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COVID in Austin Update (June 15)
The good news for today is the daily numbers aren’t worse than the weekend. 119 new cases today, which seems to be our new normal now. 23 new hospitalizations, so…
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Emoji 13 Coming to WordPress
As of r48048-core, WordPress will polyfill Emoi 13 glyphs on devices that do not support them. What this means is whether or not your viewer’s device is able to display…
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The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
In the news recently is a group of Longhorns student-athletes who, among other things, have asked The University of Texas at Austin to stop singing The Eyes of Texas. The…
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COVID in Austin Update (June 14)
The good news is our death rate remains relatively low and stable. Our 7-day average for deaths is an even 1, which is middle of the road over the last…
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COVID in Austin Update (June 13)
It’s a Saturday and weekend days have traditionally been “better” as results tend to back up to spike early in the week. Austin saw 147 new cases reported today, which…
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Covid in Austin Update (June 12)
I’ve been commenting on Austin’s daily report on Twitter; moving that to my site. To catch up, this has been a week. We’re just far enough out from Memorial Day…
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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…
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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…
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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…