Category: Journal

Longer-form writing. Things I’ve maybe been mulling over for a while. There is no pre-determined topic — I could end up writing about anything really.

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    My IndieWeb Setup

    Please note: This is now out of date somewhat This post is an outline of my IndieWeb setup. I describe some of the key plugins I have installed as well as third party services I use. All of which play nicely together for the IndieWeb.Built with WordPressMy personal site is built using WordPress and is…


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    Throwing mud up a wall

    In my experience, learning is like throwing mud up a wall. On the first throw some will stick and some will fall off. Then on the second throw more will stick and so on and so on. Whatever it is you want to learn or create, there really is no substitute for lots of hard…


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    WordPress as my IndieWeb Foundation

    From the very beginning of its creation, WordPress has been all about empowering people to publish online. It now has a huge user base and a community that is always working to update, improve and extend it. That’s not to say that you need WordPress to become Indie, in fact many people use a whole…


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    The Dvorak Keyboard

    When I took a trip to Paris a few years back, I had to pop into an internet cafe to find the location of a place I was after. Because – it seemed – I was hopelessly ill-prepared. So I paid my money to the nice man in the corner; sat down; quickly typed my…


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    Jumping the Shark

    The term jumping the shark, I discovered today, is an idiom that is a way of describing when a television show’s quality begins to decline. It originated from the television show Happy Days in its season five premiere, where The Fonz literally jumped over a contained shark on a beach front. This was quite a…