Category: Asides
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Reblog: The 6 Mistakes You’re Going to Make as a New Manager
Reblog via Matheus Lima‘s Terrible Software: So, for those just scanning, that breaks down to: This is such a perfectly wonderful TLDR for those moving into being a first time manager, but also a reminder for those who’ve been a manager perhaps even with multiple layers of an organization under you on six great actions…
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Reblog: Be the bazaar
Reblog via Jeremy Felt: One of the great tensions in WordPress is the balance between cathedral and bazaar. I think one of the great things Matt has done as the product owner of WordPress is finesse this in both obvious and non-obvious ways. At its best, the WordPress community thrives with ideas as to how…
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Being a better ally and reflecting on yesterday’s actions
I deeply regret causing discomfort to Anne McCarthy. I admire her contributions and commit to learning from this experience.
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What’s a library if not a…
In chatting with the kids while running evening errands and driving to and from kids activities, one of the 5yos asked why the library wasn’t called the book jackpot. 🤣 Good question kid. I’m now referring to the library as the Book Jackpot™️. Also on: twitter
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Happy 7th Birthday Gutenberg!
Just over 7 years ago, Gutenberg was “born“. Congrats to Matías Ventura for that initial commit and the 1,099 contributors for achieving this milestone. Hopefully the new Props Bot will bring significantly more credited contributors over the next year such that we’re celebrating and even more successful 8th birthday next year!
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Matt + 40 = Bloganuary
Earlier this year (I know, AGES ago right?) Matt Mullenweg shared that as part of his 40th birthday he wanted more folks blogging. None of my 27 draft posts felt worthwhile and then realized the Bloganuary prompts might be a good place to go. So here we go with today’s prompt: Describe an item you were incredibly…
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🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈
May this month bring greater acceptance for all our LGBTQIA+ friends and where public acceptance is lacking may allies step in to show their support.
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Vote!
I voted today and you should, too!
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Topps PLL pulls during the PLL Championship Series (including a Chris Gray 1/1!)
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Hire Jorbin, a totally standard and normal internet person
If you’ve got a digital org looking for someone to help scale while truly caring about how his team grows and performs, then go check out my friend the purveyor of bowties.