Mastodon – what I know that you may need to
There are a ton of posts about Mastodon. But perhaps you trust me more than other random strangers? Here's my take.
Category: General
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Three bits of radio
Some podcasts I think are good.
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Minimalism, shortcuts, and not getting distracted
Today I’m tidying up an old draft post on the topic of minimalism for posting. I don’t really think of myself as minimalist. I’m not a clean desk person. Our home is big on “floordrobes”. We are slightly-chaotic, creative, mad-professor types. (Well, I should only speak for myself but…) Yet I have a feeling if […]
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The Podcast I’ve Never Made
What would your imaginary podcast look like? Here's mine.
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WordlePress and nerding out about WordPress function names
Given all the “Wordle” hype these days, I think I was one of the first (of many) people to wonder about what “WordlePress” might look like: Not long after, Taco Verdo did buy the domain, with the aim of preserving it for the good of the WordPress community. Then, one bored weekend, I came up […]
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Hang on, PHP IS a static site generator!
Regular followers will have heard me talk about Turbo Admin. And you may also know that I am, where possible, trying to #DitchTheBuild and use vanilla HTML, CSS and JS as much as possible. So for the Turbo Admin website I kinda wanted to embrace this philosophy, get cheap-and-easy, static-file hosting, and make my build […]
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Sunday morning links
A bunch of links I've added to my pinboard including tech, WordPress, Laravel, family, and creativity.
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Idea: CSS-only spam prevention with a simple allow-list and CAPTCHA
An idea for a CSS-only spam prevention system that uses a white list and simple CAPTCHA, complete with WordPress plugin code.
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Apple M1/Apple Silicon Day 1 LIVE
Follow up – day 3! So, overall I’m pretty happy with the 8GB M1 Air. Outstanding issues I have are: ScreenFlow and some Rogue Amoeba audio apps don’t work – I guess these are doing some clever low-level stuff. I’m having issues importing my MySQL databases from backup. This is not really an M1 specific […]
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LiveStreams: Discovering Gutenberg
I'm live-streaming reviewing Gutenberg block-editor plugin releases and exploring new block editor features. Here's some info and thoughts on that.