Category: Personal
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Happy Fourth of July!
In our neighborhood, we have an annual 4th of July parade between a few of the parks and we’re lucky that the route is down our street. This year, we had a visit from the county sheriff and the precinct constable, plus special guest H.E. Buddy. New this year, our neighborhood shuttle joined the mix…
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Falling Off The Social Graph
After blogging for over 13 years on this site and having a personal web presence (“being my own webmaster” as I imagine cool kids said back then) for years before that, I have rode a wave of how much to make your site an expression of yourself and how much to make it something for…
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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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Happiness Badges
A number of Automatticians worked to create these “happiness badges” for a variety of roles that Happiness Engineers serve in. The badges were retroactive to things you’ve worked on in the past too. For me, the badges represent work in our old “Core Happiness” team, Jetpack, VaultPress, WordPress.com’s public forums, Themes/CSS (even though I turned…
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Goals Recap: 2015Q2
The second quarter (and change) of the year has passed and, in an effort of accountability, let’s recap what progress I’ve made on my goals for this calendar year.
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Goals Recap: 2015Q1
The first quarter of the year has passed and, in an effort of accountability, let’s recap what progress I’ve made on my goals for this calendar year.