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Colorless wp-admin?
Sometimes you get an idea in your head and you just need to follow through. With all the talk about revisiting wp-admin color schemes, I wondered… could I remove all the colors from all the...
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Taking 72 Screenshots in 5 Minutes
In WordPress, there are nine available color schemes for use in the admin. They’re generated from a base _admin.scss file, and if I make a change, I need to go and test it out nine different times. I...
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Last post of 2020
This seems to be a tradition now, reflecting on the year in a “last post of…”. I’ve done it for two years now, in 2018, and 2019. This year has obviously gone differently than anyone could have...
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What should be custom properties in wp-admin?
In a recent post on make.wordpress.org/core, Kirsty started the conversation on implementing custom properties in the WordPress admin. One recurring question is – how do we balance customization and...
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Following on from part 1, this explores some more technical ideas for using custom properties in the WordPress admin. This is a longer one, so here’s a quick table of contents: Two sets of...
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My Typical Day
A blogging chain is going around, that has folks sharing their typical days. It’s interesting to read through everyone’s responses, especially given the whole pandemic situation. It can feel like...
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Midway through reading We’re Not Broken
I’ve been waiting for this book to come out since I heard the author on a podcast in April – We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation, by Eric Garcia. It’s part personal narrative,...
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Switching to a block-based theme
You might not notice a difference, but this site is now using a block-based theme. I’ve been tinkering with this on and off for the last few months. I’d get halfway there, then run into some issue...
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Last post of 2021 (kinda)
I know, I’m cheating by backdating this one. But it’s still the liminal space between 2021 and 2022 proper, it’s the weekend, and over the last few days I was mostly focused on getting the previous...
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Last post of 2022
I’m having trouble writing a recap this year. A lot of small things happened, and I worked a lot, but overall the year has felt very nebulous — long and short at once. Work-wise, my focus this past...
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2023 in photos
Happy end of 2023! I’ve collected at least one photo per month this year, instead of my usual recap. NYE 2022, fog over passyunk ave. Jan: Mel & Noodle in matching hoodies. Feb: Deer in my...
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Three months of hobbies
I’m back at work after being off since October, (finally) taking advantage of Automattic’s sabbatical benefit (I’d been eligible since Dec 2019 and was planning on summer 2020, but then COVID happened...
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