Notes – Page 131 – Amanda Unvarnished

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· 4 Iyyar 5780 (Tuesday 28 April 2020) · 1 minute to read

I’m contemplating the inevitability of migrating customerservant.com to Gutenberg. This is a thing that I know is going to have to happen but dear Lord it makes my head hurt.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 3 Iyyar 5780 (Monday 27 April 2020) · 1 minute to read

john, while building a new site with Gutenberg: “This is an experimental site for me.” Me: “Good. We need more documentation for screen reader users. You can write it.” #WorkLife #WordPress

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· 1 Iyyar 5780 (Saturday 25 April 2020) · 1 minute to read

I am on the phone with Sprint, and holy hell these people are the Hotel California of cell providers. First, I try to give them a lot of money, and they come up with some shit about having to enter the card number via the phone’s keypad because they apparently can’t take the number over the phone. Well, after the inevitable accessibility discussion, I get transferred to someone else who’s trying their damnest to keep me from leaving. "We have these other plans," "this other phone," "Are you sure there’s nothing we can do to keep you from leaving." No. I just want to pay the damn bill. Just let me pay the bill. Look! It’s money! You can have it if you just leave me alone and stop making my life difficult. I’m going to celebrate when I cancel this account and port the number over to something that has better coverage. Sheesh!

921 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801(1106ft)

57 °F Mostly Cloudy

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· 28 Nisan 5780 (Wednesday 22 April 2020) · 1 minute to read

Hey #WordPress am I rangling this correctly and #Gutenberg does not have a link block? Sure, I can type the HTML, but the whole point of Gutenberg is for users to be able to do the web thing without knowing code, and the absence of a link block seems like something that shouldn’t be the case.

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· 12 Adar 5780 (Sunday 8 March 2020) · 2 minutes to read

I’ve spent this weekend playing with a Linode VPS in an attempt to install my own copies of various indieweb apps, (Compass, Quill, Own YOur Swarm, ETC.), and I’m somewhat ashamed of myself for letting my server administration skills atrophy as much as they appear to have done.

I mean, I get it, I spend most of my time involved with HTML and the like, and not necessarily the server side of things, but at the same time, damn.

I intend to correct this deficiency. I’ve grabbed a couple of books on Ubuntu, (most of my server experience has been with Redhat and so I was never as familiar with Ubuntu in the first place), and I’m giving myself a crash course as fast as possible.

Once I’m a little more confident, (and really, now that I’m writing all this down I think that’s what it comes down to), I’ll move my personal site and John’s personal site off of WPEngine.

I think we’ll need to do that if we want to use Compass with the Simple Location plugin, and anyway I think I’d rather trade the inconvenience and often necessary calls to technical support and custom NginX rules and everything else I’ve had to do to get indieauth working along with other indieweb stuff for the inconvenience of managing my own server.

820 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801(1109ft)

59 °F Clear

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· 10 Adar 5780 (Friday 6 March 2020) · 1 minute to read

Finally! Finally finally finally finally it’s done! We! Are! Going! To! Ship!

Also, I don’t think I ever want to see a list element again. Ever.

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· 6 Adar 5780 (Monday 2 March 2020) · 1 minute to read

Quick tip: If you’re building podcast websites with WordPress, or even a website which has a podcast as a secondary feature, use the Simple Podcasting plugin. If you use PowerPress you’re locked into the Classic Editor plugin with everything that entails, including using older themes.

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Amanda CAARSON

· 6 Adar 5780 (Monday 2 March 2020) · 1 minute to read

I’m wondering if it might be worth writing up the experience of using both Gutenberg and the Classic Editor in tandom on a site? Spoiler alert: It’s complicated and it introduces a lot of extra coordination regarding content editing and creation.

Do not recommend unless it’s absolutely necessary.