Earlier this year while exploring the Lightworx gallery in Queenstown I came across a woven light work that piqued my attention. It essentially depicted a wolf wearing a suit but the colours and shapes seemed to change as you observed it. I was certainly captivated, but not in the market for a $25,000 piece of […]
Choose your marketing adventure: Twitter = CopywritersInstagram = Art directors Facebook = Account peopleLinkedin = PlannersTiktok = Interns — Faizan Ali (@Faizanli) October 2, 2020
Central Banks get cryptic
As global interest rates crater and COVID-19 recessions metastasise, central banks are being forced to re-evaluate their role in currency and money creation. — Read on bluenotes.anz.com/posts/2020/09/andrew-cornell-central-banks-raymond-yeung-xing-zhaopeng-cryptocurrency
POSSE – IndieWeb
POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content. — Read on indieweb.org/POSSE
“Create Once, Publish Everywhere” With WordPress — Smashing Magazine
The term COPE (“Create Once, Publish Everywhere”) is a methodology for publishing our content to different outputs (website, AMP site, email, apps, and so on) by having a single source of truth for all of them. Let’s explore how to implement COPE using WordPress. — Read on www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/10/create-once-publish-everywhere-wordpress/
Wondering whether post formats still have a place in a Gutenberg block editor world…
Using iA Writer with WordPress
Using iA Writer with WordPress The latest version of iA Writer for Mac and iOS now includes support for IndieAuth so you can publish to WordPress without having to use JetPack. Celebrating small wins for the & #OpenWeb.
Testing out Quill with the IndieAuth plugin for #WordPress.
Wondering whether #MicroBlogs should be stored in #WordPress as custom post types or categories? I don’t think formats make sense in 2019 though.
Queenstown, New Zealand
The Four Freedoms of Cryptocurrency
Democratising Money: The Four Freedoms of Blockchain Based Cryptocurrency
How To Type Hyphens, Em Dashes, & Quotation Dashes On MacOS
There are primarily three types of dashes. I won’t go into painstaking detail about the where and whys, but I wanted to know how to type them. I found out, and I’m sharing the detail here. Hyphen | Dash (Shortest) Looks like: – Type via: – When to use a hyphen. En Dash | Long […]
Gutenberg (Mini-) Review: The Future of WordPress
I truly believe that Gutenberg and the block editor is the future of WordPress and will do great things overall. The Gutenberg markup falls into the background gracefully and it replaces a lot of the basic content editing functionality that was driving people to page builders. I have no doubt that as it matures this […]
I have an Instagram Nametag…
It looks like Instagram grew sick of seeing ghostly Snapchat Snapcodes everywhere, got jealous, and made a slightly more boring version of their own. You can scan mine below from within the app to follow me on Instagram, or tap here to get your very own Instagram Nametag. The Standard Instagram Nametag Getting Creative with your Instagram […]
The Great Southern Unconference 2018
A written summary of my experiences and discussions from The Great Southern Unconference 2018 held at The Arts Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand.