🎞️ BlacKkKlansman (2018) | Focus Features

Watched BlacKkKlansman (2018) from Focus Features
Directed by Spike Lee. With John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
An interesting, but up-the-middle story. Of course despite the general blandness, everyone should really watch it at least once.

Watched as a rental on DirecTV

📺 “Madam Secretary” Something Better | CBS

Watched "Madam Secretary" Something Better from CBS
Directed by Charlotte Brändström. With Téa Leoni, Tim Daly, Keith Carradine, Patina Miller. When a group of American missionaries become hostages during a violent uprising abroad, Dalton must confront demons from his past in order to help Elizabeth secure their safe return home. Also, Stevie takes over Russel's social media presence, and Henry helps his niece, Sarah mentally prepare for her military deployment.
I’m continually astounded by Matthias Pfefferle’s (or I might alternately tag: @pfefferle) excellent work with the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress! It’s simply brilliant that my IndieWeb powered WordPress website can act much like a standalone version of Mastodon and reasonably federate with other platforms that use the ActivityPub protocol.

You can follow me at @chrisaldrich and apparently read my 8,000+ posts via Mastodon and other platforms.

While the plugin doesn’t support everything (yet) and doesn’t compete with Mastodon, Friendi.ca, or GNU.social, it extends WordPress with some reasonably solid fediverse features. I can’t wait to see how it continues to grow and add additional functionality.

Managed to get a talk proposal together for WordCamp Santa Clarita on the topic of IndieWeb and WordPress (geared toward a general audience). I also submitted an idea for a lightning talk on the relatively new Micropub spec from the W3C and how it can be used in conjunction with WordPress to quickly and easily post a variety of different content types to the platform.

I can’t wait to attend this new camp just North of Los Angeles!

📺 “The Good Doctor” Risk and Reward | ABC

Watched "The Good Doctor" Risk and Reward from ABC
Directed by Freddie Highmore. With Freddie Highmore, Nicholas Gonzalez, Antonia Thomas, Tamlyn Tomita. The new chief of surgery questions whether to keep Shaun after his blunt honesty with a mother of a critically ill infant.
Great to see the Asian representation on this show growing by leaps and bounds, particularly since it was originally based on a Korean show.