As I have for the past 10 years, I started off the year talking about my “3 words” for 2019 – the areas in which I intend to focus. You can read more here: https://www.danyork.com/2019/01/my-3-words-for-2019.html
Jan 01
My 3 Words for 2019
As I have now done every year since 2010 (see past years), here are three words that I aspire to be the "themes" of my activity this year. You’ll note that these are really quite similar to my 3 words for 2018 – and in truth I think 2019 is really a continuation of everything in 2018 that was left undone with the severe disruption and chaos of both: 1) uprooting our family to move to Vermont; and 2) the unwelcome guest of colon cancer. I am SO ready to put a period at the end of the sentence of…
Dec 10
"Hipster Ipsum" may be my new favorite Lorem Ipsum generator
I may have just found my new favorite "Lorem ipsum" text generator – HIPSTER IPSUM! https://hipsum.co/ For the longest time, my choice when I just needed some columns to fill in with filler text[1] was Bacon Ipsum, which is always…
Dec 08
Watch: the 2018 "State of the Word" from WordCamp US
Tonight in Nashville, Matt Mullenweg delivered his "State of the Word" presentation at WordCamp US. Not being there in person, I watched the live stream. The recorded stream has about 28 minutes of various quotes that were displayed. Matt starts…
Dec 07
Initial Thoughts on WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg
Yesterday (Dec 6, 2018) was TheBigDay when WordPress 5.0 with the Gutenberg block-based editor landed in all of our WordPress sites for upgrade. Some of the places to learn more about the launch include: WordPress 5.0 launch announcement (with videos)…
Dec 06
Video I Found Useful: "Getting start with Docker"
Da ich in den letzten ein oder zwei Monaten mehr über Docker und Container erforschte, habe ich viele Videos auf YouTube gesehen. Eines der “Intro to Docker”, die mir sehr gut gefallen hat, war dieses von Brad Traversy:
Was ich nützlich fand, war, wie er das sehr praktische Beispiel der Einrichtung einer …
Dec 06
Video I Found Useful: “Getting Started with Docker”
As I’ve been exploring more about Docker and containers over the past month or two, I’ve been watching MANY videos on YouTube. One of the “intro to Docker” ones that I quite liked was this one from Brad Traversy:
What I found useful was how he used the very practical example of …
Dec 05
Have we given up on personal blogging? (In favor of social media)
Have we given up on personal blogging? Are we instead doing that all writing in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and similar services? Is the personal blog dead? [1] I had lunch this week with a friend who, like me, has been…
Dec 04
WordPress 5.0 now targeted to launch on…. Thursday! (Dec 6)
The news out of Matt Mullenweg last night was… THURSDAY! That day, December 6 (2018), is the next target release date for WordPress 5.0. If you have been paying attention to WordPress, or listening to any of my reports into…
Dec 03
The Publishing of RFC 8496 Concludes the 10-year Saga of P-Charge-Info
October 31, 2018, was a special day for me. Not because it was Halloween, but because after 10 years a small little document I co-authored about the "P-Charge-Info" header for SIP-based Voice-over-IP (VoIP) was published as informational RFC 8496. You…