🦋s1m0nd WP-centric Product Director for hire. Ex @WordPressVIP, now consulting via Tintou Ltd. Enjoys cycling in circles: world top 20 &🥈🥉 at 🇮🇪 Masters.
Thatcham, Berks, UK, Europe
Joined January 2007
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It's taken more than 5 years, but I finally have a separate website for my professional activity through Tintou Studio. tintou.simondickson.co.uk
There used to be a great little online PWA for doing this, but it went away - so I made a new one. If you're a track cyclist, you'll know why you need it.
Side project from our tech team: VeloTimer, a combined countdown timer & stopwatch, to help track cyclists preparing for standing-start events. Best feature: it can replicate the 'beep! beep! beeeeep!' pattern of various velodromes (with optional echo). velotimer.pages.dev
We just released v2.0 of Alpaca Issue Tracker for WordPress, with a feature from our science-fiction list: Fix With AI turns issue reports into draft code fixes with a single click. (Currently only supports GitHub & Claude, but we'll listen to feedback.)
youtube.com/watch?v=iIOkZpqg…
Alpaca itself remains free and open source - although you may incur a cost through your use of AI platforms; and the feature is opt-in, shown only to the users you trust.
More details in our blog post: alpacaissuetracker.com/posts…
Great work on this by my partners at @rareview - and special thanks to WP VIP's @whyisjake for helping us with the licensing on his agentic development template.
My confidence in AI these days: perfectly happy giving Luna full admin access to my wp-admin back-end and write access via REST API, to make a ton of metadata edits that I could never practically have found the time to do.
Time to get back into the WordCamp habit. I'm doing a flying visit up to Manchester for @wcmcr on Fri 6 Nov: 1st train out, 2nd-last train home (not risking it). Wonder how many of us are still around, & remember how these things work. #SayWhatYoureThinking #SoundsGoodToMe
Trump's latest rebrand: AI. He just told the UN: 'From this point forward, all of United States documents, and hopefully the the world will be changed to use the much more accurate term super as opposed to artificial. Welcome to the new world of superintelligence - SI.'
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Too right from @Dannythefink politics is all about mood, creating narratives and persuading people in order to win arguments. We’d almost forgotten what good politics is until Burnham came along #earlydays
"Can I speak up for vibes?"
@Dannythefink says 'vibes-based politics' can bring real political advantages, as Nigel Farage has shown.
“[It can create] a group of people around you who really go out and fight for you.”
🗳️How To Win An Election
🎧pod.fo/e/5c56a2
I don't talk much about family/bike stuff on here... but this is my daughter, and she is Ireland's national elite-level keirin champion. ☘️ instagram.com/reel/DcY3DFhNh…
Go and like her video, I can't tell you how much she deserves it.
@CyclingIreland @sticky_bottle
Oh the irony of working on a service status (liveblog) plugin, whilst constantly refreshing the GitHub service status page to see when I can get back to work.
At least it's giving me lots of ideas for features I'd like to see in a liveblog/status site...
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Thank you @CountBinface, we'll take it from here.
ALT A generated sketched style image of Paddington Bear escorting Count Binface back to his home planet following the Clacton By-Election
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In the UK, but not paying for HBO/TNT? Live velodrome coverage currently on BBC Alba (commentary in Scots Gaelic), available via iPlayer
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🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham does not plan to wear a shirt and tie as Prime Minister unless he's in the Commons
[@thetimes]
I've had something of an obsession about liveblog plugins for WordPress for many years.
I have a first working version of a brand new plugin, designed for Gutenberg, with optional use of Cloudflare. All the features you expect, plus a few new ideas.
Anyone interested?
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The two most watched moments of the year so far on British TV have taken place after midnight.
You wanna know where the name Code For The People came from?
Me & Simon Wheatley spent months trying to find a name for our proposed agency. We both respected Automattic, so we tried spawning some ideas off that. I thought of the REM album, Automatic For The People. Yeah? Yeah.
I watched the Code For The People movie. I'm not in it. Then again, nor is anyone else from the community who isn't on the A8c payroll. Which is a little awkward for a film talking up WP's community credentials.