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Oatmeal and Your WordPress Certification

In the summer of 2019 I earned my WordPress CERTIFICATE OF MASTERY from WPShout. A year later, while COVID-19 has many of us rethinking our place in the universe, I find myself feeling grateful. I debated getting certified but in the end it was clear I made the right…

The Hayden Theme in WordPress Recipe

Squarespace? I’m a WordPress developer! I eat, drink, sleep and snuggle WordPress. Put another way, I don’t do Squarespace. Aren’t they the enemy?

Lost and found & lost and found

A funnier thought occurred to me. On our trip here, Bruce wound us through the woods in such a crazy fashion, his attempt to disorient me, that he managed to drop me off closer to my home than we were when we began…

Made-from-scratch vs. Made-from-scratch

My wife and I exchanged a lightning-quick glance once we had taken it all in. The glance was undetected but conveyed a novels-worth of commentary. We continued our lavish praise for sparing us the task of cooking our own dinner that evening and the luxury of their wonderful company, while inside our heads we reflected upon each other’s Blitzkrieg of opinions. Homemade!?

The robots are coming – yesterday!

We served 900 lunches every day throughout the summer. We flipped 900 burgers every day. I can only wonder what I would have been doing the summer of 1988 if a robot had been able to flip those burgers for us. And I imagine this robot could have managed the flipping without all the whining, moaning and groaning that we somehow had the time to melodramatically gesticulate, despite having to flip 900 burgers every – single – day.

That was then and this is now … for now.

…along came this weird device. It had no keyboard, no wires, just a screen. This was followed in the Spring of 2010 by a letter from Steve Jobs slamming Flash in an open letter to the world. This was followed by the headlines, “Flash is Dead!”. I remember firing up my computer that morning, seeing the headlines and just staring at the screen, frozen. I was in shock.