Introducing ... The Wirepine Weekly DIGEST
20 articles in 20 days
Big lie! Count my First! post and it’s 21 articles in 145 days; not an interesting subtitle. It’s precisely 20 articles in 130 days. Or weekly 🙄
I’ll publish the Digest every so often with all the articles since the last one so you can catch up. Peruse the list and pick out an article to read while your belly is full, you're riding the tryptophan 🦃 wave on the couch and avoiding eye contact with your crazy aunt.
100 Subscribers 💯
101 to be precise! Hit it after last week’s post which was a good one. Thank you everyone who signed up or read an article - I appreciate you 💟 Perhaps … as you read, you subscribe? or share? Crazy Aunt could use a good read.
The Digest
I went back through all 20 articles, and they split into two categories: Small Business & Big Tech (SBBT) and Personal Tech (PT). I've grouped them below in reverse chronological order with a summary for each. No surprise me button so I listed the top 3 (most popular) for each category.
Small Business & Big Tech
What's the best business model ever? Who knew selling stuff could be so much fun.
What’s in a name? How the internets were almost called Gophers and now I'm wondering how I wrote that article without a Caddy Shack reference.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. ChatGPT writes my press release announcing Wirepine to the world and how is it AI is creating videos already!?
Lego my Logo! This started as a treatise on Logos and devolved into an homage to Legos. Oh and waffles 🧇
You have two kinds of customers. You gotta do the work to give your current customers love and keep in touch and there is no better way than email.
What if ... you couldn't send Email to your customers? I'll pen more 'What ifs' - mini case studies of customer scenarios that can be generalized. I based these on a popular series of blog posts Mark Russinovich used to author all starting with 'The Case of the …'
Wix versus WordPress. Serious parallels with BarbenHeimer in this bakeoff between two of the most popular website authoring tools
Wirepine Inaugural Annual Triathlon. Tri for Tech💪🏽Little spoof on the world of performance athletes in the pursuit of creating a social media campaign.
How do you look on your Phone? You might design your site on a PC but your users are going to read it on a much smaller screen - so make sure it's right!
No Serif for you! Fonts are a lot - KISS on your site and serif fonts are not popular rn
Do you need Business Cards? I thought not and then thought so and then made some and so should you.
First! My first article announcing my initial plans for newsletter and wirepine. Nice to read this one again and nothing has changed.
Personal Tech
Top three: #1, #5 & #4 (2 parter!), #2
Crypto boy is going to jail. All about SBFs fall from crypto King to crypto Clown, what went wrong along the way and how might Crypto rise from the ashes?
The Wacky World of Wearables. Digging up the gems for the colorful history in this space from Glassholes and the Google Glass frenzy to what may come as innovations continue in VR. Oh and lots of mocking of Mark Zuckerberg.
Can I eat ALL the Cookies 🍪🍪🍪. What do those ever-present and super annoying Cookie popups on websites mean and should I worry, or should I care?
Of course I didn't break it! 😅 Part II of the spellbinding saga of my neighbors iMac repair. In this one I go deep into both Planned Obsolescence and Dynamic Obsolescence as these both feed a cycle of consumerism that is part of the larger crisis of Humans mucking up the planet.
Will Andrew Break it? Part I touching on the right-to-repair battle in consumer electronics and I wax poetic about Apples design fondly remember my first Mac that I have yet to write about but I must because it's painted green and is adorbs.
AI Hot Take🔥Don't buy into the doom-and-gloom about the end of world. Even if it is why worry?
Cybersecurity Fundamentals. Born out of the inherent limitations of password propogation and complexity, still they remain critical so how to manage them without losing your everlovin mind?
Before the Screens. Soppy retrospective of a pre-teen Andrew making smiley faces on greenbar paper and printing 'Andrew is Great' a million times all over the floor at Hollywood High.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
best, Andrew