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Lisbon, Portugal — March of 2022 Paige is sitting at her desk in her retro loft apartment, a 19th-century mansion in the trendy Real area. She looks across the room and remembers her early days in Lisbon.
Seven years had passed since she’d …
This is my first blog post for the Digital Storytelling class at my school, the University of Mary Washington. Below is a brief introductory sound clip about me. I hope you enjoy it.
In addition to being a student, I am an avid lover of fur babies. I have a …
Alas, the first three months of the year I kept to my goal/obsession to stay on form for daily flickr photo posting and daily #ds106 daily creates.
Yes, I hit the mark for January, February, and March. Alas by April 30, 2023, day 120, my slippage …
Blog Post One I am currently a rising sophomore in college. This site has been created so I can put down my original novel ideas and what I have already written. Now I have posted on Wattpad before as another area of writing. I am in the process of writing …
The first successful straight and lesbian dating apps emerged in the 2010s, including Tinder and HER. Widely known but woefully underexamined, these apps based their designs on, or even against, the first successful dating/hookup app: Grindr. In other words, developers imitated, refused, or even outright copied design, functionality, and structure …
Let’s be honest, new and shiny features get most of the attention around here. It makes sense: New stuff is exciting! But WordPress.com has plenty of baked-in features that are worth talking about too.
Losing your work is one of the most frustrating things you can experience as a website …
If you’re wondering where my photos are, the link between my photo site and this blog is temporarily broken. Technicians are working on it. Meanwhile, enjoy this:
Better quality video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUAQ6QGFJ0w
Stephen Downes ~ [email protected] ~ http://www.downes.ca
Casselman, Ontario, Canada K0A 1M0
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A couple of months ago, I attended the first night of the Taylor Swift Eras Tour in Glendale, Arizona. The city commemorated this historical moment by renaming their town “SWIFT CITY.” The name remained in place Friday March 17th and Saturday March 18th.
I traveled from Salt Lake City, UT, …
In jazz, each instrument and rhythm needs to be in sync — but that doesn’t happen without a lot of practice and experimentation behind the scenes. Even the most talented improvisers wouldn’t roll out a brand new number without having rehearsed it beforehand.
Sound familiar?
Your website isn’t all that …
In early April, we experienced an unexpected suspension of our Twitter API access. This access is what powers Jetpack Social, which in turn helps you automatically share your blog posts to Twitter. Though the service was restored that same day, it turns out that there were bigger changes looming on …
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These days I’ve been in a Mastodon maintenance state-of-mind, as my last post highlights. Early this week I tried to shore up some security issues linked with listing files publicly in our AWS S3 bucket. This encouraged me to explore additional options for object storage (the fancy name for …
