Writing

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    Congrats!

    Congratulations to Class of 2016. Tonight, at The University of Texas at Austin, the annual commencement on the Main Mall culminates four, five, six, seven, maybe eight years of academic…

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    Little Checks

    I enjoy when corporations send checks for very tiny amounts.

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    Chicken and Pancakes

    On their summer menu, Kerbey Lane Cafe is featuring chicken and pancakes: Two cinnamon-beignet pancakes topped with fried chicken breast pieces with a maple buffalo sauce and sprinkled with powdered…

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    Mozzarella Protobatch

    The initial batch of mozzarella. Can’t go wrong, no aging, and pretty easy.

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    Praying Dublin 🙏

    Ireland is known as the motherland for a very sizable of the Catholic migration to America. The Catholic Church in Ireland is going through a time of transition, and rightfully…

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    Eating Dublin 🍴

    While I did plenty of walking in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪, I also ate and drank plenty. The city, as any urban hub does, had a variety of options, including more…

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    Walking Dublin 🏃

    Last week, I was in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 for a meetup with the teams that support a variety of our plugins and services for self-hosted WordPress sites, like Jetpack, Akismet,…

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    Belize 🇧🇿

    In February, I traveled to Belize to meet up with members of the Jetpack development team at Automattic. We worked on various things—outlining the next few versions, building out some…

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    Connections at SXSW

    This is what I love about representing WordPress(.com) “in the field” at SXSW. After a long evening working an event, we had a couple of guys sit at the bar…

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    Credit Confusion

    I have an old credit card. I got it in college and I almost never use it. Every blue moon, I’ll use it when making a purchase and the funds…