James

This guy is constantly taking the piss 😅 gotta admire the consistency

Can you imagine showing up hungover to your Sunday league game and seeing Papiss Cisse in the lineup? 😂👋🏻

You can now customise how Claude Code looks in the Claude desktop app, and it's free. Anthropic released an official plugin called theme-examples that adds 20 animated backgrounds behind your chat, with frosted glass panels over the top so your work stays readable. You can set a different theme for each project, which makes it easy to tell your coding sessions apart at a glance. There are 6 themes for light mode: • Honu Lagoon • Koi Mosaic • Halftone Dawn • Plotter Tide • Dither Dunes • Paper Garden And 14 for dark mode: • Night Reef • Aurora • Ember • Deep Water • Snow Pines • Braille Stars • Block Clouds • Vector Range • Departure Board • Blueprint • Halftone Dusk • Plotter Tide, Night • Dither Dunes Night • Paper Garden, Kraft How to use it: /custom-theme opens a preview card /custom-theme aurora sets it for your project /fireworks sets off a fireworks show over the theme The fireworks also go off on their own whenever Claude says "merged". The code is open source too, so you can copy it and build your own Claude theme.

Over 70% of small business owners aren’t asking new customers to stay in touch. That covers the busiest stretch of the year, when lots of people buy from you for the first time, and you’ll have no way to reach most of them in January. The sale happens once and the relationship never starts. The fix is boring. Ask every new customer for their email when they’re happiest with you, then send them one useful thing in the first week.

Just saw the FAA has grounded every flight in the US and they're calling it "extraordinary circumstances" with no explanation. Hope anyone stuck at an airport tonight gets home okay.

Will never be Upton Park but I am hoping one day the stadium can look like this 🙏🏻⚒️

Miss home, mostly the food. A proper Sunday roast, a full English in every cafe, chips that have actually met vinegar. The weather I do not miss. Can’t beat tropical weather 🌴

A quiet week costs more than the money you didn’t earn. It’s also the days you spend wondering who to message. Anyone who enquired in the last 90 days and didn’t buy is a better bet than a stranger. Pick 10 of them today. Send each one something useful that answers the question they asked you, not a “just checking in”.

Microsoft Teams is unfortunately still working

Outlook is down. Someone in the office has just had to speak to a colleague. He looks terrified.

A website gets a few seconds to answer one question... Can this person help me? Nobody reads top to bottom. They glance at the headline, look for a sign it's for them, and leave if it isn't. If the top talks about you, they bounce. If it talks about their problem, they scroll. Check your first screen on a phone. Who is it for, and what do they get? Build a page that does this, live in under 10 minutes: gatedleads.com

Half my diet is whatever my kids didn’t finish. Need to get them on high protein meals so I’m at least getting gains from their leftovers.

AA: ‘I’m an alcoholic.’ ‘Hi, Dave.’ X: ‘I’m a builder.’ ‘Let’s connect.’ ‘Let’s connect.’ ‘Let’s connect.’ ‘Let’s connect.’

Gatedleads is in the top 5% of 1,088 MCP servers on the Manufact MCP leaderboard, with a score of 88/100. 30 checks passed. 2 areas to improve. Check yours: manufact.com/leaderboard

Wow! That's how you do it 👏🏻

22 years ago! Time really needs to slow down

I'm an introvert by nature, so putting myself out there has never come easily. 150 followers is a small number, but it's 150 more people than I had when I started, even if a few of them are probably bots. I've been building my own products in the evenings around everything else. I'd rather put those hours into something I own than keep depending on someone else's company to provide for my family.