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Worth Reading – WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net
ByMike McBride March 14, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

It’s all stored in the browser, which carries some risk of computer crashes, but they claim to have backup and transfer mechanisms. It could provide a playground or personal knowledge base, complete with some AI, without worrying about it being stored in the cloud, because you can’t share it. It can be a place to play with WordPress design and experimentation without the need for hosting or for it to be available on the public internet.

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Artificial Intelligence

Grammarly Doing Some Creepy AI Stuff
ByMike McBride March 9, 2026March 9, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

No one gave them permission to create an AI character based on themselves. They just fed some of that person’s writing into the LLM and let it do its thing. There was, apparently, no thought given to whether having a Stephen King-based analyzer would violate the use of his name or if building the LLM would violate his copyright.

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Microsoft | Tech

Let’s make it more difficult to keep up with changing technology
ByMike McBride March 6, 2026March 11, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

As if the struggle to keep up with technological change wasn’t hard enough for those of us in the industry, now we’ve got to deal with reports that are made up by GenAI? No, Windows 12 Isn’t Replacing Windows 11 Anytime Soon A now retracted PCWorld article published on March 2, 2026, claimed that Windows 12 was…

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Mental Health

Reaction to Death of Rondale Moore and Workplace Mental Health
ByMike McBride February 25, 2026February 24, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

This is not just an issue for the NFL or other sports leagues. This is the reality in EVERY workplace. People ask all the time why no one talks about mental health at work, even when you have programs designed to support your employees. This is why. It’s the way everyone else in the workplace looks at them, talks to them, avoids them, and treats them differently than they did before they said anything.

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Artificial Intelligence

Governance Can’t Keep Up With AI
ByMike McBride February 23, 2026February 22, 2026 Reading Time: 4 minutes

So I ask again: why are we listening to the people who have the most to gain by getting everyone to buy AI tools, instead of making our own decisions about how quickly we should move forward with AI? Governance exists to slow things down – forcing people to think before they run off and do something disastrous.

Should we design better governance to address rapidly changing technology? Absolutely. Should we let Big Tech determine how we redesign it? I don’t think so.

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Tech

Worth Reading – If your external drive is always plugged in, it isn’t a backup
ByMike McBride February 21, 2026 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Having a good backup strategy involves being slightly paranoid. What are the risks? What happens if…? You need to look at the worst-case scenarios and consider if there’s a copy of your important data that would still exist if it happened. It’s not a fun exercise, and if you suffer from anxiety, it can be a bit exhausting to invite that in, but in this case, it could save you from a data disaster.

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