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In this episode we dive into Progress ReportsThe ChallengeYou know the moment. That message lands. Your project manager needs a status update on the project and they need it right now. Not in two weeks when it's supposed to happen. Right now.You have an 11,000 activity schedule. A critical path that keeps shifting. A structural steel delay throwing everything off. And zero minutes to spare.Usually this means three hours buried in P6. Copying data to Excel. Building out reports. Attaching baselines, unattaching baselines, running analysis. All just to deliver a simple email.On this episode of Beyond Deadlines, I sat down with Greg Lawton, CEO of Nodes and Links, to test whether a purpose built AI tool could draft that same status email in 60 seconds. Not a general chatbot. A multi agent AI system designed from the ground up to answer scheduling's hardest questions.What we found changed my perspective on what's possible.Check out Nodes & Links here and mention Micah Piippo and this podcast.Continue LearningCheck out our book The Critical Path Career: How to Advance in Construction Planning and SchedulingSubscribe to the Beyond Deadlines Email NewsletterSubscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Beyond Deadlines⁠⁠⁠⁠ Linkedin Newsletter⁠⁠Check Out Our YouTube Channel⁠⁠.ConnectFollow ⁠⁠⁠Micah⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Greg⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Beyond Deadlines⁠⁠ on LinkedIn.Beyond DeadlineIt's time to raise your career to new heights with Beyond Deadlines, the ultimate destination for construction planners and schedulers. Our podcast is designed to be your go-to guide whether you're starting out in this dynamic field, transitioning from another sector, or you're a seasoned professional. Through our cutting-edge content, practical advice, and innovative tools, we help you succeed in today's fast-evolving construction planning and scheduling landscape without relying on expensive certifications and traditional educational paths. Join us on Beyond Deadlines, where we empower you to shape the future of construction planning and scheduling, making it more efficient, effective, and accessible than ever before.About MicahMicah, the CEO of Movar US is an Intel and Google alumnus, champions next-gen planning and scheduling at both tech giants. Co-founder of Google's Computer Vision in Construction Team, he's saved projects millions via tech advancements. He writes two construction planning and scheduling newsletters and mentors the next generation of construction planners. He holds a Master of Science in Project Management, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.About GregGreg, an Astrophysicist turned project guru, managed £100M+ defense programs at BAE Systems (UK) and advised on international strategy. Now CEO at ⁠⁠Nodes and Links⁠⁠, he's revolutionizing projects with pioneering AI Project Controls in Construction. Experience groundbreaking strategies with Greg's expertise.Topics We Coverchange management, communication, construction planning, construction, construction scheduling, creating teams, critical path method, cpm, culture, KPI, microsoft project, milestone tracking, oracle, p6, project planning, planning, planning engineer, pmp, portfolio management, predictability, presenting, primavera p6, project acceleration, project budgeting, project controls, project management, project planning, program management, resource allocation, risk management, schedule acceleration, scheduling, scope management, task sequencing, construction, construction reporting, prefabrication, preconstruction, modular construction, modularization, automation, Power BI, dashboard, metrics, process improvement, reporting, schedule consultancy, planning consultancy, material management

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If you're a Generator, this episode is your personalised 2026 forecast and part three of the 2026 "Future of Business” series. I'm taking the five business themes from Episode 2 (episode 305 of the All That Jazze Podcast) and the major astrological transits from Episode 1 (Episode 304) and translating them specifically for how your sacral energy type navigates this year.What I see with almost every Generator I work with is the same pattern: spending a significant amount of time on things that aren't the thing only they can do. This episode is about getting honest about where that's happening, understanding the Generator plateau (and why it leads to overcomplicating), and giving yourself permission to let your lit-up energy be the strategy.What You'll Learn:❤️‍

TLDR: Recently, Gao et al trained transformers with sparse weights, and introduced a pruning algorithm to extract circuits that explain performance on narrow tasks. I replicate their main results and present evidence suggesting that these circuits are unfaithful to the model's “true computations”. This work was done as part of the Anthropic Fellows Program under the mentorship of Nick Turner and Jeff Wu. Introduction Recently, Gao et al (2025) proposed an exciting approach to training models that are interpretable by design. They train transformers where only a small fraction of their weights are nonzero, and find that pruning these sparse models on narrow tasks yields interpretable circuits. Their key claim is that these weight-sparse models are more interpretable than ordinary dense ones, with smaller task-specific circuits. Below, I reproduce the primary evidence for these claims: training weight-sparse models does tend to produce smaller circuits at a given task loss than dense models, and the circuits also look interpretable. However, there are reasons to worry that these results don't imply that we're capturing the model's full computation. For example, previous work [1, 2] found that similar masking techniques can achieve good performance on vision tasks even when applied to a [...] ---Outline:(00:36) Introduction(03:03) Tasks(03:16) Task 1: Pronoun Matching(03:47) Task 2: Simplified IOI(04:28) Task 3: Question Marks(05:10) Results(05:20) Producing Sparse Interpretable Circuits(05:25) Zero ablation yields smaller circuits than mean ablation(06:01) Weight-sparse models usually have smaller circuits(06:37) Weight-sparse circuits look interpretable(09:06) Scrutinizing Circuit Faithfulness(09:11) Pruning achieves low task loss on a nonsense task(10:24) Important attention patterns can be absent in the pruned model(11:26) Nodes can play different roles in the pruned model(14:15) Pruned circuits may not generalize like the base model(16:16) Conclusion(18:09) Appendix A: Training and Pruning Details(20:17) Appendix B: Walkthrough of pronouns and questions circuits(22:48) Appendix C: The Role of Layernorm The original text contained 6 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: February 9th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sHpZZnRDLg7ccX9aF/weight-sparse-circuits-may-be-interpretable-yet-unfaithful --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:

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Strength in Systems: Setting Up America's Next 250 YearsEconomists predicted collapse. Tariffs, protectionism, pandemic shocks - the global economy should have broken. It didn't. What we're witnessing isn't fragmentation. It's rebalancing. Nodes within the system - countries, industries - are reasserting their own interests after decades of subordination to global optimization. The network isn't breaking. It's healing. Look at the conflicts that haven't escalated. Those that have resolved. Russia-Ukraine contained. No move on Taiwan. Venezuela intervention precise, limited, wildly successful. The Middle East hasn't exploded into a broader war. Economic and strategic geopolitical ecosystems are exerting stabilizing pressure that few expected possible. Trade flourishes despite biased rhetoric. This is emergent peacekeeping – thoughtful, strategic interconnection that raises the cost of conflict beyond what actors will pay.Season 7 launches as America marks its 250th anniversary. The question: can we design ecosystems robust enough to deliver peace through strength, resilient enough to withstand disruption, and valuable enough to maintain cohesion? Six seasons and 118 episodes revealed the pattern: the future belongsto orchestrated ecosystems, not heroic platforms. Season 7 asks the questions that define the next 250 years.Paradigm Shifts:

We've officially begun eclipse season, with the Aquarius North Node eclipse happening February 17th, followed by a South Node eclipse in Virgo on March 3rd. What happens during and around eclipses are consequential events: endings, beginnings and often curve balls can take us by surprise. The Astrology surrounding this moment is also very engaging, with the personal planets all squaring Uranus, leading up to the eclipse, and a Mercury retrograde in Pisces starting in-between. During this time A LOT can shift.It's a good time to be aware, choose wisely, and wrap up old ways of being that lead to old outdated outcomes.On the podcast I describe the difference between fate and destiny, and urge us all to stay embodied, as the Astrology definitely will play a role in that.It's a wonderful time for a reading or some guidance! Reach out here to work with me and get some assistance during this time. To follow the Astro, subscribe to my Substack here.To receive my weekly newsletter, sign up here.Hoping this episode helps you connect with your highest path!XOJulia* A couple corrections from this episode:1. Eclipse cycles are actually 18.5 years (not 19.5!). Nodes will return to the same sign every 18.5 years.2. Mercury is in its DETRIMENT in Pisces, not its fall. Each planet has signs it is strong or weak in. They have home signs: the signs they rule, where they are in domicile, and opposite of that (90 degrees away) is where they are in detriment. They have signs they are exalted in, and the opposite sign is where they are in their "fall" or most debilitated. I think that's it! Thanks again for listening.

In this episode we dive into Automated Progress Tracking.The ChallengeWalking the job site with a clipboard. Sitting at a desk while a superintendent reads numbers off an Excel spreadsheet. Logging vague "days remaining" into P6. This is how most teams still update their schedules. It's slow, it's surface level, and it's not grounded in any measurable reality.On the latest episode of Beyond Deadlines, I sat down with Brady Mercer, who leads planning and scheduling at JE Dunn Construction, and Amir Berman , VP of Industry Transformation at Buildots . We went deep on how reality capture technology is changing the way project teams track progress and forecast delays.Continue LearningCheck out our book The Critical Path Career: How to Advance in Construction Planning and SchedulingSubscribe to the Beyond Deadlines Email NewsletterSubscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Beyond Deadlines⁠⁠⁠⁠ Linkedin Newsletter⁠⁠Check Out Our YouTube Channel⁠⁠.ConnectFollow ⁠⁠⁠Micah⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Greg⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Beyond Deadlines⁠⁠ on LinkedIn.Beyond DeadlineIt's time to raise your career to new heights with Beyond Deadlines, the ultimate destination for construction planners and schedulers. Our podcast is designed to be your go-to guide whether you're starting out in this dynamic field, transitioning from another sector, or you're a seasoned professional. Through our cutting-edge content, practical advice, and innovative tools, we help you succeed in today's fast-evolving construction planning and scheduling landscape without relying on expensive certifications and traditional educational paths. Join us on Beyond Deadlines, where we empower you to shape the future of construction planning and scheduling, making it more efficient, effective, and accessible than ever before.About MicahMicah, the CEO of Movar US is an Intel and Google alumnus, champions next-gen planning and scheduling at both tech giants. Co-founder of Google's Computer Vision in Construction Team, he's saved projects millions via tech advancements. He writes two construction planning and scheduling newsletters and mentors the next generation of construction planners. He holds a Master of Science in Project Management, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.About GregGreg, an Astrophysicist turned project guru, managed £100M+ defense programs at BAE Systems (UK) and advised on international strategy. Now CEO at ⁠⁠Nodes and Links⁠⁠, he's revolutionizing projects with pioneering AI Project Controls in Construction. Experience groundbreaking strategies with Greg's expertise.Topics We Coverchange management, communication, construction planning, construction, construction scheduling, creating teams, critical path method, cpm, culture, KPI, microsoft project, milestone tracking, oracle, p6, project planning, planning, planning engineer, pmp, portfolio management, predictability, presenting, primavera p6, project acceleration, project budgeting, project controls, project management, project planning, program management, resource allocation, risk management, schedule acceleration, scheduling, scope management, task sequencing, construction, construction reporting, prefabrication, preconstruction, modular construction, modularization, automation, Power BI, dashboard, metrics, process improvement, reporting, schedule consultancy, planning consultancy, material management

When to Worry: Neck Lumps, Bumps, and Enlarged Lymph Nodes in Kids Link for CME Credit: https://uthscsa.edu/medicine/education/cme/pediatrics-now-podcast In this episode of Pediatrics Now, Host Holly Wayment and Pediatric Oncologist Dr. Shafqat Shah discuss  how clinicians should evaluate new lumps, bumps, and enlarged lymph nodes in children, adolescents, and young adults.  Dr. Shah explains features that suggest reactive vs. malignant nodes, when to observe versus order imaging or labs, when to biopsy, and considerations about steroids, infections like cat scratch disease, and transitioning care for young adults. Dr. Shah's email address is: ShahS2@uthscsa.edu

What does it take for an entrepreneur to recognize—and embrace—a groundbreaking technological innovation, especially when skepticism is the initial reaction? In this episode of The Angel Next Door Podcast, host Marcia Dawood explores this very question with special guest Anthony Scaramucci, diving deep into the evolution of trust, disruption, and adoption in the world of digital assets.Anthony Scaramucci, a renowned financier and author, candidly shares his decade-long journey from Bitcoin skeptic to blockchain advocate. Known for his roles in finance and politics, he details his transformation, inspired by his persistent curiosity and the pivotal influence of friends such as Michael Saylor. As the founder of Skybridge Capital and the author of The Little Book of Bitcoin and his latest book, Solana Rising, Anthony Scaramucci offers a unique perspective on making complex ideas accessible to mainstream investors.This episode covers the fundamentals of Bitcoin and blockchain, why cryptocurrency may be the “perfect money,” and how legacy institutions are slowly but surely embracing this technology—even as old systems resist change. Listeners will gain insight into the mechanics behind crypto, its potential to revolutionize everyday transactions, and the challenges that remain. If you're wondering how digital currency fits into the future of entrepreneurship or curious about how big banks and regulators are shifting their stance, this conversation is an absolute must-listen. To get the latest from Anthony Scaramucci, you can follow him below!https://www.linkedin.com/in/anscaramucci/https://www.instagram.com/scaramucci/?hl=enThe Little Book of Bitcoin: What You Need to Know that Wall Street Has Already Figured OutSolana Rising: Investing in the Fast Lane of Cryptohttps://www.skybridge.com/ https://www.salt.org/  Sign up for Marcia's newsletter to receive tips and the latest on Angel Investing!Website: www.marciadawood.comDo Good While Doing WellLearn more about the documentary Show Her the Money: www.showherthemoneymovie.comAnd don't forget to follow us wherever you are!Apple Podcasts: https://pod.link/1586445642.appleSpotify: https://pod.link/1586445642.spotifyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/angel-next-door-podcast/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theangelnextdoorpodcast/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theangelnextdoorpodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marciadawood

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Guest: General Blaine Holt (retired). Holt discusses potential U.S. intervention to support Iranian protesters, emphasizing strikes on command nodes rather than ground troops. While the U.S. maintains air superiority, putting special operators on the ground carries high risk. The Iranian people face a critical window of days to succeed before facing stunning reprisals.1920 PERSIA

In this episode we are joined by the esteemed astrologer, teacher, and author, Stormie Grace. We discuss everything from Stormie's personal journey into astrology at a young age, her career transition from radio to YouTube, and her unique approach to reading charts. Stormie elaborates on how she incorporates the natal and progressed lunar phases, the significance of the nodal story, and the intricate dance of the sun and the moon to guide her astrological readings. Stormie also talks about the challenges and opportunities in the YouTube astrology space, and the process and insights behind her new book on aspects. Tune in to hear Stormie's inspiring story and her wisdom on growing through life's cosmic cycles.00:00 Introduction to the Plant Cunning Podcast00:31 Meet Stormie Grace: Astrologer and Teacher01:32 Stormie's Journey into Astrology04:01 The Saturn Return: A Turning Point11:31 Stormie's Transition to YouTube20:14 Astrology Techniques and Insights22:34 Understanding Moon Phases in Astrology31:02 Introduction to Nodes in Astrology31:41 Understanding the South Node32:17 Balancing the North and South Nodes34:44 Nodes in Different Signs and Degrees37:14 The Role of Houses and Planets39:16 Lunar Phases and Life Seasons43:37 Winter Seasons and Personal Growth47:16 New Book on Aspects in Astrology47:32 Astrology as a Language49:38 Practical Applications of Aspects53:04 Writing the Book and Future Research58:30 Conclusion and Where to Find More

Luccas Riedo é engenheiro civil e ex-CEO do G4 Educação. Após uma carreira executiva de sucesso, ele tomou uma decisão radical: vendeu tudo, saiu do mundo corporativo e alocou 100% do seu patrimônio em Bitcoin.Neste episódio, Luccas explica a lógica por trás dessa aposta "all-in". Ele detalha como o sistema financeiro atual opera como um mecanismo de confisco (via inflação e impostos), revela o risco real de bloqueios judiciais que o motivou a buscar soberania e discute a tese da "Greve dos Produtores" (inspirada em A Revolta de Atlas).Uma aula sobre economia, a história do dinheiro e como é possível viver de Bitcoin sem nunca precisar vendê-lo.Disponível no youtube:Link: https://youtu.be/J-kKBUHZgkYPatrocinador:Remessa Online - Envie e receba dinheiro do exterior com taxas mais baixas e sem burocracia.Link: ⁠https://www.remessaonline.com.br/?utm_medium=display&utm_source=Excepcionais&utm_campaign=RM_Podcast_Excepcionais_Awareness-202500:00:00 - Introdução: O sistema é baseado em confiança (e ela está acabando)00:02:25 - Por que alocar 100% do patrimônio em Bitcoin?00:03:30 - A história dos bancos e a fraude da reserva fracionária00:05:10 - 1971: O fim do padrão ouro e o início da impressão infinita00:08:19 - A inflação real é 17% (IPCA é uma mentira?)00:11:53 - A dívida impagável dos EUA e o roubo do futuro00:13:33 - A estratégia do governo para se perpetuar no poder00:18:17 - Bitcoin como "Opt-out": A saída do sistema00:20:14 - O risco de bloqueio judicial (Alexandre de Moraes e STF)00:22:45 - Escassez absoluta: Bitcoin vs Imóveis e Ouro00:28:06 - As 3 opções: Ignorar, Mudar o Sistema ou Se Proteger00:31:26 - Renda Fixa é Perda Fixa? (A conta real do prejuízo)00:34:17 - O segredo: Como viver de Bitcoin sem vender (Empréstimo Colateral)00:38:55 - A estratégia da MicroStrategy e empresas comprando Bitcoin00:44:18 - Como funciona a rede (Nodes) e por que não podem mudar as regras00:50:44 - Os riscos reais: Computação Quântica e Bugs00:55:07 - Custódia: Como guardar seu Bitcoin com segurança (Seed Phrase)01:08:28 - O Governo te rouba 3 vezes: Passado, Presente e Futuro01:09:48 - A Revolta de Atlas: O dilema de "entrar em greve" e parar de produzir01:15:02 - Vivendo na prática: Cartão de Crédito com Bitcoin01:21:28 - O ciclo do Bitcoiner: De Hater a Maximalista01:33:00 - A diferença brutal entre Bitcoin e "Cripto" (Ethereum, Solana)01:40:07 - Como começar a estudar (Dicas de livros e "100 horas")Siga o Luccas no Instagram:⁠https://www.instagram.com/luccasriedo/Nos Siga:Marcelo Toledo: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/marcelotoledoInstagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/excepcionaispodcastTikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@excepcionaispodcast

In this episode we dive into [Insert Challenge]The ChallengeYou are the owner on a large scale data center project. Construction is underway. Out of nowhere, your generators are now three months late.You had about a month of float built in. But that still leaves a two month delay staring you in the face.The stakes? About 10 to 15 million per month in construction overheads. Another 5 to 10 million in lost revenue. Plus liquidated damages if you miss your delivery date.The megawatts need to come online. People need to watch their cat videos. What do you do?Continue LearningCheck out our book The Critical Path Career: How to Advance in Construction Planning and SchedulingSubscribe to the Beyond Deadlines Email NewsletterSubscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Beyond Deadlines⁠⁠⁠⁠ Linkedin Newsletter⁠⁠Check Out Our YouTube Channel⁠⁠.ConnectFollow ⁠⁠⁠Micah⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Greg⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Beyond Deadlines⁠⁠ on LinkedIn.Beyond DeadlineIt's time to raise your career to new heights with Beyond Deadlines, the ultimate destination for construction planners and schedulers. Our podcast is designed to be your go-to guide whether you're starting out in this dynamic field, transitioning from another sector, or you're a seasoned professional. Through our cutting-edge content, practical advice, and innovative tools, we help you succeed in today's fast-evolving construction planning and scheduling landscape without relying on expensive certifications and traditional educational paths. Join us on Beyond Deadlines, where we empower you to shape the future of construction planning and scheduling, making it more efficient, effective, and accessible than ever before.About MicahMicah, the CEO of Movar US is an Intel and Google alumnus, champions next-gen planning and scheduling at both tech giants. Co-founder of Google's Computer Vision in Construction Team, he's saved projects millions via tech advancements. He writes two construction planning and scheduling newsletters and mentors the next generation of construction planners. He holds a Master of Science in Project Management, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.About GregGreg, an Astrophysicist turned project guru, managed £100M+ defense programs at BAE Systems (UK) and advised on international strategy. Now CEO at ⁠⁠Nodes and Links⁠⁠, he's revolutionizing projects with pioneering AI Project Controls in Construction. Experience groundbreaking strategies with Greg's expertise.Topics We Coverchange management, communication, construction planning, construction, construction scheduling, creating teams, critical path method, cpm, culture, KPI, microsoft project, milestone tracking, oracle, p6, project planning, planning, planning engineer, pmp, portfolio management, predictability, presenting, primavera p6, project acceleration, project budgeting, project controls, project management, project planning, program management, resource allocation, risk management, schedule acceleration, scheduling, scope management, task sequencing, construction, construction reporting, prefabrication, preconstruction, modular construction, modularization, automation, Power BI, dashboard, metrics, process improvement, reporting, schedule consultancy, planning consultancy, material management

This week Saturday Mornings Show” host Glenn van Zutphen and co-host Neil Humphreys are joined in studio by Lim Jia Hui, Senior Manager for Planning & Development at the National Library Board, to explore a heart-warming new initiative bringing books closer to everyday life. In partnership with seven malls and social enterprises, NLB has launched Sit‑n‑Read Nodes—cozy, self‑service reading spaces offering more than 3,000 pre‑loved books for adults and children across Singapore. Located at AMK Hub, Margaret Market, SAFRA Punggol, SAFRA Yishun, The Centrepoint, The Star Vista, and The Caffeine Experience at URA Centre, each Node features about 400 rotating titles spanning fiction, non‑fiction, and multilingual selections in Chinese, Malay, and Tamil. Visitors can simply pick up a book, read on the spot, or take it home—no borrowing required. They’re encouraged to return the books so others can enjoy them too. Many Nodes also offer eReads screens and MagNode displays, allowing patrons to access eBooks, eMagazines, and eNewspapers instantly via QR codes. With repurposed furnishings and inviting corners, these Nodes embody NLB’s LAB vision to weave reading into everyday spaces.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To have Dr. Morse answer a question, visit: https://drmorses.tv/ask/   Dr. Morse Q&A - Tonsil Cancer - Swollen Lymph Nodes #817 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:25 - Tonsil Cancer - Swollen Lymph Nodes 00:02:25 - Tonsil Cancer - Swollen Lymph Nodes I gave into many tests over the past 2 years, including a neck and tonsil biopsy. I didn't know any better at the time, was desperate, and not of sound mind.

Introducing Rob Ruiz Meet Rob Ruiz, a seasoned Senior Full Stack Developer with nearly two decades of expertise in WordPress innovation and open-source magic. As the Lead Maintainer of WP Rig since 2020, Rob has been the driving force behind this groundbreaking open-source framework that empowers developers to craft high-performance, accessible, and progressively enhanced WordPress themes with ease. WP Rig isn’t just a starter theme—it’s a turbocharged toolkit that bundles modern build processes, linting, optimization, and testing to deliver lightning-fast, standards-compliant sites that shine on any device. Show Notes For more on Rob and WP Rig, check out these links: LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robcruiz WP Rig Official Site: https://wprig.io GitHub Repository: https://github.com/wprig/wprig Latest Releases: https://github.com/wprig/wprig/releases WP Rig 3.1 Announcement: https://wprig.io/wp-rig-3-1/ Transcript: Topher DeRosia: Hey everybody. Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m your host Topher DeRosia, and with me today I have- Rob Ruiz: Rob Ruiz. Topher: Rob. You and I have talked a couple of times, once recently, and I learned about a project you’re working on, but not a whole lot about you. Where do you live? What do you do for a living? Rob: Yeah, for sure. Good question. Although I’m originally from Orlando, Florida, I’ve been living in Omaha, Nebraska for a couple of decades now. So I’m pretty much a native. I know a lot of people around here and I’ve been fairly involved in various local communities over the years. I’m a web developer. Started off as a graphic designer kind of out of college, and then got interested in web stuff. And so as a graphic designer turned future web developer, I guess, I was very interested in content management systems because it made the creating and managing of websites very, very easy. My first couple of sites were Flash websites, sites with macro media Flash. Then once I found content management systems, I was like, “Wow, this is way easier than coding the whole thing from scratch with Flash.” And then all the other obvious benefits that come from that. So I originally started with Joomla, interestingly enough, and used Joomla for about two or three years, then found WordPress and never looked back. And so I’ve been using WordPress ever since. As the years have gone on, WordPress has enabled me to slowly transition from a more kind of web designer, I guess, to a very full-blown web developer and software engineer, and even software architect to some degree. So here we are many years later. Topher: There’s a big step from designer to developer. How did that go for you? I’m assuming you went to PHP. Although if you were doing Flash sites, you probably learned ActionScript. Rob: Yeah. Yeah. That was very convenient when I started learning JavaScript. It made it very easy to learn JavaScript faster because I already had a familiarity with ActionScript. So there’s a lot of similarities there. But yeah. Even before I started doing PHP, I started learning more HTML and CSS. I did do a couple of static websites between there that were just like no content management system at all. So I was able to kind of sharpen my sword there with the CSS and HTML, which wasn’t particularly hard. But yeah, definitely, the PHP… that was a big step was PHP because it’s a proper logical programming language. There was a lot there I needed to unpack, and so it took me a while. I had to stick to it and really rinse and repeat before I finally got my feet under me. Topher: I can imagine. All right. So then you work for yourself or you freelance or do you have a real job, as it were? Rob: Currently, I do have a real job. Currently, I’m working at a company called Bold Orange out of Minneapolis. They’re a web agency. But I kind of bounce around from a lot of different jobs. And then, yes, I do freelance on the side, and I also develop my own products as well for myself and my company. Topher: Cool. Bold Orange sounds familiar. Who owns that? Rob: To be honest, I don’t know who the owners are. It’s just a pretty big web agency out of Minneapolis. They are a big company. You could just look them up at boldorange.com. They work for some pretty big companies. Topher: Cool. All right. You and I talked last about WP Rig. Give me a little background on where that came from and how you got it. Rob: Yeah, for sure. Well, there was a period of time where I was working at a company called Proxy Bid that is in the auction industry, and they had a product or a service — I don’t know how you want to look at that —called Auction Services. That product is basically just building WordPress sites for auction companies. They tasked us with a way to kind of standardize those websites essentially. And what we realized is that picking a different theme for every single site made things difficult to manage and increase tech debt by a lot. So what we were tasked with was, okay, if we’re going to build our own theme that we’re just going to make highly dynamic so we can make it look different from site to site. So we want to build it, but we want to build it smart and we want to make it reusable and maintainable. So let’s find a good framework to build this on so that we can maintain coding standards and end up with as little tech debt as possible, essentially. That’s when I first discovered WP Rig. In my research, I came across it and others. We came across Roots Sage and some of the other big names, I guess. It was actually a team exercise. We all went out and looked for different ones and studied different ones and mine that I found was WP Rig. And I was extremely interested in that one over the other ones. Interestingly enough- Topher: Can you tell me why over the other ones? Rob: That’s a great question. Yeah. I really liked the design patterns. I really liked the focus on WordPress coding standards. So having a system built in that checked all the code against WordPress coding standards was cool. I loved the compiling transpiling, whatever, for CSS and JavaScript kind of built in. That sounded really, really interesting. The fact that there was PHP unit testing built into it. So there’s like a starter testing framework built in that’s easy to extend so that you can add additional unit tests as your theme grows. We really wanted to make sure… because we were very into CICD pipelines. So we wanted to make sure that as developers were adding or contributing to any themes that we built with this, that we could have automated tests run and automated builds run, and just automate as much as possible. So WP rig just seemed like something that gave us those capabilities right out of the box. So that was a big thing. And I loved the way that they did it. Roots Sage does something similar, but they use their blade templating engine built in there. We really wanted to stick to something that was a bit more standard WordPress so that there wasn’t like a large knowledge overhead so that we didn’t have to say like, okay, if we’re bringing on other developers, like junior developers work on it, oh, it would be nice if you use Laravel too because we use this templating engine in all of our themes. We didn’t want to have to worry about that essentially. It was all object-oriented and all that stuff too. That’s what looked interesting to me. We ended up building a theme with WP Rig. I don’t know what they ended up doing with it after that, because I ended up getting let go shortly thereafter because the company had recently been acquired. Also, this was right after COVID too. So there was just a lot of moving parts and changing things at the time. So I ended up getting let go. But literally a week after I got let go, I came across a post on WP Tavern about how this framework was looking for new maintainers. Basically, this was a call put out by Morton, the original author of WP Rig. He reached out to WP Tavern and said, “Look, we’re not interested in maintaining this thing anymore, but it’s pretty cool. We like what we’ve built. And so we’re looking for other people to come in and adopt it essentially.” So I joined a Zoom meeting with a handful of other individuals that were also interested in this whole endeavor, and Morton reached out to me after the call and basically just said, “I looked you up. I liked some of the input that you had during the meeting. Let’s talk a little bit more.” And then that eventually led to conversations about me essentially taking the whole project over entirely. So, the branding, the hosting of the website, being lead maintainer on the project. Basically, gave me the keys to the kingdom in terms of GitHub and everything. So that’s how it ended up going in terms of the handoff between Morton and I. And I’m very grateful to him. They really created something super cool and I was honored to take it over and kind of, I don’t know, keep it going, I guess. Topher: I would be really curious. I don’t think either of us have the answer. I’d be curious to know how similar that path is to other project handoffs. It’s different from like an acquisition. You didn’t buy a plugin from somebody. It was kind of like vibes, I guess. Rob: It was like vibes. It was very vibey. I guess that’s probably the case in an open source situation. It’s very much an open source project. It’s a community-driven thing. It’s for everybody by everybody. I don’t know if all open source community projects roll like that, but that’s how this one worked out. There was some amount of ownership on Morton’s behalf. He did hire somebody to do the branding for WP Rig and the logo. And then obviously he was paying for stuff like the WPrig.io domain and the hosting through SiteGround and so on and so forth. So, we did have to transfer some of that and I’ve taken over those, I guess, financial burdens, if you want to think of it like that. But I’m totally okay with it. Topher: All right. You sort of mentioned some of the things Rig does, compiling and all that kind of stuff. Can you tell me… we didn’t discuss this before. I’m sitting at my desk and I think I want a website. How long does it take to go from that to looking at WordPress and logging into the admin with Rig? Rob: Okay. Rig is not an environment management system like local- Topher: I’m realizing my mistake. Somebody sends me a design in Figma. How long does it take me to go from that to, I’m not going to say complete because I mean, that’s CSS, but you know, how long does it take me to get to the point where I’m looking at a theme that is mine for the client that I’m going to start converting? Rob: Well, if you’re just looking for a starting point, if you’re just like, okay, how long does it take to get to like, okay, here’s my blank slate and I’m ready to start adopting all of these rules that are set up in Figma or whatever, I mean, you’re looking at maybe 5 minutes, 10 minutes, something like that. It’s pretty automated. You just need some simple knowledge of Git. And then there are some prerequisites to using WP Rig. You do have to have composer installed because we do leverage some Composer packages to some of it, although to be honest, you could probably get away with not using Composer. You just have to be okay with sacrificing some of the tools the WP Rig assumes you’re going to have. And then obviously Node. You have to have Node installed. A lot of our documentation assumes that you have NPM, that you’re using NPM for all your Nodes or your package management. But we did recently introduce support for Bun. And so you can use Bun instead of NPM, which is actually a lot faster and better in many ways. Topher: Okay. A lot of my audience are not developers, users, or light developers, like they’ll download a theme, hack a template, whatever. Is this for them? Am I boring those people right now? Rob: That’s a great question. I mean, and I think this is an interesting dichotomy and paradigm in the WordPress ecosystem, because you’ve got kind of this great divide. At least this is something I’ve noticed in my years in the WordPress community is you have many people that are not coders or developers that are very interested in expanding their knowledge of WordPress, but it’s strictly from a more of a marketing perspective where it’s like, I just want to know how to build websites with WordPress and how to use it to achieve my goals online from a marketing standpoint. You have that group of people, and then you have this other group of people that are very developer centric that want to know how to extend WordPress and how to empower those other people that we just discussed. Right? Topher: Right. Rob: So, yeah, that’s a very good question. I would say that WP Rig is very much designed for the developers, not for the marketers. The assumption there is that you’re going to be doing some amount of coding. Now, can you get away with doing a very light amount of coding? Yes. Yes, you can. I mean, if you compare what you’re going to get out of that assumed workflow to something that you would get off like Theme Forest or whatever, it’s going to be a night and day difference because those theme, Forest Themes, have hours, hundreds, sometimes hundreds of hours of development put into them. So, you’re not going to just out of the box immediately get something that is comparable to that. Topher: You need to put in those hundreds of hours of development to make a theme. Rob: As of today, yes. That may change soon though. Topher: Watch this space. Rob: That’s all I’ll say. Topher: Okay. So now we know who it’s for. I’m assuming there’s a website for it. What is it? Rob: Yeah. If you go to WPrig.io, we have a homepage that shows you all the features that are there in WP Rig. And then there’s a whole documentation area that helps people get up and running with WP Rig because there is a small learning curve there that’s pretty palatable for anybody who’s familiar with modern development workflows. So that is a thing. So the type of person that this is designed for anybody that wants to make a theme for anything. Let’s say you’re a big agency and you pull in a big client and that client wants something extremely custom and they come to you with Figma designs. Sure, you could go out there and find some premium theme and try to like child theme and overhaul that if you want. But in many situations, I would say in most situations, if you’re working from a Figma design that’s not based off of another theme already that’s just kind of somebody else’s brainchild, then you’re probably going to want to start from scratch. And so the idea here is that this is something to replace an approach, like underscores an approach. Actually, WP Pig was based off of underscores. The whole concept of it, as Morton explained it to me, was that he wanted to build an underscores that was more modern and full-featured from a development standpoint. Topher: Does it have any opinions about Gutenberg? Rob: It does now, but it did not when I took it over because Gutenberg did not exist yet when I took over WP Rig. Topher: Okay. What are its opinions? Rob: Yeah, sure. The opinion right out of the gate is that you can use Gutenberg as an editor and it has support like CSS rules in it for the standard blocks. So you should be able to use regular Gutenberg blocks in your theme and they should look just fine. There’s no resets in there. It doesn’t start from scratch. There’s not a bunch of styling you have to do for the blocks necessarily. Now, if you go to the full site editing or block-based mentality here, there are some things you need to do in WP Rig to convert the out-of-the-box WP Rig into another paradigm essentially. Right when you pull WP Rig, the assumption is you’re building what most people would refer to as a hybrid theme. The theme supports API or whatever, and the assumption is that you’re not going to be using the site editor. You’re just going to kind of do traditional WordPress, but you might be using Gutenberg for your content. So you’re just using Gutenberg kind of to author your pages and your posts and stuff like that, but not necessarily the whole site. WP Rig has the ability to kind of transform itself into other paradigms. So the first paradigm we built out was the universal theme approach. And the idea there is that you get a combination of the full site editing capabilities. But then you also have the traditional menu manager and the settings customizer framework or whatever is still there, right? These are things that don’t exist in a standard block-based theme. So I guess an easy example would be like the 2025 WordPress theme that comes right out of the box. It comes installed in WordPress. That is a true block-based theme, not a universal theme. So it doesn’t have those features because the assumption there is that it doesn’t need those features. You can kind of transform WP Rig into a universal theme that’s kind of a hybrid between a block-based and a classic theme. And then it can also transform into a strictly block-based theme as well. So following the same architecture as like the WordPress 2025 theme or Ollie or something like that is also a true block-based theme as well. So you can easily convert or transform the starting point of WP Rig into either of those paradigms if that’s the type of theme you’re setting out to build. Topher: Okay. That sounds super flexible. How much work is it to do that? Rob: It’s like one command line. Previously we had some tutorials on the website that showed you step-by-step, like what you needed to change about the theme to do that. You would have to add some files, delete some files, edit some code, add some theme supports into the base support class and some other stuff. I have recently, as of like a year and a half ago or a year ago, created a command line or a command that you can type into the command line that basically does that entire conversion process for you in like the blink of an eye. It takes probably a second to a second and a half to perform those changes to the code and then you’re good to go. It is best to do that conversion before you start building out your whole theme. It’s not impossible to do it after. But you’re more likely to run into problems or conflicts if you’ve already set out building your whole theme under one paradigm, and then you decide how the project you want to switch over to block-based or whatever. You’re likely to run into the need to refactor a bunch of stuff in that situation. So it is ideal to make that choice extremely early on in the process of developing your theme. But either way it’ll still work. That’s just one of the many tools that exist in WP Rig to transform it or convert it in several ways. That’s just one example. There are other examples of ways that Rig kind of converts itself to other paradigms as well. Topher: Yeah. All right. In my development life, I’ve had two parts to it. And one is the weekend hobbyist, or I download cadence and I whip something up in 20 minutes because I just want to experiment and the other is agency life where everything’s in Git, things are compiled, there are versions, blah, blah, blah. This sounds very friendly to that more professional pathway. Rob: Absolutely. Yes. Or, I mean, there’s another situation here too. If you’re a company who develops themes and publishes them to a platform like ThemeForest or any other platform, perhaps you’re selling themes on your own website, whatever, if you’re making things for sale, there’s no reason you couldn’t use WP Rig to build your themes. We have a bundle process that bundles your theme for publication or publishing. Whether you’re an agency or whether you’re putting your theme out for sale, it doesn’t matter, during that bundle process, it does actually white label the entire code base to where there’s no mention of WP Rig in the code whatsoever. Let’s say you were to build a theme that you wanted to put up for sale because you have some cool ideas. Say, page transitions now are completely supported in all modern or in most modern browsers. And when I say print page transitions, for those that are in the know, I am talking about not single page app page transitions, but through website page transitions. You can now do that. Let’s say you were like, “Hey, I’m feeling ambitious and I want to put out some new theme that comes with these page transitions built in,” and that’s going to be fancy on ThemeForest when people look at my demo, people might want to buy that. You could totally use WP Rig to build that out into a theme and the bundle process will white label all of the code. And then when people buy your theme and download that code, if they’re starting to go through and look through your code, they’re not going to have any way of knowing that it was built with WP Rig unless they’re familiar with the base WP Rig architecture, like how it does its object-oriented programming. It might be familiar with the patterns that it’s using and be able to kind of discern like, okay, well, this is the same pattern WP Rig uses, so high likelihood it was built with WP Rig. But they’re not going to be able to know by reading through the code. It’s not going to say WP Rig everywhere. It’s going to have the theme all over the place in the code. Topher: Okay. So then is that still WP Rig code? It just changed its labels? Rob: Yeah. Topher: So, it’s not like you’re exporting HTML, CSS and JavaScript? The underlying Rig framework is still there. Rob: Yeah. During the bundle process, it is bundling CSS and HTML. Well, HTML in the case of a block-based theme. But, yeah, it is bundling your PHP, your CSS, your JavaScript into the theme that you’re going to let people download when they buy it, or that you’re going to ship to your whatever client’s website. But all that code is going to be transpiled. In the case of CSS and JavaScript, there’s only going to be minified versions of that code in that theme. The source code is not actually going to be in there. Topher: This sounds pretty cool. You mentioned some stuff might be coming. You don’t have to tell me what it is, but do you have a timeline? When should we be watching for the next cool thing from Rig? Rob: Okay, cool. Well, I’m going to keep iterating on Rig forever. Regardless of any future products that might be built on WP Rig, WP Rig will always and forever remain an open source product for anybody to use for free and we, I, and possibly others in the future will continue to update it and support it over time. We just recently put out 3.1. You could expect the 3.2 anytime in the next six months to a year, probably closer to six months. One feature I’m looking at particularly closely right now is the new stuff coming out in version 6.9 of WordPress around the various APIs that are there. I think one of them is called the form… There’s a field API and a form API or view API or something like that. So WP Rig comes with a React-based settings framework in it. So if you want your theme to have a bunch of settings in it to make it flexible for whoever buys your theme, you can use this settings framework to easily create a bunch of fields, and then that framework will automatically manage all your fields and store all the data from those fields and make it easy to retrieve the values of the input on those fields, without knowing any React at all. Now, if you know React, you can go in there and, you know, embellish what’s already there, but it takes a JSON approach. So if you just understand JSON, you can go in and change the JSON for the framework, and that will automatically add fields into the settings framework. So you don’t even have to know React to extend the settings page if you want. That will likely get an overhaul using these new APIs being introduced into Rig. Topher: All right. How often have you run into something where, “Oh, look, WordPress has a new feature, I need to rebuild my system”? Rob: Over the last four or five years, it’s happened a lot because, yeah, I mean, like I said, when I first took this thing over, Gutenberg had not even been introduced yet. So, you had the introduction of Gutenberg and blocks. That was one thing. Then this whole full site editing became a thing, which later became the site editor. So that became a whole thing. Then all these various APIs. I mean, it happens quite frequently. So I’ve been working to keep it modern and up to date over the past four years and it’s been an incredible learning experience. It not only keeps my WordPress knowledge extremely sharp, but I’ve also learned how various other toolkits are built. That’s been the interesting thing. From a development standpoint, there’s two challenges here. One of the challenges is staying modern on the WordPress side of things. For instance, WordPress coding standards came out with a version 3 and then a version 3.1 about two years ago. I had to update WP Rig to leverage those modern coding standards. So that’s one example is as WordPress changes, the code in WP Rig also needs to change. Or for instance, if new CSS standards change, right, new CSS properties come out, it is ideal for the base CSS in WP Rig, meaning the CSS that you get right out of the box with it, comes with some of these, for instance, CSS grid, Flexbox, stuff like that. If I was adopting a theme framework to build a theme on, I would expect some of that stuff to be in there. And those things were extremely new when I first took over WP Rig and were not all baked in there essentially. So I’ve had to add a lot of that over time. Now there’s another side to this, which is not just keeping up with WordPress and CSS and PHP, 8. whatever, yada yada yada. You’ve also got the toolkit. There are various node packages and composer packages of power WP Rig and the process in which it does the transpiling, the bundling, the automated manipulation of your code during various aspects of the usage of WP Rig is a whole nother set of challenges because now you have to learn concepts like, well, how do I write custom node scripts? Right? Like there were no WP CLI commands built into WP Rig when I first took it over. Now there’s a whole list. There’s a whole library of WP CLI commands that come in Rig right out of the gate. And so I’ve had to learn about that. So just various things that come with knowing how do you automate the process of converting code, that’s something that was completely foreign to me when I first took over WP Rig. That’s been another incredible learning experience is understanding like what’s the difference between Webpack and Gulp. I didn’t know, right? I would tell people I’m using Gulp and WP Rig and they would be like, “Well, why don’t you just use Webpack?” and I would say, “I don’t know. I don’t know what the difference is.” So over time I could figure out what are the differences? Why aren’t we using Webpack? And I’m glad I spent some time on that because it turns out Webpack is not the hottest thing anymore, so I just skipped right over all that. When I overhauled for version 3, we’re now not using Gulp anymore as of 3.1. We’re now using more of a Vite-like process, far more modern than Webpack and far better and faster and sleeker and lighter. I had to learn a bunch about what powers Vite. What is Vite doing under the hood that we might be able to also do in WP Rig, but do it in a WordPress way. Because Vite is a SaaS tool. If you’re building a SaaS, like React with a… we’re not a SaaS. I guess a spa is a better term to use here. If you’re building a single page application with React or view or belt or whatever, right, then knowing what Vite is and just using Vite right out of the box is perfect. But it doesn’t translate perfectly to WordPress land because WordPress has its own opinions. And so I did have to do some dissecting there and figure out what to keep and what to not keep to what to kind of set aside so that WordPress can keep doing what WordPress does the way WordPress likes to do it, but also improve on how we’re doing some of the compiling and transpiling and the manipulation of the code during these various. Topher: All right. I want to pivot a little bit to some personal-ish questions. Rob: Okay. Topher: This is a big project. I’m sure it takes up plenty of your time. How scalable is that in your life? Do you want to do this for the rest of your life? Rob: That’s a fantastic question. I don’t know about the rest of my life. I mean, I definitely want to do web development for the rest of my life because the web has, let’s be honest, it’s transformed everyone’s way of life, whether you’re a web developer or not. You know, the fact that we have the internet in our pocket now, you know, it has changed everything. Apps, everything. It’s all built on the web. So I certainly want to be involved in the web the rest of my life. Do I want to keep doing WordPress the rest of my life? I don’t know. Do I want to keep doing WP Rig the rest of my life? I don’t know. But I will say that you bring up a very interesting point, which is it does take up a lot of time and also trust in open source over the past four or five years I would argue has diminished a little bit as a result of various events that have occurred over the past two or three years. I mean, we could cite the whole WP Engine Matt Mullerwig thing. We can also cite what’s going on with Oracle and JavaScript. Well, I mean, there’s many examples of this. I mean, we can cite the whole thing that happened… I mean, there’s various packages out there that are used and developed and open source to anybody, and some of them are going on maintained and it’s causing security vulnerabilities and degradation and all this stuff. So it’s a very important point. One thing I started thinking about after considering that in relation to WP Rig was I noticed that there’s usually a for-profit arm of any of these frameworks that seems to extend the lifespan of it. Let’s just talk about React, for example, React is an open source JavaScript framework, but it’s used by Facebook and Facebook is extremely for-profit. So companies that are making infrastructural or architectural decisions, they will base their choice on whether or not to use a framework largely on how long they think this framework is going to remain relevant or valid or maintained, right? A large part of that is, well, is there a company making money off of this thing? Because if there is, the chances- Topher: They’re going to keep doing that. Rob: They’re going to keep doing it. It’s going to stay around. That’s good. I think that’s healthy. A lot of people that like open source and want everything to be free, they might look at something like that and say like, well, I don’t want you to make a paid version of it or there shouldn’t be a pro version. I think that’s a very short-sighted way of looking at that software and these innovations. I think a more experienced way of looking at it is if you want something to remain relevant and maintained for a long period of time, having a for-profit way in which it’s leveraged is a very good thing. I mean, let’s be real. Would WordPress still be what it is today if there wasn’t a wordpress.com or if WooCommerce wasn’t owned by Automattic or whatever, right? They’ll be on top. I mean, it’s obviously impossible to say, but my argument would be, probably not. I mean, look at what’s happened to the other content management systems out there. You know, Joomla Drupal. They don’t really have a flourishing, you know, paid pro service that goes with their thing that’s very popular, at least definitely not as popular as WordPress.com or WordPress VIP or some of these other things that exist out there. And so having something that’s making and generating money that can then contribute back into it the way Automattic has been doing with WordPress over these years has, in my opinion, been instrumental. I mean, people can talk smack about Gutenberg all they want, but let’s be real, it’s 2025, would you still feel that WordPress is an elegant solution if we were still working from the WYSIWYG and using the classic editor? And I know a lot of people are still using the classic editor and there’s classic for us, the fork and all that stuff. But I mean, that only makes sense in a very specific implementation of WordPress, a very specific paradigm. If you want to explore any of these other paradigms out there, that way of thinking about WordPress kind of falls apart pretty quickly. I, for one, am happy that Gutenberg exists. I’m very happy that Automattic continues. And I’m grateful, actually, that Automattic continues to contribute back into WordPress. And not just them, obviously there’s other companies, XWP, 10Up, all these other companies are also contributing as well. But I’m very grateful that this ecosystem exists and that there’s contribution going back in and it’s happening from companies that are making money with this. And I think that’s vital. All that to say that WP Rig may and likely will have paid products in the future that leverage WP Rig. So that’s not to say that WP Rig will eventually cost money. That’s just to say that eventually people can expect other products to come out in the future that will be built on WP Rig and incentivize the continued contributions back into WP Rig. The open source version of WP Rig. Topher: That’s cool. I think that’s wise. If you want anything to stay alive, you have to feed it. Rob: That’s right. Topher: I had some more questions but I had forgotten them because I got caught up in your answer. Rob: Oh, thank you. I’ll take that as a compliment. I mean, my answer was eloquent. But I’m happy to expand on anything, know you, WordPress related, me related, you know, whether it comes to the ecosystem in WordPress, the whole WordCamp meetup thing is very interesting. I led the WP Omaha meetup for many years here in Omaha, Nebraska and I also led the WordCamp, the organizing of WordCamp here in Omaha for several years as well. That whole community, the whole ecosystem, at least in America seems to have largely fallen apart. I don’t know if you want to talk about that at all. But yeah, I’m ready to dive into any topics. Topher: I’m going to have one more question and then we’re going to wrap up. And it was that you were talking about all the things you had to learn. I’m sure there were nights where you were looking at your computer thinking, “Oh man, I had it working, now I gotta go learn a new thing.” I would love for you to go back in time and blog all of that if you would. But given that you can’t, I would be interested in a blog moving forward, documenting what you’re learning, how you’re learning it and starting maybe with a post that’s summarizes all of that. Obviously, that’s up to you and how you want to spend your time, but I think it’d be really valuable to other people starting a project, picking up somebody else’s project to see what the roadmap might look like. You know what I mean? Rob: For sure. Well, I can briefly summarize what I’ve learned over the years and where I’m at today with how I do this kind of stuff. I will say that a lot of the improvements to WP Rig that have happened over the last year or two would not be possible without the advent of AI. Topher: Interesting. Rob: That’s a fancy way of saying that I have been by coding a lot of WP Rig lately. If you know how to use AI, it is extremely powerful and it can help you do many things very quickly that previously would have taken much longer or more manpower. So, yeah, perhaps if there was like five, six, seven people actively, excuse me, actively contributing to WP Rig, then this type of stuff would have been possible previously, but that’s not the case. There is one person, well, one main contributor to WP Rig today and you’re talking to them. There are a handful of other people that have been likely contributing to WP Rig over the versions and you can find their contributions in the change log file in WP Rig. But those contributions have been extremely light compared to what I’ve been doing. I wouldn’t be able to do any of it without AI. I have learned my ability to learn things extremely rapidly has ramped up tenfold since I started learning how to properly leverage LLMs and AI. So that’s not to say that like, you know, WP Rig, all the code is just being completely written by AI and I’m just like. make it better, enter, and then like WP Rig is better. I wish it was that easy. It’s certainly not that. But when I needed to start asking some of these vital questions that I really didn’t have anyone to turn to to help answer them, I was able to turn to AI. For instance, let’s go back to the Webpack versus Gulp situation. Although Gulp is no longer used in WP Rig, you know, it was used in WP Rig until very recently. So I had to understand like, what is this system, how does it work, how do I extend it and how do I update it and all these things, right? And why aren’t we using WebPack and you know, is there validity to this criticism behind you should use webpack instead of Gulp or whatever, right? I was able to use AI to ask these questions and be able to get extremely good answers out of it and give me the direction I needed to make some of these kind of higher level decisions on like architecturally where should WP Rig go? It was through these virtual conversations with LLMs that I was able to refine the direction of WP Rig in a direction that is both modern and forward-thinking and architecturally sound. I learned a tremendous amount from AI about the architecture, about the code, about all of it. My advice to anybody that wants to extend their skill set a little bit in the development side of things is to leverage this new thing that we have in a way that is as productive as possible for you. So that’s going to vary from person to person. But for me, if I’m on a flight or if I’m stuck somewhere for a while, like, let’s say I got to take my kid to practice or something and I’m stuck there for an hour and I got to find some way to kill my time 9 times out of 10, I’m on my laptop or on my phone having conversations with Grok or ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever. I am literally refining… I’m just sitting there asking it questions that are on my mind that I wish I could ask somebody who’s like 10 times more capable than me. It has been instrumental. WP Rig wouldn’t be where it is today if it wasn’t for that. I would just say to anybody, especially now that it’s all on apps and you don’t have to be on a browser anymore, adopt that way of thinking. You know, if you’re on your lunch break or whatever and you have an hour lunch break and you only take 15 minutes to eat, what could you be doing with those other 45 minutes? You could just jump on this magical thing that we have now and start probing it for questions. Like, Hey, here’s what I know. Here’s what I don’t know. Fill these knowledge gaps for me.” And it is extremely good at doing that. Topher: So my question was, can you blog this and your answer told me that there’s more there that I want to hear. That’s the stuff that should be in your book when you write your book. Rob: I’m flattered that you would be interested in reading anything that I write. So thank you. I’ve written stuff in the past and it hasn’t gotten a lot of attention. But I also don’t have any platforms to market it either. But yeah, no, I made some… I’m sorry. Topher: I think your experience is valuable far beyond Rig or WordPress. If you abstract it out of a particular project to say, you know, I did this with a project, I learned this this way, I think that would be super valuable. Rob: Well, I will say that recently at my current job, I was challenged to create an end to end testing framework with Playwright that would speed up how long it takes to test things and also prevent, you know, to make things fail earlier, essentially, to prevent broken things from ending up in the wild, right, and having to catch them the hard way. I didn’t know a lot about Playwright, but I do know how toolkits work now because of WP Rig. And I was able to successfully in a matter of, I don’t know, three days, put together a starter kit for a test framework that we’re already using at work to test any website that we create for any client. It can be extended and it can be hooked into any CI CD pipeline and it generates reports for you and it does a whole bunch of stuff. I was able to do this relatively quickly. This knowledge, yes, does come in handy in other situations. Will I end up developing other toolkits like WP Rig in the future for other things? I guess if I can give any advice to anybody listening out there, another piece of advice I would give people is, you know, especially if you’re a junior developer and you’re still learning or whatever, or you’re just a marketing person and just want to have more control over the functionality side of what you’re creating or more insight into that so you could better, you know, manage projects or whatever. My advice would be to take on a small little project that is scoped relatively small that’s not too much for you to chew and go build something and do it with… Just doing that will be good. But if you can do it with the intent to then present it in some fashion, whether it be a blog article or creating a YouTube video or going to a meetup and giving a talk on it or even a lunch and learn at work or whatever, right, that will, in my experience, it will dramatically amplify how much you learn from that little pet project that’s kind of like a mini learning experience. And I highly encourage anybody out there to do that on the regular. Actually, no matter what your experience level is in development, I think you should do these things on a regular basis. Topher: All right. I’m going to wrap this up. I got to get back to work. You probably have to get back to work. Rob: Yeah. Topher: Thanks for talking. Rob: Thanks for having me, Topher. Really appreciate it. Topher: Where could people find you? WPrig.io?  Rob: Yeah, WPrig.io. WP rig has accounts on all of the major platforms and, even on Bluesky and Mastodon. You can look me up, Rob Ruiz. You can find me on LinkedIn. You can find me on all of those same platforms as well. You can add me on Facebook if you want, whatever. And I’m also in the WordPress Slack as well as Rob Ruiz. You can find me in the WordPress Slack. And then I’m on the WordPress Reddit and all that stuff. So yeah, reach out. If anybody wants to have any questions about Rig or anything else, I’m happy to engage.  Topher: Sounds good. All right, I’ll see you. Rob: All right, thanks, Topher. Have a good day. Topher: This has been an episode of the Hallway Chats podcast. I’m your host Topher DeRosia. Many thanks to our sponsor Nexcess. If you’d like to hear more Hallway Chats, please let us know on hallwaychats.com.

In this final episode of 2025, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn zoom out to dissect what actually mattered this year across Midjourney, Nano Banana Pro, ChatGPT Image 1.5, Weavy, video models, workflows, and the uncomfortable truth about how fast all of this is moving.They unpack the real inflection points no one labeled at the time. Why March quietly changed everything. Why Nano Banana Pro rewired image editing expectations. Why Veo 3 reset video. Why Midjourney still feels magicalWhy workflows (not models) are becoming the real creative advantage.Along the way, they spiral into mood boards, personalization hacks, node-based systems, AI video limitations, why Hollywood feels creatively bankrupt, how Grok quietly became a research weapon, and why Midjourney's next move might determine whether it stays an artist's playground or becomes a professional tool.It's opinionated. It's nerdy. It's honest. It's occasionally unhinged.And it's the clearest snapshot of where AI creativity actually stands heading into 2026.If you're trying to keep up, slow down, or figure out where to place your bets next year, this episode is your unfair advantage.---⏱️ Midjourney Fast Hour00:00 – Episode 60 kickoff and end-of-year reflections01:50 – From niche experiment to mainstream behavior04:00 – AI finally reaches non-technical families06:18 – Why working solo in AI can feel isolating09:03 – Music, creativity, and early signs of AI music adoption11:02 – How fast AI actually shipped in 202512:14 – 100+ major releases and why that number matters13:01 – The real start of image editing workflows14:46 – March 2025 was the quiet inflection point16:06 – Multi-modal chat changed prompting forever19:20 – Veo 3 and why video suddenly jumped ahead21:41 – Why Google quietly dominated 202523:00 – Why hype cycles now last 48 hours23:51 – Nano Banana Pro and precision image control26:02 – Grok as a real-time research engine27:49 – Why physics in AI video finally started working29:12 – Nodes, workflows, and why visualization matters30:26 – Why Nano Banana Pro felt like “AGI for images”31:26 – Will 2026 move even faster?32:25 – Release cadence, VC pressure, and reality checks34:03 – Images vs video: who's actually ahead36:18 – Why Grok might be the sleeper winner38:36 – Data, platforms, and why distribution matters41:28 – Consolidation and acquisitions are coming44:14 – What Midjourney must do next45:23 – Image editing as the make-or-break feature48:43 – Workflow fatigue and creative burnout52:50 – Personalization, mood boards, and creative joy56:44 – Why mood boards drove the best work of 202559:12 – Personalization profiles vs mood boards01:00:43 – Why Midjourney still feels different01:02:27 – Scale, permutations, and professional use cases01:06:36 – Resolution, editing, and real production constraints01:10:22 – Why small failures still matter01:13:00 – Hollywood, creativity, and AI backlash01:17:17 – Why creators beat platforms01:22:25 – Audio and voice as the next bottleneck01:23:55 – Constraint-driven prompting in 202601:30:14 – Looking back at January vs now01:38:23 – Final predictions and advice for 202601:42:34 – Season two wrap and sign-off

2026 is a powerful turning point, and in this episode I'm joined by astrologer Deborah Norton to talk about the major astrology themes shaping the year ahead. This is not just another year astrologically. It's a true reset, a rebirth, and the beginning of something entirely new. One of the biggest shifts is Saturn moving into Aries, starting a brand new 29-year cycle. This energy is all about fresh starts, courage, leadership, and creation. Neptune also moves into Aries, which puts us in what Deborah describes as the primordial soup, a time of chaos, creativity, and possibility. Things may feel stirred up, unclear, or in motion, but this is fertile ground. This is where new worlds are born. The message is clear: start building what you want now. Pluto is now fully in Aquarius, and this is huge. Pluto in Aquarius helps us do things in ways we've never done before. It's not about the “me,” it's about the “we.” This is collective change, innovation, and radical new ways of thinking. We're entering an era of new information, new systems, and pure creativity. Be open to the new, even if it feels unfamiliar. Another big player this year is Uranus in Gemini, bringing breakthroughs in technology, communication, and consciousness. New ideas, new conversations, and new ways of connecting are coming online quickly. Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus are all working together in 2026, supporting massive change and forward momentum. We also talk about key timing moments in 2026, including Neptune's move into Aries on January 26, which kicks off a brand new journey and personal revolution. The Nodes of Fate change signs, with the North Node moving into Aquarius and the South Node into Leo, shifting us away from ego and performance and toward community, collaboration, and collective purpose. There are eclipses in February/March and August, and July stands out as a particularly magical and exciting month. The overall message of 2026? This is a year to do. Aries energy is about action, movement, and creation. This is a powerful time for artists, creators, visionaries, and anyone ready to bring something new into the world. Things are changing fast, making way for newness. The invitation is to get busy, stay open, and consciously create what comes next. Purchase the Cosmic Clarity Bundle at https://www.abundology.com/cosmic-clarity-bundle Learn more and register for Reinvent Your Life at https://www.abundology.com/reinvent-your-life

This week is, somehow, all about nodes... You'll find out why. In the post-Christmas but pre-new-year fog, Mr & Mrs Whitehall convene to shine a light into the year ahead.You can email your questions, thoughts or problems to TheWitteringWhitehalls@gmail.comOr, perhaps you'd like to send a WhatsApp message or Voice note? Why not?! Send them in to +447712147236This episode contains explicit language and adult themes that may not be suitable for all listeners.

In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop sits down with Mike Bakon to explore the fascinating intersection of hardware hacking, blockchain technology, and decentralized systems. Their conversation spans from Mike's childhood fascination with taking apart electronics in 1980s Poland to his current work with ESP32 microcontrollers, LoRa mesh networks, and Cardano blockchain development. They discuss the technical differences between UTXO and account-based blockchains, the challenges of true decentralization versus hybrid systems, and how AI tools are changing the development landscape. Mike shares his vision for incentivizing mesh networks through blockchain technology and explains why he believes mass adoption of decentralized systems will come through abstraction rather than technical education. The discussion also touches on the potential for creating new internet infrastructure using ad hoc mesh networks and the importance of maintaining truly decentralized, permissionless systems in an increasingly surveilled world. You can find Mike in Twitter as @anothervariable.Check out this GPT we trained on the conversationTimestamps00:00 Introduction to Hardware and Early Experiences02:59 The Evolution of AI in Hardware Development05:56 Decentralization and Blockchain Technology09:02 Understanding UTXO vs Account-Based Blockchains11:59 Smart Contracts and Their Functionality14:58 The Importance of Decentralization in Blockchain17:59 The Process of Data Verification in Blockchain20:48 The Future of Blockchain and Its Applications34:38 Decentralization and Trustless Systems37:42 Mainstream Adoption of Blockchain39:58 The Role of Currency in Blockchain43:27 Interoperability vs Bridging in Blockchain47:27 Exploring Mesh Networks and LoRa Technology01:00:25 The Future of AI and DecentralizationKey Insights1. Hardware curiosity drives innovation from childhood - Mike's journey into hardware began as a child in 1980s Poland, where he would disassemble toys like battery-powered cars to understand how they worked. This natural curiosity about taking things apart and understanding their inner workings laid the foundation for his later expertise in microcontrollers like the ESP32 and his deep understanding of both hardware and software integration.2. AI as a research companion, not a replacement for coding - Mike uses AI and LLMs primarily as research tools and coding companions rather than letting them write entire applications. He finds them invaluable for getting quick answers to coding problems, analyzing Git repositories, and avoiding the need to search through Stack Overflow, but maintains anxiety when AI writes whole functions, preferring to understand and write his own code.3. Blockchain decentralization requires trustless consensus verification - The fundamental difference between blockchain databases and traditional databases lies in the consensus process that data must go through before being recorded. Unlike centralized systems where one entity controls data validation, blockchains require hundreds of nodes to verify each block through trustless consensus mechanisms, ensuring data integrity without relying on any single authority.4. UTXO vs account-based blockchains have fundamentally different architectures - Cardano uses an extended UTXO model (like Bitcoin but with smart contracts) where transactions consume existing UTXOs and create new ones, keeping the ledger lean. Ethereum uses account-based ledgers that store persistent state, leading to much larger data requirements over time and making it increasingly difficult for individuals to sync and maintain full nodes independently.5. True interoperability differs fundamentally from bridging - Real blockchain interoperability means being able to send assets directly between different blockchains (like sending ADA to a Bitcoin wallet) without intermediaries. This is possible between UTXO-based chains like Cardano and Bitcoin. Bridges, in contrast, require centralized entities to listen for transactions on one chain and trigger corresponding actions on another, introducing centralization risks.6. Mesh networks need economic incentives for sustainable infrastructure - While technologies like LoRa and Meshtastic enable impressive decentralized communication networks, the challenge lies in incentivizing people to maintain the hardware infrastructure. Mike sees potential in combining blockchain-based rewards (like earning ADA for running mesh network nodes) with existing decentralized communication protocols to create self-sustaining networks.7. Mass adoption comes through abstraction, not education - Rather than trying to educate everyone about blockchain technology, mass adoption will happen when developers can build applications on decentralized infrastructure that users interact with seamlessly, without needing to understand the underlying blockchain mechanics. Users should be able to benefit from decentralization through well-designed interfaces that abstract away the complexity of wallets, addresses, and consensus mechanisms.

In this special wrap-up episode, we take a big-picture look at the astrology shaping the rest of 2025 and what's already unfolding as we move into 2026. We cover the major outer planet shifts redefining our collective direction, including Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, Pluto, and the Nodes changing signs, plus the most important eclipses and retrogrades you need to know about. This episode connects the themes of compassion, courage, innovation, creativity, and restructuring — helping you understand how personal growth and global change are mirroring each other, and what to consciously work with as we close one chapter and step into the next.SUBSCRIBE FOR AD-FREE LISTENING:✩https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/blameitonthestars/subscribeFOLLOW US:✩ www.youtube.com/@blmethestarsSending you good vibes!

I didn't come to Meshtastic with a plan.I bought a cheap purple device off Etsy for about fifty-five dollars because I'd heard the word a few times and vaguely understood it meant LoRa mesh messaging. I wasn't a prepper. I'm not a ham. I didn't have a scenario in mind. The buy-in was low enough that curiosity won.I live on the 8th floor in Arlington Heights, with windows facing southeast. From that height, there's a clear line of sight over a golf course and across low-rise terrain toward the Gaylord MGM. That's not a metaphor or a thought experiment. It's just geography. If you're going to put a radio somewhere, elevation and openness matter.So I plugged it in and turned it on.At first, it behaved like a gadget. I paired it with my phone. Sent a few test messages. Watched nodes appear and disappear. It worked, which was reassuring, but nothing about it felt consequential. Traffic was sparse. Most activity looked like people checking in, not routing through.I left it on.That turned out to matter more than anything I did deliberately.Over time, it became clear that Meshtastic doesn't reward interaction. It rewards presence. Nodes that come and go don't contribute much beyond their own visibility. Nodes that stay up quietly start to matter in ways that aren't obvious from the app.Eventually, I changed the device role from node to router. Not out of altruism, but because the device was stationary, wall-powered, and well-placed. Letting it sleep made no sense. A sleeping radio with good placement is just wasted capacity.That's where the friction started.Router mode changes how the device behaves. Power management becomes aggressive. Bluetooth access becomes opportunistic instead of persistent. From the phone's perspective, it feels unreliable. From the network's perspective, it's doing exactly what it should.There was a stretch where Bluetooth access felt broken. It wasn't. The control plane was sleeping while the radio stayed active. Once I connected over USB and adjusted the settings with that in mind, the behavior made sense. Deep sleep off. Bluetooth given more patience. The display left on, because power wasn't scarce.Once that was done, the device became boring.And boring is the goal.Around the same time, the local Arlington / MeshDC area started showing more consistent LongFast traffic. More ACKs. More multi-hop messages. Nodes sticking around instead of flickering in and out. Not because of anything I personally changed, but because more devices were staying online, placed well, and allowed to just exist.I chose the handle ABRA. Originally short for Abraham. That felt too personal. Now it's Abracadabra, which fits better. I connected the node to MQTT so it appears on the global map, which is still quietly astonishing. A little purple radio in a window, visible via the modern web, routing messages it doesn't need to read.Most of the coordination, discussion, and culture happens elsewhere anyway. Discord. Reddit. The meta layer. The mesh itself just moves packets.What I learned wasn't radio theory or emergency planning. It was simpler.Meshtastic works best when you stop treating nodes like personal devices and start treating them like infrastructure. Infrastructure doesn't demand attention. It needs uptime, placement, and restraint.I didn't set out to build anything. I just left something on in a good place.Everything else followed.

PREVIEW Guest: Henry Sokolski. Sokolski describes a new warfare tactic piloted by Russia that utilizes non-nuclear strategic weapons to disable critical infrastructure nodes, such as electricity and communications. While China is actively building these intercontinental systems to force surrender without nuclear fallout, the U.S. currently lacks a coherent response to this specific threat.

This is your daily horoscope for Saturday, December 20, and the most important aspects of the day:Moon in Capricorn conjunct Mars in Capricorn (5am PT) Mercury in Sagittarius square the Nodes (8am PT) Sun in Sagittarius square Neptune in Pisces (5pm PT) Venus in Sagittarius square Saturn in Pisces (9pm PT) Join Grimoire: Learn Astrology, Tarot & Strengthen Your Intuition, Magic + So Much MoreBook an Astrology Reading with StephanieJoin Next Month's Meet-Up: (Available on the Purr Tier for $10)Support the show

Welcome to the Celestial Insights Podcast, the show that brings the stars down to Earth! Each week, astrologer, coach, and intuitive Celeste Brooks of Astrology by Celeste will be your guide. Her website is astrologybyceleste.com.  

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How are you feeling today? Drop an emoji in the comments. It helps me know this guidance is supporting you, and it tells the algorithm to keep bringing these messages to you each day.Even if you're finding this on a different day, there's something here meant for you. The timing never gets in the way of the message that wants to land.Today we're shifting from the intensity of the Leo Moon into the steady focus of the Virgo Moon. This brings a calmer, more grounded space to sort through what the last few days have stirred up. But to get to that turning point, there's a big epiphany rising — and it may feel powerful, emotional, or even a little shocking.Mercury is preparing to leave Scorpio, standing opposite Uranus one last time. That's where the lightning-strike clarity comes from. Add in Venus squaring the Nodes and Neptune stationing direct, and you have a day full of realizations, release, and the beginning of a new chapter.In this reading, we'll explore:• Why you may feel unsure about your next step• What the Page of Pentacles reversed is revealing• The opportunity shown by the Two of Wands• How to protect your energy as revelations land• Why the Mercury–Uranus “lightning” brings truth, not chaos• How Saturn, Mars, and Pluto are helping you step into a transformation you're ready forIf you want the written horoscopes, the Moon Gateway overview, or a chart-based report that shows where these transits land for you personally, visit SchedulingFate.com. You can also send in a question for a recorded answer or grab one of the limited Zoom reading spots.I hope today's message brings clarity and confidence as you move toward what's next.See you over at Scheduling Fate.GET YOUR PERSONALIZED RECORDED READING @SCHEDULINGFATE.COM✅ Book a recorded or Zoom reading here: https://www.schedulingfate.com/book-online❤️ Get your personalized reports here: https://www.schedulingfate.com/category/all-products

This is your daily horoscope for Wednesday, December 10, and the most important aspects of the day:Neptune Stations Direct in Pisces (4am PT) Mercury in Scorpio opposite Uranus in Taurus (12pm PT) Venus in Sagittarius square the Nodes (9:30pm PT) Moon in Virgo square Venus in Sagittarius (11:30pm PT) Join Grimoire: Learn Astrology, Tarot & Strengthen Your Intuition, Magic + So Much MoreBook an Astrology Reading with StephanieJoin Next Month's Meet-Up: (Available on the Purr Tier for $10)Support the show

How are you feeling today? Drop an emoji in the comments. It helps me know this guidance is supporting you, and it tells the algorithm to keep bringing these messages to you each day.Even if you're finding this on a different day, there's something here meant for you. The timing never gets in the way of the message that wants to land.Today we're shifting from the intensity of the Leo Moon into the steady focus of the Virgo Moon. This brings a calmer, more grounded space to sort through what the last few days have stirred up. But to get to that turning point, there's a big epiphany rising — and it may feel powerful, emotional, or even a little shocking.Mercury is preparing to leave Scorpio, standing opposite Uranus one last time. That's where the lightning-strike clarity comes from. Add in Venus squaring the Nodes and Neptune stationing direct, and you have a day full of realizations, release, and the beginning of a new chapter.In this reading, we'll explore: • Why you may feel unsure about your next step • What the Page of Pentacles reversed is revealing • The opportunity shown by the Two of Wands • How to protect your energy as revelations land • Why the Mercury–Uranus “lightning” brings truth, not chaos • How Saturn, Mars, and Pluto are helping you step into a transformation you're ready forIf you want the written horoscopes, the Moon Gateway overview, or a chart-based report that shows where these transits land for you personally, visit SchedulingFate.com. You can also send in a question for a recorded answer or grab one of the limited Zoom reading spots.I hope today's message brings clarity and confidence as you move toward what's next. See you over at Scheduling Fate.GET YOUR PERSONALIZED RECORDED READING @SCHEDULINGFATE.COM✅ Book a recorded or Zoom reading here: https://www.schedulingfate.com/book-online❤️ Get your personalized reports here: https://www.schedulingfate.com/category/all-products

Holiday Specials Are LIVE! Our biggest offers of the year are here. Up to 50% off transformational journeys to carry you into 2026. From Body Wisdom to Archetype IX, through Dec 31 only — then they close. Explore the Holiday Offers Details here This Dec 8–14 Embodied Astrology forecast explores one of the most magical weeks of the year as Neptune goes direct, Uranus brings final wake-up shifts, and Sedna + Lilith activate your destiny line. With Merlin alchemy, Chiron healing, underworld insights, and powerful feminine–masculine union codes, this week opens a rare portal for rapid evolution and deep energetic upgrades. If you're ready to shed the old, ignite your purpose, and align with the 2026 field, this episode gives you the tools and timing to work the magic—not miss it. Episode Highlights: Neptune Direct dissolves old identities and accelerates 2026-level shedding. Uranus shifts reveal hidden patterns and spark radical breakthroughs. Sedna + Lilith activate the Nodes of Fate for destiny shifts and inner-union healing. Sun–Merlin + Chiron opens a portal of high magic, deep healing, and alchemy. Mercury's psychopomp path uncovers what you’re ready to release—and become. ReWilding Holiday Special Offers!  Step into the Brightest, Truest You in 2026 Save up to 50% on holiday specials that were crafted to hold you through the transitions ahead — to support your next becoming with depth, clarity, and the kind of soul-aligned momentum that changes everything. Offer ends Dec 31st ► Details here Dragon Sessions — Holiday Special Offer Save 50% Awaken your inner alchemist and learn to transmute anything—from shadow to gold—with the high-magic, Merlin-coded practices that power real transformation. 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This is not a “normal” week — Mars squares Saturn, Mercury shocks Uranus, Venus hits the Nodes, and Neptune finally moves forward.If you've been waiting for a sign, a shift, or a breaking point — this is it.We start under a fiery Leo Moon, move into Virgo clarity, and end in Libra recalibration. What was revealed during last week's Full Moon is now being tested, sorted, and put into motion.

This week is not business as usual. We're entering December under a long void moon, heading straight into a Gemini Full Moon, a Sun–Nodes square, Mars trine Chiron, and a Mercury–Jupiter breakthrough transit that closes one chapter and opens another.If you've been waiting for clarity, movement, or a sign — this is it.✨ WATCH + STAY AHEAD OF:Longest void moon  (don't start anything new)Full Moon in Gemini at 13° (what's revealed + released)Sun square Nodes (karmic turning point)Mars trine Chiron (healing → power)Mercury trine Jupiter (third + final activation)What to do / what not to do this week

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This is your daily horoscope for Friday, December 5, and the most important aspects of the day:Sun in Sagittarius square the Nodes (4am PT) Moon in Gemini opposite Mars in Sagittarius (6am PT) Moon in Gemini square Saturn in Pisces (10am PT) Mars in Sagittarius trine Chiron in Aries (2pm PT) Moon in Gemini square Neptune in Pisces (5pm PT) Moon enters Cancer (6pm PT) Join Grimoire: Learn Astrology, Tarot & Strengthen Your Intuition, Magic + So Much MoreBook an Astrology Reading with StephanieJoin Next Month's Meet-Up: (Available on the Purr Tier for $10)Support the show

This Gemini Full Moon marks a karmic turning point where old narratives collapse and new pathways demand to be chosen. With the Moon and Sun bending the Nodes, information, instincts, and buried truths surface in a way you can't ignore. This is the moment where clarity rises from shadows — and the decision you make becomes a pivot your future will be built on.⬇️The 3-Day 180 Retreat (Feb 26, 2026)https://www.nicolefrolick.com/3-day-180-retreat⬇️The Unf*ckable YES 11-11 Transmissionhttps://www.nicolefrolick.com/unfckable-yes-p⬇️Work With Nicole 1:1https://www.nicolefrolick.com/work-with-nicole⬇️Healing Game Changerhttps://www.nicolefrolick.com/healing-breakthroughCONNECT w/ MARY Website: http://www.marydusina.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mary.dusina.7 IG: https://www.instagram.com/mary.dusina31   SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOWIf you're enjoying the show, please subscribe to iTunes and leave me a 5 star review!  This is what helps the podcast stand out from the crowd and allows me to help people find a refreshing spin on spirituality with a great blend of entertainment and credible advice.Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/3wa5dnwjWebsite: http://nicolefrolick.com/Meditations: https://www.nicolefrolick.com/meditationsYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/user/nicolefrolickInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolefrolick/Tiktok: https://tiktok.com/@nicolefrolickSpotify: shorturl.at/fikF7iTunes: http://apple.co/2ve7DtETIMESTAMPS00:00 Intro1:22 Gemini Full Moon54:43 Aries59:16 Taurus1:04:05 Gemini1:08:12 Cancer1:11:19 Leo1:14:58 Virgo1:17:13 Libra1:19:55 Scorpio1:23:46 Sagittarius1:26:47 Capricorn1:30:10 Aquarius1:32:14 Pisces

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Welcome to the Celestial Insights Podcast, the show that brings the stars down to Earth! Each week, astrologer, coach, and intuitive Celeste Brooks of Astrology by Celeste will be your guide. Her website is astrologybyceleste.com.  

Send us a textConnect with Astrologer Hilary Harley:  https://hilaryharley.com/astrology/Listen to Mystical Messages podcast: https://mysticalmessages.libsyn.com/Book your 2026 readings now: www.jilljardineastrology.comhttps://jilljardine.com/  Check out Jill's New Book:  Sacred Sound Formulas to Awaken the Modern Mind: Sanskrit Mantras to Raise Your VibrationReady for a year that moves faster, feels lighter, and asks you to choose boldly? We sit down with master astrologer Hilary Harley to map the real pressure points and open lanes of 2026—so you can time launches, protect energy, and ride the wind instead of fighting it. January opens soft, then pivots hard into an Aquarian wave as the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars meet Pluto. Neptune's shift into Aries signals the end of vague vibes and the start of proof-driven action. February is the jolt: a Leo full moon collides with Uranus direct in Taurus, a new moon solar eclipse lands in Aquarius, and Mercury retrograde cuts between eclipses. Translation: breakthrough energy with logistical static—smart to delay big purchases, double-check travel, and treat surprises as strategy prompts.By March, the skies clear. Jupiter turns direct in Cancer, a final-degree Pisces new moon resets intuition, Mercury moves direct, and the Sun enters Aries. That sequence creates one of the best launch windows of the year for new offers, creative work, and business pivots. Then comes the structural shift: Uranus re-enters Gemini for seven years, aligning with Pluto in Aquarius. Expect acceleration in communication, media, mobility, and learning—plus sharper contrasts between fear-led narratives and curiosity-led growth. We break down how to choose your stream, build resilient routines, and harness the air-era momentum without burning out.We also spotlight May's dual full moons and money signals, late June's rapid pileup with Jupiter into Leo, and a second-half roadmap: nodes moving to Leo–Aquarius, August eclipses, and fall retrogrades that reassess love, budgets, and deals. Here's a summary of 2026: January offers setup time; February ignites with eclipses and Mercury retrograde; March opens a clean runway; Uranus in Gemini accelerates ideas, media, and mobility.• January calm followed by an Aquarius surge• Neptune enters Aries and demands results• February eclipses plus Uranus direct shake values• Mercury retrograde between eclipses complicates travel and tech• March relief with Jupiter direct and a prime launch window• Uranus returns to Gemini and speeds communication• May integration with two full moons and money themes• Late June cluster and Jupiter into Leo boost creativity• Nodes shift to Leo–Aquarius and August eclipses return• Fall retrogrades reset love, money, and agreements• Year ends steadier with Saturn and Neptune direct in AriesMake sure you download, share, subscribe, and give us a five-star reviewSupport the show

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Today's Daily Vibe is one of those days you don't want to sleep through.The Capricorn Moon wants progress, not promises — and Mars squaring the Nodes is pushing you to drop what's draining you and move toward what actually feels aligned. If you feel restless or “done,” that's not random. That's the shift.And tonight? Mercury meets Venus in Scorpio while Mercury is retrograde — which means a conversation, decision, or relationship theme is circling back for closure, truth, or a second chance. What you say (or don't say) now matters.Tarot confirms it: gratitude opens the door, old rules are ready to be rewritten, and slow, steady effort is the real power move.If you want the deeper breakdown for your Sun or Rising sign, the written horoscopes, reports, and recorded readings are waiting at SchedulingFate.com — and Moon Gateway members already have the 2026 calendar, so they're way ahead of the curve.Like, comment, or drop an emoji if this hits — it keeps the free videos coming.

Welcome to the Celestial Insights Podcast, the show that brings the stars down to Earth! Each week, astrologer, coach, and intuitive Celeste Brooks of Astrology by Celeste will be your guide. Her website is astrologybyceleste.com.  

This is your daily horoscope for Monday, November 24, and the most important aspects of the day:Mars in Sagittarius square the Nodes (5:30am PT) Moon in Capricorn sextile Venus in Scorpio (11:30am PT)Moon in Capricorn sextile Mercury in Scorpio (12:30pm PT)Moon in Capricorn opposite Jupiter in Cancer (4pm PT)Moon in Capricorn sextile Saturn in Pisces (5pm PT)Venus in Scorpio conjunct Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio (6pm PT)Book an Astrology, Mediumship or Psychic Reading with StephanieLearn more about Death Penalty ActionJoin next month's meet-up: (Available on the Purr Tier for $10)Support the show

PREVIEW. Russia Attacks Ukraine's Energy Nodes: Expecting a Hard Winter. John Hardie discusses Russia's attacks on Ukrainian energy nodes, meaning large cities like Kyiv may only have about 12 hours of electricity daily. This lack of power will put extreme pressure on Ukrainian civilian life during the winter. Moscow hopes freezing the population will break Ukrainian will and add leverage to their negotiating position, though this tactic has not worked in the past two winters. 1940 UKRAINE

HEADLINE: US Intelligence, Tomahawks, and Escalation in the Ukraine War GUEST NAMES: John Hardie, Bill Roggio SUMMARY: The US is considering providing Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles, potentially facilitating strikes on Russian energy nodes using US intelligence. While Russia warns of escalation, experts believe their response will likely be strengthening air defense rather than direct conflict with NATO. Ukrainian officials are urgently seeking air defense systems due to increasing Russian missile and drone production. 1957

HEADLINE: US Intelligence, Tomahawks, and Escalation in the Ukraine War GUEST NAMES: John Hardie, Bill Roggio SUMMARY: The US is considering providing Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles, potentially facilitating strikes on Russian energy nodes using US intelligence. While Russia warns of escalation, experts believe their response will likely be strengthening air defense rather than direct conflict with NATO. Ukrainian officials are urgently seeking air defense systems due to increasing Russian missile and drone production. 1958