It’s not burnout, except that it is, and it’s also harassment and abuse and it’s exhausting.
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When It’s (Not?) Burnout
Category: How It Is
Making philosophy about the why behind technical things.
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Email Verification and Unsubscribing
Sometimes you want to scream at the phone when you can’t do something as simple as close an account.
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Shlinky Dinks
For a number of reasons it was time to move on to new things. I was looking for a better, more modern solution to running my own short URLs. There are a lot of reasons people want these. When I started with them, it was because Twitter had limits and I wanted to control my […]
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There Are No Top Influencers
We need to care less about the personal aggrandizement of a few select individuals, and more about the collective success of the WordPress project.
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On Behavior and Respect
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. The friction tends to arise when the two are not the same. There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That’s soul destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.