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Getting work done on the go with an iPhone
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During my day job as an IT Director I find myself away from my desk quite a bit and wearing many hats. My work changes directions a lot and running back to my desk to use my computer just takes too much time to get simple tasks done. Because of this, over the years I’ve had to learn to adapt and to make sure that I can do many of these tasks while mobile. My plan for this post is to outline the most popular apps I use and then describe what I do with each.
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WP-WebAuthn – Passkey on WordPress
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With Google recently announcing The beginning of the end of the password I started thinking about WordPress and what plugins are available that allow for passkey support for authentication. Using only your username you can use the passkey system to use your computer or mobile device to perform the rest of the login sequence. Google is moving toward this so I might as well explore this a bit further.
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YukiTube – Yuki Tsunoda’s YouTube Channel
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Yuki Tsunoda starts a YouTube channel during the April 2023 break
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Is Elon building WeChat for everyone else? Twitter is now X
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I had a feeling this is what was going to happen with Twitter. Elon is revisiting X.com which in 2000 merged with Confinity and turned into PayPal. After watching what Elon is doing lately it looks like he’s trying to build out a WeChat for everyone else (outside of China) using existing plays in various spaces on Twitter and adding in financials. Here is me throwing a few things against the wall to see what sticks.
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F1 2023 drivers screen time on new intro sequence
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Fun observations from Reddit on the new 2023 intro sequence and the drivers screen time.
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Geeky fun with F1
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As a recent convert to the exciting world of Formula One racing, my wife Jen and I have been thoroughly captivated by this adrenaline-fueled sport. Since discovering our love for F1 last year, we’ve been avidly following every race, always looking for ways to enhance our viewing experience. In my quest for more information about the sport, I’ve come across some valuable resources that I believe will be useful for both new and seasoned fans. Here are some of the best finds that I wanted to share.
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What’s with ActivityPub + WordPress + Cloudflare not working?
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It seems like the whole Fediverse has ran into this issue so i started investigating whats going on.
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Using ChatGPT to optimize YouTube content for WPwatercooler
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I recently started using ChatGPT to try and optimize the YouTube content for my website, WPwatercooler. In the past, I struggled with writing descriptive text for the “in the description down below” section of my videos and found the process of creating metadata for my episodes to be tedious. I hired a YouTube consultant to provide some critiques and recommendations, but I still needed a way to make the process more efficient. That’s where ChatGPT came in. I experimented with using ChatGPT to summarize the content of my episodes and create social media posts and YouTube chapters. While the tool wasn’t perfect and required some editing, I found it to be a helpful way to streamline the process of optimizing my YouTube content and increasing its reach. Overall, I’ve been happy with the results I’ve seen from using ChatGPT.
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How should I indieweb?
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Like most modern geeks on the internet that just saw Twitter go up in a big flame when Elon purchased it most of us out here are trying to go back to owning our own content again. We got burned by throwing all of our content of Facebook and Twitter and want to go back […]
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Mastodon, indieweb and the fediverse
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I’ve been working on building up my skills in our post Twitter life by trying to figure out the Indieweb. Many years back I met Chris Aldrich at WordCamp OC and we got to talking about this thing called Indieweb. At the time I was looking for a way to pull in the tweets of […]
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Playing in the metaverse
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Recently on WPwatercooler EP436 – A New Dimension of WordPress we had Anthony Burchell on the show to discuss with us the use of 3D in the WordPress block editor. I’ve been playing around with metaverse environments for the last few years with the Meta Quest 2 and found that this functionality to be quite […]
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Streaming high school sports games for others to watch
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I hope that by writing this document that other parents can do this and share the link with parents that can’t make the game and can save someone from having to drive really far to see a game.
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Some tips on taking photos of your kids before school dances
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I will say if you have the ability to take a photo of your kids and their friends before a school dance, do so. Even if your have an ounce of skill in photography you are the better one to take photos of your kids and their friends than anyone else.
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How to delete a certificate restored from an iPhone or iPad backup when switching MDM?
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I’m working on migrating my office from JAMF Now to Mosyle since Mosyle provides so much more for a cheaper price tag. Ive never used Mosyle before so I thought I’d start by asking their support after poking around in their new to me interface. Submitting a ticket I submitted a ticket to Mosyle Support […]
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The problem with WordPress blocks, full site editing and custom fields plugins
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In this post I want to share with you some of my thoughts regarding WordPress blocks custom fields plugins and the recently release full site editor in WordPress 5.9 Josephine. For the last three years I’ve been using Beaver Builder as my page builder of choice and have been using the Themer functionality in Beaver […]
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WordPress 5.9 – Testing before release
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It’s a day before release and I wrote a twitter thread this week brain dumping some of the ideas I have for 5.9, the future of WordPress and it’s compatibility with my history with the software. WordPress the software has been an interesting journey for me, I’ve been using it very early on and before […]
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Should we replace Facebook with our personal websites?
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In the era of social media should we look to take back our voice from the monetized networks of social network and go back to the roots of the internet with personal websites? My website journey began building websites in HTML, tables and inline styles. The days of <font> tags and knowing how to craft […]
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How I cleaned my MailChimp mailing list
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Back in August I did a little of spring cleaning and cleaned out my mailing list for my WordPress podcast network WPwatercooler. The idea was that the number of opens and click through’s are pretty low and the number of people that were joining the show as participants was getting smaller so what I did […]
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Okta helps nonprofits keep passwords safe
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IT is challenging and dealing with passwords and users is even more challenging. Okta has partnered up with TechSoup to provide nonprofits with their first 25 licenses for free to update passwords, provide a universal directory, single sign-on, and even multi-factor authentication. They have a big offering when it comes to authentication from interacting with […]
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Our annual tradition, Letterboxing on January 1st
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Each New Year’s day we go on a mini adventure letterboxing with friends and family. Learn more about letterboxing and how you can get involved!
