Journal
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I changed the domain of my photo blog from chait.pics (53 USD per year) to chait.photo.blog (free). The current domain also aligns better with the name of the soon-to-be-changed domain of this blog.
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Bought a new short domain for my photo blog: chait.pics. Thanks for the prompt post of my colleague Luca. This blog’s domain changes soon too to a short, modern name. More on this later.
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I read a great post today that explains why we should take the ownership and control of our content we put on the internet. Discovered in this tweet, Redesigning Waxy, 2016 edition is a great read. If you don’t have time to read the full post, just read these two paragraphs: Last week, Twitter announced…
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Since I started reading English language style guides few years ago, I became critical of the text I see everywhere. There’s heaps of imperfect writing everywhere; billboards, public toilets, public transport, and oh yeah, this blog. These are all great learning opportunities to practice the rules I read in the books. I’m in the airport…
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Hit the 800 day streak on Elevate today. Between moving the phones and traveling, I lost the streak in June. So I used the cheat to restore the streak and never missed a day ever since. Here’s to 1000 days.
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Today I ran the WWWP5K with fellow Automatticians at this year’s Grand Meetup in Whistler, Canada. This happens to be the 30th 5K since my first 5K as part of the last year’s WWWP5K. Full map of the run: I am happy that I got to run my with my lovely coworkers and that my run…
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There is a great post on Quartz titled “This pioneering tech company figured how to make work-from-home work”. This post is about how we work at Automattic. “If we make it look easy, it’s because we’re working incredibly hard at it.” – Matt Mullenweg I feel lucky to be part of the future of work.…
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Here are my desks (and the laptops) over the last few years. The last one is my current and the best desk. Thanks to my awesome employer, Automattic.