Category: WordPress
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Design details
I just moved into a new house. Much of the furniture from my old apartment didn’t really fit in the new place, so I ended up getting quite a bit of new stuff. Actually, my wife and I mostly got new-to-us used vintage furniture, mostly very cheap. We have been scouring the local classifieds for…
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WordCamp Europe
Last week I was in Porto, Portugal for WordCamp Europe. It was my first time at a big WordCamp, and my first time in Porto. I wasn’t expecting that I would get much time for sightseeing, and I was right. I spent almost all of my time either at the conference center or out with…
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Thinking, waiting, fasting
Several months ago I re-read the book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. I had read it in my first-year tutorial in college back in 1997 (an English translation), and decided after 25 years, I would read the original in German. I didn’t remember too many details from my previous read, but I did remember the general…
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UNIX Tip of the day: simple backups
WordPress 5.9 is out! Very exciting stuff. I am really excited to try out full-site editing. I think that full-site editing will really be the moment where all of the previous work on Gutenberg starts to make sense. Editing the design of your site is just as easy as editing the content. It is also…
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UNIX tip of the day: Inserting files with sed
Today I was working on my family 2021 annual report. Usually I write this in December, but I am a bit behind this year. We have been writing one of these since 2006, and we generally have a lot of fun doing it. I write them in LaTeX, because I like LaTeX, and it produces…