Archives: Notes

• Goodbye Sharon

  2 February, 2021

  A week ago I wrote this: Goodbye Sharon. You were the best Mom this exchange student could wish for. I am devastated to learn of your sudden passing, and I will miss you dearly. You see, a little over 30 years ago I was an exchange student in the United States. My exchange family were…

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• Assume your audience is international – not American

  4 December, 2020

  I see this all the time. Newsletters dropping in my inbox referencing something super specific to the United States. Like Thanksgiving, for instance. And it excludes those that don’t subscribe to your point of view. If you don’t know where the person is from, assume they are international. Don’t go for that default (American) approach…

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• Koko Analytics for simple Stats

  20 May, 2020

  Years ago, when you needed a simple way of displaying stats in your WordPress Dashboard, the only set and forget option was WordPress Stats which later got incorporated into Jetpack. And for years, that’s exactly what I installed in WordPress sites. But besides the fact of Jetpack slowing your site down, its Stats module is…

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• Force re-downloading plugins and themes with WP-CLI

  14 May, 2020

  Recently I found myself needing to force download all plugins and themes in a WordPress installation. Now, the old way would be to download them, upload them via SFTP. Very laborious, no fun. Enter the fun way: WP-CLI. If you’re unfamiliar with WP-CLI, it’s the command line tool for WordPress. And as all sites on…

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• Genesis + IndieWeb

  12 May, 2020

  I’m a big fan of the whole IndieWeb movement. You own your content. Always. I believe we have a better future ahead of us when we start publishing our content independent of the big “news” outlets again like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you’ve never looked into it, I’d start here. Inspired by my good…

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• I made my blog the primary source for my content

  1 May, 2020

  This is just a short note to let you all know I’ll be using my blog as the primary for my content again. I’ve tried in previous years to backup my tweets into WordPress, but I’ve since deleted that. Turns out, not all of my tweets should be saved. So, I solved it differently this…

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• Covers are fun!

  30 April, 2020

  Covers are fun. I sometimes discover a new song that I enjoy a lot. After then learning it’s a cover, it becomes an interesting process of defining your preference. I’ll give you an example. I first discovered the song Elastic Heart by Longfellow. And I thought, wow, this is a great song! Only to then…

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