Category: Technology
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How Google Survives Enshittification
After listening to a podcast episode on enshittification, Google has been on my mind lately, specifically how it survives an ever-enshittifying landscape by being fine for the average user. Not great, not even good, but comparatively, fine. Let’s break it down with Google’s biggest products! Google Search Google Search is the original part of Google,…
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Happy New Year! the 2026 edition
2026 begins today, and looking back, the top post here had some staying power, since it was 2019’s Rewatch: Stargate Atlantis. Here are some of my favorites from last year. I hope you enjoy them too: This year, consider sharing your voice and experiences with the world. If you don’t have a place to write…
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An IndieWeb Playground
Sometimes I miss the old days of the web when I’d randomly stumble across cool, fun, and sometimes useful sites. And that just so happens to be what I was feeling earlier this year when I stumbled across OMG.lol, a cool, fun, and useful IndieWeb playground that also happens to remind me of the old…
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Ten Indie Apps I Love
It’s been a long time since I last wrote about apps I use, and those were just Safari extensions (many that I don’t use anymore). To break that fast and hopefully get back on track with writing about software, here are 10 indie apps I love, in no particular order. (There are plenty of big…
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Photos with (Not Boring) Camera
I love every app out of (Not Boring) Software. Compared to the whole industry, Andy’s whimsy and attention to detail are on another level, so you can imagine how delighted I was when he launched (Not Boring) Camera. Similar to Mood.Camera, (Not Boring) Camera provides a variety of styles with a tasteful amount of film-like…
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Blog Question Challenge: Technology Edition
It’s my turn to do the blog question challenge, technology edition! I’ve been tagged by Davey! When Did You First Get Interested In Technology? I was very interested in technology from the day I was aware of it. My classroom had an Apple IIe, and I played Oregon Trail every free moment I had. At…
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Photos with Mood.Camera
I take a lot of photos, but these days, only with my iPhone. It wasn’t too long ago that I had two cameras: my iPhone for quick low-quality snaps, and the popular camera of the moment for more composed and higher-quality photos. Now, the iPhone’s camera is just as good as the best camera I…
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Happy New Year! the 2025 edition
Another year begins, and looking back, I had a few fun milestones in 2024. I reached 20 years of contributing to WordPress (which was also my top post last year), and I’m hoping for 20 more. This blog has also been around for over 20 years now … I probably should have made a post…
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My WordPress Journey – 20 years
Twenty years ago, back when WordPress was just version 1.2, I installed it, immediately ran into problems, and asked for help in the WordPress Support Forums. While I was waiting, I started helping out in the installation forum, and since then, I’ve never stopped contributing to WordPress. I didn’t have a wide imagination back then,…
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Making my WordPress Blog Faster
Site speed tests are not a game to be won. The only way to get a perfect score is to have a static plain text site with no media and no styling. Instead, site speed tests represent a compromise. How fast do you want the site to load, and how much are you willing to…
