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Month: December 2018

Posted on December 25, 2018

Working on Christmas

I work on Christmas every year. In return, I get Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve off. Not a bad trade-off for a non-Christian. Continue reading Working on Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2018

Is @realDonaldTrump good for Twitter?

No other site has a direct link to the id of the president of the United States Continue reading Is @realDonaldTrump good for Twitter?

Posted on December 24, 2018December 24, 2018

What is WordPress’ secret sauce?

tl;dr Now that social media is king, post-WordPress blogging systems don’t want to deal with comments, outsourcing them to services such as Disqus. But blogs are better with comments, and WordPress’ native commenting is worth a look. Static-site generators have been turning the heads of developers who blog ever since the Ruby-powered Jekyll was first … Continue reading What is WordPress’ secret sauce?

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