Category: Technology
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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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The Power of WordPress.com
I’m guessing they just wanted a quick and easy way to make a functional and beautiful website, which is kind of the whole idea of WordPress. Source: Amazon Silk on WP.com | Matt Mullenweg Via Twitter, I stumbled upon this 2011 post from Matt sharing that the Amazon Silk Browser’s blog is hosted, for free or…
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Why blogging still matters from The Boston Globe
Anyone could talk, even though not everyone was as skilled a rhetorician (or even grammarian) as the professionals populating the pages of professional newspapers. The imperfections of our posts, we hoped, would help legitimize a more human, less controlled form of public speech. But, we thought, the most important challenge blogging posed was to the…
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Security Shouldn’t Be This Hard
I really like the idea of being very secure. I like crypto. I like PGP keys. I like to sign and encrypt e-mails. I’ve had my PGP key published on this site for a long time now. I can count on one hand with fingers to spare how many people I’ve actually communicated with using…
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Let’s Encrypt!
Let’s Encrypt—the free, automated SSL certificate authority is now in public beta. Check out my experience installing it on Nginx.
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Calypso: Write Once…
One thing that hasn’t been discussed much in today’s coverage of the new WordPress.com and the WordPress.com Mac app is how incredibly easy it is to port something from one interface to another—something new for the WordPress world. Calypso, the codename for the new WordPress.com interface, had 140+ developers working on it. Constant changes, commits, reviews,…