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Introducing Soapberry for Ackee

Update: this plugin was originally called Ackee WP but has been renamed to Soapberry to comply with the WordPress.org trademark policy for plugins. The plugin can now be found on WordPress.org under the slug Soapberry. As part of my desire to own my data, I haven’t used Google Analytics for the past few years. InContinue reading “Introducing Soapberry for Ackee”

WordCamp Seattle 2017 Slides

This weekend I have the pleasure of speaking at WordCamp Seattle offering some advice from all parts of support. Here are the slides from my #wcsea talk, Help Us Help You, things you should know before contacting support. Once the video is on WordPress.tv that will be posted here as well.

Light up the sky

I recently added a WRGB LED strip to the top of my bookshelf using WS2811 LEDs or as my friends at Adafruit call them NeoPixels. I chose RGBW LEDs so I could get a nicer white and use less power than a traditional RGB strip.

O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!

Last year while making popcorn and cranberry chains the only thing missing from the tree was a star. One was made posthaste. However, it was missing a very important feature, lighting up. We couldn’t let that happen two years in a row so this year we added a color changing light to our homemade star.

I want to ride my bike

BikeBlink Part III Once I started to wire the bike light into my 3D Box I quickly learned that while I learned a lot my box was clunky and would have too many wires. That’s around the same time I learned about custom circuit boards.