Protected: New Years Day 2018
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Read More Protected: New Years Day 2018Author: Michael Nelson
I’m a dad from Cobble Hill, BC, Canada. I work on Print My Blog, WordPress and Django, and Dead Easy Family History.
Member of the Church Of Jesus Christ. And I’m on Twitter.
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Times I’ve Felt Really Happy
2 minute readAt church I’m now called to team-teach Sunday school to the four year olds. (We’ll see how this goes! But I see they’re mostly really surprisingly good kids, and I’m mostly a big kid, and the other teacher is mature, so we should be fine). Part of the first lesson said to mention times I […]
Read More Times I’ve Felt Really HappyProtected: Christmas 2017
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Read More Protected: Christmas 2017My WordPress and PHP development Setup
4 minute readI primarily work on the WordPress plugin Event Espresso for my living, and thought I’d share my development setup: what tools I use to make software. I do this to share the tools I’ve found handy, but also inviting feedback on how it could be improved. What I Like About My Development Setup I use […]
Read More My WordPress and PHP development SetupElders Quorum President Release Thoughts
8 minute readToday I was released from being the “Elders Quorum President” in our local Duncan Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Myself and my two counsellors, Mike McCullough and Grant Cassell, were basically charged with leading and instructing the 20-50 year old men in our congregation. More specifically we were arranging lessons […]
Read More Elders Quorum President Release ThoughtsShort Story: Double Dream
3 minute readI’ve had this idea for a short story since I was probably in middle school. It’s maybe a bit weirder than I’d like. Enjoy! My life is a dream within a dream. One dream happens again and again; the other one never ends. In the first dream, I’m in a hospital, sitting, staring at a […]
Read More Short Story: Double DreamThe Magic Keys of Esprenevestos Children's Story
< 1 minute readDownload it here: The Magic Keys of Esprenevestos. Print it and read it to your kids! The idea is to try to teach kids “computer sense”, a bit like “number sense”. And I think it can help adults too to understand how HTTP is different from HTTPS, what “certificate” and “certificate authorities” are, and even […]
Read More The Magic Keys of Esprenevestos Children's StoryWordCamp Seattle 2017 Memory Dump
17 minute readThis last weekend I attended WordCamp Seattle and learned a ton. I mean a ton. This post about it is really long! Just read the headings you find interesting. The Journey Getting to the WordCamp was a bit of a pain though- the weather was not favourable. First there was a surprise snow-storm in Shawnigan […]
Read More WordCamp Seattle 2017 Memory DumpProtected: How I got here
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Read More Protected: How I got hereFive Unspoken Rules of Contributing to Open Source Software
19 minute readI made a lot of mistakes going from developing closed-source to open-source software, and want to share the unspoken rules I discovered in the process.This post is intended for readers with programming experience (especially with WordPress), but who are new to contributing to open source projects. My First Pull Request Disaster Customizing BuddyPress Docs for […]
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