The Journeyman

Social Notes

Short posts that are often pushed to social media (a.k.a. tweets).

  • Nothing surprises me anymore. It’ll be interesting to read the political analysis of Summer 2024 in 20 or so years. 🇺🇸 #uspol

  • At my eldest kid’s first official college visit. She is learning about the Latin American Studies program at UT. So it begins. #utexas #college

  • Violence is not the answer. While the last thing I want for the United States is former President Trump to win another term, I condemn any violence against him. We don’t know what exactly happened just now at his rally, but I hope everyone is okay. I don’t want him to be the president again,…

  • With my sabbatical and the extra time needed to prepare for it, I think WordPress 6.6 will be the first major WordPress release since 3.5 that I didn’t get “props” for a contribution. Unless something comes through that I’m not expecting (tbh, I don’t know if I even have anything pending somewhere in Trac), the…

  • On this date in 1535, Thomas More was executed on Tower Hill outside of the Tower of London for maintaining that the Pope, not King Henry VIII, was the head of the Church.

  • Somehow, my personal cell phone number—not the Google Voice number I use with online forms nor the Zoom number I give out for work, but my actual personal number, made it onto some dataset connected to my work information. It is incredibly annoying to get cold call solicitations on my personal cell. I don’t even…