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New Ghost Sign Uncovered at Valencia St and Cesar Chavez
Construction has begun on a new apartment building at the corner of Valencia and Cesar Chavez. Most of this site was a parking lot, but when developers tore down a few small garage units on the edge of the lot, they uncovered a massive ghost sign from the 1930s. A ghost sign is an old,…
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#SidewalkFriends: Bride Of Frankenstein
I like to keep my eye out for cool shapes during my walks and use them as inspiration for my #SidewalkFriends drawings. It’s like my version of hunting for Pokémon. A dry section of the sidewalk on a wet day was the inspiration for this week’s Sidewalk Friends sketch. A new #SidewalkFriends sketch, inspired by some wet…
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Testing the Fediverse Embeds Plugin For WordPress
I’m testing out the new Fediverse Embeds Plugin by Stefan Bohacek today. Let’s give it a test by embedding Stefan’s announcement post on Mastodon. My Fediverse Embeds WordPress plugin is now available in the plugin directory: https://wordpress.org/plugins/fediverse-embeds Huge thanks to everyone who helped me test it during the initial development! #wordpress #WordPressPlugin #fediverse #embeds —…
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Tumblr Is Downsizing
Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com, acquired Tumblr in 2019. They put a big investment into bringing new users to the platform, including building a Gutenberg-powered post editor, but they failed to make the site profitable. This week, an internal document leaked that showed Automattic would soon be moving Tumblr employees onto other projects (like WordPress.com…
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