Elena and I are going to see the Wallflowers tomorrow, and after determining that Jakob Dylan’s voice held up over the last twenty years (it did), I went down a YouTube rabbit…
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Gutenberg is coming into its own
Since early this year, I’ve been spending a lot of time reading WordPress development blogs, reviewing the product roadmap of WordPress (technically a competitor of ours), and testing themes/plugins built with Gutenberg…
November 2021: #ClickPublish WordPress Challenge
Justin Tadlock issued a writing challenge for the month of November in the most recent post for WPTavern. I have enough long and short pieces in draft that this was something I…
Writing for Attention
I can’t get this Substack post out of my head. Particularly since it exposes the reasons I haven’t been publishing as much on this blog. Here’s why: Even while I set out…
Under the Influence
Whose fault is it?
Summer Reading List: 2021
Now that I’m vaccinated and beginning to meet up with other vaccinated people without a mask, it only makes sense that my first post in a long time is about a solo…
NYT: The American Abyss
I’m one of the most critical readers of the NYT and their overabundance of bad work over the years, but…coverage like this? It’s why news organizations need to be doubling down on…
The Myth of American Restraint
Over the last four years, several prominent talking heads have pushed an irritating narrative that is a lethal mix of misinformation, bad math, and relied on closing your eyes and ears to…
My Software Stack
I recently purchased a new desktop PC (AMD 3600, 16GB Ram, AMD RTX 5600) with the intention of increasing productivity and testing and learning next-generation graphic design programs, VR, and ray tracing.…
The COVID Story No one’s Paying Attention To
Considering the Jupiter-sized clusterfuck that’s hitting the United States around the president’s taxes and insane response to a global pandemic, you’d be forgiven for missing a major corruption story that’s taking a…