Category: Thoughts
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Decentralization of Language on the Web
I’m currently reading Gretchen McCulloch’s new book, ‘Because Internet’, which serves as an overview of linguistic study of the evolution of written (and sometimes spoken) communication brought about by the mass adoption of the internet. Both McCulloch and I implement one of the changes noted earlier on: the word internet has lost its capitalization over…
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WordCamp Boston Recap
WordCamp Boston was easily one of the best collections of talks I’ve attended at any event over the past few years.
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WordCamp Atlanta 2019 – My Review
I’ve been attending WordCamp Atlanta since 2013, and it’s been one of my favorite annual WordCamp events. It is larger than WordCamp Orlando, with an average of 600 attendees to our 350, but it rarely feels large with the sensible layout of the venue and separation of spaces. Everything is in one building across two…
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david v3.1.0
I’m happy to announce the release of david v3.1.0! As with any minor version update, some new, backwards-compatible features have been included since the last minor release. Among these are: A post-per-day challenge in May of 2018. Completed, but barely. The commencement of a new challenge to share more tips and tutorials this year. Becoming…
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Where Have I Been?!?
I know that I made a commitment earlier this year to post code tips and resources most weekdays. I kind of indicated it there, but will make more clear that I intend to follow that commitment as best as I can, but know that some weeks I will just plain fall short. This week and…
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2019 Blog Focus – Sharing Tips and Resources
My personal blogging goal for 2019, and an accountability group that I’m starting to help myself and others reach our goals
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How I Pack for Travel to WordCamps and Conferences
What’s in my Bag, 2018 Edition I’ve seen plenty of these types of posts, and can understand the popularity, since I end up comparing everything that I have to the people posting, trying to see where I can improve my travel or everyday carry gear. Most recently, Matt Mullenweg did his annual “What’s in my…
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My Ideal Note Service
I wrote recently about using Boostnote, and why I’ve chosen that over other apps for the time being. It is not perfect though, and I’ve been thinking through all of the things that a perfect writing and reading app would have for me. There are a few things that I’d love to have, and while…
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New Communities Can Be Overwhelming
I’ve been paying a lot more attention to the IndieWeb space this year, with the intention of revamping my lifelogging site to both include more services that I still use (and remove the fitness tracking that I decided to stop), as well as become a repository for webmentions. I started using webmentions on this site,…
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WordPress 15th Birthday Party!
Tonight we hosted our WordPress 15th Anniversary party at Geek Easy. Yesterday I talked about my introduction to WordPress, but today we just hung out. For the rest of the day I worked on some IndieAuth integration setup, and some prep work for a new theme. Then I realized that I didn’t blog today, and…
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WordPress is 15! Here’s how I found this community.
15 years ago today, WordPress first became available. As WordPress swiftly moves towards its next iteration, with the Gutenberg editor part of core, I want to look back a bit on my time with WordPress. I had been a professional web developer for several years before I discovered WordPress. My Javascript skills weren’t (and I’d…
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How do you design a site?
I’ve been considering ways that I can up the design of my site, now that I’m back to blogging a bit. I’m not much of a designer myself, and while I appreciate a good minimal layout, somehow it’s harder to pull off something that looks good with fewer elements on the page. When I’m working…