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— Angeles_NF (@Angeles_NF) September 11, 2020
Author: Chris Aldrich
I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history.
I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.
David Shanske (david.shanske.com)Micropub 2.2.3 for WordPress has been released. It fixes a variety of warning notices. Published, updated, name, and summary properties are no longer stored in post meta. When queried, they will be pulled from the equivalent WordPress properties. Content should be as well, however as content in th...
Hooray!
The technology that connects us Also controls us Trailer The dilemma Never before have a handful of tech designers had such control over the way billions of us think, act, and live our lives. The Mental Health Dilemma A 5,000 person study found that higher social media use correlated with self-repor...
The shift to remote work has buoyed the valuations of several startups making productivity tools. The latest is Roam Research, which has raised $9 million at a valuation of $200 million, or about 25 times higher than the median valuation for seed rounds.Roam is tapping more than a dozen ...
Roam Research should really be going the Zebra route and not the VC funding route. If the 11 person company is truly self-supporting with its current user base and there’s so much upside for growth, they’d be far better off to keep that value internally.
The only reason for VC funding is if they’re looking to do questionably moral things with their users’ data in the future. Data lock in was already my primary concern before this funding round, now its a complete deal blocker.
The VC funding model means that their long term viability is limited, particularly with the competition in the space. The only reason for company management to take this sort of funding is hopes at a quick buy out and large cash windfall at which point their mumblings at data and privacy for users are moot. Buyer beware.
Aside: From a marketing perspective the photo on this article has me wavering between the ideas of a Northern European shoegaze band and an Arizona-based hipster religious cult.
View of Tony’s from the parking lot. Tony’s is in the bottom left of the multi-use two story building.
Chalk sandwich board with the hours of operation and several coronavirus warning fliers taped to the entrance.
Green table/booth taped off with blue tape to force physical distancing within the restaurant
A longtime libertarian who dabbled in eccentric ideas like seasteading — artificial island communities in international waters far from governmental jurisdiction — and life extension, Thiel had made occasional forays into mainstream politics. ❧
First time I’ve seen seasteading as a word in context.
Growing up, I thought there was only one way to make a chocolate chip cookie. You started with the yellow bag of Nestlé Toll House chocolate morsels, followed the directions on the back, and nine to 11 minutes later you were rewarded with a tray of warm cookies. Simple as that. Fast forward 20 years, and there are now more recipes for chocolate chip cookies than I’d ever have a chance to make in my lifetime (although I’d be down to try). To distinguish themselves from the competition, they all claim to be the best, whether that’s because they’re the easiest, or the most flavorful, or the chewiest, or the softest.
Not quite the article I was searching for, but relatively interesting nonetheless. One would expect Alton’s cookies to be best here…
Watch a demo with Cameron Jones from WP Theme Components and Nathan Wrigley from WP Builds What is a theme component? Theme components are bite sized code snippets that can be reused across multiple themes. Using theme components makes it easier to reuse the same code across multiple themes. What is...
Relatively quick and to the point. Watched the video at 1.25x. I’m intrigued.
Theme components are bite sized code snippets that can be reused across multiple themes, but are either too small or don’t make sense to be released as a plugin. Stop cluttering up your functions.php file and start using theme components! Who are theme components for? Th...
This looks interesting and useful. Perhaps a potential solution for adding small tidbits of microformats mark up to one’s theme at a more granular level than the mf2 plugin? I can see use cases for other snippets too like accepting Webmentions automatically, etc.
Distributor is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to syndicate and reuse content across your websites — whether in a single multisite or across the web.
Site-to-site syndication plugin…
Way back in August of 2019, we posted a Feature Project Proposal for a new way of handling WordPress core notifications, called WP Notify. The goal of this proposal is to create a new (better) way …
Happy Coptic new year. Today we start the year 1737 A.M. (Anno Martyrum "Year of the Martyrs"). The Coptic calendar is that of the Pharaohs with a minor reform, but starts in the year 284, the year Diocletian, the greatest persecutor of the church, became emperor
— Samuel Tadros (@Samueltadros) September 11, 2020
It's fairly often that I see a tweet that sums to something like "I find <prevalent concept> super hard" or "everybody's bad at <prevalent concept>, nobody really gets it" and I think it's worth discussing who and what this serves to accomplish
— shelley (@codebytere) September 11, 2020
This, but also and specifically for mathematics! We need to normalize the idea that math is easy.
Tell me what you dream of seeing in WordPress, whether your jokes or your most serious hopes, I'm not making product decisions so this doesn't constitute a promise, I just want to hear about it and get my brain back into that mode again :)
— Helen 侯-Sandí (@helenhousandi) September 8, 2020I've always been lowkey bummed that post formats got shelved.
— Jason Cosper (@boogah) September 8, 2020
Now that Automattic owns Tumblr, maybe it's a good time to revist that concept.I loved post formats. Learning how to add integration for them in child themes and designing each taught me so much PHP.
— Courtney Robertson (@courtneyengle) September 9, 2020
I'd like to see more psuedo HTML without learning markdown. In the block editor, type /hr. Now do that with all the things. /h2 please.
I think Post Formats didn’t go far enough. I love Post Kinds Plugin for extending the idea, particularly into some of the UI one sees in the social space. It also has extensibility to allow new formats as well as customize-able display, so if you want an annotation display or a “chicken feed” (just to demonstrate the point) on your site, a few modifications and you’re off to the races.
The UI part that often bogs down the posting process is the complexity of Gutenberg or the myriad of meta-boxes. To remedy this I try to pair one of the many Micropub clients (I like Quill or Omnibear as flexible examples) for posting to my website and then allowing Post Kinds to handle the rest for creating reply contexts and posting the minimum necessary metadata.
This month, start engaging your site visitors with two exciting new tools! The Newsletter Sign-up form and Donations Block will help you grow your subscriber and supporter base. Jetpack 8.9 is also proud to support v2.0 of the official AMP plugin for WordPress. Convert visitors into subscribers wit...
They’ve added social reviews to allow one to preview how posts will appear on Facebook, Twitter, and Google search results before you publish them.