• Five Years of Facebook

    I encountered this unassuming little anniversary reminder on Facebook today: As you can see by the date, I was not a Facebook early adopter. In fact, for years, I called…

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  • Hairstory: a father-daughter tale

    Every year at the Automattic all-company Grand Meetup, we each have to give a short presentation in front of our colleagues. This “flash talk” can be about anything at all…

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  • The Techie Continuum – Redux

    Based on a post I wrote this past April called The Techie Continuum, I presented a lightning talk by the same name at this year’s inaugural WordCamp US in Philadelphia.…

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  • It Was Grand

    Nearly 400 Automatticians descended on Park City, Utah, earlier this month for our annual Grand Meetup (GM). The intense in-person time together helps forge new bonds and reinforces personal connections…

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  • Photographing the Moon

    I may be cynical about a lot of things, but the spectacular-ness of the natural world is not one of them. So last night, I went down to the corner…

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  • A CSS Adventure

    If you have a WordPress site you’d like to tweak the look and feel of — but you aren’t sure how — you might like to check out my CSS…

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