Esperanto is a constructed language. It was created in 1887 by a Polish-Jewish doctor L.L. Zamenhof as an easy language to learn. His goal was to foster harmony between people from different cultures and countries; a lingua franca for the world. “The place where I was born … the inhabitants were divided into four distinct […]
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Unix is my IDE
An integrated development environment (IDE) such as PHPStorm, Eclipse or Netbeans provides a set of tools and integrations available together to make development easier. Common features are: Text Editor Project search and replace Automatic building, testing, linting Source control integration The command-line meets all of these features. Editor First, my text editor is vim. I […]
Podcasts, Authenticity and Old Media
Modern times seem to opt more for authenticity and rejecting the overly refined, polished, and fake. You see this in the popularity of Reality TV and social media, both have the appeal of non-scripted and authentic content. I also see this desire in podcasts. I’m a bit of a podcast junkie, I’ve been listening for […]
Creating a Gutenberg Block
A tutorial on how to build a Gutenberg block. The intended audience is a WordPress theme or plugin developers with some Javascript experience interested in learning what it takes to create a block in the new Gutenberg editor. Updated: See my new post post Gutenberg blocks without the build step for a simpler example without the extra […]
On Social Media
Unfortunately there is no better way to publish photos, writing, or other personal content without using social media. The corollary is also true, there is no better way to follow content from someone you are interested in than using social media. The open web and RSS were not successful enough to escape out of the […]
Book Review: Little Brother
After a major terrorist attack hits San Francisco, the government creates an Orwellian surveillance society, a techno-savvy teenager rebels back — a geek focused coming of age story. The author, Cory Doctorow, is quite knowledgeable and explains technology well. Even though the story was written almost 10 years ago, the technology topics still hold up. […]
Book Review: Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull’s book Creativity, Inc is an excellent book for both the history of Pixar, and the business lessons managing creative teams and people. First off, I’m biased. I love Pixar. I love their movies. I’ve watched several behind-the-scenes and making of movies about Pixar. I was even lucky enough to get a tour of […]
Install WordPress on Windows Subsystem for Linux
With the latest Creative Update on Windows you can run a full Linux environment, without the need of a virtual machine or other container system. It’s Linux on Windows, and it is pretty nice. The following instructions are how to setup WordPress on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), it also sometimes called Bash on Windows, […]
Voice is the future and Google is best
Almost a year ago, I was lucky enough to be given an Amazon Echo from someone whose family wasn’t that comfortable with an always-on device listening to them, so he gave it to me to play with. My life is quite boring, listen away devices. So my family likes the Echo, it works well enough […]
Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition
My review of the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop. My two previous laptops were the Macbook Pro 15″ (Late 2013), and Thinkpad X1 Carbon (2012, 1st gen). So much of the comparisons will be to those two. My main debate was between the XPS 13 and Thinkpad X1 Carbon, a few reasons I ended […]
Git Snippets
Undo If you made a commit and did not push and want to change, use reset it will unstage the commit and your repo will be at the state prior to the commit. You can use reset with a hash or ~ back from head. If you want to completely undo the previous commit, backing […]
Ten Year Anniversary
A lot of talk today about the ten year anniversary of some such device; ten years ago I was doing something much more important, signing up for WordPress.com. Though it might of been to blog about said device.