Category: Thoughts

  • My Totally Great Guide to Managing Email Like a Pro

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • A Starter Child Theme For Genesis

    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…

  • Halt and Catch Fire is More Clever than Conventional

    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.…

  • Running an Alternative to Twitter

    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…

  • 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…

  • Beginning My Adventures in 3D Printing

    Beginning My Adventures in 3D Printing

    I bought my husband a 3D Printer last year for Christmas, fulfilling what I considered to be the proper blend of past hinting, fun, and I-want-but-won’t-buy-for-myself gift. I took a similar attitude when selecting the type of printer, settling on a DaVinci Mini model, which seemed to be a good blend of high Amazon reviews,…

  • Thinking About My Life in Versions

    About a year ago I changed my Twitter display name to be my first name followed by a version number. There are a variety of reasons that I did this, from wanting to regularly update it like so many others that I follow do, and to remind myself that I can treat my own life…

  • My First Gutenberg Ready, Mobile First Theme

    My First Gutenberg Ready, Mobile First Theme

    tl;dr you can find the code for this theme and download on my Github profile. When I decided to revamp my blog, I knew that I’d want to start with a fresh theme. I’m not much of a designer, but I appreciate themes that are minimal, make decisions for the display of content, but allow…

  • Sleep is for the weak, and for anyone who wants to get work done.

    I work for myself, which I’ve done full time for the past six years. Being able to do so is something that I’m tremendously grateful for, though I can’t say that it always works out perfectly. One of the major challenges that I have is managing time well. I ensure that clients get timely responses…

  • The Difficulty Level of Becoming a Web Developer is Growing

    The Difficulty Level of Becoming a Web Developer is Growing

    I know it’ll be odd coming from someone who yesterday made a commitment to daily blogging, but I’ve been overwhelmed with tech for a while now. Part of it is the endless news cycle, both about and enabled by technology. Part of it is the way that it can feel like an entire day is…