It may be illogical, but I am generally loyal to Texan companies, until they abandon the thing that made them special. Whataburger sold out. Southwest became… like the rest. No reason for loyalty. https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-southwest-airlines-gets-worse-with-end-of-free-bag-policy-21906895
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Covid Cut
Like probably most of y’all, it had been some time since my last haircut. While I tend to let it get longer than I should normally, it was getting beyond my comfort zone plus as the warm days are here, it was time to do something. Today, Vanessa cut my hair. All things considered, I’m…
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Thinking in Public
This week at work, a conversation went toward “thinking in public” and how writing online helps us refine our thoughts. I’ve definitely fallen into this trap. I’ve fallen into the trap for a few reasons: Laziness. At the end of the time, I’m tired. Busy. While at work, I don’t have the bandwidth to write.…
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Happy Birthday WordPress!
Yesterday marked the 17th anniversary of the first release of WordPress. I didn’t use WordPress back then—I didn’t find my way to it until it was a youthful four years old in 2007. In the 13 years since, the software has made a major impact of my life, sure, but the community around it has…
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Jetpack’s Publicize Now Uses Twitter Cards
A long time ago, Jetpack’s Publicize feature—which automatically posts to your social media platforms when you publish a new post—started attaching an image to your tweets to help them catch people’s attention. At the time, a tweet with a picture would perform better than a tweet with just a link. This is all fine and…
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CSS Naked Day
I learned from Dries, founder of Drupal, that today is “CSS Naked Day” which encourages site owners to disable all CSS. You can read more about it on the day’s site. Here’s a quick and dirty snippet to add to a WordPress site to enable it.
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Palm Sunday
A Palm Sunday liturgy to use at home.