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Reflections on Indie Ed-Tech

Ever had one of those events where your mind was spinning afterwards and attempts to write about it failed due to just how much there was to talk about? That's the place I'm at now following up on the wonderful Indie Ed-Tech Data Summit at Davidson

Praise for Disqus

When I decided to ditch WordPress for my blog here and start playing with other blogging engines, one of the things I wanted to make sure of was that content could live on no matter what platform I was using. I don't subscribe to a complete archivist point

Back to Building

A few years ago I switched this blog to using Ghost and decided it was a good opportunity to give my blog a name and image. I've never been big into fancy designs for what's essentially a space for me to think out loud, but there

WordPress.com v/s WordPress.org

I've often seen folks run into issues understanding the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress the software. Plugins like JetPack that require WordPress.com logins make the waters even muddier unfortunately so the confusion is absolutely understandable. WordPress is a piece of software, similar to an app on

Cleaning a Hacked WordPress Site

As I sit here painfully waiting on Godaddy's slow servers to download all of a customer's files so I can migrate them to Reclaim Hosting I figured I'd write up some thoughts on how I approach the problem of cleaning up a site that&

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