Social Notes

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

  • Sending my prayers to the people of Taiwan after the earthquake a short time ago. I hope the damage is minimal and injuries are minor and few. Live Updates: Taiwan Is Hit With Its Strongest Quake in 25 Years https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/02/world/taiwan-earthquake-japan-tsunami?unlocked_article_code=1.hk0.6_cl.k2kyrU-Ew2IZ&ugrp=u

  • My heart aches tonight for the families impacted by the fatal school bus collision outside of Austin today. 44 Pre-K students returning from a field trip to a zoo with 11 adults were on a bus that was struck by a concrete truck that veered into them. One child was killed and one adult in…

  • Taiwan was a lovely experience. It ended on a high note with Sunday Mass at Holy Rosary Church (通化街玫瑰堂). Even though the service was in Mandarin, the joy of being Catholic is you can follow along no matter your language. The community was very welcoming; ensuring that I stayed for breakfast and coffee. The priest…

  • After a lovely session on extending WP-CLI, onward to a workshop about creating your first full-side editor theme. Being out of the freelance game for a very long time, I haven’t kept up with theme advancements so I need to level up on FSE.Room 203A if you’re at #wcasia24

  • Jetpack Social launched a Social Notes CPT as a simplified posting experience (no title, etc). Connected with the auto-publishing to social networks and the ActivityPub Fediverse native publishing through that plugin, this is a nice step closer to make it easier to make WordPress your personal home on the web.

  • @MaryannCorbett I’m on mastodon.online, but it doesn’t matter all that much. I did get absolutely zero traction on if any religious wanted to join a vouched-religious server ( twitter.com/Kraft/status/1… ) Thought there was it would be a perk to know that anyone on that instance was legit.