I stumbled on the Cool Tools review of the book “A Pattern Language” a couple of years ago. Knowing then that we’ll soon be planning and building our house, I was excited to learn of a book that could help me build-up some basic knowledge and understanding of architecture. “A Pattern Language” is fantastic! The …
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My Breakfast
When it comes to food, I’m not a person of habits. But this recipe has been my breakfast of choice for the last few months, and surprisingly, I’m still enjoying it very much. Yoghurt with Tahini, Banana, Walnuts, and Honey
Personal Weather Station
I had fun installing a personal weather station on our roof. I’ve set it up to share data automatically to a number of online services. See the station’s live data on Weather Underground.
Sights of Kathmandu
These pictures were taken during a short trip to Kathmandu, Nepal, in March 2019.
Your first Gutenberg Block – WC Kathmandu presentation
I was fortunate to attend WordCamp Kathmandu 2019 last weekend in Nepal. As promised, here are my slides and the code for the “Nepali Date” block I created for my session “Your first Gutenberg Block”. Here’s the code for the block javascript file:
Gender-fair WordPress: Fixing translation inequality at the core
At WordCamp US 2017, I took the stage to argue that it’s time that WordPress enables translators to add gender-variable translations, and that we can do this in a way compatible with our existing translation ecosystem. The slides: A couple of days later, during contributor day, I was joined by several amazing WordPress (and GlotPress) …
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Right To Left in WordPress – The Right Way
Here’s the short talk I gave about languages written from right-to-left at WordCamp Europe 2017. I’m visibly nervous — this was the largest crowd I’ve ever presented to. The slides: While the slides make it clear that I go from talking about rtl.css — the file, used in WordPress themes, to RTLCSS — the node …
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Greg Lake, Epitaph
King Crimson’s In the Court of the Crimson King is the album that made me fall in love with Prog Rock. Greg Lake‘s powerful vocals on the track Epitaph have much to do with this. Written around 1969, the lyrics (by Pete Sinfield) are almost prophetic: The wall on which the prophets wrote Is cracking at the seams Upon the …
The half-life of WordPress code
Inspired by Erik Bernhardsson post The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus, here are the results of running Erik’s scripts against the WordPress git repo. Cohorts Code decay over time
