Eric in Minnesota

Understanding Humans in the Business World - Putting Eponymous Laws to Good Use: Recognizing what behaviors are common enough to have Eponymous Laws named for them can make you more effective at work and in life. Here are my first 4 favorite.

Reid’s Rituals of Great Boards: the 8 strategic tools used by top companies What I've learned from over 1,000 board meetings at the best boards in the world, including Microsoft, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, Coda, Zynga, Convoy, Aurora, and more.

Although this article is oriented towards Boards, coda.io/@reidhoffman... has so many great techniques to keep in mind for anyone in leadership. I'm a big fan of the 11-star method, but Product Managers in the physical and digital space will benefit from all of these!

Iced Coffee Apple Lemon, the iced coffee recipe for summer Discover our original recipe for apple and lemon iced coffee, ideal for those hot days ahead!

For the apple juice experience, was it something like www.coffee-spirit.maxicoffee.uk/recipe/iced-... and would you try it again?

Came across an article that I really loved this weekend - www.mooreds.com/wordpress/ar... - I think it is going to motivate me to expand my website beyond a "Books I Love" section to an "Articles I Love" section

Everyone should try stained glass once. For my parents, it was close to meditating - something about the delicacy next to the flames & blades is an incredibly unique experience. Yours looks awesome!!

That's brilliant!! I'll add it to GitHub and make sure that feature gets added soon!!

No problem! As long as you keep talking about the Pebble watch, I'll keep figuring out why the Atproto plugin isn't working for you. The v2.1.1 fixes the situation where your custom text wasn't showing up on your post, and knowing you're on WP.com tells me what I should be investigating. Stay tuned!

We're bringing Pebble back! Eight years later, you still can't beat a Pebble

After dedicating a section of my website to technology that I love and miss, with Pebble as the #2 slot, I'm thrilled to see it making a return!! repebble.com

Does this mean Boxee Box is next?

Would you be able to run it with WP_DEBUG enabled and set the log level high, to see where the error is happening? I'm also working on a hotfix for publishing without clicking into the meta box.

This is really great stuff.

The code is merged into the main branch that fixes the missing image issue. We'll tag it as 2.1.0. I'll try to get it finished by Monday night.

It's his plugin. He's just been very gracious in accepting my PRs on it. What version are you running?

Thrilled to see it used! I need to update the readme with more details about its features, and let me know if you have ideas for improvement!

APIs – The Litmus Test for Evaluating Vendors Evaluating a vendor can be exhausting, and regretting a partnership can be heart-breaking. Here are some quick ways to evaluate if a SaaS provider is as good as their sales staff says.

APIs – The Litmus Test for Evaluating Vendors: Evaluating a vendor can be exhausting, and regretting a partnership can be heart-breaking. Here are some quick ways to evaluate if a SaaS provider is as good as their sales staff says.

The resolution to make in 2025 – leave more reviews Odds are you came to this post from some social network, like LinkedIn or Bluesky. While you're on that network, you can probably recall the dopamine-hit you get whenever your post or comment gets a "...

Looking for a resolution for the New Year? Don't worry, I've got you covered - ericcaron.com/the-resoluti... #nye #Resolutions #smallBusinesses

WordPress and Bluesky - Opening the conversation: Showcasing a new plugin that brings Bluesky's conversations onto the WordPress platform

Students celebrating at a robot competition

Today our #FLL team wrapped up its #Submerged season, and @hightechkids.bsky.social put on a great event. I'll soon write a blog post with my lessons, but for now this photo captures the power of teaching kids what life is like when code and science collide🤓🤖❤️

Why I Switched Back to WordPress

dd'ing an image onto the wrong corporate hard drive. Good times...

Thank you so much for all you've done to make the lives of Minnesotans better!

Stop using generative AI as a search engine Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.

Stop using generative AI as a search engine

Home Page Welcome. This is the central repository for [most] things that Eric wants to talk about. Minnesota, coffee, marketing technology (martech), websites, mobile apps, coaching, and probably my family. Boo...

I'm working on my digital garden now, too. It's definitely a challenge (aka when is good good enough), but we'll get through this together! My MVP is at ericcaron.com, where's yours?

Screenshot of the UI

Thanks for helping me test it. Now it is even prettier! Next step: Clean up some of the formatting and documentation, then put this Bluesky WordPress comments plugin on GitHub

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Competition doesn't have to result in a zero sum game. That tends to happen when people get greedy and put "growth" or "winning" over everything else.

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
2023 AI model: The cup is now high gloss, sparkly, 80% filled with wine, and the original intent has been lost

Probably the best summary ever of the price paid when #AI is used as a shortcut, rather than a tool. Well written!