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  • 2023, Looking Forward
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    2023, Looking Forward

    Earlier this year, Kate published our 2022 looking back post on our travel focused blog. We reflected on our travels and what the past year was like. Now that we’re coming in to the new year, I can’t help but find myself setting my sights on the big themes of this year for me and my family. In our travels, I always find that I want to stop, and slow down through the holidays. We spend a lot of time resting, and unapologetically working on projects, staying in the camper, and just in-general doing less. The past few years this…

  • Hosting a Minecraft Server for My Kid and His Friends

    Back in 2013, I ran a Minecraft server with my (at the time, teenage) nephew, Alex Gray. It actually grew to a pretty good size, hosting a couple-hundred players. We had a few mods installed, and had a lot of fun making dungeon-crawling playing areas, marketplaces, and all kinds of fun things. We ended up stopping eventually, as neither of us were really experienced enough in maintaining any server at all, and it all kind-of hit critical mass. Fast-forward ten (omg, it’s ten) years, and he’s now a grown ass adult working as a programmer and I’ve since switched careers…

  • Pay it Forward

    3.5 years ago, was broke as hell, living in my mother-in-law’s house with my wife and son, hating most of it. I was overworked, underpaid, and downright desperate to be out of the situation I found myself in. I lived in that house for 3 years, and most of that time I was still unable to make ends meet. But I knew I loved what I was doing. I also knew that it would give me the flexibility that I wanted. That flexibility was how I got in this mess, so it god damn better well be worth it! I…

  • When Twitter Loses, WordPress Wins

    I believe that the Fediverse is poised to transform WordPress and usher in a new golden era for the platform.

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  • Why The Fediverse Excites Me

    Once upon a time, the internet was ruled by a combination of people’s individual blogs, and instant messenger. The most-reliable way to get access to a person’s content was actually through their own personal website. If someone wanted to connect with people online, they would publish blog content on their site. Sometimes content was pretty long, but generally speaking it was shorter – a few sentences, and a most a few paragraphs. A blog post almost felt like a status update that you’d see on Facebook, or in these days, a Twitter thread. This content was generally consumed by people…

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  • My Frighting Experience In Taos

    My Frighting Experience In Taos

    This tells a tale of the time we were boondocking in Taos and were met with some unexpected visitors late in the night.

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  • A Cold Weekend in Coarsegold
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    A Cold Weekend in Coarsegold

    The weekend where it felt like everything was going wrong, and through one act of kindness, we came out of it better than we started.

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    I Created a Basic WordPress BerlinDB Example Plugin

    To bridge the gap in BerlinDB’s documentation, I’ve crafted a basic WordPress plugin loaded with inline comments to help people see how to use it.

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  • Never Give Up! Trust Your Instincts!

    Never Give Up! Trust Your Instincts!

    In 1996 I was a young lad who played a video game called Starfox. In this game, there is are sections that are extremely stressful, and overwhelming. During these times, a main character would jump in and say: “Never Give Up! Trust Your Instincts!” The game designer added this piece of dialogue because he wanted to encourage players through the difficult parts of the game. He wanted to help them believe in themselves in a time of stress. You could say it’s just a video game and it’s no big deal. Heck, many who played the game probably didn’t even…

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  • How I learned How To Write Blog Content Consistently

    If you want to use your website to generate leads, you must write blog content consistently. There’s simply no getting around it. Marketing in most any form uses the written language in some way, but not in the way online marketing does. In online marketing world, your words become your vessel for your prospects to get to know you, like you, and trust you. Not just your prospects, though. You’re also earning Google’s trust, too. In order to get that trust, you must write, and you must write consistently. I liken this to exercise. With exercise, you have a lot…

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Alex
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Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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