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Nicola Mustone
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Author of buthonestly.io - Clarity without the comfort. Essays on leadership, programming, and web.
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Nicola Mustone @nicolamustone.bsky.social · 19d
Most ADHD challenges in leadership aren’t about discipline.
They’re about friction. Reduce the friction, and the work becomes workable.

I wrote about the tools that make leadership sustainable for me:
buthonestly.io/leadership/t...

#ADHD #LeadershipTools #NeurodiversityAtWork #WorkSmarter
Tools for ADHD: Systems That Work When You’re Leading a Team
Leading with ADHD means building systems you can trust. Here’s how I use simple tools for ADHD, from calendars to AI notes, to stay reliable at work.
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The Internet’s Landlord: Where Does Your Website Actually Sleep at Night? iterativewonders.com/2025/12/26/t...
The Internet’s Landlord: Where Does Your Website Actually Sleep at Night? – Iterative Wonders
Demystify web hosting with a fun landlord-and-apartment analogy: domains, DNS, shared hosting vs VPS vs dedicated, and managed WordPress hosting - so you finally understand where your website “lives” ...
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December 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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It’s almost the EOY! A good time to share feedback with your peers, even if it’s only informal kudos of appreciation!
December 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Leaders who never disconnect aren’t being responsible. They’re hiding weak systems. Time off is a stress test for trust, ownership, and decision making. Your absence is data.

buthonestly.io/leadership/t...

#Leadership #Management #WorkLifeBalance #TeamCulture #RemoteWork
Time Off for Leaders: Can You Really Step Away?
Learn how time off for leaders can be planned, handed over, and used as a stress test for trust, ownership, and culture — without everything falling apart.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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I wrote about the 10 types of websites and how to choose the right platform for each. WordPress covers a wide range of cases, but some projects stay cleaner with a focused tool.

#webdev #WordPress #IndieWeb #webdesign

buthonestly.io/web/10-types...
10 Types of Websites and What I'd Use to Build Them
Wondering what to use for different website ideas? I walk through 10 types of websites and share the tools I’d pick for each.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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I updated my essay and released the libraries and models for MiniRes, my tiny 3D printing cost calculator.

Read the essay here (downloads at the end of the essay): buthonestly.io/programming/...

#3dprinting #keras #automation #neuralnetworks #businessai #freedownload #engineering
How I Built a 3D Print Cost Calculator with a Neural Network
Learn how I built a 3D printing cost calculator with a tiny neural network to predict resin consumption and automate my resin business.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I built a free WooCommerce plugin about 10y ago. I stopped updating it 7y ago. I opened its page yesterday to find out that 50k sites are actively using it!

I am not sure how, it probably doesn’t work, but they have it active! It even has several daily downloads! I guess it’s time to update it.
December 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
nicolamustone.bsky.social
Most ADHD challenges in leadership aren’t about discipline.
They’re about friction. Reduce the friction, and the work becomes workable.

I wrote about the tools that make leadership sustainable for me:
buthonestly.io/leadership/t...

#ADHD #LeadershipTools #NeurodiversityAtWork #WorkSmarter
Tools for ADHD: Systems That Work When You’re Leading a Team
Leading with ADHD means building systems you can trust. Here’s how I use simple tools for ADHD, from calendars to AI notes, to stay reliable at work.
buthonestly.io
December 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
nicolamustone.bsky.social
I wrote about the 10 types of websites and how to choose the right platform for each. WordPress covers a wide range of cases, but some projects stay cleaner with a focused tool.

#webdev #WordPress #IndieWeb #webdesign

buthonestly.io/web/10-types...
10 Types of Websites and What I'd Use to Build Them
Wondering what to use for different website ideas? I walk through 10 types of websites and share the tools I’d pick for each.
buthonestly.io
December 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Have you ever tried reading a RAM memory dump and trying to make sense of it? It’s. So. Much. Fun! /* cries in hexadecimal */
December 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Everyday you share feedback. With your family, friends, coworkers, strangers. You don’t need 300 different ways to do it, one is enough!

I shared my model that’s been working very well both at work and in life: buthonestly.io/leadership/m...

#feedback #leadership #coaching #sbimodel #selfhelp
Mastering Effective Feedback: Facts, Feelings, and Curiosity
Master effective feedback with a simple framework of facts, feelings, and curiosity that reduces defensiveness and builds psychologically safe, high trust teams.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Have you ever seen the first version of WordPress? I certainly didn’t, and I honestly didn’t think it looked like this!

“Say It!”
December 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Gaming goes hand in hand with leadership! I learned a lot about coaching and growing teams from games like Dungeons & Dragons, Dead by Daylight, Chained Together, and more.

buthonestly.io/leadership/g...

#leadership #gaming #coaching #techteams #teambuilding #dnd
How Gaming Made Me a Better Leader
From Dungeons & Dragons to Dead by Daylight, discover how games quietly build real leadership skills in communication, empathy, trust, and teamwork.
buthonestly.io
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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There’s lots of hate around Jetpack, but, all in all, it does its job and it does it well!

job.blog/2025/12/03/n...

#jetpack #wordpress #performance #openweb
Near-perfect website performance
The mobile performance score for this website is 99, my desktop performance score is 100. Nearly perfect. So how did this happen? My website has always been quite smoothly running. A big part of th…
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December 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Meet WordPress 6.9 “Gene”.

This release delivers collaboration with soul. Notes in the editor, smooth drag and drop, new creative blocks, and faster performance across your site.

Discover what is new and upgrade today: wordpress.org/download/releas...

#WordPress
Record image with Gene Harris. On the sleeve is an image of Gene with a stylized GENE font.
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I updated my essay and released the libraries and models for MiniRes, my tiny 3D printing cost calculator.

Read the essay here (downloads at the end of the essay): buthonestly.io/programming/...

#3dprinting #keras #automation #neuralnetworks #businessai #freedownload #engineering
How I Built a 3D Print Cost Calculator with a Neural Network
Learn how I built a 3D printing cost calculator with a tiny neural network to predict resin consumption and automate my resin business.
buthonestly.io
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
nicolamustone.bsky.social
Vibe coding WordPress blocks is now a thing.

Telex turns one prompt into a working block, and the whole process feels… lighter.

I wrote about about it, and why it might change how we build in WordPress.

buthonestly.io/web/wordpres...

#WordPress #Gutenberg #Telex #Blocks #WebDev #VibeCoding
Vibe Coding WordPress Blocks with Telex
Discover how Telex uses vibe coding to turn plain-English prompts into custom WordPress blocks, from quick prototypes to production-ready plugins.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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The ensemble model is ready at huggingface.co/nicolamuston...

It comes pretrained and with an helper script to prepare your own STL files for the model!

I’ll update the blog tomorrow with more details!

#3dprinting #regression #neuralnetworks #ai #automation #indie #dndminiatures
November 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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iterativewonders.bsky.social
Chef 1: "My special sauce is a trade secret."

Chef 2: “Here’s the recipe. If you make it better, you can share your version so everyone can enjoy it.”

That’s the spirit of Open Source.

I wrote a love letter to it here: iterativewonders.com/2025/11/29/t...

#OpenSource #Tech #Developer
The Code We All Share: A Love Letter to Open Source – Iterative Wonders
Imagine you go to a famous burger joint. You love the special sauce. You ask the chef for the recipe, and he looks at you like you just asked for his social sec
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November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Are you into NLP and ML? I release datasets and notebooks at buthonestly.io/resources/ free to use and explore in your own projects!

Check them out. Available also on Kaggle.

#nlp #engineering #machinelearning #mldataset #kaggle #freeresources
Resources & Assets – BUT. Honestly
Free resources, tools, and assets for you to download and use for leadership, engineering, programming, and fun.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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A giant clock to keep time for the next ten millennia is moving towards completion in a western US desert cavern.

It's meant to promote long-term thinking in an age of short termism. The project, backed by Jeff Bezos, has been a suitably drawn out and enigmatic affair.

www.ft.com/content/22c0...
The Clock of the Long Now is a 10,000-year-long timepiece backed by Jeff Bezos
Deep inside a Texas mountain, a vast mechanical clock tries to make humanity measure time on the scale of civilisation itself
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November 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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I was not really satisfied with this essay because the dataset was missing, so I dug a bit more into old databases and finally found the dataset!

I’m working on it as I write to clean it up and publish it as a free resource! I’ll update the essay and here when it’s ready.
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Ever stared at a message ending in a period and thought: "Okay, they definitely hate me"?

We used to live in a world where text had no tone. We needed a hero. We got a visionary with a 12x12 pixel grid.

I wrote a tribute to the origin of the Emoji.
iterativewonders.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Architect of Emotion: Shigetaka Kurita, the Inventor of Emojis – Iterative Wonders
The human soul is a complicated thing. It is vast, turbulent, and capable of feeling seven different types of “anxiety” before breakfast. We were a species forc
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November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I used to price resin miniatures by hand.

Now a quiet bit of business automation with AI predicts how much resin to use for each model in seconds, and I get my evenings back.

buthonestly.io/programming/...

#3DPrinting #ResinPrinting #AIForBusiness #MachineLearning #IndieBusiness #Miniatures
How I Built a 3D Print Cost Calculator with a Neural Network
Learn how I built a 3D printing cost calculator with a tiny neural network to predict resin consumption and automate my resin business.
buthonestly.io
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Are you looking for Christmas gifts for friends and family? Check the Woo guide to holiday gifts! We selected Woo stores with super cool products for every taste!

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#woo #woocomerce #christmas #holiday #gifts #ecommerce #onlineshopping
The 2025 WooCommerce holiday gift guide
Unique, fun gift ideas for friends, family, or yourself!
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November 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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130+ comments and counting. Tell us your story. Celebrate 20 years of WordPress dot com by showing us what you’ve built.

https://wordpress.com/blog/2025/11/21/20th-anniversary/
Celebrating 20 Years of WordPress.com
Join us in celebrating 20 years of WordPress.com! From portfolios to blogs to online stores, see what millions are building on our platform.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM