A more accurate framing would be that Fizzy is source available. You can read it, run it, and modify it. But DHH’s company is keeping the SaaS rights because they want to be able to build a sustainable business. That is defensible and generous, but it is not open source. Dries Buytaert follows up on my response to …
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Dec 09
Open Channels FM: Growth, Hackathons, and Gratitude Lessons from an Eventful 2025
Zach Stepek and Carl Alexander recap their 2025 experiences, highlighting personal growth, industry events, business developments, and health journeys. They emphasize gratitude and reflect on goals for a promising 2026.
Dec 09
Introducing Sugar Calendar Bookings – The Easiest Way to Accept Appointments in WordPress
Tired of losing clients because your booking system is clunky, costly, or confusing? Often, it’s because the booking form felt overwhelming, or your scheduling tool sent customers off-site to finish the booking — breaking the flow and costing you conversions. Now imagine an appointment booking plugin that handles everything right within WordPress. That means you …
Dec 09
Matt: DHH & Open Source
I might have a new prayer: God, give me confidence of DHH claiming his proprietary license is Open Source. 37signals/Basecamp has a great new product called Fizzy, whose brilliance and innovative qualities are being distracted from by its co-creator David Heinmeier Hansson’s insistence on calling it open source. “One more thing… Fizzy is open source …
Dec 08
Can You Delete a Google Review? Here’s What You Can Do Instead
Negative Google reviews can be stressful, especially when they’re fake, unfair, or harming your business’s reputation. These reviews don’t just influence customer trust. They can also impact where your business appears in the Google search results. The truth is that you usually can’t delete reviews left by others. But there are ways to deal with …
Dec 07
Matt: Happy Birthday Kinsey
Yesterday I had the great honor and privilege of attending a colleague’s 70th birthday party. You may not have heard his name before, but Kinsey Wilson has been at the center of shaping journalism with a movie-worthy career that started at the bottom as a crime reporter in Chicago, and has taken him to the …
Dec 06
Matt: Self-driving
There has been some lovely writing about self-driving this week, first in the New York Times where Jonathan Slotkin makes the medical case for autonomous vehicles. But I was really taken by The Economist’s look at how self-driving cars will transform urban economies. It’s behind a paywall. I enjoyed how they thought about the second-order …
Dec 06
Matt: AI Native
James LePage has a great write-up, SOTW 2025:The Year WordPress Became AI-Native.
Dec 06
Gutenberg Times: State of the Word, WordPress 6.9 “Gene”, Playground Year-Review — Weekend Edition #352
Hi there, How did the upgrade to WordPress 6.9 go for you and those around you? Did anything break? Or are you waiting for 6.9.1 to come out? Once in a while I get a question on how I keep up with the fast progress and the vast range of updates in Gutenberg and WordPress …
Dec 05
I added WhatsApp chat to WordPress and engagement instantly went up
Most of your visitors already use WhatsApp every day to talk with friends and family. So giving them that same simple way to reach your business just makes sense. When contacting you feels as easy as sending a quick message, people are far more likely to reach out. On my own WordPress websites, I’ve seen …