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Four Short Things &#8211; 16 February 2019

Public Discussion in Open Source

Four Feeds I&#8217;m Reading Right Now

Patty Melts

Omnivore normative behavior

Library to fix mistypes

aaron.jorb.in content migrated to daily.jorb.in

My current podcast subscriptions

Gears! Gears! Gears!

Christmas Thang Music Video 

Top Played on Spotify for 2016

A lesson from a fellow OSS maintainer: Why I took October off from OSS volunteering

Sanford and Mumford and Sons

Salary Negotiations

Heartbreak Emoji (pastel)

My experience with the Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II

&#8220;Time is something that cannot be bought&#8221;

My favorite TED talk

Video: The WordPress REST API Guide for Non-developers – Petya Raykovska

What I Learned from DAPL Protestors as a Woman of Color

A Eulogy for my Grandmother

&#8220;No one expects the lady code troll.”

Non-secure by default &#8211; Initial thoughts

Things I Could Build if Every WordPress Site Had a REST API For Content

Pictures from the Classic Car Club of Manhattan

Goalball

Sportscenter in the morning

Some More Random Thoughts on Default Themes

IndieWebCamp NYC schedule 

IndieWebCamp NYC group photo

I&#8217;m attending IndieWebCamp NYC

WordCamp Personas

A Free WordPress Development course &#8211; Part 1

I support NY Senate Bill 161

Using Create React App to make Melania Ipsum

Hillary Clinton DNC Drinking Game

WordPress contributor continuity and other stats

Freelance Availability

Donald Trump RNC drinking game

We ♥ icons. Until they start messing with our minds.

grunt-patch-wordpress v0.4.0

WordPress Automated Testing Next Gen

The variable pieces of the WordPress Stack

WordPress Testing: Hosts Matter

Random Thoughts on&#8230; Teaching yourself to code

What You Don&#8217;t See on my WordPress Profile Activity Tab

Random Thoughts on Finding Jobs

Job Hunting Tips for WordPress Engineers

London January 2016 Photos

Decisions, not options (suggested readings and watching)

Pastels

The best UX will often be no UI at all

Random Thoughts on the WP REST API and WordPress Core

Leaders Say Thank You

Two Ideas for Future Tech Talks

Thoughts on being an MC for A Day of Rest

I Have Been To The Mountaintop

Thoughts on the PHP5.6 support timeline

Today&#8217;s Yoga Affimation: I Accept

An accessible way to add snow to your website

Life After Death Star &#8211; Biggie raps combined with Star Wars soundtrack

Best Conference Talks I saw in 2015

The Future Stack: Running WordPress with Tomorrow’s Technologies Video

PHP 7 and WordPress hosts: An informal survey at #WCNYC

Why I am rooting for the mets

Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness &#8211; 20 years later

Automated Code Coverage of WordPress Core PHP code

Fear

Discovery

I  published a proposal on Make WordPress Core

Sports Bucket List

The trials of 💔

Some Random Thoughts on WordPress and PHP versions

Lately I Wonder

Feast of San Gennaro 2015 (night 2)

WordCamp San Francisco 2014

First day of the Feast

Moving Lottery

Not a Vacation

One Mile down Broadway 

New Shoes

National Bow Tie Day

Some Random Thoughts on Default Themes

The e-reader I own (and you should to)

Surfaces

Back on the wagon

Fall Conferences &#8211; PHP Madison and WordCamp NYC

The Year of the WordPress Accessibility Team &#8211; WerdsWords

Apply for the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship to attend WordCamp US 2015

Following up on WordPress in a Next Generation PHP World

Automattic/mongoose

“Was the Civil War fought over slavery?”: Here’s the video to show idiots who think the answer is “No” &#8211; Salon.com

Fed Tells Room Full of Hackers to Hack His Phone, Drinks Whiskey | Motherboard

KOPB

Rudy&#8217;s

Today&#8217;s Jam

Today&#8217;s Song

Currently Listening

Current Events

Four Short Things &#8211; 25 January 2019

I&#8217;d Really Rather You Didn&#8217;t&#8230;

Being an Ally

Donate Today &#8211; Planned Parenthood

Dark enough to see the stars

Three things I read this week

Alcázar of Seville Photos

Syria Deeply, Covering the Crisis

User Testing WordPress at WordCamp San Francisco

WordPress Hanukkah Releases

Accessibility Tunnel Vision

WordPress 3.6.1 Haiku

@designsimply at the White House

Beards are good for you

Chups

Pitchers and Catchers Report

Hamas launches own official news agency

Egyptian Government to switch to open source

Buildings and Websites

Experts should help the layman, not say leave it to us

The Situation in Mali as it relates to Behavioral Change Design

Why you should wear a bow tie

U.S. to Expand Role in Africa &#8211; WSJ.com

An Updated Theme (aaron.jorb.in 5.1)

French, Malians retake Timbuktu, rebels torch library | Reuters

The Situation in Mali

Dark Tie on a colorful shirt

The WordPress RPG

We only want speakers that pay to be here

Murder. Homicide. One Eight Seven.

We&#8217;re NASA and We Know It (Mars Curiosity) &#8211; YouTube

AP Reports Syria&#8217;s conflict spills over into Lebanon

Why We Explore Space

Israel Turns To Turkey’s Journalists « Ottomans and Zionists

OS X and WordPress

Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon | Wired Business | Wired.com

Syrian Biological and Chemical Weapons

Bear Down Peanut, Bear Down

Twenty Nine

Do Syrian Activists Want Peace?

US closes embassy in Syria &#8211; Middle East &#8211; Al Jazeera English

The Third Monday of January

Growing wealth widens distance between lawmakers and constituents &#8211; The Washington Post

Russia proposes draft resolution on Syria

UN human rights chief ups Syria death count to 5000

Is Syria preparing for a new Hama Massacre?

Politico honors two undeserving lawmakers

Bashir al-Assad denies killing his own people

Hamas Removing Staff From Syria &#8211; WSJ.com

Greenpeace Activists Break Into French Nuclear Reactor &#8211; Bloomberg

Syria continues delaying and stalling

How Effective will the Arab League Sanctions on Syria be?

Georgetown students shed light on China’s tunnel system for nuclear weapons &#8211; The Washington Post

Adventures in 120mm

Other Plans

Masturbation:   US Government Style

What I read (and things that Laura Cochran should read)

Big Data DC meetup #2

The 2011 DC Open Source Software $bbq

The first Big Data DC meetup

Clearspring BOOM

White House after Osama Bin Laden announced dead

twenty eight

Wisconsin Gov. Walker Ginned Up Budget Shortfall To Undercut Worker Rights | TPMDC

Barack Obama at Northern Michigan University

John Stewart at his finest

Romanian witches cast dark spells on government in tax protest | FP Passport

I Voted Because I Could

WordCamp Portland Rocks!

Once Again, Trimet Cuts Service

Goodbye Fareless Square

Happy Birthday UNICEF

Book Review: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother&#8217;s Will to Survive

Commit Messages are about Intent

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Random Opinions

Random Thoughts on&#8230;WordPress?

Tim Raines deserves to be in the Hall of Fame

The Rise Of Community Lead Media &#8211; And Demise Of Social Networks

Review: Birth Junkies

Where We Design

Avoiding easy | Andrew Spittle

One Week with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Good Morning America:  Featuring Aaron Jorbin

Three great places in the Washington DC area

Phone Based Customer Service

Random Thoughts on&#8230; Travel and WordCamps

Why I love Captioning for Conferences

Random Thoughts on my email norms

Random thoughts on one month of daily publishing

<p>I always love when John Stewart points out the ridiculousness of cable tv news.  Here he is at one of his finest moments:</p>
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