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    The Information Ecosystem of Litter Boxes

    As I think about the future of the internet, I’m genuinely concerned about our inability to create deeper meaning at scale or to even be able to share information in a reliable way.

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    A Mild Defense of Meta Boxes

    WordPress Twitter was provoked this past week with a critique of developers using ACF meta boxes and options pages to control content.

  • Email Newsletters and An Ode to RSS

    RSS was maybe the first “great” syndication method for writing online. It’s easy and open. Almost every blog or content-heavy website supports it. I see a writer I like and I can just add their URL to my RSS feed reader. Email newsletters are also great- they use a pretty open protocol. You still have…

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    Thoughts on designing for developers

    We’ve been tightening up some internal processes at work, one of them being the design-to-dev handoff process. This is just a brief collection of thoughts for designers from the developer perspective.

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    Finding a newsletter workflow for WordPress

    You’d think that creating an email newsletter in WordPress would be easier in 2023.

  • Human and non-Human Writing

    There are different types of writing, writing for humans and writing for robots. Guess which one the robots are good at.

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    Stuffed full of the feed

    Is 2023 the year the “feed” finally wins the war against self-selected content?

  • Github Copilot and the WordPress Gold Rush?

    I don’t know about you, but I’m a chronic New Year’s over-planner. I love the chance to set myself some goals that I’ll grow to hate and eventually ignore. This year, I’m trying very hard to boost my personal writing/blogging habit (along with the usual “more exercise, less food and twitter”).  That means I’m coming…

  • Blog Posts vs Articles

    What’s the difference between a blog post and an article?

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    What’s the point of Twitter?

    I’m reevaluating my relationship with Twitter and with social media in general.