Stephen Callender

@AdmireTheWeb @imgix @WordPress We'd love to have you try SmallPics.io. We run Foster Commerce, a custom dev shop, and got tired of Imgix pricing.

Not sure what's going on with @imgix, but their pricing is constantly changing and their USP of high quality images is totally thrown in the bin when the image in the footer is super pixelated... What are you using to offload & serve media from @wordpress, because let's be honest, EVERYONE should be doing this. WP should be used as a CMS, not to deliver media.

@johnrushx SmallPics.io in place of Imgix.

I've spent $76,082.42 in August 😓 Can you help me reduce this? Contractors: -$10,137.78 Amazon Web Services: -$4,480.12 MongoDB: -$4,251.50 Google Workspace: -$1,913.61 Google Cloud: -$2,134.74 PayPal: -$4,678.55 Exa: -$1,549.00 Cloudflare: -$350.20 OpenAI: -$15,486.83 Anthtopic: -$16,001.22 BunnyCDN: -$170.00 Notion: -$338.00 Figma: -$420.00 Zoho Corporation: -$374.15 Scrshotone: -$146.00 Ghostinspector: -$190.83 DigitalOcean: -$148.26 Imgix: -$808.12 Pinecone Systems: -$61.47 Mailgun: -$96.51 Grammarly: -$144.00 PandaDoc: -$140.00 Jetbrains: -$12.00 Gamma: -$10.00 GitHub: -$14.00 Zoom Video Communications: -$2,434.74 Scrapingbee: -$848.99 Firecrawl: -$175.00 Cursor: -$40.00 Dataforseo: -$100.00 Apify: -$78.00 Devuap LLC: -$19.99 1Password: -$19.95 Statuscake: -$104.48 Atlassian: -$690.00 Perplexity AI: -$204.00 Webshare: -$59.03 QuickBooks: -$75.00 ElevenLabs: -$22.00 Zapier: -$91.13 Apple: -$76.92 Slack: -$137.18 Hushed: -$4.99 StreamYard: -$106.98 Supabase: -$75.00 Microsoft: -$2,319.58 Webflow: -$24.00 Loom: -$15.00 Clerk: -$37.50 Seo Gets: -$29.00 Intercom: -$248.15 Serper: -$1,250.00 Senty Pty Ltd: -$847.27 Hetzner Online: -$864.71 iPostal1: -$9.99 Twilio: -$315.33 Mailjet: -$17.00 Replicate: -$3.50 Crisp: -$540.00 Lordicon: -$16.00 Lovable: -$20.00 Firstpromo: -$84.15 GoDaddy: -$22.19

@robhope I know this is an old tweet, but we were in the same boat! We decided to build SmallPics.io to replace Imgix for our clients. Would love to have some early testers/users. We're not marketers, so just trying to find people to try it out.

My beloved IMGIX has recently changed their pricing model to a credit system. Very confusing and now bumps OPL from $75/mo → $300/mo. Same usage. Costs aside; pls learn from me and don't make the mistake I did of not using a subdomain for your CDN, example: ❌ onepagelove . imgix . net / xyz123 ✅ cdn . onepagelove . com / xyz123 Means you can move CDN providers way easier and keep your old image breadcrumbs (eg. newsletters) alive.

@jasonfried Exactly what we're doing with SmallPics.io. All the big players are doing too much and raising prices to do all those too-many things. We're just entering a proven market with no need to become a VC funded behemoth.

New products don’t need to be revolutionary, life-changing, or disruptive breakthroughs to succeed. Entire categories can roll downhill, gathering complexity as they go. Each product one-upping the next until more becomes too much. The cycle feeds itself, never satiated. Competitors locked in a loop of mutual destruction through perpetual over-improvement. When that happens, the door cracks open for something new. The newcomer doesn’t have to meet the others where they are. It just has to feel right — like someone opened the curtains and let the sun back in. The type of product that lets people exhale and say, “finally!” Not groundbreaking. Just grounded. Standing where everyone else forgot to.

@DelRey @mikeryanretail 100% same experience. And my left eye sees better than my right eye. It's jarring.

@mikeryanretail Prescription. Weird at first but better now, and now weird when I remove them

wearing reading glasses for the first time and don't know if it feels good or if im bout to barf

@amandanat This book is for you. amazon.com/Quiet-Power-In…

I really hate that we've normalized extroversion as the default, and introversion as a flaw that needs to be corrected.

@adamwathan I've been there (am still there). Here's what I've done (some by accident). - Do it more often so it doesn't build up. - Bring evidence of what you've seen so it's not vague/unhelpful (be clear/constructive) - Get to the point. I still sweat. But I used to shake from nerves.

What have you done to get better at being extremely direct and honest with people even if it’s uncomfortable?

@jasonfried We're fighting the good fight on this front for ecommerce software too. linkedin.com/events/7170850…

Something happened to business software. You used to pay for it once, install it, and run it. Whether on someone’s computer, or a server for everyone, it felt like you owned it. And you did. Today, most software is a service. Not owned, but rented. Buying it enters you into a perpetual landlord–tenant agreement. Every month you pay for essentially the same thing you had last month. And if you stop paying, the software stops working. Boom, you’re evicted. For nearly two decades, the SaaS model benefitted landlords handsomely. With routine prayers — and payers — to the Church of Recurring Revenue, valuations shot to the moon on the backs of businesses subscribed at luxury prices for commodity services they had little control over. Add up your SaaS subscriptions last year. You should own that shit by now. SaaS still makes sense for many products, but its grip will slip. Installation and administration used to be hopelessly complicated, but self–hosting tech is simpler now and vastly improved. Plus, IT departments are hungry to run their own IT again, tired of being subservient to Big Tech’s reign clouds. Once upon a time you owned what you paid for, you controlled what you depended on, and your privacy and security were your own business. We think it’s that time again. ONCE.com

@JayBox325 @jimbomorrison @dotjay @jim_savage @BrizaPie @maxsaunders I like creating passwords so I can save them in my password manager. That ends up being a smoother experience for me than needing to revisit my inbox to proceed. However, the app's context and users expectations should probably dictate this per app.

Thoughts? @jimbomorrison @dotjay @jim_savage @BrizaPie @sjcallender @maxsaunders

UX question. Include a password/confirm password field in a registration form or generate a random, secure, password and allow users to change this later? Personally, I love the password-less form and there's arguments for and against it. #UX #UI #Accessibility #A11y

@adamwathan @DotAllConf craftcms.com/events/dot-all…

@adamwathan 100%. A process that helps 1 person, generally helps everyone. We do a lot of routine self-reports. I spoke about it at Craft's @DotAllConf last year.

It's much easier to give feedback when it's designed into your processes vs. having to bring it up by surprise. Some people are great at it, but for those who aren't (🙋‍♂️), making it an explicit step that everyone expects helps a lot.

@37signals FYI: It's more than chats/pings in Basecamp 4. Activity feeds, changing assignees on tasks, heystack notifications and more.

Logins, Chats/Pings in Basecamp 4, and Highrise are still having trouble. Thanks for bearing with us, everyone. Will keep you posted here and at our Status Site: 37status.com

It's job hunt time. I'm looking for full-time engineering remote roles. Actions speak louder than words, so I will avoid the sales pitch and show you all the work I've done in last 3 years as a professional developer 🧵 1/n

@jackmcdade I don't even want to learn to design and I'm already hooked. Bravo! 😁

It's late. Feeling cute, might delete later. 😘 Here's the full first episode of Radical Design. Have a taste of what's to come.

@PiotrPogorzel hey @PiotrPogorzel, I'm sending you a DM on Discord!

I'm looking for someone who worked on integrating Craft Commerce with Baselinker or any similar multichannel sales management system. If you're interested in collaborating, please reach out to me. #CraftCMS

🔥 Summer Sprints Update If you’re looking for a way to save weeks of development time on your ecommerce builds check out our final episode with more about our “mini headless headstart.” Also, we announce the winner of our new @fostercommerce t-shirt! bit.ly/3F0Ndr7

🔥 Summer Sprints Update Glad to be here in Spain @DotAllConf We couldn’t be more proud that before we left we’re at 90% with our "mini headless headstart." Watch for our last episode this week to see a final demo.

🔥 Summer Sprints Update This week we demo a more completed UX for our @craftcms plugin, “Foster Checkout.” Enjoy! bit.ly/3EVIo25

🔥 Summer Sprints Update The @fostercommerce team is getting ready for @DotAllConf! Will you be there? Come say hello 🙂 Meanwhile, if you’ve got feedback about our @nuxt_js, @Craft Commerce boilerplate, we’d love to hear from you! bit.ly/463EfFy

🔥 Summer Sprints Update It's finally here! Watch our Head of Engineering, Darrik, give a demo of our Nuxt 3 headless @CraftCMS Commerce build’s tech stack. bit.ly/463EfFy