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  • WordPress Adds Emoji 13.1 Support

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    WordPress Adds Emoji 13.1 Support

    WordPress 5.8 will add Emoji 13.1 support.

  • Automatic Updates in WordPress
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    Automatic Updates in WordPress

    What are automatic updates in WordPress even? Forced updates? What about the UI? Here’s a full explainer.

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    Testing the Full Site Editor

    Full site editing is coming to WordPress soon, activated when using a theme that supports it. I’m going to mess around with it, so switched my theme over to a…

  • If I Were A Bishop During COVID

    If I Were A Bishop During COVID

    In a pretend world, if I was the abbot of the territorial abbey of Krafton (known by the locals as Krafton Abbey) and had the responsibility for a group of…

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    26 Years Later

    26 years ago, I was sitting in Mrs. Wilson’s 5th Grade science class when a classmate across the lab bench from me asked if I heard about the bombing in…

  • Happy National Beer Day

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    Happy National Beer Day

    In the United States, today is National Beer Day! Today in 1933, beer became legal again during the tail end of 18th Amendment prohibition of alcoholic beverages. What’s interesting is…

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    Support Rotation

    At Automattic, after being hired, your first two weeks on the job is working with our Happiness teams to directly support customers. For engineers or designers, it gives you a…

  • The Longest Lent

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    The Longest Lent

    Holy Saturday is perhaps one of my favorite days of the liturgical year. The cruelty of Good Friday is past us and we’re in this holding pattern. We do have…

  • All Adults Eligible
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    All Adults Eligible

    All adults in Texas will be eligible for the COVID vaccine starting on March 29th. In some areas of the state, demand in the priority groups is dropping, but in…

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    News Only on The iPad

    I’m going to experiment with an attempt of a lifehack to only consume news when I’m using my iPad—not at my regular work computer. Usually, I’ll browse the news sites…