Category: About Aaron
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My Annual Volunteer Trip
Since 2001, the weekend before Thanksgiving has meant American Model United Nations. For five years as a college student, I had the opportunity to represent nations such as Peru, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Greece as it deliberated topics from international peace and security to humanitarian and financial issues. Since 2006, I’ve been a volunteer staff…
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A new theme for WordPress 6.4 – Twenty Twenty-Four
WordPress 6.4 comes out next week and to prepare for it, I’ve updated this site to use the new Twenty Twenty-Four default theme. I’ve used most of the default themes WordPress has supplied since Twenty Ten. One of the first things I saw that I liked is how many patterns are available. All together there…
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Reverse Job Posting
I’ve spent the last few months joyfully decompressing, relaxing, traveling, and generally focusing on myself. It was a conscious decision to take some time off and it has been great. While I’ve written some code and stayed involved in WordPress here and there, I’ve also tried to spend more time behind my camera than on…
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Five lessons from Eight Years as a WordPress Core Committer
Today marks eight years since I first committed to WordPress Core. Like many things, this feels like both yesterday and forever ago. Reflecting on this, I thought of five lessons I have learned from being a maintainer of what is now 43% of the internet. Have a bias toward action Learning when to move fast…
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Giving Five Months Notice
The standard advice is to give two weeks notice when you leave a job. Sometimes you might add an extra week, or subtract a few days, but two weeks is normal in America. I am not someone who is ever called standard or normal, so I recently gave five months notice. Myself and the other…
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My Covid Story (so far)
Three weeks ago today, on Sunday 19 December, I got a notification that an event I was at the previous Tuesday had someone that tested positive. OK, such is life in these modern times. I was planning on taking it easy the next few days anyway, so I’ll make sure to test a few times…
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On With my Head! A return from Headless WordPress
Last year I switched this domain from running a traditional WordPress site to running a headless WordPress site. I built the site with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and the WordPress REST API. I had it set up to pull data from three different WordPress sites, allowing me to keep an art journal, post my art, and…
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“Impeach”
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One of my personal goals for 2020 is that I want to Make, View, and Buy more art. I’ve also long dreamed of owning an original piece by someone who’s work is in major museums. These two dreams collided when Jenny Holzer announced a limited edition piece to address the impeachment of Donald J Trump.…
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Top 10 posts I didn't publish this decade
Over the last 10 years, I’ve not published a lot. By that I mean I’ve started drafting a post 198 times and left it in purgatory. I also have 4 that have sat for over a decade. Some of those are things I’m working on, but the vast majority of those will never see the…
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Thirty Six
36 is the smallest square triangular number other than one. Its also the sum of the letters and the numerals, so its a pretty fun number. Let’s hope it’s a pretty fun year. 35 was a hard year, mostly because it’s the year my mom died. Frankly, the time leading up to and the time…
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