As 2018 comes to a close this article by @plagiarismtoday sums up why I left WordPress and moved on to something that was both more nimble and more constrained: https://blog.usejournal.com/wordpress-is-at-a-crossroads-133638714a52
In 2018 I made promise to oy tweet from own website and I created https://jgregorymcverry.com /following to be more intentional about my network. In 2019 I want to effort to #BeYourOwnSocialNetwork
OMG I just downloaded all of my @medium post to recreate some of my publications on my site and thought I would have to go through and add microformats....but @medium already has native mf2 support. Awesome! My work is done.
After midnight tonight I am going semidark from social web until 1/21 and start of semester. Means no chat rooms or social media but will still be learning out loud from the blog to track progress on important projects.
Can we just use Aperture/Indigenous as the client or do we only need Indigenous? Haven't dug into code to see if microsub native. Wouldn't have skills for PR but interest is growing for a simpler #IndieWeb version of WordPress(ish) that is Known.
I wrote a two part series on how to archive your WordPress site and how to write redirect rules: https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2018/12/24/how-to-archive-your-wordpress-blog #IndieWeb #DoOO @reclaimhosting
My last day for th #newwwyear challenge (going to visit family) fixed up the citation list on the vita page: https://jgmac1106homepage.glitch.me/resume.html Going to finish adding my grants and service section now.
Today's #newwwyear challenge update a major milestone as the redirects to the archived blog NOWwork. I struggled to get redirects working: https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2018/12/25/trying-to-write-redirects-in-htaccessany-ideas Searching and searching, reading and clicking randomly swapping variables...nothing
Okay I saw @eddie got a Switch. Did Santa bring "anyone else's kid" a Switch too? Up for Splatoon and MarioKart adventures? No Super Smash Bros yet #mb
Articles like this make me mad we warned schools and govs for a decade that this would happen if we did not address online literacy https://www.wired.com/story/2018-was-a-rough-year-for-truth-online/ Articles like this make me happy. Maybe folks wake up to the cause. It all comes down to perspective
For today's #newwwyear challenge goal I want to set up the subdomain and test the redirect plugins for my WordPress site. Then tomorrow I can pull the trigger and push my website from staging to my domain.
Dropped the kids off to hang with cousins. Spent the day cooking with my wife, got a hike in the dogs, and then got to think about discovery and blogging. A lot to be thankful for this holiday season.