• Adding an Edit Link to the Frontend of a Statamic Theme

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    As I’ve moved to Statamic from WordPress, one of the things I’ve missed is the WordPress Admin Bar. For those unfamiliar, in a standard WordPress setup when you’re logged in viewing a blog post you can edit, a direct edit link show up in the header of the site. You don’t need to navigate to…

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  • Ryan Says: This Is My Working Sandbox of Thought and Personal Development

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    [Ryan wrote about Automattic’s purchase of Tumblr](https://ryandsullivan.com/automattic-bought-tumblr-and-thats-a-good-thing/). Here is the main point that stuck out to me. > GeoCities is always a running joke around the internet, but I’d love to see us return to a place where “this is my working sandbox of thought and personal development” is more widely accepted. This is what…

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  • Chris on His Move Away From WordPress to Hugo

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    [My friend Chris talked about his move off of WordPress after 10 years](https://chriswiegman.com/2019/08/its-time-for-a-new-site/). > Simple fact is, I still love WordPress and make my living with it but it simply isn’t the best tool for every job. Since the release of WordPress 5.0 I’ve found actually writing content in WordPress to be a tedious and…

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  • Freelance Friday 066 – August 16

    Freelance Friday 066 – August 16

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    Lot’s of coding was done this week, and a bit of running, and a few chapters were edited in my upcoming book called The Freelancer’s Guide to Marketing. I don’t have an ETA yet, but I’m making progress weekly so maybe early in the school year. If you have marketing questions you want to make…

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  • Stein Valley – Quest For 10 #3

    Stein Valley – Quest For 10 #3

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    We’re a one car family, which means despite my best planning I don’t always have access to our car on a Monday. That was the case this Monday. My wife had skate camp to teach which meant she needed the car to get my oldest daughter and herself there and back. That means no Monday…

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  • The Gig Economy Is More About Reduction of Worker Rights Than Almost Anything Else

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    From [Invisible Women](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1419729071/?tag=strugwithfait-20): > Zero-hour contracts, short-term contracts, employment through an agency, these have all been enticingly rebranded the ‘gig economy’ by Silicon Valley, as if they are of benefit to workers. But the gig economy is in fact often no more than a way for employers to get around basic employee rights. Casual contracts…

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  • Lack of Open Source Sustainability Keeps Women and Minorities Out

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    [This is a sad look at the economic sustainability of open source software](https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html). It also brings to mind inequality since you have to have some alternate form of income to run an open source project. That likely limits women and minorities from even looking at contributing because they have bills to pay. For women it…

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  • Another Flawed Study on the Productivity Boost for Multiple Monitors

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    [Here is another study, this one from 2018, that shows that multiple monitors increase productivity](https://www.health2work.nl/media/wysiwyg/Productiviteit_en_Multi_screen.pdf). I think the testing model is flawed though since users are give a task with no opportunities for distraction or to make choices outside of what they’re supposed to be doing. In this scenario I believe that they’re right, multiple…

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  • Similarities Between Mac SE and iOS

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    [A nostalgic piece on a 30-year-old Mac from The Atlantic](https://apple.news/ASVFqVlrvROWcYiWVzcWQ9w): > Now that laptops are ubiquitous, working on a computer at a desk is an ergonomic misery. At coffee shops and co-working spaces, people hunch over them, staring down toward screens perched at table level. And > Laptops are even common in offices now, because…

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  • What We Really Do All Day

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    Just added [this book to my list](https://literaryreview.co.uk/where-does-it-all-go) and I’ll be heading to my favourite used bookstore in about an hour to see if they have it.

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