I’ve been cross posting my personally published content on both Twitter, and Mastodon for the last week, mostly to see how interactions with what I post varies now that I have about 1/3rd of the followers on Mastodon. My conclusion? At least for me and my circle, Twitter is dead. ????????
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Alex Standiford
I’ve been spending time backfilling content on my site. A lot of stories I share were once linked to a Twitter feed (ick) so I’m converting that content to a blog post and backdating as I go.
This is one of my favorite RV stories, where we had an unexpected visitor that scared the daylights out of me.
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Alex Standiford
Jamming to Diablo Swing Orchestra today. I think they really came into full swing in this last album. They’re a little more approach-able in this album, but still have all of that super awesome swing sound, unique instrumentation, and some real bangers.
https://open.spotify.com/album/73YgGTPKJux9DVDr3Jv7k7?si=iNGcclvbSq2Cr5ouqceQpA
Also, “COME INTO FULL SWING” LOL
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Alex Standiford
Me: what would make this blog post with tons of images nicer, Kate?
Kate: They all need to be grouped up in a carousel, like Instagram
Me: gaaaaah I knew you were gonna say that!
And that’s why I spent the last hour turning the gallery blocks on Casual Weirdness and my personal site into galleries. Which, honestly, was pretty easy because React.
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Alex Standiford
I’m going back and finding content created by me that is published on other sites, and duplicating it on my site. I stumbled on this 3-part series I did just before I got hired at GoDaddy.
It’s all about how I switched from using ACF and the classic editor to a full site block editing experience, and includes some samples of the tooling I used at the time. There’s some good info in here, particularly about my process.
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Alex Standiford
I updated my RSS feeds so that you can filter content by tag. So if you only want to follow a specific topic of mine, you can simply append
?tag=tag-nameat the end of any of my RSS URLs, and it will only show content with that tag.Example: https://www.alexstandiford.com/rss.xml?tag=WordPress
Eventually, I’ll actually embed this into the interface to make it a little easier to use, but for now this will do just fine ????.
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A Much-Needed Respite In Virginia
One of the biggest challenges that comes from our current phase of travel is that we rarely get an opportunity to get away from our kids. They’re always with us, simply because there’s nobody nearby to watch them and they’re too young to take care of themselves right now. We don’t send them to school, because we homeschool. We go months on end without seeing any family, and as a result get a lot less time away from our kids than I think we need. This weekend, we’re parked pretty close to a place where family could come camp with…
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Alex Standiford
I’m thrilled to see that Automattic is backing the ActivityPub plugin! This is a big deal for WordPress and it’s future, and it gladdens me to see heavy hitters like A8C contributing to something as important as this.
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I built a Headless Multisite WordPress platform With GraphQL
This post explores the details that went into into my personal content publishing platform for my site, as well as the other blogs that I run.
