Jason Tucker

I’ve been blogging for well over 20 years and found that each time I set out to start blogging the website is usually the thing that stops me from being productive. I wanted to see if I could remove the fiddly bits of a website and just use something that is not only purpose built, but also doesn’t have a whole lot of fiddly bits to mess with, so I moved my website from my self hosted WordPress to a service called Micro.

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If you're anything like me, opening a new tab can often lead to a rabbit hole of distractions. That's where Momentum comes in its a game changing browser extension that transforms your new tab page into a personal sanctuary of focus and productivity. Instead of the usual blank slate or a clutter of bookmarks, Momentum presents you with a beautifully designed dashboard that serves multiple purposes. It not only helps you stay laser-focused on your tasks but also keeps you organized with built-in to-do lists and even sprinkles in a dash of daily inspiration.

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Going to your kids sports games are hard, scheduling time around your day to go to them a well as dealing with the travel to get there in time. Some of these games happen at 2pm on a Wednesday, who can leave work to go it it? I try my best to go to every game my kid is in, she plays varsity water polo in high school and I want to see every one of her games if I can.

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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? Under construction digging guy My website journey began building websites in HTML, tables and inline styles. The days of <font> tags and knowing how to craft table tags, colspan. Back when we used <b> for bold and we didn't <em> anything just italics.

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This past weekend November 28 - December 3rd my 12-year-old daughter Jessalyn and I flew out and attended WordCamp US in Nashville Tennessee. As I wrote in my previous post -  WordCamp US through the eyes of a 12 year old Jessalyn and I were sponsored to go to WordCamp US by the kind folks at Bluehost via Women Who WP and giving us the means of flight and lodging to attend the event.

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I'm attending WordCamp US in Nashville Tennessee at the end of this month. This is the first time since WordCamp SF turned into WordCamp US that I'll be attended this event. For the last few years, aside from the local WordCamps here in California I've haven't been venturing too far from home to attend a WordCamp. WomenWhoWP wanted to send two people to WordCamp US Bluehost said they would sponsor those people. So WomenWhoWP put an application on their site, we applied, and were selected from the entries.

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In this video, I'm going to show you a million dollar tip, one that makes it very easy to stay engaged with your live video stream without showing your viewers you are looking at the clock. I record about 2 hours of live video each week and I have hard starts and hard stops on these shows so I need to look at the clock a lot. The best way I've found to not get caught looking at the clock is to move the time to the center of the screen so people watching me won't see me look at the time periodically.

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This month at my local WordPress meet up I demonstrated how you can build a WordPress website and what tools you need to get started. I covered a myriad of topics and our plan is to cover this series for the next couple months. We hope that folks can figure out how to build WordPress websites themselves by combining all the info we share in this series. Here is the video from WhittierWP, my local WordPress meet that I co-manage.

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I discuss how I like Anchor so far and how similar it is to apps that I've used in the past. [anchor.fm/w/996331](https://anchor.fm/w/996331)

I love when new features get added to existing product. Version 2.0 of my Panasonic DMC-G7 to include a Post Focus feature. How does this work? Their firmware update docs describe this feature as: The camera can do Burst recording in the same picture quality as 4K photo recording while automatically shifting the focus to different areas. After the recording, you can select the desired area on the screen and save a picture in which the selected area is in focus.

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I’ve been thinking a bit about things I wish I did more and could do more, here is my running list. Excercise Back when we had Disneyland passes we ended up walking all over the place there, now that we don’t our walking around (and eating random foods there) has declined. I’d love to start walking in the evening again, something we should have done during the summer months but it’s still doable.

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So I applied a new theme to this website today in hopes that I can get things looking halfway decent. You see I’ve had this domain and my old domain abstrakone.com for quite a while and it’s changed look and feel a lot over the years. Whenever I’d lose my job and I started looking for a new one I’d slap on a fresh coat of paint and clean it up a bit.

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Black Friday tips from an IT Guy. I’ve had so many people ask me for my opinion on what tech to buy so here is my list: I like Apple. Buy a MacBook. You don’t like Apple or it’s too expensive? We use Lenovo at my work too, get something with Windows 8.1 and at least 8gb of ram. Buy a Mac :) buy office student edition, it’s cheap. Cell phone for your kid?

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