRosia: So here we are. Russell Aaron: I’m to the point now where my son, he’s eight, but he races BMX, like actual bikes and stuff. And so there’s a college here in Indianapolis and it’s one of the best cycling schools in the country. And there’s like five Olympians that practice every Tuesday and Thursday and they’re right in our back door. These are people that have a great social following, but they don’t post very well. They have a brand name, but they don’t have a website. So I’m noticing that every new space that I go into, it’s kind of like I get to jump back into WordPress again, where it’s like, hey, I just built a website for this BMX track in Louisville, Kentucky. It’s one of the best tracks in the country by everybody that has ever raced in a sport, they all vote that it’s one of the best, but they don’t have a website period. I just went through this where they have a guy, he’s their treasurer and he’s like, “Well, I’m an AI software guy.” And I’m like, “Well, how come you don’t have a website?” And he’s like, “Well…” And I’m like, “Listen, I submitted a new version of a we… literally, I uploaded it to my Russell website or to my Russell Envy site and I just put it in a sub-folder and I was like, “Your website could look like this today.” I was like, “For free. I don’t want anything from you. No free anything.” I was like, “I want to donate this to you because I want to grow the sport.” And the guy’s like, “I wanted to build it and React.” And I’m like, “Well, why didn’t you?” And the guy’s like, “Uh.” And I’m like, “I have free hosting for life from WPEngine.” And I was like, “I won’t charge you guys ever. I will host a site. I have free with AppPresser. I’ll build you guys an app where you guys can send push notifications.” And the guy’s like, “Well, I want to have a lot of control and say over it.” And I was just like, “All right, you know what?” And then I built my own. Now I own a domain all about their BMX track and now they’re calling me going, “We should have went with you.” I’m to the point now where I’m nice. And then it’s just like, “Dude, I’m 10,000 miles over you and I’m going to go this way.” Liquid Web did that to me. Liquid Web brought me in and they were like, “We’re going to…” I was supposed to be the OG stellar WP. They brought me in, I was hiring all my friends and I was bringing in people and we were building something. And then they called me and they were like, “Well, you can either be a level two support person or you could just not work here.” And I was like, “Well, I don’t work here anymore.” And they were like, “Well, wait, hang on.” And I literally hit “click” and I have never logged on since. Topher DeRosia: That’s funny. Russell Aaron: I’m in that same boat where, you know, I don’t have to work for you. You know what I mean? Like, fuck, I’m 40. I should be doing something on my own anyway. I kind of wish I had… what was WP 101? Sean did that for all those years. I wish I would have done that. Or every week, I should have had some YouTube about talking about something and maybe I could have monetized that, but I’m not behind the ball. I let the ball slip is what I feel like. Topher DeRosia: It’s not too late to start. I picked that up when Sean, quit and I’ve got a YouTube channel with a bunch of stuff on it. I published one today. Russell Aaron: Oh wow. It’s just interesting things that you think about, or is it like educational, like tutorials? Topher DeRosia: It’s educational tutorials, but stuff that I find interesting. Like today I made a desktop wallpaper for WordCamp Europe. Russell Aaron: Nice. Topher DeRosia: And I did it by going to their webpage in my browser and using the console to hack the HTML and CSS until it looked like a screen, a wallpaper. Russell Aaron: That’s fucking cool. Topher DeRosia: So I published it right before I’d started talking to you, like minutes before that. And it has three views. Russell Aaron: Woohoo. Topher DeRosia: But a couple of weeks ago I did one called fun and games in the terminal. And it’s how to play Tetris in the terminal and how to make a choo-choo train go across your screen when you type LS wrong. And it has 784 views right now. Russell Aaron: That’s awesome. Topher DeRosia: I did one on how to brighten a photo. I did a series. I’m working on a series called Topher learns how, or I talk to people who know how to do things that I really should know how to do, but don’t. I talked to Scott Kingsley Clark about pods, which has been around forever, but I’ve never used. I talked to Donata about Termageddon, because I know it’s important, but I have stayed away because I don’t understand and it’s scary. Russell Aaron: Termageddon. I’ve never heard that. Topher DeRosia: Oh. You know the little cookie consent things, privacy policies and whatnot? Russell Aaron: Yeah. Topher DeRosia: So when you sign up with term again, you pay a surprisingly low monthly fee and they have a human get on the phone with you and talk through your requirements of where you live, your legal stuff. Like, are you in Europe? Are you in California? Where are you? Where are your customers, your viewers? Then you drop in a short code for your privacy code and for the cookies and they keep them up to date based on how the laws change. So you don’t have to pay attention to, Oh, did California make some crazy new law about cookies? What do I need to do to update my site? It’s really, really great. So I did an interview with her. Russell Aaron: $12 a month or $119 a year. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. Russell Aaron: What is the point of having a privacy policy if you don’t pay extra for limiting your liability? Wow. That’s amazing. Topher DeRosia: It is. Russell Aaron: That’s someone just thinking outside the box. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. I have a couple of videos where I was given an account at a hosting company that I’ve never used and videoed logging in for the first time and getting to a website. Russell Aaron: Oh, wow. Just from first login to setting everything up to now you have something production. Wow. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. Specifically not reading the docs. Russell Aaron: Oh, just trying to brute force your way through it. Topher DeRosia: Yeah. Russell Aaron: That’s smart, dude. Topher DeRosia: It’s partly about… well, they may have wonderful docs. It may be super easy to do if you read all the docs. I don’t want to read the docs. Russell Aaron: Me neither. Topher DeRosia: Clickety clickety click, I have a website. So I did GreenGeeks. I did honesthosting.io. I did X cloud. So that’s the kind of stuff I’m doing. Russell Aaron: That’s interesting. That is something that, that Gary V talks about a lot is that it used to have to be where you are this WordPress brand and you do just this and all your videos could only be about that. Anytime you stepped outside the box, people were like, “Why am I watching this?” And today now we’re to finally to where my website would probably actually thrive is it’s so random. It’s just something out of my head and one thing can skyrocket and it’s like hitting the jackpot, you know? That’s interesting. Topher DeRosia: Another thing I did is I made a site called topher.how and because I realized I had never really made stuff in my own channel. I’ve been blogging for decades, making videos, WinningWP. I have over a hundred videos on WinningWP. Russell Aaron: WinningWP? Topher DeRosia: Yeah. Russell Aaron: Did you start that when Charlie Sheen started doing Winning? Topher DeRosia: No, no, no, no. But I was thinking, boy, I’d love to have all this stuff on my own website, but I don’t want to go find it all and copy paste posts. And then I realized nearly every place I’ve ever made content has RSS for their authors. Russell Aaron: Yeah. Topher DeRosia: And so I found the sites, found my author RSS feed and started piping them into WP all import. And now topher.how has all my content from the last 15 years on a dozen different sites, doesn’t more than a dozen different sites, all my videos, all my posts, everything on wordpress.tv, all that stuff. So it’s kind of a portfolio. Yeah, so you can go to topher.how and see all my stuff. Russell Aaron: That was actually one thing that I was really proud of was that my entire WordPress journey is documented on somebody else’s project. So, like you go to WPwatercooler and my resume, what is great about it is that it is not me who can edit those videos, it is not me who can master them. Those words are there. Those words are me. You want to know my qualifications in WordPress, there’s all my shit. For me, I was like, “That’s actually pretty sick. You know what I mean?” Topher DeRosia: Yeah. Russell Aaron: Wow. Topher.how. Oh, dude, do you know who Jeffrey Zinn is? Topher DeRosia: No. Russell Aaron: Oh God. Him and Brandon Dove they have Pixel Jar. Have you ever heard of Pixel Jar? Topher DeRosia: Maybe. Russell Aaron: They’re big West coasters. I’ll tell you that much. He just wrote me, “He literally just said, dude, how do you find the time to write so much on LinkedIn? I enjoy all your stuff, but mostly I’m blown away by the volume.” Topher DeRosia: Nice. Russell Aaron: I’m going to write him back and just tell him the truth. But you know, it’s all thought man. Interesting. Topher, I’ve had a lot of fun. Am I taking up your time? Topher DeRosia: I should get back to work. Russell Aaron: All right, sir. Have a good one. Topher DeRosia: All right. I’ll see ya. Russell Aaron: Bye. Topher DeRosia: Bye.

Today, I'm thrilled to announce my interview with Tony nominee Jeremy Shamos, who will be starring in the newly announced revival of Awake and Sing. Tune in to hear some of the stories of his legendary career, including the experience of starring in the controversial CORPUS CHRISTI, experimenting with comedy with Steve Martin during METEOR SHOWER, being Tony nominated for CLYBOURNE PARK, participating in several readings of HERE WE ARE, making his debut in CYMBELINE, dancing in the all-male FORUM, working with Meryl Streep on ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, the joys of W.S. Gilbert's ENGAGED, figuring out the timing of GUTENBERG and NOISES OFF, rehearsing with Al Pacino for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, the potential prequel to IF I FORGET, what he learned from 100 SAINTS YOU SHOULD KNOW, and so much more. Don't miss this candid conversation with a veteran actor.

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Description Grab your flashlight and avoid the basement stairs because this week on Enjoy Stuff, Jay and Shua celebrate the glorious age of creature features! From giant worms and killer spiders to mischievous Gremlins and underground mutants, they revisit the movies that terrified and delighted an entire generation. Creature features, killer critters, giant worms, Gremlins, and underground monsters.  This week Jay and Shua celebrate the gloriously weird movies that made Saturday afternoons unforgettable! Plus, Jay says goodbye to Sci-Fi Saturdays, and much more on a brand new episode of Enjoy Stuff!   News "Dare to Be Stupid," a new Broadway musical inspired by Weird Al Yankovic, is officially in development with writers from Beetlejuice and Gutenberg! The Musical!   The Transformers: The Movie returns to theaters in restored 4K beginning September 17, 2026 for a special limited theatrical engagement.   Behind the Attraction Season 3 is on the way and will spotlight the history and creation of Disney Cruise Line.   Voice acting legend Tom Kane passed away at age 64 following complications from a stroke suffered in 2020. Jay shares a funny personal story and the guys reflect on Kane's incredible career. Check out our TeePublic store for some enjoyable swag and all the latest fashion trends What we're Enjoying Shua has been watching The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, the new comedy starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe. The mockumentary-style series follows a disgraced former football star trying to rebuild his life while an overly enthusiastic filmmaker documents every ridiculous moment. Shua loved the absurd humor, awkward situations, and strong chemistry between the leads. Jay revisited The Birds and was reminded why it remains one of the greatest suspense films ever made. Beyond the iconic bird attacks, Jay discusses Hitchcock's masterful tension-building, unsettling atmosphere, and why the movie still feels effective decades later. After their Hitchcock episode a few weeks ago, it felt like the perfect time for a rewatch.     Sci-Fi Saturdays -  This week on Sci-Fi Saturdays Jay spotlights his final Sci-Fi Saturdays column covering Tenet by Christopher Nolan. In the article, Jay explores how Nolan uses time inversion, reverse motion, and innovative editing techniques to create an entirely new cinematic language that challenges audiences while still delivering blockbuster spectacle.   Jay also reflects on the incredible run of Sci-Fi Saturdays itself: seven and a half years, 330 articles, and films spanning from 1950 through 2020. Beginning with Rocketship X-M and ending with Tenet, the series celebrated over seven decades of science fiction cinema while examining how the genre reflects humanity, technology, and society.    Jay also highlights his latest MCU Location Scout featuring Daredevil: Born Again and Punisher: One Last Kill. And make sure to play around with the interactive map on MCULocationScout.com. This week he's added some new locations from Daredevil: Born Again season 2. Plus, you can tune in to SHIELD: Case Files where Jay and Shua talk about great stuff in the MCU.   Enjoy Creature Features!  This week the guys dive into the gloriously gooey world of creature features. Those monster-filled movies that combined horror, comedy, suspense, and pure popcorn fun into the ultimate Saturday afternoon viewing experience. From alien furballs and killer fish to giant worms and demonic little creatures, Jay and Shua revisit the films that introduced many young viewers to horror without completely traumatizing them…well, mostly.   Along the way they discuss why the 1980s and early 1990s became the golden age for lighter horror movies, the importance of practical creature effects, and why these films still remain endlessly rewatchable today. Whether it's giant spiders, Gremlins causing chaos, or mysterious monsters lurking underground, the episode celebrates the fun side of fear and the unforgettable creature classics that still make audiences smile, scream, and laugh all at once.   Which creature are you afraid of? Do you like B-movies? Let us know! First person that emails me with the subject line, "Unpack your adjectives" will get a special mention on the show.  Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com 

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Gregory Richardson. A cybersecurity expert and AI consultant. The conversation explores cybersecurity best practices, the rise of AI, and how Gregory is helping churches and nonprofits leverage technology to spread the gospel.

What if the medieval world did not end with a bang, but with a messy argument over who gets to define history itself? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb spars with Gone Medieval's host Matt Lewis over Gutenberg, the Reformation, witchcraft, plague, the Renaissance, and the Wars of the Roses to ask where medieval ends and early modern begins. The result is a lively, surprising fight over power, change, and the making of the modern world.More:Mother of All Tudors: Margaret BeaufortListen on AppleListen on SpotifyHenry VIIListen on AppleListen on SpotifyPresented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Max Wintle, audio editor is Amy Haddow and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.All music courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.Not Just the Tudors is a History Hit podcastSign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ChatGPT tiene desde el año pasado una funcionalidad llamada Product Search Discovery que permite mostrar un carrusel de productos cuando alguien hace una búsqueda de compra. Y no solo eso: con instant checkout se puede completar la compra sin salir de ChatGPT, comprando directamente en tu tienda de e-commerce. Requisitos para aparecer No tener bloqueado el bot oai-searchbot en el robots.txt Registrarse en el formulario de Product Search Discovery (búscalo en Google o en ChatGPT) Enviar el feed de productos — en WordPress/WooCommerce ya existe por defecto, no hay que hacer nada extra. Si tu tienda está en Astro u otro framework sin feed nativo, tendrás que generarlo a mano. Lo que hay. Cómo optimizarlo Schema markup: dile a la IA en HTML qué es cada cosa (nombre, precio, disponibilidad…). Plugins como Open Eye Product Fit generan y validan este esquema automáticamente. Títulos descriptivos: «Peluquín negro» no vende; «Peluquín negro rizado de pelo sintético ligero» le da contexto a la IA. Velocidad y técnica básica: hosting decente, imágenes en WebP, caché activa, diseño responsive. Nada nuevo, pero sigue siendo lo que marca la diferencia. Campos mínimos del schema para aparecer en ChatGPT ID del producto Nombre Descripción URL (con parámetro UTM para saber si viene de ChatGPT) Imagen Precio Moneda (importante si vendes en Polonia, que tiene zlotys, no euros — dato crucial para la WordCamp de Cracovia) Disponibilidad Recomendación: GitHub es obligatorio si trabajas con agentes de IA Said perdió una semana de trabajo porque su agente de codificación borró todo y luego dijo tranquilamente «yo no he sido». La solución es tan vieja como el software: control de versiones. Git + GitHub, y que el propio agente haga los commits en cada cambio. El truco extra: usa ficheros CLAUDE.md, agents.md o arquitectura.md en cada proyecto para definir las reglas del agente de forma permanente — qué convenciones seguir, cómo hacer commits, si el proyecto es WordPress… Así no tienes que repetírselo en cada conversación. Plugin del día: Design Set Go 65 bloques de Gutenberg construidos con bloques nativos de WordPress más un poco de CSS. Sin código propietario, sin sobrecarga, sin versión pro (con 65 bloques, ¿para qué?). Incluye slider, pestañas, secciones sticky y el bloque 50-50 que divide la pantalla en dos mitades. Los screenshots son GIFs animados para que veas cómo funciona antes de instalarlo, y tiene botón de Live Preview en Playground para probarlo sin tocar tu web. Una joya, y gratis. https://wordpress.org/plugins/designsetgo/ Próximamente WordCamp Kraków: 3 al 7 de junio. Miguel Ángel estará allí. Llevar ropa de verano o de invierno: por determinar (pendiente consulta con María). ¿Te ha gustado el episodio? Si quieres que sigamos experimentando con bots, protocolos y empanadillas polacas, no olvides suscribirte y dejarnos tu valoración. ¡Nos escuchamos en el próximo capítulo! Métodos de contacto Enviadnos vuestras preguntas al grupo de Telegram. Apuntaos al canal de Youtube del podcast https://www.youtube.com/potenciapro Si nos queréis decir algo directamente lo podéis hacer a @potenciapro , @materron, @mpc, o en el grupo de Telegram Y si eres muy muy muy fan del podcast Echa un vistazo a cómo nos puedes ayudar en https://potencia.pro/se-prosperoso/

#BeAGoodFriend and check out episode #167 of #FeeneyTalksWithFriends featuring Elle Doyle. It was great to talk with my #friend, Elle. Elle is the content creator for Reheated Coffee Club and podcast host of Connecticut Unfiltered. We talked about:Elle's Launch Party (minute 1Feeney sings karaoke with Eric B. (minute 3)Iced by Anna Cookies (minute 4)SoLA Karaoke (minute 5)Anthony Anthony - podcast #1 (minute 6)Elle's publicist (minute 7)Reheated Coffee Club (minute 8)Upcoming guests on Connecticut Unfiltered (minute 10)Elle's favorite teacher (minute 14)The Next Chapter (minute 18.30)Michael Pollack - The New Haven Pizza Club (minute 20)The JCC (minute 22)Twin stories (minute 24)3 Keys to being a content creator (minute 25)What makes her husband, Mike a good #friend? (minute 27)Expresso Martinis and Karaoke (minute 30)Shout outs to Woody's Coffee and Ice Cream (minute 32)Sarah from Float 41 is our honoree for the Memorial Day Parade (minute 33)Reiki (minute 35)Paid partnerships (minute 37)Connecticut Foodshare (minute 39)Parsley in Middletown (minute 44)Gutenberg at Playhouse on Park (minute 45)Selfie pic and gift giving is Elle's love language (minute 47)Hartford St. Patrick's Day Parade tee shirts (minute 49)Guessing Game: Tequila or Water? (minute 50)Drink Champs Tequila Trivia (minute 53)Lightning Rod Questions (minute 58)Photo of Elle with Oprah (minute 1.04)Elle recommends Arugula (minute 1.07)Upcoming events (minute 1.08)Max and Lily (minute 1.09)Closing remarks (minute 1.10)Podcast Sponsors: Directline Media - www.directlinemediaproductions.com/The Fix IV - www.thefixivtherapy.comWest Hartford Lock - www.westhartfordlock.comKeating Agency Insurance - www.keatingagency.comGoff Law Group - www.gofflawgroup.netParkville Management - www.parkvillemanagement.comLuna Pizza - www.lunapizzawh.com/lunas-menuPeoplesBank - www.bankatpeoples.comFloat 41 - www.float41.comMaximum Beverage - www.maximumbev.comSally and Bob's - www.sallyandbobs.comMandell JCC of Greater Hartford - www.mandelljcc.org

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Gregory Richardson. A cybersecurity expert and AI consultant. The conversation explores cybersecurity best practices, the rise of AI, and how Gregory is helping churches and nonprofits leverage technology to spread the gospel.

This episode covers the delay of WordPress 7.0 and the removal of real-time collaborative editing from its release, citing technical and performance challenges. The discussion explores newly emerging features in WordPress, including the rapid development of custom post type and custom field management in Gutenberg, AI's growing influence in the ecosystem, supply chain security efforts, and innovations like WordPress Desktop Mode. The hosts also touch on recent community events, challenges facing large WordPress gatherings, industry layoffs influenced by AI, and ongoing efforts to improve plugin and site security.

Games discussed in the "This Week in Gaming" (Twig) segment:Sail (6:46): A cooperative two-player trick-taking game involving a ship navigating through the sea while avoiding a Kraken.Toy Battle (15:37): A fast-paced, colorful lane-battler game that the hosts noted feels similar to Clash of Clans (16:06).Valbara (18:03): A card-driven game compared to Citadels, where players use cards numbered 1-12 to compete over lands (18:52).Pandemic Legacy: Season 0 (37:51): Discussed as an ongoing, high-stakes legacy experience (43:30).Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Trick Taking Game) (44:26): A cooperative game currently being played by the hosts.Zombicide: Undead or Alive (54:52): Mentioned as a challenging western-themed entry in the series.Gutenberg (55:12): A drafting and bidding game about printing presses.Auztralia (57:27): A Martin Wallace game that the host found to be a strange cooperative-competitive experience.Thursdays, we host a live call in show to chat with YOU about board games you've been playing and enjoying.* (813) 618-7099 *Call in and share what you've been playing lately.Thursdays9pm ETOur Board game Call-In Show is live streaming every Thursday night at 9pm eastern.youtube.com/beansanddicepodcastCall In Show (813) 618-7099Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/BeansAndDice/Discord Link:https://discord.gg/UZ6RxyhBeansanddice@gmail.com-------------------------------------#boardgames #boardgamegeek  #tabletopgames #tabletopgaming #tabletopcommunity #gamer #gamenight #games #boardgame  #bgg 

What if the medieval world did not end with a bang, but with a messy argument over who gets to define history itself? Matt Lewis spars with Not Just The Tudors' host Professor Suzannah Lipscomb to spar over Gutenberg, the Reformation, witchcraft, plague, the Renaissance, and the Wars of the Roses to ask where medieval ends and early modern begins. The result is a lively, surprising fight over power, change, and the making of the modern world.MOREWhy The Early Middle Ages MatterListen on AppleListen on SpotifyThe Black DeathListen on AppleListen on SpotifyGone Medieval is presented by Matt Lewis. Audio editor is Amy Haddow, the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.All music used is courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.Gone Medieval is a History Hit podcast.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recorremos la evolución del periodismo desde la invención de la imprenta de Gutenberg hasta la era digital. Hablamos de cómo internet ha cambiado las reglas del juego, con las suscripciones, la inmediatez y las fake news, y reflexionamos sobre los retos del oficio en la actualidad.

Starting over at age 30 with a pregnant wife, no money, and a shattered career dream could have broken Jack Oujo. Instead, it became the unlikely foundation for building one of America's largest tax-focused wealth management firms. Jack, founder of Oujo Wealth Strategies, relied on discipline, preparation, and relentless self-education to reinvent himself. Successful leaders, as he learned from personal experience, need a "Plan B" for when things don't go as planned. He also explains why consistent processes often matter more than lofty goals — and why trust and customer service became the cornerstone of his business philosophy.  Before entering wealth management, Jack spent eight years as a professional baseball umpire. As he notes, however, unlike ballplayers, most people don't get three strikes when it comes to managing their finances. [Be sure to pick up a copy of Jack's book, Too Smart to be an Umpire, here.] Monday Morning Radio is hosted by the father-son duo of Dean and Maxwell Rotbart. Photo: Jack Oujo, Oujo Wealth StrategiesPosted: May 4, 2026 Monday Morning Run Time: 46:56 Episode: 14.44 Now Available, The Much-Anticipated Sequel to All You Can Eat Business Wisdom Signed, first-edition softcover copies from Gutenberg's Store:  tinyurl.com/GutenbergSigned Unsigned copies from Amazon: tinyurl.com/AYCEBW2-Unsigned

When people talk about the Chicago Cubs and their historic 2016 World Series victory — ending a 108-year drought — names including players Kris Bryant, Kyle Schwarber, Ben Zobrist, manager Joe Maddon, and president of baseball operations Theo Epstein typically dominate the conversation. One name you rarely hear? Joshua Lifrak. Yet Joshua played a pivotal role in that championship season as the team's mental skills director — helping players perform under extraordinary pressure. And he has the World Series ring to prove it. Today, his arena has shifted from the dugout to the boardroom. As director of performance and coaching at Limitless Minds, he works with executives and business leaders to build mental resilience, sharpen focus, and perform at their best. As Joshua explains this week, peak mental conditioning is a "home run" skill that anyone can learn and practice, regardless of what they do for a living.  [Be sure to pick up a copy of Joshua's book: Win Today: Six Steps to Mental Resilience, Peak Performance, and a Thriving Life] Monday Morning Radio is hosted by the father-son duo of Dean and Maxwell Rotbart. Photo: Joshua LifrakPosted: April 27, 2026 Monday Morning Run Time: 55:26 Episode: 14.43 Now Available, The Much-Anticipated Sequel to All You Can Eat Business Wisdom Signed, first-edition softcover copies from Gutenberg's Store: tinyurl.com/GutenbergSigned Unsigned copies from Amazon: tinyurl.com/AYCEBW2-Unsigned

In this 130th episode of the Gutenberg Changelog podcast, Birgit Pauli-Haack is joined by Tammie Lister to discuss the latest developments in WordPress, Gutenberg, and the broader ecosystem. The conversation opens with Tammie sharing insights from her new role at Convesio, where she works on product collaboration within hosting and payments. The episode highlights Tammie's…

In Arteetude 331 – From Gutenberg to the Prompt, I explore a question that feels increasingly urgent in the age of AI:What happens when technology not only supports thought, but begins to alter its pace, texture, and structure?Following on from my previous episode on Gutenberg, the printing press, and the reduction of friction in the circulation of ideas, this new episode examines a deeper cultural shift: the movement from literacy as a slow, inward, reflective practice toward a more immediate, reactive, and conversational digital condition.Together with AI Co-Host Sophia, I reflect on the relationship between print culture, digital communication, prompting, fluency, and the possibility that some forms of friction are not obstacles to thought, but essential conditions of becoming.The episode asks whether AI is merely assisting expression — or whether it is also transforming how human beings arrive at language, judgment, and inner clarity.The conversation remains accessible, playful, and philosophical, and closes with a new song by Los Inorgánicos:“The Friction We Forgot / Too Fast to Become.”As always, Arteetude is an independent, non-profit podcast exploring the intersections of art, culture, technology, embodiment, and contemporary consciousness.Detlef Schlich is a rock musician, podcaster, visual artist, filmmaker,ritual designer, and media archaeologist based in West Cork. He is recognised for his seminal work, including a scholarly examination of the intersections between shamanism, art, and digital culture, and his acclaimed video installation, Transodin's Tragedy. He primarily works in performance, photography, painting, sound, installations, and film. In his work, he reflects on the human condition and uses the digital shaman's methodology as an alter ego to create artwork. His media archaeology is a conceptual and practical exercise in uncovering the unique aesthetic, cultural, and political aspects of media in culture.WEBSITE LINKS WAW Official YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@WAWBand"The Niles Bittersweet Song" WAW BandcampSilent NightIn a world shadowed by conflict and unrest, we, Dirk Schlömer & Detlef Schlich, felt compelled to reinterpret 'Silent Night' to reflect the complexities and contradictions of modern life.https://studiomuskau.bandcamp.com/track/silent-nightWild Atlantic WayThis results from a trip to West Cork, Ireland, where the beautiful Coastal "Wild Atlantic Way" reaches along the whole west coast!https://studiomuskau.bandcamp.com/track/wild-atlantic-wayYOU TUBE*Silent Night Reimagined* A Multilayered Avant-Garde Journey by WAW aka Dirk Schlömer & Detlef Schlichhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAbytLSfgCwDetlef SchlichInstagramDetlef Schlich ArTEEtude I love West Cork Artists FacebookDetlef Schlich I love West Cork Artists Group ArTEEtudeYouTube Channelsvisual PodcastArTEEtudeCute Alien TV official WebsiteArTEEtude Detlef Schlich Det Design Tribal Loop Download here for free Detlef Schlich´s Essay about the Cause and Effect of Shamanism, Art and Digital Culturehttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/303749640_Shamanism_Art_and_Digital_Culture_Cause_and_EffectSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/arteetude-a-podcast-with-artists-by-detlef-schlich/donations

Several inventions mark the progress towards modernity - the Gutenberg printing press, the Galileo telescope, the Watt steam engine. But why was Europe the birthplace of so many of these? Joel Mokyr, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in economics, thinks the cause was culture. For decades he has asked economists to take intellectual history more seriously. Economies are shaped by new inventions, Mokyr argues, and inventions can only be understood when we understand the culture that gives rise to them. But how much did Europe's culture shape its economy? And how to square early modern Europe's progressive culture with it's colonial legacy? Mokyr answers these and other questions in this episodes, finishing with his reflections on the future of technological progress.Enjoy!LINKS AND REFERENCESDo you prefer reading to listening? You can find⁠ a summarised essay ⁠of this conversation, with a bibliography, at our series page: ⁠https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/news/podcasts/GREAT DIVERGENCE: THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLDThis episode is part of a series produced by Warwick University's⁠⁠ ⁠CAGE Research Centre⁠⁠⁠ in collaboration with⁠⁠ ⁠On Humans⁠⁠, searching for explanations to why Western Europe and North America emerged as the most affluent and technologically advanced regions of the modern world. Guided by six expert guests, including a winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in economics, we approach this topic with balance and breadth, exploring everything from colonialism and fossil fuels to science and technology. 1 | Why the West? Colonies, fossil fuels, and lessons from China (Kenneth Pomeranz)2 | Why did so many inventions come from Europe? (with Joel Mokyr)3 | Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Britain? (Robert Allen)  4 | A view from the East: China, Japan, and the other paths to prosperity (Debin Ma)5 | The big picture: Measuring the origins of the modern world (Bishnupriya Gupta and Stephen Broadberry)NAMES MENTIONEDJoel Mokyr | Robert Lucas | David Hume | Isaac Newton | Antoine Lavoisier | Joseph Black | James Watt | John Robison | Josiah Wedgwood | Sadi Carnot | Margaret Jacob | Evangelista Torricelli | Galileo Galilei | Blaise Pascal | Otto von Guericke | Aristotle | Denis Diderot | William Harvey | Song Yingxing | Marco Polo | Zheng He | Louis XIV | Avner Greif | Guido Tabellini | Kenneth Pomeranz | Adam Smith | Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot | Montesquieu | Voltaire | Confucius | al-Ghazali | Ptolemy | Euclid | David Ricardo | Karl Marx | Hippocrates | Galen | Xi Jinping | Joseph Needham | Nigel Farage | Joseph Stalin | Trofim Lysenko | Robert AllenKEYWORDSEconomics | History | Global Economic History | Intellectual History | Age of Inventions | Rise of the West | European Miracle | Enlightened Economy | Culture of Growth | Gift of Athena |Industrial Revolution | History of technology | History of inventions  INFOGuest: Joel Mokyr (⁠⁠⁠Northwestern University)⁠⁠⁠Host: Ilari Mäkelä Contact: ⁠⁠⁠greatdivergencepod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠Music by Aleksey Chistilin (Lexin_Music) ⁠⁠via Pixabay

Pour écouter l'émission en entier, sans pub, avec les Bonus :https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/S-tavkjvmo Histoire du Livre - #2 Quand le livre devient une arme - 6/6Et si le livre n'avait jamais été un simple objet culturel ?De Gutenberg aux rois absolus, cette émission vous plonge au cœur d'une révolution silencieuse : celle qui transforme un outil technique en arme idéologique, puis en instrument de pouvoir.En quelques décennies, l'imprimerie bouleverse l'Europe. Elle diffuse les idées, alimente les conflits religieux, donne naissance à une première forme d'opinion publique… avant d'être reprise en main par les États, qui en font un outil de contrôle et d'unification culturelle.Comment un média né pour libérer la parole devient-il un pilier de l'ordre politique ?À travers cette histoire fascinante, vous découvrirez comment le livre a façonné notre rapport au savoir, au pouvoir… et à la liberté.Toute ressemblance avec ce que nous vivons aujourd'hui serait purement fortuite ... Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

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Pour écouter l'émission en entier, sans pub, avec les Bonus :https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/S-tavkjvmo Histoire du Livre - #2 Quand le livre devient une arme - 4/6Et si le livre n'avait jamais été un simple objet culturel ?De Gutenberg aux rois absolus, cette émission vous plonge au cœur d'une révolution silencieuse : celle qui transforme un outil technique en arme idéologique, puis en instrument de pouvoir.En quelques décennies, l'imprimerie bouleverse l'Europe. Elle diffuse les idées, alimente les conflits religieux, donne naissance à une première forme d'opinion publique… avant d'être reprise en main par les États, qui en font un outil de contrôle et d'unification culturelle.Comment un média né pour libérer la parole devient-il un pilier de l'ordre politique ?À travers cette histoire fascinante, vous découvrirez comment le livre a façonné notre rapport au savoir, au pouvoir… et à la liberté.Toute ressemblance avec ce que nous vivons aujourd'hui serait purement fortuite ... Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Pour écouter l'émission en entier, sans pub, avec les Bonus :https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/S-tavkjvmo Histoire du Livre - #2 Quand le livre devient une arme - 3/6Et si le livre n'avait jamais été un simple objet culturel ?De Gutenberg aux rois absolus, cette émission vous plonge au cœur d'une révolution silencieuse : celle qui transforme un outil technique en arme idéologique, puis en instrument de pouvoir.En quelques décennies, l'imprimerie bouleverse l'Europe. Elle diffuse les idées, alimente les conflits religieux, donne naissance à une première forme d'opinion publique… avant d'être reprise en main par les États, qui en font un outil de contrôle et d'unification culturelle.Comment un média né pour libérer la parole devient-il un pilier de l'ordre politique ?À travers cette histoire fascinante, vous découvrirez comment le livre a façonné notre rapport au savoir, au pouvoir… et à la liberté.Toute ressemblance avec ce que nous vivons aujourd'hui serait purement fortuite ... Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

God's Word is packed full of power … power unlimited … to transform your life. But one of the biggest problems people have with the Bible is understanding it. Making sense of it. Knowing where it comes from, and where what they're reading today fits into the big picture. Well, I think it's time we did something about that.   About the Bible – Old and New We've all heard of those word association tests that psychologists use. You know, they say 'black', you say 'white'; they say 'rabbit' and you say 'carrot'; day/night; God/mmm love; devil/mmm evil; Bible/hmm … Bible? How do you respond to that? Stuffy, old, irrelevant? Well, different people will have some different views but actually in Australia where I live, the Bible is one of the least trusted of all historical documents. Over the last week and a bit on the program we've been talking about the incredible power that we unlock, when we read the Bible. But this thing that we call "the Bible", it's a big book, it's massive and it can be daunting. So today I thought it might be useful just to have a look to see what this Bible is exactly. I want to share with you a secret, it's sad but true. I never read a book cover to cover until I was in my early twenties. I managed to get through school and university and did pretty well I might add, without ever reading a book from beginning to end. I remember at university, in first year English, we studied the book Wuthering Heights which absolutely bored me to tears, I'm sorry and I never opened the book once. There are companies that publish crib notes, you know the summary of the book and a summary of what's in it and a summary of what some of the critics say, so I just quickly read those, crib notes, wrote essays and did, by and large, reasonably well. And I never, ever liked libraries either. You know how libraries have this kind of dusty, dank smell; all of them are the same. Every library on the planet has the same smell. I thought about it for a while, I thought 'Berni, why don't you like libraries? Why did it take you so long to read books?' The answer I guess has two parts. Firstly, libraries for me always felt really big and inaccessible. They have tens of thousands of books and in the old days when I was at university, they had card systems for accessing, for finding things, I mean these days they have computers. The old card systems had what they call the Dewey Classification system and finding anything just took so incredibly long. And secondly, when you did find the stuff, there was always so much of it, there was so much time involved to, I don't know, look through all those books and research them. I mean, some people are natural book worms, well I'm not. I still frankly don't like libraries. I'm sorry if you're a librarian, I just don't like libraries. I haven't darkened the doorstep of one since I finished my last degree quite a few years ago now. You know something; I think for a lot of people the Bible is exactly like that. It feels big and inaccessible. There are many, many people who wouldn't mind having a read but, for goodness sakes, where do you start? Well today let's break it down a bit, let's make it a bit more accessible. I remember when I started Bible College only a few months after becoming a Christian, everyone took for granted that we knew about the Bible. The reality was, I didn't and my hunch is, I wasn't alone. Let's unpack it a bit, let's demystify it a bit. All of a sudden you know it becomes a whole bunch more accessible. The thing that we call the Bible is made up of 66 different books written by different people over somewhere between 1,000 and 1,500 years. That's the kind of period over which the Bible was written. And it wasn't just written by different people but at different times and the last book was written, well almost 2,000 years ago. There are essentially two parts to the Bible, this was complete news to me when I first opened it, the Old Testament and the New Testament, and when I started at Bible College I didn't know which one was which. The Old Testament, well the Old Testament is God's story and the story of how He interacted with and engaged with His chosen people, the Israelites. The Old Testament is written completely B.C., before Christ, before Jesus came to be on earth with us here. What Christians call the Old Testament is in fact exactly the same as the Jewish Hebrew scriptures, Jews still use those same scriptures today, Christians call it the Old Testament. It's written mostly in the original language of Hebrew, the language of the Jews. Now there's small parts of books like Daniel which is written in a language called Aramaic which is the language that Jesus actually spoke but by and large, the Old Testament was originally written in the language of Hebrew. And what we have today, the thing that we call the Old Testament is an English translation of that. Now there are lots of funny name books, Deuteronomy and Judges and Chronicles and there's Ezekiel, there are 39 separate books and there are kind of 4 main parts of the Old Testament. The first 5 books, Genesis to Deuteronomy, are the Jewish or Hebrew Law, the Torah. And then you go Joshua through Ezra and Nehemiah and that's kind of the history of what God did and how His people responded. And then after that are the wisdom books, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon and Lamentations. And the rest of the books in the Old Testament are written by men called Prophets. Men whom God called to call His people back to Him. That's the Old Testament, it's a story of God engaging with Gods people. And the New Testament is 27 books. Now, it was mostly written in the language of Greek. The first 4 books, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are gospel accounts, they're the historical account of Jesus' life and His ministry. And the next book, the book of Acts is the story of the first 20 or so years of the Church after Jesus rose again to be with His Father. Then there's a whole bunch of letters called Epistles from people like Peter and John and Paul, written to Churches that they were involved in or in some cases, to individuals. This may be old hat to some, but I know to many, just a simple understanding of the basic structure of the Bible is going to be a real help. I know that when I was a new Christian, no one ever bothered to explain it to me – I wish they had. Now some people might be saying to themselves, that's all well and good, but how accurate is the Bible. Because before the printing press was ever invented by Gutenberg in 1450, the Bible – there's this massive thing, the Old Testament and New Testament – was transcribed over and over by hand by people called Scribes who copied them by hand. It's hard to imagine. But these days, there's a science called Textual Criticism. It studies whether any errors crept into the Bible as it was copied through all these generations manuscripts. And what it tells us, is that having studied thousands of manuscripts, the levels of accuracy are remarkable. I mean it's a science, people have done it. There are very, very few words or sentences where there is any doubt what was originally written. And blessedly these days, this thing called the Bible has been translated into easy to read, contemporary versions. No more thee's and thou's – great, modern day, accurate, easy to understand translations. And did you know that in the Bible, over half of the 66 books, over half, you can read in half and hour or less. Now look, in a few minutes we can't hope to do anything but scrape the surface. Today we've just talked about some basic factual stuff. No-one really taught me this stuff. I remember becoming a Christian and going and sitting in a Church and people just teach from the Bible which is wonderful but no-one ever explained to me that it was 66 books written by a whole bunch of people over different periods of time. That some of it was stories and history and some of it was letters and some of it was poetry. But when you simplify and demystify all that stuff, it turns out that it's just a wonderful book. And with the many contemporary translations, it's much, much easier to read than I ever thought. As I started to read the Gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the New Testament, I was completely blown away by this amazing Jesus. Who would have thought … the Bible.   Getting Practical – Useful Resources I have to tell you, that thing they call the Bible was a real problem for me. I mean, first coming to grips with the fact that it is what it says that it is, the Word of God but then, just getting into it. It's made up of 66 separate books written over about 1,500 years in different times, in different places and different cultures. So there are words and names and places and concepts and ways of thinking … well, we're not always familiar with them. We're continuing in our series 'Power Unlimited' – because that's what Go's Word brings into our lives so today, we're going to get down and really practical on just how to get into the Bible because unless we do, we're going to miss out on much of the power that God wants to pour into our lives. Over the years I've discovered a few very simple helps or resources that have made such a difference in making sense of God's Word. You see, it turns out there's a whole bunch of people much smarter than me who have done some great research and put the information together in such easy usable ways and all their work makes getting into God's Word, the Bible, so much easier for the likes of you and me. Today I just want to share some of those resources with you. I remember twenty or so years ago, just after I became a Christian, I started attending a tiny little Baptist Church in the southern suburbs of Sydney. A little place called Oyster Bay. Our pastor, Phil, was a passionate and gifted Bible teacher and that man has had a huge impact on my life. Now as well as Sunday services, the Church used to have these little home Bible studies and we'd meet one night a week in someone's house. In our small group, five of us would gather together. And at the time, the particular little home fellowship that I'd joined, was studying the Old Testament book of Hosea. So we'd lob in there each Wednesday evening, we'd have a cup of tea and some fellowship and then we'd sit down and do a Bible study together. And right through that book, over and over and over again, Hosea talks about Ephraim – that word is mentioned 29 times by Hosea. So I remember asking these people, most of them had been Christians for a good many years, "Okay, who or what is this Ephraim thing?" I mean, Hosea kept talking about it and so it seemed to be quite central to what he was saying. But you know something, no-one could tell me who or what Ephraim was. Now it turns out the Ephraim was one of the tribes of Israel, Ephraim was one of Joseph's sons and there's a whole history around this tribe and how they rebelled against God, but we didn't know that in that Bible study so a lot of what God was saying to us, through this amazing, powerful book of Hosea, well it was frankly lost on us. And that sort of thing happens a lot more than you might think. Consider the story of the Good Samaritan. It loses its whole meaning if we don't understand the Samaritans and who they were and what the Jews thought of them. Now when Jesus told that story to the assembled masses they all knew the Samaritan story but we don't, it's not natural to us. And there are names and places and concepts and ways of thinking in the Bible that are foreign to us, because we're separated from them by time and culture. It might have made sense to the people back then but not to us now. And unless we understand those things, we miss out on the richness, on the gravity, on the power of what God is trying to say to us. I remember coming to grips with the Jewish system of blood sacrifice in the Old Testament. Now I kind of think about blood sacrifice and it's pretty ghastly to me here and now, but it's something I really had to understand to understand what Jesus did for me on the Cross. So I decided I was going to find out, not just skim the surface, not read through a story and have them talk about Ephraim or Samaria or all these other things I didn't know about and miss out on what God was trying to say to me through the story. Now these accounts were written such a long time ago and God has preserved them and kept them accurate for us here and now but there is indeed a gap of culture and time in history that we have to bridge to understand completely what's happening in what's been written. I mean after all if the Bible is God's Word and if God is speaking to us through it, I decided I needed to know what He was saying. And surprisingly, that's not as difficult as I thought it would be. Right now, I'm going to talk about a handful of really simple resources that made absolutely the world of difference. The first one was my Bible, a simple English translation, not the King James with the 'thees' and 'thou arts', there are so many good contemporary language translations available to you and me today. The New International Version or the NIV as it's called, is really popular. I happen to use the New Revised Standard Version (the NRSV). There's a translation called The Message which is really in here and now language. The Contemporary English Version (CEV). The New English Translation (NET). Which one is the best one? The one you're going to read. You can get a thing called A Study Bible, it's got not just the words of the Bible, but it's also got a huge amount of resources packed into it. It explains the meanings of different words, there are notes and maps and cross references. They're really good, they don't cost a whole bunch more than a Bible with just the Bible words. So if you want to do more than just skim across the surface, it's really good to have one of those – a Study Bible. Check them out. One of the most helpful features in a Study Bible is a summary of each book: who wrote it, when, to whom and why because context is so important isn't it? Before I read Ephesians I read four or five paragraphs in my Study Bible which explain the context and all of a sudden the book of Ephesians made a whole bunch more sense to me. A Study Bible is a really worthwhile investment and it's not much more than an ordinary Bible. You can get one from a Christian bookshop or you can buy one online. I happen to have an electronic one these days on my tablet device. The second resource is my Bible dictionary. Now I happen to purchase a Bible dictionary called the Holman Bible Dictionary, years ago – it's just one, single volume. You can get Bible dictionaries that are 25 volumes, mine is just one volume and it has pictures. So when I was reading and it talked about the Temple in the Bible, I could go to my Bible dictionary and look at it and see a picture and plans and explaining the different parts. So I'm able to read a few paragraphs in just a few minutes, and I'm there, I understand what the writers saying about the Temple, about the Holy of Holies, wow! When the Bible talks about Ephraim I look it up, half a column, three minutes, I know who or what Ephraim is. The story of the Good Samaritan; who were the Samaritans? What was their relationship to the Jews? Ah! That's what Jesus meant by the story of the Good Samaritan. And lastly, the third resource was a Bible timeline. It's one of these things you can fold out and it's about four pages wide that show the chronology of the Bible. You read about King David, when was he king? Who was King before him? Who was King after him? What else was going on? Which prophets were writing when David was alive? And all of a sudden you put the whole Bible thing in time sequence, that's huge. And just to top things off, let me tell you about two stunning websites. The first is biblegateway.com where you can compare different Bible translations. The second is studylight.org, it has Bible dictionaries online, the meanings of Greek and Hebrew words, and so many more great resources. All free. So let me ask you? Do you take Jesus seriously? If you do then we need to take the Bible seriously. And for just a small investment on your part in just a few simple resources, they pay such huge dividends in hearing and understanding what God is saying to us today through His Word.   Listen and Learn If you spend anytime with me here on the program one of the things you will know is that I'm really passionate about God and what He has to say. Not in a religious sort of a way but in a Jesus sort of way. The thing that really strikes me about Jesus when you read about Him, is how plain and matter of fact He was about sharing with people who God is and what His plans are. Over these last couple of weeks on the program we've been looking at what it means to lay hold of God's power unlimited, God's resurrection power that's available to you, as you open His Word the Bible and listen to what He has to say. The Bible is God speaking to us and He means to challenge us and stretch us and encourage us and bless us through His Word. One of the ways that many people get God's Word into them is by listening to people speak. Radio programs like this or on television and of course, if you attend a Church. But how can preaching and teaching be a part of really getting God's Word into us? Over these last twenty years or so, the time that I've been a Christian, I've seen two things. On the one hand I have been so blessed by some really good teaching and on the other hand I've seen some pretty bad stuff too. In my very first Church, a little Baptist Church, our pastor's name was Phil Littlejohn. Now Phil was a gifted teacher, he just had this ability to open God's Word and speak God stuff into my heart. I learned later this is a real gifting, different people have different gifts and abilities given to them by God and teaching is one of them. Jesus had that, I mean time and time again when He opened His mouth people were amazed because He spoke with a plainness and a power and an authority that they hadn't heard before. And you know something, He didn't always tell them things they wanted to hear. "Love your enemy." "Take up your cross and follow me." "Lose your life for my sake and you'll gain your life." It's not exactly good marketing, I mean the spin merchants would not have let Him get up and speak like that today. I've spent quite a bit of time looking at how Jesus preached. It's real, it's powerful. It's balanced on the one hand and radical on the other and it sort of, well, it cuts through all the selfish rubbish we go on with, right to the heart of what God wants to talk about. And my prayer is that when I discharge my gifting to teach in my own way, I'll always try to teach like He did. But you know I've also sat in Churches over the years and listened to preachers drone on with dry and theoretical, completely cerebral stuff, that's not relevant to my life. On more than one occasion I've walked out after church and two hours later I ask myself "Do I remember what he talked about?" And the answer is, "No, not really." Or you listen to other speakers and there are lots of words and they're very entertaining and they make people laugh and they tickle their ears with great stories and things they want to hear and they yell and people slap them on the back afterwards, 'praise the Lord' but I've been to some of those too and well, I felt like I'd been at the Lord's table to be fed but I left hungry and empty. The flip side of that is that with some other preachers, I can remember years later what they were talking about, years later in difficult circumstances God seems to bring into my heart the words they spoke to me. Preaching and teaching is one of the ways that God gets His Word into us. You see it right through the Bible; He uses men and women to speak to others, to teach them. I mean the Samaritan woman at the well; she went and told people about Jesus. Paul and Peter and all the other guys that went out preaching. The question is, how do you get the most out of that? How does preaching and teaching play a part in us reading our Bible and unlocking the power unlimited that God has for us? Well, here are just some of my observations. I see people come into a Church on a Sunday and listen to the preacher and they don't take any notes and they don't bring their Bible and they don't follow what the preacher's saying in their Bible. I take my Bible with me, I open my Bible and I read what the preacher is talking about. People can speak all the words that they like, everything that they say, they can crack jokes and have great stories – the most important thing is God's Word, the most important thing is what God is saying. And secondly I take some notes. I mean you can't even get through kindergarten on a half an hour a week without taking notes. You know, if we take God seriously, if we want to follow Jesus and really take that seriously, you know something, we've got to take learning seriously. Do you know what a disciple is? A disciple is literally "a learner", that's what the word disciple means, to be a learner. And thirdly, the thing I do when I've listened to some really good preaching, is I spend some time afterwards in God's Word reading it for myself. Sometimes it's not until you get home and you pray it through and you spend some time in that passage and maybe looking at some other related ones, that God really drops it into your spirit. I mean, years ago I heard a preacher teaching on a profound passage: 1 Peter 5:6,7: Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God so that He may exalt you in due time. Cast all your cares on Him because He cares for you. Now I've learnt so much from what God taught me through that preacher in this passage but I've learned just as much and maybe even more from pondering and praying over this scripture and looking at other related passages. Learning in my heart – that's when I humble myself, when I get off my little tin pot throne and just walk each day faithfully with God. He's the one who later opens the doors; He's the one that's got an eternity ready for me. I've looked at this whole thing of preaching, and listened to some incredibly sermons and some dreadful ones too, I've come to the conclusion that there are two types of preaching; dead and alive. Dead preaching is full of words, it's boring and dry or maybe it's hyped up and frothy and bubbly but at the end of the day, there's no eternal food there because God's Word is not being preached in the power of the Holy Spirit. It's only God's Word by the power of the Spirit that can change us. I can't change you, I can't say things in my own strength that will change your life, but if I'm speaking God's stuff, if the Holy Spirit somehow takes God's stuff and puts it into your heart, that's when change happens and only God can do that. This is how the Apostle Paul put it: 1 Cor 2:1-5: When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God Can I encourage you to be discerning as to what you listen to? Go and listen to the preachers who are proclaiming God's Word in the power of the Holy Spirit.. Go and have a read about how Jesus preached in the Gospels Matthew or Mark or Luke or John, the first four books of the New Testament. It's edgy and profound and real and dealing with the hard issues, and find yourself some preachers like that. Not ones that just entertain and tickle your ears with things you want to hear. The ones that open up God's Word and say, 'Well, what's God saying to us today?' and then take what they said home, open your Bible there where they left off and go and lay hold of God's power unlimited for you, for your life.

Pour écouter l'émission en entier, sans pub, avec les Bonus :https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/S-tavkjvmo Histoire du Livre - #2 Quand le livre devient une arme - 2/6Et si le livre n'avait jamais été un simple objet culturel ?De Gutenberg aux rois absolus, cette émission vous plonge au cœur d'une révolution silencieuse : celle qui transforme un outil technique en arme idéologique, puis en instrument de pouvoir.En quelques décennies, l'imprimerie bouleverse l'Europe. Elle diffuse les idées, alimente les conflits religieux, donne naissance à une première forme d'opinion publique… avant d'être reprise en main par les États, qui en font un outil de contrôle et d'unification culturelle.Comment un média né pour libérer la parole devient-il un pilier de l'ordre politique ?À travers cette histoire fascinante, vous découvrirez comment le livre a façonné notre rapport au savoir, au pouvoir… et à la liberté.Toute ressemblance avec ce que nous vivons aujourd'hui serait purement fortuite ... Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

New York's socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani just signed an emergency order locking Americans out of freely celebrating the 250th anniversary of America in Times Square because the World Cup matters more than the July 4th ball drop. No big crowds for the country that invented freedom of assembly, but endless migrant shelters and anti-white “equity” offices get a free pass. This isn't about safety; it's by design from a mayor with open contempt for American pride, love, and hope. While the left screams “racist” at anyone waving the flag, they push DEI, CRT, and “racial equity” departments that openly discriminate against whites. Joe rips the mask off: this is straight-up hatred for the nation that gave them the platform to hate it.Then the hypocrisy explodes. MSNBC's Joy Reid claims “whites can't invent anything” — while sitting in air-conditioning, using a phone, speaking English, and promoting her show on devices powered by white ingenuity. Patrick lists the receipts: Gutenberg's printing press, Edison's light bulb, Bell's telephone, the Wright brothers' airplane, Fleming's penicillin, Ford's assembly line, and more — inventions that built the modern world she mocks. Meanwhile, an entire generation of 18-30 white males is being deliberately softened: endless gaming, weed, porn, no families, no drive. Schools fuel it with “day of silence” rituals, transgender propaganda, non-binary teacher intros, and politicians like Texas Dem James Talarico claiming cops in schools create “violence.” It's not random; it's the engineered collapse of the very men who built this country.This division is the Marxist playbook in action. Democrat Sen. Ed Markey preaches “immigrants have a right to dignity,” while illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers $150.7 billion net every year money that could house the homeless, treat addiction, fix schools, or improve roads for actual Americans. Yet refugees? Nearly 100% from South Africa's white farmers facing genocide and land seizures. Republicans get painted as heartless for wanting legal process, while the system rigs everything against citizens. Joe brings the red pills, exposes the two realities we're forced to live in, and shows why both sides' gridlock serves the same agenda. This isn't entertainment — it's your weekly reminder that the fight is real. Unplug from the lies, stand for truth, and remember: failure is not an option.

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Amanda Colombo"La storia tra le righe"Festival di Letteratura StoricaLegnano, dal 10 al 12 aprile 2026Dal 10 al 12 aprile 2026 torna a Legnano il Festival di letteratura storica "La storia tra le righe", giunto alla sua quarta edizione. Tre giorni di incontri con autori, studiosi e divulgatori che animeranno lo storico Castello Visconteo e Villa Jucker, sede della Fondazione Famiglia Legnanese, per esplorare e raccontare la Storia in tutte le sue più articolate declinazioni.Primo appuntamento dell'ampio calendario di eventi con cui la città si appresta quest'anno a celebrare gli 850 anni dalla Battaglia di Legnano, il Festival propone un ricco programma di incontri, tutti gratuiti, per adulti, ragazzi e bambini.Sarà Luigi Barnaba Frigoli ad aprire la manifestazione, venerdì 10 aprile alle 18 in sala Caironi a Villa Jucker, trasportando il pubblico nel 1299, con il racconto mese per mese della vita quotidiana nel Medioevo italiano (Un anno nel Medioevo). Alle 21 il viaggio continua con Alessandro Vanoli alla scoperta dell'Oriente e della sua storia (Oriente).Sabato 11 aprile gli incontri si spostano al Castello. Si parte alle 10.30 con Laura Fusaro e il racconto delle intense relazioni familiari nel Ritratto di una famiglia italiana (sala Crivelli). A seguire Sergio Costanzo ripercorrerà il cammino di due fratelli irlandesi sulle orme dell'Arcangelo Michele (La via dell'Arcangelo, sala Cenobio, ore 11), Chiara Montani porterà il pubblico alla scoperta della pittrice Sofonisba, prima donna ad affermarsi tra i protagonisti del Rinascimento (Il destino di Sofonisba, sala Cornaggia, ore 11.30) e Marco Tabilio racconterà la vita di uno degli scienziati più celebri e amati della storia (Archimede, sala Previati, ore 11.30).Il pomeriggio prosegue con Stefania Auci che chiude la saga dei Florio con il nuovo capitolo dedicato alle origini della famiglia (L'alba dei Leoni, Pala Castello, ore 14.30). Cristoforo Gorno racconterà invece l'avventura del dio ribelle che rifiutò l'Olimpo (Dionisio, sala Cenobio, ore 15), Franco Franceschi, Paolo Nanni e Gabriella Piccinni offriranno uno sguardo inedito sul Medioevo, presentato come un'epoca di creatività e innovazione (Medioevo che crea, sala Previati, ore 15.30), mentre Sarah Pellizzari Rabolini e Daniela Dawan presenteranno due romanzi accomunati da un filo narrativo che attraversa generazioni e periodi storici (L'alba del 2 giugno e La colpa di tacere, sala Cornaggia, ore 15.30). Lucia Cimini e Livio Galla racconteranno due simboli dell'arte e dell'imprenditoria italiane: Villa Necchi Campiglio e il Lanificio Rossi (Finché tutto splende e Il canto dei telai, Sala Capriate, ore 16). Serena Romano guiderà il pubblico in un viaggio storico-artistico dalle Alpi alla Sicilia alla scoperta dell'arte romanica (Il Romanico, sala Previati, ore 16.30). Fotografie e oggetti come strumenti per leggere la storia   saranno al centro degli incontri con Alessandra Mauro (Aprire lo sguardo. Le 15 fotografie che raccontano l'Italia, sala Cenobio, ore 17) e con Marina Montesano (Ars Magica, sala Cornaggia, ore 17.30). Gaddo della Gherardesca proporrà un tuffo, tra passato e presente, nel Castello di Castagneto Carducci, luogo della sua infanzia (Al tempo di una volta, sala Previati, ore 18), mentre Gaja Cenciarelli rifletterà sul tema della rivoluzione e sulla possibilità del cambiamento (Il rivoluzionario e la maestra, sala Crivelli, ore 18.30). L'ultimo appuntamento di sabato, alle 21 è con Heddi Goodrich e la storia di Turia, una donna dell'età imperiale divisa tra desideri e paure, alla quale non manca nulla ma che si sente prigioniera della vita (L'anno delle mille vite, sala Previati). Domenica 12 aprile la giornata inizia alle 10.30 con i miti, le consuetudini e le storie curiose sull'Antica Roma narrate con ironia da Mario Lentano, (I romani che non ti aspetti, sala Previati). Si prosegue con la storia di due donne che, a modo loro, hanno sfidato le convenzioni del tempo: Bertha Ringer, prima donna a compiere un viaggio in automobile, raccontata da Emilia Covini (sala Crivelli, ore 11), e l'iconica Elena nel ritratto inedito e attuale che ne fa Brunella Schisa (La più bella, sala Previati, ore 12).  Laura Minervini invece ricostruirà la leggenda medievale degli “assassini”, nata dall'incontro tra storia e mito (L'invenzione degli assassini, sala Cenobio, ore 11.30).Nel pomeriggio Livio Gambarini riporta in vita Margherita da Arco e fra Dolcino in una storia di fede e rivoluzione (La ribelle di Dio, sala Capriate, ore 14), mentre Renato Carlo Miradoli racconterà delitti, intrighi e nobiltà nella Milano post-napoleonica (L'omicidio del marchese Aliprandi Martinengo, sala Crivelli, ore 14.30) e Barbara Bellomo porterà il pubblico nella Catania di inizio Novecento attraverso il simbolo dell'arancia Tarocco e il mistero che la circonda (L'incartatrice di arance, sala Previati, ore 15). Giulio Leoni e Paolo Lanzotti racconteranno un'Italia del passato, tra morti misteriose e oscuri intrighi (L'anatomista delle ombre e Il canto del corvo, sala Capriate, ore 15.30), Dino Messina rievocherà una pagina cruciale della storia italiana, che ha visto intrecciarsi il destino di un giornale e quello della nazione (La Repubblica nasce in via Solferino, sala Cenobio, ore 16) e Sara Rattaro illustrerà la figura della partigiana Teresa Mattei, protagonista della costruzione democratica del Paese (Il vestito di mia madre, sala Cornaggia, ore 16.30), mentre Paolo Grillo ricostruirà il drammatico assedio e la distruzione di Milano del 1162 da parte di Federico I Barbarossa (L'assedio di Milano, sala Previati, ore 16.30). Si continua in sala Capriate con Ernesto Anderle che attraverso lo sguardo della celeberrima Gioconda racconterà il genio dell'artista che l'ha dipinta (Leonardo, ore 17), e in sala Crivelli con Carlo Vecce che ripercorrerà la rivoluzione della stampa a partire dalla figura di Gutenberg (Codice Sibilla: Il segreto di Gutenberg, ore 17), infine Marco Cosentino e Domenico Dodaro racconteranno la ricerca del tesoro dei Nibelunghi intrecciata alla figura di una radiomante italiana (La radiomante di Himmler, sala Cenobio, ore 17.30).La chiusura del Festival al Pala Castello, domenica alle 18.30, è affidata a Luca Mercalli, che partendo dalla sua Breve storia del clima in Italia accompagnerà il pubblico in un viaggio attraverso i cambiamenti climatici del nostro Paese, dall'ultima glaciazione al riscaldamento globale.Durante le giornate del Festival non manca lo spazio dedicato ai più giovani, con momenti di gioco, letture e laboratori per bambini e ragazzi. Sabato sono in programma gli incontri con Pier Vittorio Mannucci (I misteriosi cinque, Sala Fiamma, ore 11) e con Riccardo Castiglioni (Diritti al castello, ore 16). Due anche gli appuntamenti della domenica, il primo con Paolo Roversi e il suo libro Elementare Ricky! (Sala Fiamma, ore 11), il secondo con il laboratorio di Fortuna Nappi (Sala Fiamma, ore 16).Nata nel 2023 su impulso di Fondazione Palio e del Comune di Legnano, ideata e curata da Incipit Eventi culturali e letterari di Amanda Colombo, la manifestazione vuole rafforzare il legame con la Storia della città di Legnano, dove dal 1935 viene ospitata la tradizionale rievocazione del Palio che celebra la leggendaria battaglia del maggio del 1176, quando le truppe della Lega Lombarda bloccarono l'avanzare dell'esercito guidato da Federico Barbarossa, episodio raccontato anche in un'opera di Giuseppe Verdi e ricordato nell'Inno di Mameli.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Dans La Petite Histoire des lettres, le mathématicien Étienne Ghys explore cinq siècles d'évolution typographique, entre art, mathématiques et algorithmes. Une invitation à redécouvrir l'alphabet comme un objet scientifique autant qu'esthétique.  On les lit sans y penser, mais chaque lettre obéit à une géométrie, une hauteur d'x, une ligne de base, des courbes bien dessinées ou délibérément brisées. Dans son livre, l'auteur, nous incite à regarder les lettres, individuellement.  Une fascination pour les lettres Dès son plus jeune âge, Etienne Ghys, est fasciné par les lettres : et pour cause son père était imprimeur. Il regarde les lettres en tant qu'objet géométrique. Etienne Ghys aime les lettres car selon lui « elles incarnent la pensée ».  Il nous apprend, par exemple, que les polices varient en fonction de ce qu'on est en train de lire : les empattement ralentissent la lecture mais permettent qu'elle soit plus approfondie quand les panneaux d'autoroute sont eux lisibleS au premier coup d'oeil. L'imprimeur, c'est l'architecte du langage. La police, une histoire de style ! L'histoire des polices commence avec Gutenberg et l'imprimerie. À l'époque, les Bibles sont écrites et recopiées à la main par des scribes et coûtent cher. L'idée lui vient alors de créer des caractères mobiles en plomb, calqués sur les caractères des scribes pour imprimer et vendre des Bibles à grande échelle et à prix abordable. Une géométrisation des caractères Vient alors l'époque des humanistes et des belles choses ! On va observer les caractères romains gravés dans de vieilles pierres de l'époque romaine avec des lettres travaillées. Des artistes tels que Léonard de Vinci commence à géométriser les lettres comme il le fait dans le livre de mathématiques La Divine proportion de Luca Pacioli dans lequel il illustre les écrits de l'auteur.Puis, vient la série de polices grecques cursives avec des caractères romains, inventés par Claude Garamond qui ont inspiré de nombreuses polices qui portent son nom.  Les choses se sont un peu plus figées un peu plus tard lorsque Colbert demande à l'Académie des Sciences de dessiner une police à la gloire du roi Louis XIV: c'est le "romain du Roi", utilisée par l'imprimerie royale.   Derrière chaque police, une manière de pensée Depuis, les choses évoluent. Chaque pays, impose une écriture de celle du pays, chaque police a une histoire politique. La typographie "Marianne" est une police de caractères dessinée en 2020, à l'usage unique de l'État français. Certains graphistes inventent des alphabets et fusionnent les lettres, pour rendre l'écriture inclusive. Cette typographie repose sur différents procédés graphiques comme l'entrelacement de lettres    Invité : Etienne Ghys, mathématicien, spécialisé en géométrie. Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS, secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie des Sciences. Il vient de publier La petite histoire des lettres chez Odile Jacob.      Et comme chaque mercredi, Lucie Bouteloup s'amuse à décortiquer pour nous, les expressions de la langue française. Cette semaine c'est l'expression « C'est carré » qu'elle passe à la moulinette. Avec Géraldine Moinard des éditions Le Robert.   Programmation musicale :  L'artiste Jyeuhair avec le titre çA crÉpiTe. 

Dans La Petite Histoire des lettres, le mathématicien Étienne Ghys explore cinq siècles d'évolution typographique, entre art, mathématiques et algorithmes. Une invitation à redécouvrir l'alphabet comme un objet scientifique autant qu'esthétique.  On les lit sans y penser, mais chaque lettre obéit à une géométrie, une hauteur d'x, une ligne de base, des courbes bien dessinées ou délibérément brisées. Dans son livre, l'auteur, nous incite à regarder les lettres, individuellement.  Une fascination pour les lettres Dès son plus jeune âge, Etienne Ghys, est fasciné par les lettres : et pour cause son père était imprimeur. Il regarde les lettres en tant qu'objet géométrique. Etienne Ghys aime les lettres car selon lui « elles incarnent la pensée ».  Il nous apprend, par exemple, que les polices varient en fonction de ce qu'on est en train de lire : les empattement ralentissent la lecture mais permettent qu'elle soit plus approfondie quand les panneaux d'autoroute sont eux lisibleS au premier coup d'oeil. L'imprimeur, c'est l'architecte du langage. La police, une histoire de style ! L'histoire des polices commence avec Gutenberg et l'imprimerie. À l'époque, les Bibles sont écrites et recopiées à la main par des scribes et coûtent cher. L'idée lui vient alors de créer des caractères mobiles en plomb, calqués sur les caractères des scribes pour imprimer et vendre des Bibles à grande échelle et à prix abordable. Une géométrisation des caractères Vient alors l'époque des humanistes et des belles choses ! On va observer les caractères romains gravés dans de vieilles pierres de l'époque romaine avec des lettres travaillées. Des artistes tels que Léonard de Vinci commence à géométriser les lettres comme il le fait dans le livre de mathématiques La Divine proportion de Luca Pacioli dans lequel il illustre les écrits de l'auteur.Puis, vient la série de polices grecques cursives avec des caractères romains, inventés par Claude Garamond qui ont inspiré de nombreuses polices qui portent son nom.  Les choses se sont un peu plus figées un peu plus tard lorsque Colbert demande à l'Académie des Sciences de dessiner une police à la gloire du roi Louis XIV: c'est le "romain du Roi", utilisée par l'imprimerie royale.   Derrière chaque police, une manière de pensée Depuis, les choses évoluent. Chaque pays, impose une écriture de celle du pays, chaque police a une histoire politique. La typographie "Marianne" est une police de caractères dessinée en 2020, à l'usage unique de l'État français. Certains graphistes inventent des alphabets et fusionnent les lettres, pour rendre l'écriture inclusive. Cette typographie repose sur différents procédés graphiques comme l'entrelacement de lettres    Invité : Etienne Ghys, mathématicien, spécialisé en géométrie. Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS, secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie des Sciences. Il vient de publier La petite histoire des lettres chez Odile Jacob.      Et comme chaque mercredi, Lucie Bouteloup s'amuse à décortiquer pour nous, les expressions de la langue française. Cette semaine c'est l'expression « C'est carré » qu'elle passe à la moulinette. Avec Géraldine Moinard des éditions Le Robert.   Programmation musicale :  L'artiste Jyeuhair avec le titre çA crÉpiTe. 

In this episode, Birgit Pauli-Haack welcomes Beth Soderberg to discuss key updates in WordPress 7.0 and Gutenberg 22.8. They kick off with small talk about shifting seasons in Munich and Virginia before diving into the new content guidelines in Gutenberg 22.7, focused on standardizing editorial voice across AI and human content contributors. Both speakers express…

Adrian is a molecular biologist and co-founder and CEO of Genyro, a synthetic biology company. He has published 2 previous books on life science (Life Without Genes and An Intelligent Person's Guide to Genetics). In this conversation we discussed his new book, cover below and the title of this post.ABI. As Adrian puts it, a monumental shift, a second genesis, the “artivolution,” ability to use a molecular Gutenberg press, it's post-Darwinian. I made an infographic about the book and our conversation with NotebookLMThe expansion of genome sequences beyond “Fred's library” (referring to Fred Sanger, father of genome sequencing, little green box)We talked about the jump from DNA reading to editing and now writing genomes, with the potential of the latter for both good and harm. I disagreed with Adrian about the bright prospects for curing diseases, but there are many possibilities for positive impact, such as intervening vs the climate crisis and sustainability.We also discussed the large language of life models (LLLMs) and by coincidence my colleagues and I just published a review of these in this Nature Biotechnology (←free access is hyperlinked).“It should be possible to meet most of humanity's needs through biologically inspired designs—to solve many global problems, revolutionize health care, extend human lifespan, and create other organisms to order.”—Adrian WoolfsonIf you are into life science, I think you'll find Adrian's book thoughtful and provocative, even if you don't agree with some of his optimism like a disease-free organism.The topic connects with digital biology, a theme that is approached in many editions of Ground Truths, such as this one with Patrick Hsu***************************************************Thank you Ric Bayly, Kevin Johnson, MD, YOUR DOCTOR KLOVER, Patricia Scott, Anne, and more than 600 others for tuning into my live video with Adrian Woolfson! Join me for my next live video in the app.And a big thanks to Ground Truths subscribers (> 200,000) from every US state and 212 countries. Your subscription to these free essays and podcasts makes my work in putting them together worthwhile. Please join!If you found this interesting PLEASE share it!Paid subscriptions are voluntary and all proceeds from them go to support Scripps Research. They do allow for posting comments and questions, which I do my best to respond to. Please don't hesitate to post comments and give me feedback. Let me know topics that you would like to see covered.Many thanks to those who have contributed—they have greatly helped fund our summer internship programs for the past two years. It enabled us to accept and support 47 summer interns in 2025! We aim to accept even more of the several thousand who will apply for summer 2026. Get full access to Ground Truths at erictopol.substack.com/subscribe

Pour écouter l'émission en entier, plus le Bonus, et sans pub !https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/S-tavkjvmo L'Histoire du Livre - #1 Avant Gutenberg - 6/6Avant Gutenberg, avant l'imprimerie, avant même le livre tel que nous le connaissons… comment les hommes ont-ils appris à fixer la parole, à conserver le savoir et à transmettre les idées ?Dans cet épisode, nous remontons plusieurs millénaires en arrière pour découvrir l'incroyable histoire du livre en Occident. Des premières écritures de Mésopotamie aux rouleaux de papyrus de l'Antiquité, des scriptoria monastiques du Moyen Âge aux ateliers de copistes des grandes villes universitaires, le livre apparaît comme une invention lente, fragile et précieuse.Car pendant des siècles, chaque livre est un objet unique, copié à la main, parfois pendant des mois. Les manuscrits circulent lentement, se transforment au fil des copies et restent réservés à une minorité.Alors comment en est-on arrivé à la grande révolution de Gutenberg ?À travers cette histoire fascinante, découvrez comment l'écriture, l'alphabet, les supports du texte et les pratiques de lecture ont progressivement façonné l'un des objets les plus puissants de notre civilisation : le livre.Une plongée passionnante dans une aventure intellectuelle qui commence bien avant l'imprimerie… et qui a profondément transformé le monde. Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Pour écouter l'émission en entier, plus le Bonus, et sans pub !https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/S-tavkjvmo L'Histoire du Livre - #1 Avant Gutenberg - 5/6Avant Gutenberg, avant l'imprimerie, avant même le livre tel que nous le connaissons… comment les hommes ont-ils appris à fixer la parole, à conserver le savoir et à transmettre les idées ?Dans cet épisode, nous remontons plusieurs millénaires en arrière pour découvrir l'incroyable histoire du livre en Occident. Des premières écritures de Mésopotamie aux rouleaux de papyrus de l'Antiquité, des scriptoria monastiques du Moyen Âge aux ateliers de copistes des grandes villes universitaires, le livre apparaît comme une invention lente, fragile et précieuse.Car pendant des siècles, chaque livre est un objet unique, copié à la main, parfois pendant des mois. Les manuscrits circulent lentement, se transforment au fil des copies et restent réservés à une minorité.Alors comment en est-on arrivé à la grande révolution de Gutenberg ?À travers cette histoire fascinante, découvrez comment l'écriture, l'alphabet, les supports du texte et les pratiques de lecture ont progressivement façonné l'un des objets les plus puissants de notre civilisation : le livre.Une plongée passionnante dans une aventure intellectuelle qui commence bien avant l'imprimerie… et qui a profondément transformé le monde. Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Pour écouter l'émission en entier, plus le Bonus, et sans pub !https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/S-tavkjvmo L'Histoire du Livre - #1 Avant Gutenberg - 4/6Avant Gutenberg, avant l'imprimerie, avant même le livre tel que nous le connaissons… comment les hommes ont-ils appris à fixer la parole, à conserver le savoir et à transmettre les idées ?Dans cet épisode, nous remontons plusieurs millénaires en arrière pour découvrir l'incroyable histoire du livre en Occident. Des premières écritures de Mésopotamie aux rouleaux de papyrus de l'Antiquité, des scriptoria monastiques du Moyen Âge aux ateliers de copistes des grandes villes universitaires, le livre apparaît comme une invention lente, fragile et précieuse.Car pendant des siècles, chaque livre est un objet unique, copié à la main, parfois pendant des mois. Les manuscrits circulent lentement, se transforment au fil des copies et restent réservés à une minorité.Alors comment en est-on arrivé à la grande révolution de Gutenberg ?À travers cette histoire fascinante, découvrez comment l'écriture, l'alphabet, les supports du texte et les pratiques de lecture ont progressivement façonné l'un des objets les plus puissants de notre civilisation : le livre.Une plongée passionnante dans une aventure intellectuelle qui commence bien avant l'imprimerie… et qui a profondément transformé le monde. Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Arrancamos la primavera con un episodio cargadito de noticias interesantes para los que nos dedicamos a esto de la web. NASA, Drupal, WordPress, podcasting… hay para todos. Tema del día La NASA se muda a WordPress Puede que lo hayas visto por ahí, pero si no, aquí va: la web de la NASA, nasa.gov, ha sido completamente rediseñada y migrada a WordPress. La agencia que se encargó del proyecto se llama Long Rock Point, y el motivo principal no fue un capricho estético, sino cumplir una directriz del gobierno de EE.UU. llamada IDEA Act (Ley de Experiencia Digital Integrada del Siglo XXI, de 2018), que obliga a todas las agencias del ejecutivo a modernizar sus webs cumpliendo ocho requisitos: accesibilidad, coherencia visual de marca, contenido claro, búsqueda funcional, seguridad, diseño centrado en el usuario, personalización y diseño mobile-first. La web anterior estaba hecha en Drupal 7, que salió en 2010. Actualizar a Drupal moderno no era viable porque Drupal cambió tanto del 7 al 8 que es prácticamente rehacer todo desde cero, así que optaron por WordPress con Gutenberg. Han creado bloques personalizados para cada tipo de contenido (noticias, carruseles, la famosa imagen del día…), roles de usuario muy acotados por sección, plantillas obligatorias al crear contenido nuevo, y todo alojado en WordPress VIP. Además, han integrado el chequeador de accesibilidad Editoria11y, búsqueda con Elasticsearch, y conexión con la biblioteca multimedia de la NASA a través de su API. En total, se han migrado más de 126.000 páginas y actualmente publican en ella 150 usuarios. ¿Qué ha pasado con todas las webs que estaban en Drupal 7? Esto es lo que da para reflexionar. Drupal 7 fue en su día el CMS de referencia para proyectos grandes y serios. Pero cuando Drupal decidió a partir del 8 orientarse a proyectos enterprise con estándares más complejos, muchos sitios medianos se quedaron descolgados. ¿Resultado? De las casi 827.000 webs que había en Drupal 7, el 35% se han ido a WordPress, el 28% siguen todavía en Drupal 7 sin moverse, solo un 6% han migrado a Drupal moderno, y el resto se han ido a otras plataformas o han desaparecido. Una lección sobre lo que pasa cuando un proyecto de software abandona a su base de usuarios habitual. Prestocast: el Twitter de los podcasts Joan Boluda ha lanzado Prestocast, un proyecto muy chulo que permite publicar episodios de podcast de forma ultrasencilla. Configuras un par de cosas, te crea un feed listo para subir a todas las plataformas, y a partir de ahí puedes publicar un nuevo episodio simplemente enviando un audio por Telegram. En menos de lo que tardas en bajar unas escaleras, el episodio está en Spotify y en Apple Podcasts. Eso sí, los episodios son de máximo 60 segundos, así que va perfecto para contenido corto y frecuente. OP3 y el plugin que me hice yo mismo A raíz de ver que Prestocast usaba OP3 para las estadísticas, decidí añadir el prefijo de OP3 a Potencia Pro para tener métricas más detalladas y de código abierto sobre las descargas del podcast. Fui al repositorio de WordPress a buscar un plugin que lo hiciera… y no existía ninguno. Así que, ni corto ni perezoso, me puse con Claude y construimos el plugin desde cero. Lo he enviado al repositorio oficial de WordPress.org y está pendiente de revisión (el proceso tarda lo suyo). Mientras tanto, podéis descargar la primera versión desde la sección de descargas de Potencia Pro si queréis probarlo. Solo necesitáis daros de alta en OP3, conseguir vuestro ID de podcast y la API key, meterlo en el plugin, y ya tendréis estadísticas de descargas bastante detalladas. Ayer mismo registró 1.493 descargas, que no está nada mal. Recursos mencionados nasa.gov – La web de la NASA rediseñada en WordPress Long Rock Point – La agencia que hizo el rediseño (longrock.com) IDEA Act – La directriz del gobierno de EE.UU. que motivó el cambio WordPress VIP – El hosting enterprise donde está alojada la NASA Editoria11y – Plugin de accesibilidad usado en la web de la NASA Prestocast – El proyecto de Joan Boluda para podcasting ultrarápido (prestocast.com) OP3 – Sistema de estadísticas de código abierto para podcasts (op3.dev) Plugin OP3 para WordPress – Disponible próximamente en el repo oficial; versión beta en la sección de descargas de Potencia Pro ¿No eres suscriptor? pues estás tardando, porque por sólo 2,5€ al mes tendrás acceso a todas las descargas de la intranet y lo más importante, nuestro amor. Soñaremos contigo todas las noches. Métodos de contacto Enviadnos vuestras preguntas al grupo de Telegram. Apuntaos al canal de Youtube del podcast https://www.youtube.com/potenciapro Si nos queréis decir algo directamente lo podéis hacer a @potenciapro , @materron, @mpc, o en el grupo de Telegram Y si eres muy muy muy fan del podcast Echa un vistazo a cómo nos puedes ayudar en https://potencia.pro/se-prosperoso/

500 ÉVES KÖNYVEK TITKAI | Egy ritkakönyv-kereskedő elképesztő történetei Mártai-Fehéri Eva   Ritka könyvek, antik könyvek, könyvgyűjtés, műkincsek, Codex Gigas, Devil's Bible, Gutenberg-kor, ritkakönyv kereskedelem, könyvbefektetés. Ebben a MÓKA Podcast epizódban egy olyan világba pillantunk be, amelyet kevesen ismernek, mégis több száz éves történelmi kincseket rejt.   Vendégem Mártai-Fehéri Éva, ritka könyv kereskedő, aki több száz éves kötetekkel foglalkozik, és a nemzetközi könyvkereskedelem egyik különleges területén dolgozik. A beszélgetés során megtudjuk, hogyan lesz egy régi könyvből valódi ritka könyv, mennyit érhet egy több száz éves kötet, és hogyan működik a világ ritkakönyv-piaca.   A legtöbb ember számára egy könyv olvasmány. De létezik egy másik dimenzió is, ahol a könyvek műtárgyak, történelmi dokumentumok és befektetések. Egy kötet értékét rengeteg tényező határozza meg: az állapota, a története, hogy ki írta, kinek dedikálták, milyen gyűjtemény része volt, vagy milyen különleges kötésben maradt fenn. Sok esetben a könyv állapota a legfontosabb tényező az érték meghatározásában.     Ebben az epizódban szó lesz többek között:   • hogyan kezdődik valaki útja a ritka könyvek világában • mi a különbség egy régi könyv és egy valódi ritka könyv között • mennyit érhet egy több száz éves kötet • hogyan találnak egymásra a gyűjtők, kereskedők és intézmények • milyen szerepe van a nemzetközi könyvkereskedő hálózatoknak • hogyan lehet egy könyvet több ezer dollárért eladni • miért lehet egy régi könyv értékálló befektetés • és hogyan került egy 1600-as évekből származó verseskötet végül egy svájci könyvtár gyűjteményébe   Beszélgetünk arról is, hogy miért maradnak az antik könyvek gyakran háttérben más műtárgyak, például festmények mellett. Egy festményt könnyű kiakasztani a falra és megmutatni a vendégeknek, de egy könyv értékét sokszor csak az érti igazán, aki ismeri a történetét.   Szóba kerül a legendás Codex Gigas, más néven a Devil's Bible, amely a világ egyik legnagyobb középkori kéziratos könyve. Megtudjuk, milyen történetek, legendák és rejtélyek kapcsolódnak a ritka könyvek világához, és hogy milyen különleges darabok kerülnek időről időre a gyűjtők kezébe.   A beszélgetésből az is kiderül, hogy a ritka könyvek világa sokkal inkább hasonlít egy kincsvadászathoz, mint egy hagyományos kereskedelemhez. Néha egy egész könyvcsomagban bukkan fel az igazi érték, máskor pedig hosszú kutatás vezet el egy különleges példány valódi történetéhez.   Ha érdekelnek a történelmi könyvek, a műkincsek világa, vagy az, hogyan válik egy több száz éves kötet a kulturális örökség részévé, akkor ez az epizód neked szól.   0:00:00 – 400 éves könyvek és a múlt lenyomata 0:01:11 – Ki Mártai-Fehéri Éva és mi a ritka könyv kereskedelem 0:03:51 – Az első ritka könyv: a Verbőci Decretum 0:04:48 – Mennyit ér egy ritka könyv? Az első eladás 0:08:04 – Gyűjtői piac: Pokémon kártyák vs történelmi könyvek 0:10:26 – Mi határozza meg egy ritka könyv értékét   0:14:01 – Egy 1600-as évekbeli svájci verseskötet története 0:16:00 – Hogyan találnak vevőt a ritka könyvekre 0:21:20 – Miért „mostohagyerek" a könyv a műtárgyak között 0:21:53 – A Devil's Bible (Codex Gigas) története 0:25:12 – Gyerekkor, olvasás és könyvszeretet 0:28:36 – Buddhizmus, gondolkodás és filozófia 0:33:10 – Katolikus neveltetés és a buddhizmus gyakorlati oldala 0:40:00 – Könyvek, social media és a fiatal generáció 0:55:00 – Mit tanítanak a több száz éves könyvek 0:59:00 – Záró gondolatok   Támogasd a MÓKA Podcastet: Bercode.com/mokapodcast   Iratkozz fel a MÓKA Podcast csatornára, hogy ne maradj le a következő epizódokról sem, ahol újabb magyar történeteket hallhatsz az Egyesült Államokból.   https://bit.ly/MOKAPodcatsSign  Kövess minket Facebookon: @mokapodcast Instagramon: @mokapodcastusa Web: mokapodcast.com Spotify  (https://bit.ly/mokapodcast) Apple Podcast  (https://bit.ly/moka2021) [Google Podcast](https://bit.ly/MokaGoogle) [Deezer](https://bit.ly/MokaDeezer) [LibSyn](https://bit.ly/MokaLibsyn) [Facebook](https://bit.ly/MokaFB)

Pour écouter l'émission en entier, plus le Bonus, et sans pub !https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/S-tavkjvmo L'Histoire du Livre - #1 Avant Gutenberg - 3/6Avant Gutenberg, avant l'imprimerie, avant même le livre tel que nous le connaissons… comment les hommes ont-ils appris à fixer la parole, à conserver le savoir et à transmettre les idées ?Dans cet épisode, nous remontons plusieurs millénaires en arrière pour découvrir l'incroyable histoire du livre en Occident. Des premières écritures de Mésopotamie aux rouleaux de papyrus de l'Antiquité, des scriptoria monastiques du Moyen Âge aux ateliers de copistes des grandes villes universitaires, le livre apparaît comme une invention lente, fragile et précieuse.Car pendant des siècles, chaque livre est un objet unique, copié à la main, parfois pendant des mois. Les manuscrits circulent lentement, se transforment au fil des copies et restent réservés à une minorité.Alors comment en est-on arrivé à la grande révolution de Gutenberg ?À travers cette histoire fascinante, découvrez comment l'écriture, l'alphabet, les supports du texte et les pratiques de lecture ont progressivement façonné l'un des objets les plus puissants de notre civilisation : le livre.Une plongée passionnante dans une aventure intellectuelle qui commence bien avant l'imprimerie… et qui a profondément transformé le monde. Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Pour écouter l'émission en entier, plus le Bonus, et sans pub !https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/S-tavkjvmo L'Histoire du Livre - #1 Avant Gutenberg - 2/6Avant Gutenberg, avant l'imprimerie, avant même le livre tel que nous le connaissons… comment les hommes ont-ils appris à fixer la parole, à conserver le savoir et à transmettre les idées ?Dans cet épisode, nous remontons plusieurs millénaires en arrière pour découvrir l'incroyable histoire du livre en Occident. Des premières écritures de Mésopotamie aux rouleaux de papyrus de l'Antiquité, des scriptoria monastiques du Moyen Âge aux ateliers de copistes des grandes villes universitaires, le livre apparaît comme une invention lente, fragile et précieuse.Car pendant des siècles, chaque livre est un objet unique, copié à la main, parfois pendant des mois. Les manuscrits circulent lentement, se transforment au fil des copies et restent réservés à une minorité.Alors comment en est-on arrivé à la grande révolution de Gutenberg ?À travers cette histoire fascinante, découvrez comment l'écriture, l'alphabet, les supports du texte et les pratiques de lecture ont progressivement façonné l'un des objets les plus puissants de notre civilisation : le livre.Une plongée passionnante dans une aventure intellectuelle qui commence bien avant l'imprimerie… et qui a profondément transformé le monde. Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Pour écouter l'émission en entier, plus le Bonus, et sans pub !https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/S-tavkjvmo L'Histoire du Livre - #1 Avant Gutenberg - 1/6Avant Gutenberg, avant l'imprimerie, avant même le livre tel que nous le connaissons… comment les hommes ont-ils appris à fixer la parole, à conserver le savoir et à transmettre les idées ?Dans cet épisode, nous remontons plusieurs millénaires en arrière pour découvrir l'incroyable histoire du livre en Occident. Des premières écritures de Mésopotamie aux rouleaux de papyrus de l'Antiquité, des scriptoria monastiques du Moyen Âge aux ateliers de copistes des grandes villes universitaires, le livre apparaît comme une invention lente, fragile et précieuse.Car pendant des siècles, chaque livre est un objet unique, copié à la main, parfois pendant des mois. Les manuscrits circulent lentement, se transforment au fil des copies et restent réservés à une minorité.Alors comment en est-on arrivé à la grande révolution de Gutenberg ?À travers cette histoire fascinante, découvrez comment l'écriture, l'alphabet, les supports du texte et les pratiques de lecture ont progressivement façonné l'un des objets les plus puissants de notre civilisation : le livre.Une plongée passionnante dans une aventure intellectuelle qui commence bien avant l'imprimerie… et qui a profondément transformé le monde. Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Jim talks with Rufus Pollock—entrepreneur, activist, Zen practitioner, founder of Life Itself and the Open Knowledge Foundation, and author of Open Revolution—about the metacrisis, the wisdom gap, and what a Second Renaissance might look like. They discuss Jim's own early belief that accessible information would produce a renaissance of democracy, the realization that "open knowledge does not make open minds," the printing press and Gutenberg as a historical parallel to today's breakdown of sense-making, why today's epistemic crisis is exponentially harder than 1520 because any formulation you want is on offer, the breakdown of trust in science and rational bureaucracy as parallel to the collapse of Catholic epistemic authority, Christopher Alexander's work as the best analogy for wisdom and his claim that beauty and wholeness are real, Rufus's three elements of wisdom—"valuception," discernment, and the capacity to act—applied both individually and collectively, how humans have solved collective action problems by culturally hijacking kin-care genetics to imagine a larger we, culture as scaffolding for people who can't or won't do inner work themselves, Joseph Henrich's framing of humans as the imitation ape rather than the smart ape, the distinction between surface culture and deep civilizational paradigms, Life Itself's conscious co-livings as experiments in new cultural practices, the personal-institutional spiral and why retreat benefits evaporate without external scaffolding, the three layers of the metacrisis, distinguishing the polycrisis from the metacrisis using the HIV/AIDS analogy, modernity's core assumptions and how in the endgame the light becomes a shadow, the five features of a Second Renaissance worldview compared to modernity, technology as the de facto religion of modernity, the Buddhist distinction between waking up and growing up and the aspiration for an awakening society, AI as a case study in the multipolar trap at the company, capital, and geopolitical levels, the historical engine of group enlargement and why war can no longer serve that function, and much more. Episode Transcript Open Revolution, by Rufus Pollock Rufus Pollock's Website Life Itself Life Itself Hubs for Conscious Community A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander The Nature of Order, by Christopher Alexander The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander Open Knowledge Foundation Second Renaissance Second Renaissance White Papers Introduction to Developmental Spaces (information and paper) Metacrisis: An Introduction Rufus Pollock is an entrepreneur, activist and author as well as a long-term zen practitioner. He is passionate about finding wiser, weller ways to live together. He has founded several for-profit and nonprofit initiatives including Life Itself, Open Knowledge Foundation, and Datopian. His book Open Revolution is about making a radically freer and fairer information age. Previously he has been the Mead Fellow in Economics at the University of Cambridge as well as a Shuttleworth and Ashoka Fellow. A recognized global expert on the information society, he has worked with G7 governments, IGOs like the UN, Fortune 500s as well as many civil society organizations. He holds a PhD in Economics and a double first in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

Join us for the 'This Week in #WordPress' show, with Nathan Wrigley, Taco Verdonschot, Bud Kraus, Dan Knauss, Steve Burge. Wow, that's a LOT! This episode covers the latest developments in WordPress, including updates in WordPress 7.0 and Gutenberg 22.6, new featured plugin initiatives to boost discoverability, and discussions around advanced developer certifications. The panel explores AI's growing role, collaborative editing features, and the FAIR project's shift towards TYPO3. Other topics include WordPress Campus Connect in Malaysia, accessibility efforts, Divi 5's release, and quirky tech stories like neural networks playing Doom and ultra-compact phones. The episode balances technical insights with community highlights and lighter moments, reflecting on both the challenges and innovations shaping WordPress today.

Renaissance history is so much wilder and weirder than you would have expected. Very fun chatting with Ada Palmer (historian, novelist, and composer based at the University of Chicago).Some especially fascinating things I learned from the conversation and her excellent book, Inventing the Renaissance:Not only did Gutenberg go bankrupt in the 1450s (after inventing the printing press), but so did the bank that foreclosed on him, and so did his apprentices. This is because paper was still very expensive, and so you had to make this big upfront CAPEX decision to print a batch of 300 copies of a book - say the Bible. But he's in a small landlocked German town where only priests are allowed to read the Bible - so he sells maybe 7 copies. It's only when this technology ends up in Venice, where you can hand 10 copies to each of 30 ship captains going to 30 different cities, that it starts taking off.Speaking of which, the printing revolution wasn't just one single discrete event, just as the computer revolution has been this whole century of going from mainframes -> personal computers -> phones -> social media, each with different and accelerating social impact. Books came first, but they're slow to print, and made in small batches. The real revolution is pamphlets - much faster, much harder to censor. Pamphlet runners are how you can have Luther's 95 Theses go from Wittenberg to London in 17 days.So much other wild stuff from this episode. For example, did you know that the largest and best-funded experimental laboratory in 17th century Europe was very likely the Roman one run by inquisitors? Ada jokes that the Inquisition accidentally invented peer review. The focus of the Inquisition is really misunderstood - it was obsessed with catching dangerous new heretics like Lutherans and Calvinists - it only executed one person for doing science.And this leads Ada to make an observation that I think is really wise: the authorities and censors are always worried about the exact wrong things given 20/20 hindsight. When Inquisition raids an underground bookshop during the French Enlightenment, they don't mind the Rousseau, Voltaire, and Encyclopédie, but they lose their minds about some Jansenist treatises about the technical nature of the Trinity.More broadly, a lesson for me from this episode is that it's just really hard to shape history in the specific way that you want to impact things. One of the most famous medieval scholars is this guy Petrarch. He survives the Black Death in the 1340s, watches his friends die to plague and bandits, and says: our leaders are selfish and terrible, we need to raise them on the Roman classics so they'll act like Cicero. So Europe pours money into finding ancient manuscripts, building libraries, and educating princes on classical virtues. Those princes grow up and fight bigger, nastier wars than ever before with new deadlier technology. And this, combined with greater urbanization and endemic plague, results in European life expectancy decreasing from 35 in the medieval period to 18 during the Renaissance (the period which we in retrospect think of as a golden age but which many people living through it thought of as the continuation of the dark ages that had persisted since the fall of Rome).Anyways, the libraries Petrarch inspires stick around, the printing press makes them accessible to everyone, and 200 years later a generation of medical students is reading Lucretius and asking “what if there are atoms and that's how diseases work?” which eventually leads to germ theory, vaccines, and a cure for the Black Death (Ada has longer more involved explanation of how cosplaying the Romans results through a series of many steps to the scientific revolution). Petrarch wanted to produce philosopher-kings that shared his values. 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There’s an argument to be made that every technology advance in communication – from cave paintings to fake AI movie trailers – is at its root an attempt to tell stories. Our first night-fires created the earliest audiences for spoken stories. In time, the development of rhyme, song, and other mnemonic devices allowed those spoken stories to be preserved for generations; pictures drawn on cave walls turned preservation into permanence, telling stories we still experience thousands of years later; writing enabled storytellers to spread tales to faraway places; the Chinese invented printing with moveable metal type around 700 AD; the Toltecs independently invented it at about the same time; 750 years later Gutenberg independently invented it again, adding a converted wine press to create the mass production of mass communication. Over time, printing presses increased the number of storytellers and the size of their audiences by many orders of magnitude, a trend which led us to great revolutions, and electric, then electronic, then digital storytelling and all our storytelling tools of today—and tomorrow’s. Today’s guest is Kevin Ashton, author of “The Story of Stories: The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art.” We see how humans alone possess the desire to share our hopes and beliefs, to understand and connect with others, to process events that have come before and anticipate events that will come next. That innate urge to communicate has impacted every aspect of human history, and it is so ingrained in the fabric of our existence that language did not come to being so that we could tell stories—stories gave us language. Human storytelling has led to innovations in astronomy, entertainment, technology, and beyond, and brought about revolutions, religions, political movements, and so much more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Live from Joe's mom's basement (complete with dog mugs, birthday roasting, and Doug polishing his trivia crown), the crew tackles a headline that caught plenty of attention. Suze Orman backing off her long held stance that everyone should work until age 70. Does that mean you shouldn't work longer? Not exactly. Joe Saul-Sehy, OG, Doug, and special guest Len Penzo break down the math behind working into your late 60s or beyond. More years to save, more compounding, fewer years drawing down assets. It's powerful stuff. But they also remind Stackers that work doesn't have to mean the same grind, and that retiring and claiming Social Security are two completely separate decisions. Len shares why he plans to delay Social Security until 70, walks through the break even math versus claiming at 62, and highlights the importance of survivor benefits for spouses. At the same time, the crew emphasizes that health, longevity expectations, and personal priorities can completely change the right answer. Suze's updated advice leans heavily on stress testing your retirement plan, and that's where the basement really digs in. What happens if inflation sticks around? If your side hustle disappears? If returns are lower than expected? The team argues that instead of chasing the perfect retirement date, you should solve for flexibility. Avoid analysis paralysis but don't skip the planning either. They also debate liquidity (hint: it doesn't mean stuffing your mattress with cash), share a cautionary tale about delayed IRA access, and remind listeners that logistics matter just as much as spreadsheets. In the TikTok Minute, a retiree reframes time as priceless instead of something to maximize. That sparks a thoughtful conversation about identity in retirement, the adjustment period after leaving work, and what makes life satisfying once the paycheck stops. Plus: A big community win as a fellow Stacker crosses the $1 million net worth milestone, stats on how common that really is, upcoming Stackers meetups, Doug's Gutenberg themed trivia, and unexpected retirement expenses involving squirrels and BarkBox. Because this is the basement, after all. What You'll Learn: • Why working longer can strengthen your retirement math and when it might not • The difference between retiring and claiming Social Security • How to think about Social Security timing, longevity, and survivor benefits • What it means to stress test your retirement plan • Why flexibility often beats perfect optimization • The real meaning of liquidity and why too much idle cash can hurt efficiency • How retirement success is often about time, not just money • Why identity shifts matter just as much as account balances The Big Takeaway: Retirement doesn't require working forever. But it does require a coordinated plan, one that brings together your assets, Social Security strategy, spending flexibility, and (most importantly) how you want to spend your time. Because in the end, money is renewable. Time isn't. This Episode Is For You If: • You've been told to work to 70 and aren't sure if that's right for you • You're trying to figure out when to claim Social Security • You want to stress test your retirement plan but don't know where to start • You're worried about the adjustment period after leaving work • You believe retirement planning is about more than just hitting a number Question for You: If you could retire tomorrow, what would you spend more time doing, and what would you happily leave behind? Share your thoughts in the Spotify comments or The Basement Facebook group. Your answer might inspire another Stacker who's quietly wondering the same thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Live from Joe's mom's basement (complete with dog mugs, birthday roasting, and Doug polishing his trivia crown), the crew tackles a headline that caught plenty of attention. Suze Orman backing off her long held stance that everyone should work until age 70. Does that mean you shouldn't work longer? Not exactly. Joe Saul-Sehy, OG, Doug, and special guest Len Penzo break down the math behind working into your late 60s or beyond. More years to save, more compounding, fewer years drawing down assets. It's powerful stuff. But they also remind Stackers that work doesn't have to mean the same grind, and that retiring and claiming Social Security are two completely separate decisions. Len shares why he plans to delay Social Security until 70, walks through the break even math versus claiming at 62, and highlights the importance of survivor benefits for spouses. At the same time, the crew emphasizes that health, longevity expectations, and personal priorities can completely change the right answer. Suze's updated advice leans heavily on stress testing your retirement plan, and that's where the basement really digs in. What happens if inflation sticks around? If your side hustle disappears? If returns are lower than expected? The team argues that instead of chasing the perfect retirement date, you should solve for flexibility. Avoid analysis paralysis but don't skip the planning either. They also debate liquidity (hint: it doesn't mean stuffing your mattress with cash), share a cautionary tale about delayed IRA access, and remind listeners that logistics matter just as much as spreadsheets. In the TikTok Minute, a retiree reframes time as priceless instead of something to maximize. That sparks a thoughtful conversation about identity in retirement, the adjustment period after leaving work, and what makes life satisfying once the paycheck stops. Plus: A big community win as a fellow Stacker crosses the $1 million net worth milestone, stats on how common that really is, upcoming Stackers meetups, Doug's Gutenberg themed trivia, and unexpected retirement expenses involving squirrels and BarkBox. Because this is the basement, after all. What You'll Learn: • Why working longer can strengthen your retirement math and when it might not • The difference between retiring and claiming Social Security • How to think about Social Security timing, longevity, and survivor benefits • What it means to stress test your retirement plan • Why flexibility often beats perfect optimization • The real meaning of liquidity and why too much idle cash can hurt efficiency • How retirement success is often about time, not just money • Why identity shifts matter just as much as account balances The Big Takeaway: Retirement doesn't require working forever. But it does require a coordinated plan, one that brings together your assets, Social Security strategy, spending flexibility, and (most importantly) how you want to spend your time. Because in the end, money is renewable. Time isn't. This Episode Is For You If: • You've been told to work to 70 and aren't sure if that's right for you • You're trying to figure out when to claim Social Security • You want to stress test your retirement plan but don't know where to start • You're worried about the adjustment period after leaving work • You believe retirement planning is about more than just hitting a number Question for You: If you could retire tomorrow, what would you spend more time doing, and what would you happily leave behind? Share your thoughts in the Spotify comments or The Basement Facebook group. Your answer might inspire another Stacker who's quietly wondering the same thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What if the numbers that dominate headlines tell you less about the economy than the price of your groceries, your rent, and your ability to start a family? We sit with writer and analyst Amanda Claypool to unpack Main Street economics, A.I.'s shock to white-collar work, and why trust in legacy media has frayed. Amanda's path—from near-CIA ambitions and defense contracting in DC, to cross-country pandemic travels, to building “Tomorrow Today” on Substack—offers a rare, ground-level view of how policy choices ripple through real lives.We get candid about the post-2008 era, cheap money's illusions, and the gap between Beltway incentives and the daily reality in deindustrialized towns. Amanda explains why she sees generative A.I. as a Gutenberg-level inflection point: it can upend tasks, compress status ladders, and force a deeper question about what remains uniquely human. That's where judgment, relationships, and ownership of outcomes come in—and why careers built on brittle prestige need a rethink. We also explore culture and gender debates, how career-first narratives can overshoot, and what resilience looks like when jobs evolve faster than institutions.Throughout, you'll hear practical advice for navigating uncertainty: learn the language of economics and accounting, treat A.I. as leverage rather than a threat, and stop hunting only for “a job.” Instead, find work—concrete problems you can solve and get paid for—while investing in community, family, and skills that compound over time. If you're looking for a grounded, nonpartisan take on media, money, technology, and meaning, this conversation cuts through the noise and gets to what actually matters.You can further engage with Amanda:Tomorrow Today on Substack: https://tomorrowtodaynow.substack.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@amanda_claypool My book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FZ52SVL3/ref=sr_1_2 Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe to The Common Bridge, share it with a friend who cares about the future of work, and leave a rating to help others find the show.Support the showEngage the conversation on Substack at The Common Bridge!