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B.A., Sociology with a minor in Science, Technology, and Society, 2010, The University of Texas at Austin
M.B.A., Business Analytics, 2024, Midwestern State University (TX)
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Genesis eNews Extended 2.1 Released
Genesis eNews Extended 2.1 is now available on WordPress.org. It has been a couple of years since a new version has been released—frankly, the plugin just works and it hasn’t needed much work. Please note this version requires WordPress 4.9.6 and will not be offered unless you’re running WordPress 4.9.6+. The European Union is preparing…
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Google’s AI Will Call Places For You
This video from Google I/O today is mind-blowing. In it, Google shows off an in-development feature where Google Assistant will call some places to interact with someone on your behalf. “Google, please make me an appointment for a haircut on Tuesday.” Ideally, I would expect Google to interact with an API that ties into the…
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WordPress Drop-In Plugins?
You know all about WordPress plugins and may have heard of Must-Use plugins, but what about “Drop-Ins”? In WordPress, there are three types of plugins: Regular plugins – in /wp-content/plugins/ and can (generally) be activated/deactivated/updated via wp-admin’s UI. Must-Use plugins – in /wp-content/mu-plugins/. Only PHP files in the mu-plugins directory itself are detected and they…
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For The Love of The Game
It has taken me almost 25 years to start getting over the 1994 baseball strike.
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He is supposed to be young forever
Dule Hill (Charlie from The West Wing) is 43 today. This makes me feel old. I expect him to remain the baby-face in a world of old people forever. I’m scared to look up how old the rest of the cast is now.
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Honoring Papaw
After my grandfather passed away late last year at 98 years old, his “retirement job” of 31 years, named a building after him.