General web nerd. Rider of bicycles. Amateur picture taker.

  • Mastodon Verification with WordPress 6.2

    This is cool – WordPress 6.2 (coming out in a few days!) adds the ability to specify a rel attribute on social icons in the Social Icons block. This makes it super simple to verify your domain with a Mastodon account when using a Full Site Editor theme; just drop the Social Icons block and […]

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  • My Twitter Replacement

    Spoiler: It’s Nitter. I made my last post to Twitter today (at least until the situation changes): To elaborate on that (in order of preference): Enter Nitter Unfortunately not everyone that I followed on Twitter is available in other places, which has been the main reason to stick around this long. I’m now using Nitter […]

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  • Custom Domains on iCloud Email

    I’ve been concerned for a while about Apple’s long-term commitment to iCloud email, and have been considering the painful task of switching my primary email address from my 10+ year old @me.com address[1] to one at my domain. That is not to say I think they’re actually going to shut down iCloud email, but their apparent […]

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  • Exclude posts from WordPress’s Sitemap

    Starting with 5.5, WordPress now generates its own sitemap.xml without the need of a plugin. It’s possible to filter the results to exclude a specific post using the below filter: That filter takes a familiar WP_Query argument, so it’s quite simple to add any additional filters, for example if you wanted to exclude posts from […]

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Please excuse the rough edges. This site is an experiment with WordPress 5.9’s Full Site Editing – a new way to make websites with open source software. Things may be a little rough for the foreseeable future, though (hopefully) still entirely useful.