How Can We Get More Non-English Speakers Contributing to WordPress?

3 minute readThere are more WordPress users who are non-English speakers, yet nearly all code contributors to WordPress are fluent in English. That sounds problematic to me. Why is that, and can anything be done to fix this situation? Huge Potential in Non-English-Speaking Contributors There is an interesting inconstancy in the WordPress community: from my observations, most […]

Protected: Father’s Day 2018

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Gratitude Journal June 2018

< 1 minute readStuff I’m grateful for that comes to mind in June. Danielle Danielle is five but is really quite mature. She tries her very best to be helpful and patient. When she was three we did the “marshmellow test” on her (placed a marshmellow in front of her, told her she could eat it, or wait […]

Small b blogging

< 1 minute readCopied verbatim from Small b blogging Tom Critchlow on network topology and the ghost of the Digg homepage. I think most people would be better served by subscribing to small b blogging. What you want is something with YOUR personality. Writing and ideas that are addressable (i.e. you can find and link to them easily […]

WordPress Turns 15: a Story of Survival, Ideals and Global Domination

10 minute readAfter its initial release 15 years ago, the website software WordPress is used by over 30% of the websites on the Internet, whereas the nearest competitor sits around 3%. It’s prospects couldn’t be better. Did I say that? I meant to say it’s really old software, built primarily by hobbyists and amateurs from home in […]

Troubleshooting iPhone App Communication with Fiddler

2 minute readWhile troubleshooting an iPhone app, it’s sometimes helpful to see exactly what HTTP requests its sending. Enabling Fiddler to View iPhone HTTP Traffic I managed to do that with Fiddler by following these steps: https://www.pluralsight.com/blog/tutorials/using-fiddler-with-an-iphone-ipad I found my laptop’s IP by doing this: Click on the Start menu and type cmd. When you see the […]

Gratitude Journal, May 2018

4 minute readThings I’m grateful for. Amanda (again) I find being a father very fulfilling and satisfying, and so I need to repeat that I’m grateful for my wife Amanda. Before going through the roller coaster of parenthood (which I realize is still starting), I thought the sacrifice of mothers mostly focused on labour and giving birth. […]

Line Ending Troubles with Git, a Virtual Machine, and Windows

4 minute readThis is some technical stuff I learned today using Git, VVV with a Linux virtual machine, and Windows. I recently started getting these annoying messages again whenever I’d commit anything using Git: warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in payment_methods/Paypal_Standard/help_tabs/payment_methods_overview_paypalstandard.help_tab.php. The file will have its original line endings in your working directory. I had […]

I'm 1000th part Mi'kmaq!

< 1 minute readI stumbled on an interesting relation this last week: I’m about 1000th part Mi’kmaq! (Assuming the information in familysearch.org‘s family tree is correct). My 10th-great-grandfather, on Mom’s side, is Chief Henri Louis Membertou Kagigoniac, whose picture is attached. Here’s the wikipedia article about his dad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Membertou. They both lived around Acadia, present day Nova Scotia. […]

Protected: Celeste’s new words

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