WordPress Website Speed Build: The Masters Golf Tournament
What's harder: winning the Masters Tournament or re-creating its website in under 30 minutes? Watch the video and find out.
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Call for Chapters: Transforming Special Education Through Artificial Intelligence
Propose a Chapter Editors Annette Walters, Public School, United States Call for Chapters Proposals Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024Full Chapters Due: June 30, 2024Submission Date: June 30, 2024 Introduction The educational field has been greatl... -
Registering Custom Post Types in the WordPress Admin: Our CloudFest Hackathon Report
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DGST 395: Week 13 Summary
One of the topics that stood out to me in Week 13 was the question, âDoes artificial intelligence help or harm human relationships?â At first, one of my thoughts was that AI has few benefits in helping human relationships aside from a situation where an individual obtains proper advice from AI software. After the discussion,... -
At the English Market â Brunch
by natalieBlog, books, bookshelf, ebooks, fiction, Ireland, Latest, lovestory, novels, Reading, romance books, short stories, short story, Syndicated, writingApril 14, 2024?listen to the audio on ? from the book i-Land â A double Irish and a Dutch â Chapter 3 â Escape to Cork Saturday morning, ten oâclock Avoka is standing at the entrance of the English Market, which is already crowded. At the right is a bakery stand, next to it freshly made confiture, another stand⌠Continue reading At the English Market â Brunch -
Centrepiece
April 11, 2024. Today started with a meeting first thing in the morning, and this was the centrepiece on the meeting room table. I had a couple more meetings, but then the network began to sag (looks like they were running updates, to judge by my logs... -
Australia
April 12, 2024. This is a souvenir from Australia hanging in my office. The plant in front of it is another from my Moncton office. I bought the artwork in Sydney; it was rolled in a tube. When I got home I got it nicely framed to display it the way i... -
âHappy surfing.â
For todayâs Daily Create, we were to build on the classic âOn the internet nobody knows youâre a dogâ cartoon. I wondered how Dr. Oblivion would respond to the query: Then, in my infinite laziness curiosity, I asked the same ⌠Continue reading -
Site-Building Made Simple: Introducing the Public Pattern LibraryÂ
When it comes to website-building, WordPress themes set your site up for success by providing stylish, preselected options for fonts, colors, and layouts. Even though themes provide the overall aesthetic, you still need to build out the posts, pages, and templates on your site. Thatâs where block patterns come in! ⌠-
Aggressive Technologies is Overvalued
A couple of weeks ago Paul Bond and I caught up with Martha âSinclairâ Burtis to do a playful skit around the fictional company Aggressive Technologies that the students in ds106.ai not only created, but have also been running with. ⌠Continue reading -
Bicycle
April 9, 2024. The bicycle, photographed during a break on a small country road. We drove home from Bromont this morning, I put in a few hours of work, then I took advantage of the beautiful weather to enjoy a nice ride in the country. https://flic.kr... -
Eclipse
April 8, 2024. The eclipse, as seen from Bromont, Quebec. With cloud coming in from the west we got up early and drove out to Bromont. They had set up a hill in a park for viewing and conditions were nearly perfect. The photo doesn't do it justice; it... -
10 WordPress Influencers to Follow in 2024Â Â
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âTurn around, bright eyesâ
For yesterdayâs Daily Create we were to make blackout poetry with content from a certain web site. I looked at it briefly and decided to use the Weird Old Book Finder instead, probably because I found the typography uninspiring. I ⌠Continue reading -
DGST 395: Week 12 Summary
The âBot or Notâ quiz was very interesting because I thought I would score a 100%. However, I guessed wrong several times, which was fascinating because several images did not look like they were AI. I thought specific images were AI because of certain characteristics; in reality, they were real. This activity made me think... -
Meeting old colleagues
by nataliebooks, bookshelf, ebooks, Ireland, Latest, lovestory, novels, Reading, romance books, short stories, short story, SyndicatedApril 7, 2024?listen to the audio on ? from the book i-Land â A double Irish and a Dutch â Chapter 3 â Escape to Cork Avoka is just looking forward to the weekend. At seven oâclock finally, she is sitting on the bus to Cork. Harry picks her up at the bus station around eleven oâclock. They quickly⌠Continue reading Meeting old colleagues -
Waiting
April 5, 2024. Grackles and starlings sitting in the top of a tree in the back yard waiting, as we all are, for spring. Woke up very early this morning for one meeting, then had a presentation to do for a second. Meanwhile trying to get the crust off ... -
Living In A Tilted World: A Fake Song From A Fake Band
This morningâs prompt at DS106 Daily Create had to do with using an old Public Domain image of a bunch of men standing on the deck of an old, tilting house, and to imagine them as a band releasing a song. I used Canva to design their âsingleâ track, which I called Living In A [âŚ] -
Snow Day
April 4, 2024. I did have a meeting scheduled in the city for today, but we had an early spring snowstorm instead, so we made do with Teams. Other than this I focused on cleaning up gRSShopper a bit more and working on my newsletter. https://flic.kr/p... -
Places â A Voyagerâs landscape of time
Sometimes time unfurls languidly, its seconds stretching, and minutes linger like a loverâs whispered promise. In these moments, we find ourselves in stillness, where the world holds its breath, and every heartbeat resonates with the rhythm of eternity. Yet there are places where time gallops, a wild steed racing across the horizon. Here, seconds blur into heartbeats, and minutes become⌠Continue reading Places â A Voyagerâs landscape of time -
Streamlining Your Content Creation: Adding Images From Your Phone With Ease
by @llilli5163 April 4, 2024Weâre excited to share a new feature in the desktop editor and Jetpack mobile app that makes it a breeze to upload media to your WordPress posts and pages.   -
Mer Bleue in the Rain
April 3, 2024. Squirrel at Mer Bleue forest. Worked from the office today, got 8 years of tax returns off the table, and stopped by at the forest in the wind and the cold cold rain to take a few photos. https://flic.kr/p/2pH8TCh -
The Scaley Sky
April 2, 2024. The nice weather is coming to an end, as evidenced by the sky. Today was spend beginning to end solving a cron problem on my website, the last major issue remaining in the website move. It involved taking apart the authentication in the... -
Bleeping video
Ooops! Someone forgot to hit the Publish button. Jim and I have periodic conversations about what weâre doing and where weâre going in de106. I had this idea that the chief legal counsel from Aggressive Technologies would drop in and ⌠Continue reading -
Aggressive Technologies loves ds106
After reflecting on our visit from Aggressive Technologies legal counsel, I had an inspiration for a new ds106radio commercial: I thought the tone of her spiel would pair well with our friend Bob, so I had him do the intro ⌠Continue reading -
Livefutzing is something of a tradition here
We had our first night of ds106radio broadcasts last night, with a possible record crowd. At one point the ds106radio page said we had 23 listeners, although some may have been ghosts and doubles. They were treated to Isaiah Beaconâs ⌠Continue reading -
DS106 Daily Create: Coded Art With John Coltrane
via GIPHY This morningâs DS106 Daily Create prompt (one I guess I originally submitted way back when?) was to find the background code of a website and use it for art. I perused behind the scenes of the John Coltrane website for mine. I grabbed a screenshot, and then used art filters, and ended with [âŚ] -
Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire
April 1, 2024. This is a church in Crysler called Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, which I photographed while on a 37 km bike ride in the cold and the wind. I also spent some time on my European project. https://flic.kr/p/2pGGaZ3 -
A Visit to Where the Cloud Touches the Ground
Zander Rose recently took a visit to one of Automattic's data centers. Here's what he learned about what the cloud looks like in person.
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