Owner of Honest Web Designs User Experience Developer @calpoly Living by the Grace of Jesus My tweets are my personal reflections.
Atascadero, CA
Joined March 2009
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First public peek at Honest CMS.
It is the AI editor I built for small business websites: describe an edit in natural language, preview the draft, approve it, and publish when it is right.
Three parts make it work:
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Honest CMS now has an MCP connection. If you already use an AI assistant like Grok, ChatGPT or Claude, you can use it to draft changes to your own website. Nothing goes live until you review and publish it.
Why I built it:
honestwebdesigns.com/article…
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Checking ChatGPT is a good start.
But customers also ask Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.
Here’s how to run the same customer question across all four—and compare the answers without fooling yourself:
honestvisibility.com/guides/…
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Ranking #1 on Google is great.
But when someone asks ChatGPT for the best local business nearby… do you show up?
Search is changing. See whether AI can find, understand, and recommend your business:
honestvisibility.com/
🤖 Made with AI
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Honest Visibility started with a gap I kept seeing.
SEO reports can tell a business owner a lot. They don’t always answer the new question: When someone asks AI for a recommendation, does my business appear?
Here’s why I built it:
honestwebdesigns.com/article…
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A lot of people are ready to sell small businesses “AI optimization.”
I think the first step should be simpler: see what AI says.
That’s why I built Honest Visibility. Start with a free scan. If the result matters, go deeper with a complete report.
honestvisibility.com/scan/
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Another price increase for @freshbooks subscribers.
One hike in 2024. Two in 2025. Now another in 2026, plus higher payment processing fees.
I’m also hitting the client cap on my current plan, which means upgrading (again).
I’m out.
Time to build my own invoicing + payments app.
Launched a new client website today. If you’re looking for a fun wine tour in Paso Robles area check them out.
vanagonwinetours.com
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Figma pricing going up again. Not by much, but come on. I miss the days when you can just by software outright.
My son (12) and I went to the gym this morning. He woke me up at 6am. He is committed to getting me in shape. Thank you son, I love you!!!!
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48 hours later, he did it again. We did a lower body workout and my legs were toast for the next 3 days.
This morning he woke me up and had the car started and warmed up for me. Now I'm afraid if I don't get up he will just drive himself. We did upper body today.
We are shooting for every other day, will take a lot of fortitude to make this a habit.
God bless us, and give us strength.
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It’s been two days since SpaceX captured a massive falling pipe from the sky with a steel tower. My dad, who owned a concrete pipe company, called it a “huge pipe,” but I saw the largest, most powerful flying object humans have ever created. Watching the firsthand footage is still emotional—the videos are incredible, and the reactions from witnesses were truly amazing. I hope to see it in person one day, watching from my balcony overlooking Vandenberg.
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Why do women/girls wear no clothes anymore? What has happened to modesty. Please put some clothes on and respect yourself.
You might be a nice person, but I'm not going to let you be around my family.
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Claude AI has become my go-to chatbot for front-end dev and Bible study. It's a game-changer for understanding Scripture and finding relevant passages. Far superior to OpenAI for my needs. #AI #BibleStudy #WebDev
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Anyone using lead gen to acquire new clients. I don't have the time to do sales, but would happily pay for it. Any recommendations? All the ones I looked out seem overly complicated. I just want a traditional sales person I can rely on.
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Daughter (19): I need a phone mount for the car.
Me: Sure, I'll get one shipped to you.
Me (2 days later and 20 tabs open): I have no freaking idea what to get.
Why is this sooo hard!!!!
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Exciting times with new clients on board! Balancing the thrill of new projects with the dedication to wrap up ongoing ones is the real hustle.
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Wow! There are so many way to make $10k a month. I exhaustively reviewed all of them. Here is what they all have in common.
Step 1: Get off your ass and do something, anything.
If you follow that one step you are better off than 99% of the other people. Don't be the other people get off your ass.
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