Technology

  • Gutenberg and the Road Ahead

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    I have a confession to make. I really like the new Gutenberg editor for WordPress. I know, I know. Developers aren't supposed to like massive, intrusive changes like this. As of the time of this writing, the plugin stands with 2.6 stars on the plugin repository – at least 133 of those ratings are 1-star…

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  • Missing: Diversity in Tech

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    I attend a lot of tech conferences. I once attended at least 14 events over the course of twelve months. Large events at professional conference centers. Small events at local churches. Events that required driving. Events that required passing through customs. Every event is unique. Every organizing team is unique. Every attendee is unique. Still,…

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  • WordPress.com is not WordPress

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    A story I enjoy retelling is how a friend of mine tricked me into using WordPress. At the time, I was working with him on a career mentorship project. He’d written a book that I was publishing, and we wanted to add a premium video series to go along with it. We just needed a…

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  • What S.J. Resolution 34 Means For You

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    If you’re reading the news, you’ve probably seen hoards of tech journalists up in arms about S.J. Resolution 34. In a nutshell, this is an agreement by Congress to overturn a rule passed late last year by the FCC. The rule itself prohibited Internet service providers (ISPs) from collecting and sharing data about their customers…

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  • Introducing Sessionz

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    Introducing a new, middleware-inspired session handler for PHP projects (not just WordPress) called Sessionz. It’s open source; take a look!

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  • Owning My Internet

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    For some access, I use an anonymous VPN proxy. When publishers block that kind of a VPN, I instead roll my own network with a Raspberry Pi from home.

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  • Email Lock-down

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    Thanks to the beauty of open source (and other, smarter developers who’ve already traveled down this rabbit hole), I don’t have to figure out how to set up a personal mail server on my own. All of the tools are readily available!

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