Author: Brandon Kraft
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How To Use Emoji One On Your Site
Emoji One, an open-source emoji set, revealed their 2016 collection last month and it is beautiful! WordPress natively uses Twiemoji, a “competing” set sponsored by Twitter when the browser can not display emoji, so how do you switch which is used? The quick answer is to add this to a core functionality plugin or your…
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2016: The Year of Bad Typing ⌨️
I type a lot. All day, everyday. My primary role at Automattic is of a communicator. 99.9% of which occurs via a keyboard. ⌨️ I haven’t had any problems, except maybe once a week, my wrists hurt a little toward the end of the day. I wouldn’t typically think about it except typing is my…
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When Are You No Longer Mexican? 🇲🇽
Awhile ago, Vanessa and I attended a panel at SXSWi, “What Would Cesar Chavez Tweet?”, that examined the status of Hispanic engagement via social media, particularly while being leveraged for political/social movements. A corollary issue is when is someone no longer “Hispanic enough” to be part of the target demographic? This hits home for me, as…
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Working Remotely on a Remote Farm
Our first step was to try and find a house or apartment in the city. It was hard to find something affordable and after a long search we eventually stumbled upon a cute farm in the southern part of Sweden. The farm originated from the late 1800s and most other people considered this place as extremely remote, which…
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Snow Day
We planned on returning from El Paso on Sunday, but a bit of snow fell overnight Saturday preventing our return. Even giving it an extra day, the return trip suffered a major delay due to continued plowing of IH-10. This picture of the week shows our girls enjoying their first true snow day. ⛄️
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Gas Station Math
We spent a week in El Paso (without solid Internet, thus the radio silence here) and spotted this on the way. I like gas station math. Per the top banner, I can get a 32 ounce fountain drink for 89¢ or per the red sign in the window. I can get a 16 ounce drink…