I’ve got over 40 WordPress sites. Whilst I love what WordPress did for the web, the last few years have been a slow grind of plugin upgrades, security patches and the occasional 3am email telling me another one got popped anyway. Automated updates, hardened configs, the lot - and still, every couple of years one of them would get hacked. Given 90% of my content is genuinely static, I finally got fed up and started moving everything off. The WooCommerce stuff went to Shopify so I never have to think about it again. The blogs and content sites are going to Hugo, Astro, or in a couple of cases my own Laravel platform.

Around The World In 80 Girls was half good, half boring, a bit of a grind to read but at the same time quite informative. Neil decided to spend 2 1/2 years backpacking around the world, started sleeping with lots of girls then decided to blog and write a book about it as he travelled. Starting in Russia, heading through Asia, down to Australia, through South America then ending in New York before back home to Holland, quite the adventure!