Greg Dunlap
@heyrocker.com
Director of Content Strategy at Bixal. CMS nerd. I like pinball a lot.
Shame on me for assuming “Democracy dies in darkness” was a warning instead of a playbook
In a kleptocracy, there is no reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet.
The Washington Post Is No Longer Useful to Jeff Bezos
In a kleptocracy, there is no reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet.
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February 5, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Shame on me for assuming “Democracy dies in darkness” was a warning instead of a playbook
My friend @koziarz.com is telling stories about Pat Lawlor Design, the company where we worked together designing pinball machines. Good reading and not just for the photos of when I had hair that wasn’t grey.
You're probably wondering how I got here.
We'll have to backtrack a bit before going forward. The PLD Monopoly story is fun, but this wasn't what we intended to do out of the gate. Williams closed in October 1999 but Mono launched in Fall 2001. What happened in between?
We'll have to backtrack a bit before going forward. The PLD Monopoly story is fun, but this wasn't what we intended to do out of the gate. Williams closed in October 1999 but Mono launched in Fall 2001. What happened in between?
February 5, 2026 at 5:53 AM
My friend @koziarz.com is telling stories about Pat Lawlor Design, the company where we worked together designing pinball machines. Good reading and not just for the photos of when I had hair that wasn’t grey.
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Can #AI really make it easier to work with a #content management system?
You betcha. And Greg Dunlap (@heyrocker.com) tells us how in our next free virtual event:
📅 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST February 18
✍️ RSVP: www.meetup.com/content-stra...
You betcha. And Greg Dunlap (@heyrocker.com) tells us how in our next free virtual event:
📅 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST February 18
✍️ RSVP: www.meetup.com/content-stra...
AI for Content Authoring, Wed, Feb 18, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
AI is inescapable in the modern tech landscape. But so many of the use cases that people are talking about don't seem to help in typical day-to-day content struggles.
This
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February 4, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Can #AI really make it easier to work with a #content management system?
You betcha. And Greg Dunlap (@heyrocker.com) tells us how in our next free virtual event:
📅 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST February 18
✍️ RSVP: www.meetup.com/content-stra...
You betcha. And Greg Dunlap (@heyrocker.com) tells us how in our next free virtual event:
📅 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST February 18
✍️ RSVP: www.meetup.com/content-stra...
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If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
January 29, 2026 at 6:46 PM
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
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Oh hey friends, if you’re a Verizon customer and they are trying to give you the $20 desire for the outage the other day, DO NOT TAKE IT. You don’t have to even call them. Get onto the web chat, type in “agent”, tell them the outage affected your work, and say you’ve been a customer for X years.
January 17, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Oh hey friends, if you’re a Verizon customer and they are trying to give you the $20 desire for the outage the other day, DO NOT TAKE IT. You don’t have to even call them. Get onto the web chat, type in “agent”, tell them the outage affected your work, and say you’ve been a customer for X years.
Clockwork Orange for sure.
What is the movie you have seen the most times that you would say you do NOT like?
January 17, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Clockwork Orange for sure.
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the only thing that keeps me sane is the idea that my entire life is just a save state on a 17-year-old's galactic computer, and now he's just mashing the buttons because he's bored. any other explanation falls apart.
??? Apparently Venezuela oil revenues will go into “offshore accounts” outside of the US Treasury, PBS reports.
January 7, 2026 at 9:27 PM
the only thing that keeps me sane is the idea that my entire life is just a save state on a 17-year-old's galactic computer, and now he's just mashing the buttons because he's bored. any other explanation falls apart.
One of my most memorable filmgoing experiences was a screening of Sátántangó at Northwest Film Forum some years back. An enthralling experience. I've never been so glad I spent seven hours in a movie theatre. RIP Béla Tarr.
January 6, 2026 at 6:49 PM
One of my most memorable filmgoing experiences was a screening of Sátántangó at Northwest Film Forum some years back. An enthralling experience. I've never been so glad I spent seven hours in a movie theatre. RIP Béla Tarr.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
For the next two weeks you can save £60 (about $80) on any Piccalilli course, and you'll get a coupon code that gives you 50% off future courses. If you've been waiting to grab a copy of JavaScript for Everyone, this is the time to do it:
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
@amikebloomtype.bsky.social @jessliese.bsky.social I just finally caught up with TAR and my god ... that chicken. It is going to haunt my nightmares. Did they get David Lynch's ghost to come back from the dead and direct this segment? Easily the creepiest and most bizarre thing in series history.
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
@amikebloomtype.bsky.social @jessliese.bsky.social I just finally caught up with TAR and my god ... that chicken. It is going to haunt my nightmares. Did they get David Lynch's ghost to come back from the dead and direct this segment? Easily the creepiest and most bizarre thing in series history.
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this is also a good policy for technology products as well.
November 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
this is also a good policy for technology products as well.
Like so many others in the fed space, I'm currently looking for new opportunities. My goal is to find a place to land full time, but until then I'm open to short term contracts. Got a CMS project you need architected? A gnarly multi-site content inventory and analysis gig? Give a holler.
October 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Like so many others in the fed space, I'm currently looking for new opportunities. My goal is to find a place to land full time, but until then I'm open to short term contracts. Got a CMS project you need architected? A gnarly multi-site content inventory and analysis gig? Give a holler.
Look I hate but the manfred runner as much as anyone but I’m also old and tired.
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Look I hate but the manfred runner as much as anyone but I’m also old and tired.
@jessliese.bsky.social I noticed we didn’t have departure times in this week’s episode. Do you have any idea why they would do that?
October 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
@jessliese.bsky.social I noticed we didn’t have departure times in this week’s episode. Do you have any idea why they would do that?
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I’d never tell anyone they MUST* understand JavaScript to work on the web, but I will make the case that one SHOULD*. To understand JavaScript is to know the boundaries of how users can interact with your medium — any role is improved by that.
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* www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119
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* www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119
What Understanding JavaScript Gets You
wil.to
October 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I’d never tell anyone they MUST* understand JavaScript to work on the web, but I will make the case that one SHOULD*. To understand JavaScript is to know the boundaries of how users can interact with your medium — any role is improved by that.
wil.to/newsletters/...
* www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119
wil.to/newsletters/...
* www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119
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Is it cool that I think you shouldn’t be murdered by the state even if you’re a drug dealer???
September 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Is it cool that I think you shouldn’t be murdered by the state even if you’re a drug dealer???
Y’all think you’re old, there were no video games the year I was born. Like the entire concept of a video game was still ten years away.
If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born.
I am dust. Holy shit I am dust.
I am dust. Holy shit I am dust.
September 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Y’all think you’re old, there were no video games the year I was born. Like the entire concept of a video game was still ten years away.
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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A presidential address about political violence would have made sense in June following the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman, the former Minnesota House speaker.
But, she wasn't a Republican.
Instead, tonight, we got this.
It's all so horrifying, and I don't really know what else to say.
But, she wasn't a Republican.
Instead, tonight, we got this.
It's all so horrifying, and I don't really know what else to say.
September 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
A presidential address about political violence would have made sense in June following the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman, the former Minnesota House speaker.
But, she wasn't a Republican.
Instead, tonight, we got this.
It's all so horrifying, and I don't really know what else to say.
But, she wasn't a Republican.
Instead, tonight, we got this.
It's all so horrifying, and I don't really know what else to say.
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while smiling!
Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world.
Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate;
Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.
Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world.
Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate;
Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.
August 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
while smiling!
Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world.
Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate;
Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.
Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world.
Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate;
Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.
Completely torn between the joy of potentially seeing Vince go home and the despair at potentially losing @taranarmstrong.bsky.social’s retelling of his conversations on the live feed updates. #iykyk
September 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Completely torn between the joy of potentially seeing Vince go home and the despair at potentially losing @taranarmstrong.bsky.social’s retelling of his conversations on the live feed updates. #iykyk
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imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
August 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter