Post It Notes
After 10 years running my own business, I still manage schedules and tasks using old school post-it notes, sometimes simple sometimes very elaborate.
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Thought Bucket
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Pumping visitors full of ads
You know those sites, where you’re trying to just grab a quick bit of information but the page is shifting all over the place as it loads up 3 million advertisements.
WP domains for sale
Selling two of my top WordPress domains, wp-zen.com & zen-wp.com $300 for both. Aged 9 years. Drop a line if interested.
Typing vs pasting
Never force your users to type out a password (or any long string of characters) by blocking the paste function. Typing long strings leads to MORE errors than simple copy/paste.
Checking In
Checking in to anyone listening. Stay safe. Pay attention. Don’t get lazy.
Plesk looking whipped
What’s up with Plesk UI lately? Especially on Chrome it looks just awful, all kinds of broken. Come on Plesk devs get it together.
Power of prayer
Things get stressful, I try to pray. Not always easy, but always helps to relax and regain focus.
Global performance profiler
Nice new speed checker at fastorslow.com.
Site Health manager
Easy way to exclude certain tests from WP Site Health: Site Health Tool Manager
SSL checker
Excellent (and free) tool for getting tons of site SSL infos: whynopadlock.com
Stay home
Everyone just stay home and hide forever. Brilliant idea.
Edge on macOS
Playing with Microsoft Edge browser on macOS. It’s like 1998 all over again.
Colors and fonts
Nice site for browsing colors and fonts.
WordPress Admin framework
This new Admin Page Framework looks very good. Bookmarked for future use.
Finding new plugins
Two great places to find awesome plugins: pluginsearch.com and WP’s browse new.
CSS two things
2 things I hate to see in stylesheets: _ and #
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Thoughts
I disabled AI in Google search results. It was making me lazy.
Went out walking today and soaked up some sunshine. It felt good.
I have an original box/packaging for 2010 iMac if anyone wants it free let me know.
Always ask AI to cite its sources. Also: “The Web” is not a valid answer.
All free plugins updated and ready for WP 6.6 dropping next week. Pro plugin updates in the works also complete :)
99% of video thumbnail/previews are pure cringe. Goofy faces = Clickbait.
RIP ICQ