Month: May 2018
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I’m Gonna Blog Cheat For a Day
And say that I made a delicious meal, got to play some board games with friends and family, and read a bit. I also managed some client sites, fixed a few bugs with a theme, and worked on migrating to a new business platform. Some days are simply full enough as is. Today was one…
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Why Keep a Personal Site Anyway?
I was thinking about my blog today, and the challenge that I’ve undertaken. I’ve also been thinking lately about other ways that I can get involved in the IndieWeb community besides running an alternative to Twitter and playing around with tools. I have been interestd in the community from the sidelines ever since I’d heard…
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Do you track time? I don’t but maybe should.
When I decided to commit to a blog post every day this month I knew that I would be challenged. Several days I published later at night, while several days I was able to turn out articles much earlier in the day. I don’t really track my time that well. I’ve used tools in the…
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Creating a Homebrew Workflow with Alfred on MacOS
One of the first suggestions that I was given when I switched from Windows to Mac was to install and use Alfred, a productivity app for Mac OS X. I have to thank Mason James for the suggestion, as Alfred has been an integral part of my Mac usage ever since. Tomorrow I’ll give an…
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Obligatory Why I Deleted Facebook Post
Earlier I read this article on Jonathan Pizarro’s blog: Radio Free Mister Pizarro. In it he describes why he left Facebook recently. Some of his story mirrors my own, in how networks like these I deleted my account about six weeks ago, but like Jonathan, my discontent and disinterest in the platform began much earlier.…
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My Totally Great Guide to Managing Email Like a Pro
This morning I read a new article from Joshua A. Krisch posted to fatherly.com called “Why Email Is So Stressful, According To Science”. As the headline makes clear, the author believes that email anxiety is one of the biggest causes of stress for the average office worker. Everyone seems to have their own system for…
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Your Data is Strewn Across the Internet
This morning I started tackling a todo that I’ve been meaning to handle for a while: going through my LastPass account manager and checking on the ~600 sites and 900ish entries that I have. This is after some regular small cleanups in the past to satisfy their vault password challenge requirements. I don’t want to…
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Sometimes You Have to Let a Project Rest
Yesterday I wrote about my starter child theme For Genesis, and said that today’s post would both be earlier, and cover a code generator. As you can probably tell by the time of posting, I didn’t keep that first promise, and I think I’d prefer not to keep the second promise either. It’s not that…
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A Starter Child Theme For Genesis
While my last post about a theme was for my my first Gutenberg-ready theme, Malik, I do a good portion of my work with the Genesis Framework, and often use the custom themes that StudioPress sells. I like to save time and repurpose code wherever I can, and several years ago I decided that I…
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Halt and Catch Fire is More Clever than Conventional
Minor Spoiler alerts ahead, though I don’t go into great detail about the show. The full series is available on Netflix and probably other streaming sites We recently watched the series Halt and Catch Fire, which is about a small part of the history of personal computing and the birth of the world wide web.…
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Running an Alternative to Twitter
I’m interested in the work of the team that is championing the ActivityPub protocol, which earned a W3C Recommendation in January of this year. I’m not part of that team or SocialCG or any team that makes decisions on those specifications, though I would like to be in the future. What I do have is…
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What I Pay For Content
I just read this Boing Boing piece about the rise of paywalls and the rise of paywall prices. Following that I read a Tech Crunch article about Bloomberg’s new $35/month paywall and the rise of paywalls and subscriptions in general. It got me thinking about where I spend money on digital content, which I think…