Author name: David Spencer

It’s been a while since my last blog post. I’ve recently had some experiences that are worthy of one. In October of last year I relaunched my SacBusiness website by dropping the old business directory and replacing it with more SEO and AI friendly sections with artwork and text describing the various categories of work

I was thinking today about what the people of my generation (tail-end of Boomers) has gone through. We’ve experienced some once-in-a-lifetime events: 9/11, the COVID-19 Pandemic. But then again, I would say that the Vietnam War was a pretty dramatic life-changing event. Then again was the Black Friday stock market crash. And the Great Recession

Just over a year ago I decided that I was going to take on the final frontier of application development: mobile apps. The reasoning was simple: for some time now, more than half of the devices accessing the Internet were mobile. That meant a growing market for those services. And developing mobile apps paid well

Artificial Intelligence is currently a media darling. When they’re not talking AI, the rest of the news is dominated by abortion and guns. I wanted to write a learned essay about the similarities in the arguments for both. But then I thought that it might be better to let AI do the work for me.

I host all my WordPress clients at DreamHost. This offers me a number of advantages. First, there are two platforms available to me: shared hosting and my own VPS. Shared hosting works fine for low-volume websites that are mostly static pages. If I front them with caching from CloudFlare (or something similar) then no-one can

I’ve been faced with a difficult problem. Originally, I ran this simple blog site as well as my SacAutos business website. Then I decided to try and capture some WordPress business, so I created the SacWordPress website. Of course during the pandemic I was building the SacBusiness directory website. Then Steve decided to retire and

Those people who are closest to me know that I love music. At one time I must have owned a thousand record albums and still own around 700 CDs. (Though I have ripped them all to MP3 files now and manage them via iTunes.) Many publications and people have published their greatest albums list. Why

The other day I got a call from my old business partner at PageWeavers. He wanted to take me to lunch. So, over a sandwich, he told me that he was tired of being in the website business and wanted to retire. He offered me the chance to take over PageWeavers. In case you haven’t

I had an epiphany the other day in the shower. I have this website. Why aren’t I using it more? So, after a year of no updates, the website has been dramatically expanded. And that’s not all. Look for more updates with this site as well as SacAutos and SacBusiness as we close out the

Let me begin this rant with the declaration that I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican. My official party affiliation on my voter registration is “Decline to State.” When I was affiliated with a party some twenty five years ago, it was with the Libertarians. As an outsider, don’t attempt to paint me as