Thoughts

5FTF recap for February 26th, 2021

My #5FTF participation kind of sputtered out in the last half of 2020. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as most of it was either because I had higher priority client work to take care of, or holidays and PTO happened to fall on the same days and I looked forward to the extra Read More…

Lets bring back the blogroll to WordPress

I have a general understanding of why they decided to remove the “Links” admin menu item from new installs, but I don’t completely agree with it. I still feel that Links administration and Blogrolls still have their place in WordPress and we’re now at a point where new people starting their first blog in 2021, Read More…

It’s 2021 and I still love RSS

By no means do I keep it secret that I love consuming content via RSS feeds. It’s been my preference since I first heard about the technology 15 years ago or so in college. At first for me it was primarily for early podcasts consumption, but over time I realized that it’s also possible for Read More…

When you get new hardware

This past week, I made an unexpected purchase of a new Macbook computer for my day job. It’s not a case of my original one suddenly broke down and I needed to scramble to actually continue doing my daily work or anything like that. It was simply my time to participate in a company policy that allows for upgrading the tools we use to do our jobs, including financial help to purchase those tools.