Search results for: “blog”
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Fatblogging about the diet
Jason Calacanis is "fat blogging". Congrats Jason on the new effort to shed a few pounds. I’m excited to see efforts like the diet in so many shapes and forms out there. There are a ton of people joining the fat blogging movement, even Kevin Smith (who started his diet thing just before Jason did).…
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Philadelphia Weblogger Meetup – February 17th
Though this event is split into two parts, the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup and the Philadelphia Webloggers Meetup to me it is all just about blogging and so I sign up for both. Chris at Ten Stone Bar – April 15, 2006 This Saturday (February 17th from 2:30pm till about 4pm) I’ll be attending the Philadelphia…
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Eliza gets a blog, again
My wife has had a blog in the past. For reasons I still don’t understand, she thinks that she has "nothing to add to the conversation" or that no one cares. So she ended up ditching her last blog. For me, blogging isn’t about other people caring since I could care less about what people…
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Blog design solutions
Just a quick note: Blog Design Solutions is available for preorder, and will be released February 20th. Buy this book or…. just buy the book you don’t want to know why.
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I work for a Weblog Network
I never thought I’d say that. In second grade when the teacher came around to me and asked “What do you wanna be when you grow up?” – I can guarantee my answer was not “A CTO from a Weblog Network”. In fact, I can’t even tell you what my answer was when I was…
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I plan on using this blog for something useful, but I just haven’t nailed that down yet
Being that I already run a successful blog, I am not sure what I will use this account for. But I’ve been wanting to have a place for “just me”. And this might become that place. Now if I could just find a way to edit the templates…
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Diversions #7: Additional progress
A summary of some travel, the addition, the new laptop, and ActivityPub trials.
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I’ll read it too
Manuel Moreale helps remove a new blogger’s fear of having no readers by committing to be the first. Count me in too.
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Please publish more (on your website)
Jeff Triplett urges us to publish more from our own domains. I agree. But it isn’t easy.
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I have a few images I need to create for an upcoming Hubbub presentation and I used it as an opportunity to trial Pixelmator, which was recently acquired by Apple, for the first time. It is very good. Very Apple-like. Even some of my Photoshop muscle memory translated.
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As I predicted in February 2023, I’m upgrading to the M4. I went with a Space Black 14″ MacBook Pro with the M4 Pro (14 CPU cores 20 GPU cores, 16 Neural Engine cores), 48GB memory, 2TB hard drive. The cost of which was a fair bit less than my previous laptop. I’ll explain my…
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“You should go to conferences” – Sophie Koonin
Sophie Koonin recommends attending conferences for personal and professional growth. I agree.
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My next computing setup
The idea of trying to paint the full picture of my computing needs exhausts me for some unknown reason. Even this short post has been a chore. But I thought it important to get some of my thoughts down because it helps me to clarify my own thinking and will hopefully help me make some…
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Diversions #4: Tree branches and LLMs
Diversions is the central hub for news about the membership, behind-the-scenes details of my personal projects, as well as a wide variety of links to people, places, and things that inspire me. A bit of housekeeping: I’m turning Diversions public. While a fair number of people have signed up for both free and paid memberships…
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Hiding container elements based on the state of the Modified Date block in WordPress using CSS
On my single post template I like to show the date the post was most recently modified to make it clear that it had been edited since it was first published. I also do this on my portfolio entries – which you can see on my Where I series of photographs on the bottom left-hand…
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Yes, Safari on iPad should be the real Safari
M.G. Siegler, writing on his newish blog Spyglass: the Safari browser on iPad has always behaved more like the Safari browser on iOS versus the version built for Macs. Just yesterday I had to log into Eliza’s Gmail account via Safari on my iPad. The experience was akin to a 2007 web app with no…
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Diversions #2: From Chicago to Assateague
Diversions is the central hub for news about the membership, behind-the-scenes details of my personal projects, as well as a wide variety of links to people, places, and things that inspire me. Chitown! I spent a few unseasonably warm days in Chicago on a work trip with the NerdPress team. It was my first time meeting…
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Switcheroo – An open source Little Arc for Safari
This post details a macOS app that recreates features from Little Arc in Safari. The post and source code were available for members only until April 3rd, 2024 and are now public. One of Arc’s best features is Little Arc — a small Quick Look like window that appears whenever you click a link in…
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The first rebuilding blocks
Korczak Ziolkowski wakes up early on a bitter cold winter’s morning – the same way he has for several decades – after breakfasting and a few mugs of the hottest coffee his palette can stand, he shoulders his tool belt and trods his way in knee-high snow to the eastern wall of the Crazy Horse…
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My appearance on This Week in WordPress #285
My thanks to Nathan Wrigley for having me as a guest on This Week in WordPress #285. (YouTube/Apple Podcasts) Show notes There are a few links on the WP Builds website for this episode but I thought I’d share some of the links I mentioned in the episode as well. It was a lot of…
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WordPress Plugin: Filter comments by Webmentions
⬇ Download on GitHub Donate A simple WordPress plugin to add the option to filter comments by Webmentions in the WordPress admin. A new Webmentions option is added to the list. I’m sprucing up Webmentions on my personal blog and I found it convenient to be able to filter my comments by Webmentions in the…
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Tuff
Tuff is my personal static site generator written in PHP. It powers this website, the upcoming website for The Watercolor Gallery, CCBUILT.fun, a few websites I run locally, and a new version of StripeTransfer.com. So far, I have no plans to open source Tuff. Changelog
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Projects
Below is a list of a few of my projects. Some are free, some are affordably priced. Most are open source. Please consider donating to support their development. If you’d like to read why I make these, I wrote about that. StripeTransfer.com A reliable service that I provide for clients that need to transfer Stripe…
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Changelog
This changelog is for my personal website — its layout, pages, content, etc. Version History All updates prior to this were pre-WordPress.
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About me
My name is pronounced Kah•lin Dev•roo. I have had a website for 30 years. It helps me to think more clearly and share my ideas and personal work. It is my home and playground on the web. I tend to have many personal creative and professional projects going at one time. While this has caused…
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Sample Page
This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I’m a bike messenger…
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The greatest productivity hack of all time
The greatest productivity hack of all time is working less. Slack recently published new research into desk worker productivity. It is a worthy read – however, it sheds light on something that most desk workers already inherently know: longer hours do not mean greater productivity. I have put a lot of personal focus on trying…
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When my blog goes quiet you know I’m very busy. I’m looking forward to announcing some personal news in early December. This morning I’ve made what is likely to be my final update to my personal website until 2024 (I added my projects to my homepage).
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Photos from Chisholm Vineyards in Feburary 2020
For many years now Eliza and I have preferred to slow down and take our time on road trips rather than feeling rushed to get to our destination. We like to visit tucked away places. Do a little shopping. Or enjoy a drink. This usually adds about a day of traveltime to any of our…
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My less than typical day
In January 2021 I posted my typical day which resulted in some fun people following suit on their own blogs. Lately, my typical day is less than typical. I’ve been on a tear for about 12 months with side projects. This means that my day is jammed. But here is a glimpse… I accomplish an…
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Talkers and writers
Mandy Brown, on two modes of thinking and how we should all try to practice both to be useful to our colleagues: “Talkers need to recognize that not everyone loves to think out loud, and that giving space for writing is part of what it means to make use of the best brains around you.…
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Reducing my personal hosting complexity
Have you ever put off a task because you felt like it would take you far too long so you just procrastinate and simply never get it done? I do this all the time. And, for the most part, when I do finally get around to getting the task completed I find out that my…
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Static first
In the early days of the modern web – say, the mid-1990s through the mid-00s – my personal website was served statically. It was built with plain HTML (CSS didn’t exist at the time) that I copied and pasted when I needed to create a new entry (the word blog didn’t exist then either). But…
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Apple Vision Pro is exactly what I hoped for
I am very happy. For many years I’ve wanted a computing experience that resembles precisely what Apple announced at WWDC just a few short weeks ago. In 2019 I wrote “I want any size screen, any time, any where.” As poorly written as that sentence may be, I think Apple is attempting to deliver just…
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Making Tuff improvements
My approach to building Tuff, my static site generator that I began working on last November, was to jump in as quickly as possible by publishing my personal website publicly very early in the development process. Doing so forced me to make rapid improvements and to focus on the most important features. By spending 5am…
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What I saw somewhat recently #100: March 23, 2023
This is it. The final WIS link list post. This series of posts has spanned 10 years. I’m happy that I published 99 lists of links and that thousands of people have clicked on them to enjoy the interesting, creative, useful, and fun webpages I stumbled upon over the last decade. I’m saddened, however, that…
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Tuff, my static site builder, can build a simple directory for me to view my entire photo library. It creates views for each year and month and also checks various backups – both local and cloud – to make sure the files are properly backed up. It warns me if a file isn’t backed up.…
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Will my next Mac be my last Mac?
Perhaps you’ve had this experience… you walk into a place of business and see the computer and software they use to do their scheduling, billing, and ordering and you notice they are decades old. But, have you seen how productive they are? More often than not they are so fast that the computer has a…
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How to help Mastodon
There have been several waves of activity on Mastodon since I signed up in 2017. Those waves have increased in frequency and intensity. Admittedly, while I did put in some effort early on, I wasn’t really part of that first wave. I rode in on a much later wave in mid-2022 and haven’t looked back…
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We had a possible fireball explosion tens of thousands of feet above us in Pennsylvania. Shook our house pretty good at 10:49am Eastern. Now I’m looking for how to properly document it with NASA. I figured this worthy of jotting down on the weblog.
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What I saw somewhat recently #99: January 19, 2023
This is the penultimate WIS link list. The final list, number 100, shall reprise all previous link lists and come sometime in February. I’m looking forward to crafting a new link list reborn in a new style and with other themes. Doing anything 100 times isn’t easy so I’m proud of this little series of…
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Revisiting Simon Collison’s Farewell to Twitter
Last night I revisited Simon Collison’s post from early December 2022 Farewell, Twitter. I had read it shortly after he published it and while I agreed with what he wrote, it didn’t hit me as hard as it did last night. Simon claims that “others have articulated the situation better”, however, last night I realized…