Category: Personal
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My Continuing Evolution in WordPress
This year — 2023 — marks the 20th anniversary of WordPress. It’s been around for so long that it’s hard to imagine when it wasn’t part of my daily life, yet it’s still not old enough to drink. When I first dipped my toe into WordPress waters, I was a freelance illustrator and animator. It…
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WordPress Post Created Using CLI on a Wyse Terminal
Okay, here’s the thing. I’m a geek about retro technology. Whether it’s old printing presses, cars (before computers), laptops, or dumb terminals, it doesn’t matter. I love finding old tech and giving it new life. I’m writing this post on a Wyse terminal. If you don’t know what that is, you can read about them…
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The time I made a rocket fly with BASIC
I am a child of the ’80s. That means that a communication device you could carry in your pocket and allowed you to talk to anyone on the planet was a thing reserved for Captain Kirk. It also means that the first time I sat down at a computer, it was a blue screen with…
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My Brief History in Coding
Over the years, my coding journey has been sporadic at best. It’s been all over the place as I’ve worked in other careers, mainly illustration and animation. The timeline looks something like this: 1981 I first learned to code BASIC in an early (experimental) elementary school program. That was back when the only computers in…