Dave Ryan 🦋 @daves.social

Been super impressed with the user experience of @EventKoi but also the very-intentional approach it takes to extend WordPress -- think it's paving a road many will follow!

@mikemcalister @calgarywebdev @KadenceWP

@calgarywebdev @0aveRyan @KadenceWP Funny enough, we actually have the infrastructure to do this already. 😎 We built user-collections into Ollie from the very start, we just never officially rolled it out. Seems like a good time to revisit this.

Predictably, we're getting a lot of questions from @KadenceWP users curious about transitioning to Ollie. I'm happy to answer any questions here or even do a livestream if helpful. 👨🏻‍💻 What are the killer Kadence features that keep you in that ecosystem? Let me know!

@calgarywebdev @mikemcalister @KadenceWP Oh I love the Ollie Library 😎 Kadence syncing/hosting the media is the real power feature though. I've seen agencies create per-client API keys in addition to a global, shared API key to distribute subset and shared patterns like a mini Patterns as a Service SaaS.

@0aveRyan @mikemcalister @KadenceWP ^ the Ollie design library is much better UX. All Mike would have to do is build a way for devs to swap his patterns and starter sites with their own (via api key and url perhaps). That might even be enough to replace the starter sites (although the plugin import part is needed)

The US labor force is a living, breathing map. 🇺🇸 Watch the number of counties with labor forces in structural decline spread like a virus across America between 2010 and 2025. Shout out to @JMBDaecius for the idea to do this. #Economics #LaborForce #Trends

When you're excited your truly mediocre, middling ISP is finally getting some competition and then you check the Tea and @om brewed it perfectly, piping hot. Spectacular writing, serious bummer to read 😅 TL;DR - Google Fiber probably isn't next ISP bae. om.co/2026/03/27/ast…

What's the most ironic time to get a text your home Internet is down? 4:04 🤣

@bgardner @mikemcalister @BuildWithOllie Ball is for all 😎 Hope you'll be packing up tomorrow to join us for the lil' local WordPress picnic ✌️

@mikemcalister @BuildWithOllie Among the many great things about this, is that you guys are making it exceptionally easy for me to pack up and bring my 🏀 to another court. 🤣

🚨 Huge day for Ollie — we just released an eCommerce pattern collection and a whole suite of designs, blocks, and templates for WooCommerce. Beautiful eCommerce made simple. Check it out here and watch the video in the thread below: 🛍️ olliewp.com/ollie-for-wooc…

"Journalistic integrity aside, I don’t know how I can give a better example of what’s at stake here. We have an example of what appears to be another AI reinterpreting this story and hallucinating false information about me. And that interpretation has already been published in a major news outlet, as part of the persistent public record." theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-pu…

New Ollie extension just dropped – Smart Sync ⚡ Sync your style changes across grids, columns, and groups. Style dozens of items in just a few seconds. Start building smarter and faster today with Smart Sync in Ollie Pro. olliewp.com/pro

Crossed a pretty satisfying personal milestone today about 20 months in the making: 24 doses of vaccines to retrain my immune system to be resilient in the modern world post-transplant. Very glad to be done with arm punches for a while, very grateful and fortunate to get them.

We used to hunt the bug down in the codebase with our bare eyes

@mikemcalister @shaunandrews I still CLI every now and then, /session helps go between app and terminal, but I would not have gotten a full podcast client cooked as fast in the terminal 🎧

@mikemcalister @shaunandrews I've got a few gripes, like: I want all the flags as UI options 😎 but much prefer the AskUserQuestion in the desktop app and I find it's nice to keep terminal for build tools and sessions near chats.

Is there an app that gives Claude Code a better UI? I am using it in terminal in Cursor's sidebar but it's kind of hard to read and interact with.

@nickmdiego @mikemcalister Yep, same. Separation of concerning copilots, or something 😅

@mikemcalister Yeah, I'm using the same setup. Do you find that you're actually using the AI tools in Cursor anymore? I find myself only using Claude Code or Codex. Thinking about making the switch back to VSCode.

I'm willing to pay for convenience. Time is precious. Plenty of apps and services I gladly pay for. It's also become convenient to cook right-sized, tailored solutions with workflows, whistles, AI and data where you want them. Made my own podcast client and todo/grocery SaaS 😎

I’ve spent over a decade helping others learn to develop, create plugins, and extend #WordPress. But I’d never actually published my own plugin. That changed last week with something that drew me to contributing to the WP Training Team & #LearnWP years ago. courtneyr.dev/2025/12/03/pos…

First time launching a product, and it's a #WordPress plugin called PodcasterPlus Blocks. Still some work to do on the site, but the product is pretty cool! podcasterplus.com If you don't get what it does, please reach out, more vids coming soon! Excited! With @danmaby

@richtabor But first migrate your server, then redo your DXP and workflow, next you can worry about frontend and only then can you write the words. Just did step one 😅

literally me 😂