Intersection of interests – puzzles and record covers. Good quality version (above), not so great quality version (below) Actually both were good fun as puzzles – it’s just that the second one seems like it was put together by ChatGPT in response to a badly formed query – check out: Ultimately still fun to put … Read more
Today I read a headline that said “The last rose before hometowns” and I not only understood each word in the sentence but knew which show they were talking about and what it means.
WP Campus is back in person in New Orleans, LA July 12-14th, 2023 They’ve published a call for presenters, which closes March 24th: As in past years, we’re looking for a variety of topics on anything that might bring value to our community. WordPress, higher education, and accessibility are key themes, but we want people to … Read more
As usual, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Nails it: The Cure’s Friday I’m in Love For Nihilists I don’t care if Monday’s blue. God is dead. Or if Tuesday is utterly desaturated to the point where all choice is arbitrary, Wednesday too. Caroline Beach, at https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-cures-friday-im-in-love-for-nihilists
So this morning was another Creative Mornings Boston meetup in the Venture Café space at CIC HQ. The speaker was Erik Modahl of beantrust, a coffeebar and distribution company in Beverly. He started beantrust back in 2015 at CIC. If you’ve been to a #cmbos meetup in the last many years you’ve likely met Erik, … Read more
New puzzle – the characters from The Office Look familiar? George Seurat’s Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte (Sunday Afternoon at the Island of La Grande Jatte), from 1886:
Went in to Kendall Square (CIC HQ at One Broadway) this morning to hear Tamara Sanderson at Creative Mornings Boston. Tamara is one of the co-authors (along with Ali Greene) of Remote Works – a book coming out next month about how to successfully manage remote work. She shared her own experience as a digital … Read more
Anyone taken the time yet to understand the format of an Instagram data export (posts and media) and import into WordPress, preferably as a wp-cli command?
Via Ethan Marcotte, Jeff Eaton responding to Down with the Design System: The problem is that treating a design system as a pantry full of widgets is, in and of itself, a failure of both craft and imagination. Think of it like a language: if a writer’s only engagement with it is grabbing words from … Read more
Paul Stamatiou’s Thoughts on Twitter, Mastodon, and owning your data says many of the things I’ve been thinking but unable to articulate as I start stumbling into the Fediverse and the Indie Web. So much is focused on how one publishes (posting here, federating there, syndicating there) and not on the reader experience: how do … Read more