Category: Opinion
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LoopConf
I’m going to say, with emphasis, what I think everyone is probably thinking… LoopConf is what you wish most WordCamps were Here’s my gist: Live streaming quality was excellent, because a professional crew was on-tap to handle all of it The logistical planning of the entire conference felt very smooth – almost invisible, really Vendor tables…
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Defining Success
As a wee lad growing up in the 80’s, “success” was pretty clear: Watch TV Play video games Listen to whatever music my parents do Eat more sugar Become an astronaut Pretend to be sick to avoid school Avoid gross girls What the heck is the internet? As a teenage man in the 90’s, “success” got a little…
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💩
Emojis are modern-day hieroglyphs. In typical internet fashion, several others have considered this before me, immediately making me 😕. Emoji (and their more primitive cousins emoticons) represent a way to more succinctly express oneself using the fewest characters possible. However, their relevance and interpretation is left wide-open until a shared experience occurs to attach contextual relevance to them. Naturally,…
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Distributed
In 2010 I took a job with the fine folks at Automattic. Having been contributing to WordPress, BuddyPress, and bbPress since 2007, working with the biggest company in the WordPress ecosystem seemed like the next logical step in my career. If you somehow haven’t heard of them, they’re a great company with open-source in it’s heart and…
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Responsive Design is a Hack
Responsive design has become a quick-and-dirty way to say “Hey! We looked at this on not-just-a-PC!” Our users deserve so much better — something that intentionally works with the ever-increasing array of input methods. Keyboards, cursors, touch, voice, & motion; the digital world has never been simultaneously as accessible and as overtly complicated as it is today. Netflix…