Troy Larson
👨💻 Founder of https://codamagic.io | 35 years in tech | Ex-AWS | Crafter of powerful Coda packs and templates 🛠️ | Helping businesses skyrocket using Coda solutions and their daily software 🚀
[Coda Magic Daily] Closing a Chapter, Starting a Chapter
"Unveiling the Wonders of Coda, One Day at a Time" FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 2024 As we are transitioning to the new newsletter, our last three Coda docs of the day are Coda Doctorate projects by our own team. Today's doc was created by Lexi, our incredible team lead, graphic designer and web design artist. She built the entire Coda Magic site and now the troylarson.com Kajabi site. Happy Friday! WAYYY back in 1996, I worked as a young consultant for Lear Corporation in Detroit, Michigan. You may not...
[Coda Magic Daily] Using Metrics to Solve Our Teenager's Scalding Hot Shower Obsession
"Unveiling the Wonders of Coda, One Day at a Time" THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 2024 As we are transitioning to the new newsletter, our last three Coda docs of the day are Coda Doctorate projects by our own team. Today's doc was created by Jennifer, our amazing copywriter. She focuses on social media, AI, SEO and creates a majority of the copy on our site! Happy Thursday! We just lost Owen to University of Georgia . . . in a good way, I mean. He recently moved to the dorms. Owen is a freshman majoring...
[Coda Magic Daily] Beware the AI landscape rabbit trails
"Unveiling the Wonders of Coda, One Day at a Time" WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 2024 As we are transitioning to the new newsletter, our last three Coda docs of the day are Coda Doctorate projects by our own team. Today's doc was created by Aivee, who is our newest hire. She is a fantastic developer and her main focus right now is building custom packs for clients. Happy Wednesday! Remember when we all "cut the cable" and moved to Netflix to save money . . . and then we added Hulu and Disney+ and...
[Coda Magic Daily] Willingly Giving Up Automation Features
"Unveiling the Wonders of Coda, One Day at a Time" TUESDAY, NOV. 12, 2024 Happy Tuesday! I mentioned yesterday that we're migrating from WordPress to Kajabi. One of the huge pieces we're sacrificing is a large library of APIs and automation hooks. Why would we give up so much automation functionality to migrate to something that has a bare-bones API? Because the maintenance and upkeep right now is a distraction. Kajabi is a self-contained ecosystem. It has everything IT needs for itself...
[Coda Magic Daily] Why Are We Moving from WordPress to Kajabi?
"Unveiling the Wonders of Coda, One Day at a Time" MONDAY, NOV. 11, 2024 Happy Monday! The team had a busy weekend working on funnels and emails, getting ready for the big move. You would think as a developer that I would love WordPress because it has so many automation possibilities. It's got an amazing API and so many plugins to integrate with. Kajabi is a much simpler platform. Less feature-rich. A one-stop shop. There are several reasons, but the simplest is . . . cost. WordPress is a...
[Coda Magic Daily] I Made a Big Mistake with Perplexity
"Unveiling the Wonders of Coda, One Day at a Time" FRIDAY, NOV. 08, 2024 Happy Friday! My middle son Calvin is 24 with severe autism. He can't communicate, but his school was able to teach him to read and write. He can phonetically read anything you give him. He can write anything you ask him to write. But he can't communicate about it--we don't know how much he understands. He can go to YouTube and type different words and phrases for things he wants to...
[Coda Magic Daily] I Just Realized We Can Do AI Web Search in Coda
"Unveiling the Wonders of Coda, One Day at a Time" THURSDAY, NOV. 07, 2024 Happy Thursday! I've recently hopped on the Perplexity AI train and I'm loving the ride! If you've not used it yet . . . It's what Google Search is going to try to be very soon. Perplexity combines web search with AI to give you eerily accurate results--almost every time. I rarely get shitty results. It's just THAT good. Yes, yes, I know, ChatGPT just released web search, but Perplexity is miles ahead. Well get this ....
[Coda Magic Daily] Don't Be Like The Fonz When Choosing Your Software
"Unveiling the Wonders of Coda, One Day at a Time" WEDNESDAY, NOV. 06, 2024 Happy Wednesday! Whenever I'm looking at new software, I'm always looking for innovative new features and approaches. New automations, new webhooks, new triggers . . . all the shiny new things! My internal monologue often jumps up and down screaming "THAT WOULD BE SO COOL IF WE COULD . . ." Yes, it may be cool. But . . . Do I need it right now? Does it align with our current goals and objectives? How much time will it...
[Coda Magic Daily] Don't Buy Software If YAGNI
"Unveiling the Wonders of Coda, One Day at a Time" TUESDAY, NOV. 05, 2024 Happy Tuesday! In the software world, it's really easy to add tons of "what if" features . . . What if they want to change the color of the font? Spend a week adding a color changing features. What if they want to export to a PDF? Spend three weeks creating a PDF export feature. We haven't actually talked to customers about it. But we spend time building features that we don't know if customers will actually use. We...
[Coda Magic Daily] Let's Stop AI-Shaming Immediately
"Unveiling the Wonders of Coda, One Day at a Time" MONDAY, NOV. 04, 2024 Happy Monday! Have you ever seen the movie Roxanne with Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah? Based on Cyrano de Bergerac, Fire Chief Charlie is a hopeless romantic with an obscenely large nose that makes him too embarrassed to pursue relationships. Chris is a good-looking, newly hired firefighter in Charlie's fire station, and becomes smitten with Daryl Hannah. Unfortunately, Chris severely lacks the ability to speak with any...
👨💻 Founder of https://codamagic.io | 35 years in tech | Ex-AWS | Crafter of powerful Coda packs and templates 🛠️ | Helping businesses skyrocket using Coda solutions and their daily software 🚀