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Hey everybody and welcome to the Friday wrap up on Streamline Solopreneur. I'm your

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host, Joe Casabona, and here's what's on my mind. For September 25th, 2026,

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I am thinking of burning it all down. I'm doing a deeper writeup on this, but

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I decided kind of on a whim this week to convert casabona.org, my longtime personal

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site to a flat file site when it was WordPress. For 20 plus years,

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this would've been impossible to do within two days, even a year ago. The amount

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of planning required to convert a site, clean it up, and put a redirect or archival

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structure in place to make sure literally thousands of links don't break, takes a

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lot of time and effort

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and testing,

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and I was able to do it

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pretty confidently pretty quickly

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with not a ton of effort on my part though. These were all the important aspects

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of it,

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and

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I've been thinking about doing this more, starting over without breaking everything,

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which is maybe not the right use of the term, burn it all down.

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But a few weeks ago, I wrote in my journal about my mailing list. Do I just burn

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it all down and start over?

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Much like my WordPress site, there is years of crust and and technical debt.

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There are people on my list from my WordPress developer days, from the old days of

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my podcast before I renamed it from my podcast and sponsorship coaching days.

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How many people actually care

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about what I'm talking about today?

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I think this is a question worth exploring.

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I often worry about the fallacy of the sunk cost. You don't wanna keep investing

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into something that isn't working,

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but you also don't want to burn everything down too soon

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before you figure out if it actually has legs.

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Switching cabo.org away from WordPress is something I have been thinking about for

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two years,

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but it's never been worth it from a time investment perspective.

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Claude Code AI made it really easy because it basically did everything and I spot

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checked and re and and fixed the plan and

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did, did some of the, a lot of the architecture, but it did all of the grunt work,

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the time consuming stuff from building the code for the new site to writing the migration

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scripts, to creating the redirects

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and testing those redirects.

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The mailing list problem is something I've been thinking about for a months,

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but this isn't any easier today than it would've been in the past because I need

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to talk to my audience and find out the right focus for the newsletter and what resonates

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with them.

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AI can't tell me that,

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despite what some people would say.

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So yes, I'm thinking about burning a bunch of things down,

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but not for the sake of it

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and not if it's going to cost me more time than it saves. What do you think about

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this? Let me know over@streamlinedfeedback.com. That's streamlined feedback.com with

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a d.

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you can write in or leave a voice note. I might even play it on the show.

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Okay, up next, recommended reading

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Apple's, MLB Dodgers live broadcast with shot with iPhone 18 Pro Max.

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Basically this is saying Apple's last Friday night baseball broadcast of the year

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was shot with the new iPhone 18 Pro Max, actually a bunch of them.

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I'm a diehard baseball fan and I don't really like national broadcasts. The announcers

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are speaking to a more general audience, not necessarily the people who watch every

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game. I try to watch all 1 62

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and as a result of this, they seem less knowledgeable than the local broadcasters,

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and this isn't necessarily true. It might be true and some are just bad at it, and

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you, you know, there's a struggle to

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find the right on camera

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talent for something like this,

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but I also know that liking your local broadcast team is a form of Hom and I am very

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aware that I suffer from that.

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All of this is besides the point.

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What is the point is that apple's broadcasts always look great,

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and it's cool to see

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them shoot live events on their pro phones.

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They don't just tell you it's good enough to film TV in movies.

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It actually is good enough to film TV in movies, and so they prove that by

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shooting not just like

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a,

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a pre-recorded thing

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that,

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they can fix in the edit, right? I think

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this is,

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this is an important, like this is a weird flex. Not even a weird flex, it's just

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a flex for them. They're shooting live events on their iPhone 18 pro that anybody

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can buy, and a bunch of people did buy

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So it's cool to see them putting their money where their mouth is

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moving on to something fun. Italian music, specifically this Italian music playlist

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I have, I rediscovered this playlist earlier this week. It's largely music from Italian

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artists are in the Italian language, and I am revamping it because it's pretty thin

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right now and it's several years old. It's in Apple Music and I am linking to the

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Apple Music playlist so you can at least see what songs are on it.

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I made this,

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when I was trying to learn Italian, I was doing Duolingo, which I now feel is not

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a very good method of learning languages.

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but

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I also wanted to kind of immerse myself in this and, and listen to some Italian language

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music. So,

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I, I, I made it when I was trying to learn Italian

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something I pick up every couple of years and,

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to be honest with you,

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probably going to be time to try that again soon.

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Okay, now let's move on to something to help you with your systems. I made a stream

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deck plugin this week

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called Q for Apple Music, QCUE, not q, the letter q.

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it was brought to my attention,

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on one of my YouTube videos that the Apple Music Stream deck plugin I use that was

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made by El Gado is no longer available. And that's a huge bummer

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'cause it's one of my favorites. It's such a crucial plugin for me. I much prefer

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having dedicated buttons on my stream deck for Apple Music

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as opposed to

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just using the keyboard media keys, which other apps can hijack, right? There's like

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nothing worse than like music is playing and you opened up YouTube, but you forgot

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about it, and then you push the, the pause button and instead of the music stopping,

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the music is still playing and that YouTube video is playing. So I like having the

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dedicated buttons and

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because this plugin is no longer a avail, it's just like completely, it was wiped

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off the face of the earth,

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El Gado as far as I can tell, quietly removed it.

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so I decided just in case

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it stopped working somewhere down the line,

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I decided to replace it with my own version of it.

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so I used cloud code to create a new and improved replacement.

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it has all of the features of the now defunct Elga Ado plugin, so,

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play pause buttons,

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and then the kind of tracking buttons, right, the

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previous and next buttons.

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the ability to turn on shuffle and favorite,

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songs,

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but I also added

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a repeat button that will cycle through repeat all, repeat next and turn off.

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And,

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uh,

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my personal favorite feature,

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which is the ability to map a button directly to a playlist so I I don't have to

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go hunting for it. So,

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you pick the playlist

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and then you choose if you want it to shuffle or not. You press the button and that

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playlist starts playing. I love this. It is, it makes it so much easier to play the,

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the music I likely want to play. And you can add as many playlist buttons. You just

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have a whole page of playlist buttons if you want.

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I also added support for the dials on the stream deck plus and plus Excel. I picked

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up the plus XL this week. I'll probably talk about that next week. But,

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so there is volume control. And then

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Claude named this transport, I guess this is like an old term from the tape deck

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days, but

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it, it is the control button, so you push it to play or pause, and then you turn

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it to go to the previous or next track. So really love this. This would've been impossible

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for me without Claude Code, and these sort of utilities are

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such a great use of AI

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using AI to speak its native language, to reduce friction in your life. And I know

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I've already talked about this on this show,

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but this is something that's often on my mind and probably something I am going to

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talk about a lot more in the coming weeks because I think

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knowing when to build little utilities for yourself

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is, is an increasingly important skill, right?

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circling back to WordPress, I I, I used WordPress basically from the time it came

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out

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and

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it did democratize publishing, right? Like after that blogging exploded,

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right? As technology gets easier to use for more people, the medium explodes. And

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now we are kind of seeing the same thing with native apps

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or web apps

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where anybody can tell

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AI to build it for them and it builds it for them. So I'm, I'm thinking a lot about

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this, but this is, that's for another episode. So wrapping up here,

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a lot of the things I did this week were really focused on saving me time.

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What would you do with an extra 25 hours each month?

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This is what I help business owners figure out,

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and then I make it happen for them. My client, Annie, spends more time with her kid.

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My client Laura, has soup with her aging mother every day. My client Paolo serves

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his community better and shows up for his four kids

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better because of the work we did together.

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Maybe you have dreams of writing a book, volunteering at an organization that means

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a lot to you, or spending more time with your family, touching some grass. If you

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want,

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I can help

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book a free strategy, call over at streamlined fm slash wrap

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book your call, and we will talk about how we can save you 25 hours each month.

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That's it for this episode of the Friday wrap up on Streamline Solopreneur. Thanks

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so much for listening, and until next time, I hope you find some space in your weekend.