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Waterfox

Loving Waterfox, my new favorite browser for general surfing and playing on teh Web.

Amazon Sucks

Avoiding Amazon until they stop forcing 2-factor authentication. Frustrating waste of time. Make it optional imbeciles.

Sans Scanner

Today my trusty scanner died. Not going to replace it. And when my printer finally dies, I’m not going to replace that either.

Away Time

Spent about a week or so away from screens and media as much as possible. Helps to regain perspective.

Plugin Planet 8 Years

Celebrating 8 years providing premium WordPress plugins at Plugin Planet!

Domain-based email

Power is *not* relying on a 3rd-party service to handle your email.

Dialing it in

Streamlining my entire digital universe into a single highly focused beam.

Make static WP site

Simply Static is my go-to plugin for generating static HTML versions of WordPress sites. Works flawlessly.

eBay blargh!

Note to self: never, ever, ever buy any CD or DVD from eBay. Every single time the discs are scratched, damaged, missing, fake, or worse. Never again you clowns.

Smoke tests for WP plugins

Find out if a plugin works with the latest version of WordPress @ plugintests.com

Lighten up

Going through all of my data, deleting all the chaff. Going for less than 500 GB total data storage.

Cleaning up

Finally deleted all the cool unused placeholder Twitter accounts that I signed up for years ago. I will never use them.

Goodbye Dashlane

After several years with Dashlane, I’ve moved on to a simpler, better solution.

Moving on

After 10+ years, finally moved the last of my sites away from Media Temple.

Going forward

MUCH work to be done.

How it’s going

Watching. Waiting. Praying.

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Launching my new plugin, Head Meta Pro 🚀 Complete meta tags for WordPress.
Migrating sites to a new server, so far so good. Please report any bugs, thank you.
Arc browser looked good but lost me at “account required”. No browsers do that.
Finishing up the pro version of Head Meta Data plugin, launch planned this month.
Finally finished my ultimate block list to stop AI bots :) Blocks over 400+ AI bots!
After 10 years working late at night, my schedule has changed. I am now a “morning person”, starting my day at 6am or earlier.
Nice update for Wutsearch search engine launchpad. Now with 19 engines including Luxxle AI-powered search.
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