How To: Blog Every Day
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I write every day. I also publish a blog every day – even if what I wrote that day wasn’t publishable.
Eric Mann
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Data Leakage – Part 2
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When you click a link on a page, your browser takes that page’s URL and sends it along with you as the “Referer” header. The site you end up on can then track exactly which sites are sending traffic. If your site is private (i.e. an internal company blog) and you link to an external…
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Valentine’s Day
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In high school, I wrote a short, 4-stanza poem titled My Beloved that no one really understood at the time. I was asked repeatedly who I’d written it for, and kept giving the cryptic answer, “I don’t know yet.” Fast forward a little over a decade and I finally met the women for whom this…
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WordPress Core Proposal: Offline Editor
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What would you want to see in an offline editor for WordPress? How would you approach building it? Would it be a core feature, plugin material, or something else entirely?
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A Hack a Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay
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I do a lot of fancy work with WordPress that, at times, has me pulling my hair out in frustration with the lack of (or uselessness of) certain hooks in WordPress core. At the same time, I never hack core.
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Hitting a Stride
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Seeing athletes who’ve trained for a half decade just to put on a few minute (or in rare cases an hour) long performance is breathtaking. To see hours and hours of effort over weeks, months, and years culminate to a brief moment in front of the camera is awe-inspiring.
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Why I Write
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I have no less than 5 unfinished novels in my Dropbox. They’re all fun stories, and if you ever want to hear what they’re about I’ll tell you. But you’ll likely never see them on Amazon. Why, then, do I bother to write?
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Daily Dogfooding
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I am appalled by the number of people who work with WordPress for a living but don’t use it outside of work.
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Just Beneath the Surface
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When I work with new software developers, more often than not I find myself urging patience over expedience.