Now

Work

Running an exclusive presale to my email list for a new little course I’m making called How WordPress Works. It solves a huge problem I’ve seen my audience struggling with over the last 8+ years of teaching online.

Recently ‘soft-launched’ my new thing—The Non-Coder Collective. Excited to open the doors for a small group of founders, absolutely loving the vibes in there. Can’t wait to open it up to more members.

The Collective will be the home of all my course support from now on, as well as extended support, live Q&As, guest experts, live hangouts, and more.

I’ve been waiting for Bricks 2.0 to drop for what feels like forever. As of the time of writing, the beta has finally arrived, and it’s looking good. 

And so, I’m now deep into planning and designing Build With Bricks 2.0, my long-awaited update to the original course. 

I’m collaborating with my good friend and superb designer John Fraskos on this one—the guy is a joy to work with, having so much fun.

Foy’s Friday Five is my new email series where I share five interesting things I’ve come across each week—handy tools, useful tutorials, industry updates, or just stuff that made me go, “Ooh, that’s cool.” Want this in your inbox? davefoy.com/newsletter.

Health & Well-being

Feeling comfortable with sobriety now (I took all of 2024 off drinking alcohol and decided to carry on after the year was up). Getting huge rewards from looking after myself, physically and mentally—gym heavy lifting 4x/week, eating really well, all that stuff.

Recently uncovered the whole world of somatics and the mind-body connection. Turns out nervous system dysregulation explains a lot in my life. Absolutely fascinating stuff.

Been diving into breathwork, somatic exercises, meditation, and seeing huge benefits: calmer, more focused, better sleep, massively less stressed.

Check out things like Vagus Nerve Reset by Anna Ferguson, and The Pain Relief Secret by Sarah Warren.

I’m currently following Sarah Warren’s Clinical Somatics Exercises course, based on the work of Thomas Hanna.

Life

Recently got really into house plants. I used to be an expert at killing them off. ChatGPT has basically trained me up—light levels, watering, feed timing, the lot. Now? Full-on plant geek. Something about tending to my ever-growing collection of plants and seeing them thrive is good for my soul. Maybe it’s because I’m now heading well into my 50s…

Music

Been playing guitar since age 7 and been in the same band since the early ‘90s. But now going deeper into learning guitar properly—came across Lo-G, who approaches learning and playing guitar in a very different way to most. Loving seeing progress.

Oh, and learning a load of Led Zeppelin riffs too. And the solo to Stairway. 🤘

Also, Julian Lage—what even is that level of talent? Unreal. Looking forward to seeing him play soon.

Current Status

The happiest I’ve ever been. Shit just doesn’t stick anymore.