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  • How do you design a site?

    I’ve been considering ways that I can up the design of my site, now that I’m back to blogging a bit. I’m not much of a designer myself, and while I appreciate a good minimal layout, somehow it’s harder to pull off something that looks good with fewer elements on the page. When I’m working…

  • The Value of a Newsletter

    Through the past two weeks, the combination of swapping over email addresses and GDPR have given me a ton of reminders of the random places that have my email addresses, including services that I used once years ago and services that I don’t want to use anymore. But I’ve also gotten plenty of newsletters that…

  • Breaking Servers and Learning By Trial

    I mentioned in the past that I run my own mastodon instance. You can find it at tech.lgbt, where I’m ostensibly creating a community for LGBTQIA+ folks who are interested in technology. I chose to wait until this morning to update Mastodon to v2.4.0 on the server that I host this instance at, thinking that…

  • Boostnote – The Note Taking App That I’m Currently Using

    I’ve used a lot of note taking apps over the years. I like to keep my notes available on multiple devices, and ensure that they are backed up in multiple places so that I don’t lose them. I try to type everything that I post on any of my websites in a separate program first,…

  • What I’ve Learned Hosting the WordPress Orlando Meetup For Almost Seven Years

    I’ve been organizing the WordPress Orlando Meetup since near the start, all the way back in late 2011. For me that was my first introduction to the idea of a community around WordPress, and that led to my involvement in my first WordCamp in 2012. Since then I’ve traveled to dozens of WordCamps, speaking, volunteering,…

  • Homebrew Saves Me Time Every Day

    I don’t remember exactly when I started using Homebrew, but I know that I had been using a Mac as my regular computer for a while and wanted an alternative to manage dev tools. Homebrew would turn out to be my first foray into the concept and practice of package management, and it’s been tremendously…

  • Updating Websites is Tiring

    Do you know what’s more tiring than updating all of your personal information and the information on all of the websites that you can think to update? Doing that while working on migrating clients to a new maintenance platform, one at a time. Do you know what’s even more tiring than that? Determining that the…

  • You May Have Noticed a Domain Change

    So I haven’t been secret about it, but I also haven’t been discussing it a ton since I was waiting for it all to get sorted out. I’ve been working on getting my name changed since around September of last year, and I’ve finally begun getting updated official IDs and updating all of my internet…

  • I’m Gonna Blog Cheat For a Day

    And say that I made a delicious meal, got to play some board games with friends and family, and read a bit. I also managed some client sites, fixed a few bugs with a theme, and worked on migrating to a new business platform. Some days are simply full enough as is. Today was one…

  • Why Keep a Personal Site Anyway?

    I was thinking about my blog today, and the challenge that I’ve undertaken. I’ve also been thinking lately about other ways that I can get involved in the IndieWeb community besides running an alternative to Twitter and playing around with tools. I have been interestd in the community from the sidelines ever since I’d heard…

  • Do you track time? I don’t but maybe should.

    When I decided to commit to a blog post every day this month I knew that I would be challenged. Several days I published later at night, while several days I was able to turn out articles much earlier in the day. I don’t really track my time that well. I’ve used tools in the…

  • Creating a Homebrew Workflow with Alfred on MacOS

    One of the first suggestions that I was given when I switched from Windows to Mac was to install and use Alfred, a productivity app for Mac OS X. I have to thank Mason James for the suggestion, as Alfred has been an integral part of my Mac usage ever since. Tomorrow I’ll give an…

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