Who is Nick?

Asking all my life.

  • Creek Crack

    I think it’s safe to come back out? The kids are old enough; I’m crazy enough; now federated!

    There’s just a few cobwebs to clear off here.

    Photo by Eva Wilcock on Unsplash

    Last night I came to the realization that I was not in the drivers seat of my life anymore. I didn’t even know if I was in a car. If you prefer the analogy of the bull, there were no hands on anything. I had long been kicked off and covered in dust.

    So from 2am onward – I reassessed. Old school, quietly with a pen and paper.

    I actually haven’t really done that since our second was born. She’s now 3 ( in the blink of an eye ).

    What’s been going on for the past 3 years?

    1. A new child – first and foremost
    2. Me and my ADHD – I always have had it, but “barely”, then something changed that threw it off the rails. 🤔See #1 above
    3. Moving back to the Mainland – I think everyone in Canada is suffering about housing, but around Vancouver, boy oh boy that was a hard pill to swallow.
    4. Slowly getting lost in being a parent. Slowly forgetting… where did I put my glasses? I don’t know, where did you put your monster truck? Stop kicking your sister! Oh, right, you wanted a snack. Have I eaten anything today?
    5. …

    Back at’er … Again.

    So WordPress refreshed. Federated settings tweaked. Moved a couple older properties into this one. And I’m putting one key in front of the other. Creek crack, clickity clack…

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  • Conditional Shortcode ↗

    I made a little shortcode so I could do something like this….

    [ap_if length="800"]
[ap_title] - [ap_permalink]
[ap_excerpt length="800"]
[/ap_if]
[ap_if condition="lt" length="800"]
[ap_content]
[/ap_if]

    That way short posts don’t federate with all the fancy permalinks & titles. Long ones do.

    WordPress AP Conditional Shortcode

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  • How does Blue Sky work? ↗

    Curious to lean more about the AT Protocol?

    https://steveklabnik.com/writing/how-does-bluesky-work

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  • Open Product Management ↗

    This is a very comprehensive git repo of PM resources. As someone wanting to “officially” make the switch, I want to make sure to go through all of this.

    ProductHired/open-product-management

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  • My Simple Bookmarks ↗

    I made a little plugin to bring back bookmarking to my WordPress. It’s mostly for me, but it’s on GitHub, so….

    ethernick/simple-bookmarks

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  • Heading to Cosocial

    Setting up a new mastodon home on cosocial. Follow me @ethernick@cosocial.ca

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  • Mastodon Verifica-ted-tion-ing

    Yes, I approve this link as “me”. hachyderm.io/@ethernick

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  • Glitching out on the Fediverse

    As one can tell, I show up once a year on this blog to shave my beard off. I had hope to share more. And I did for a while… just somewhere else.

    A relatively new and young ( a 1.5 and 4.5 year old ) family has a tendency to do that. I come back here not to post so much as to look back at my archive. I might come back and write more, but you might need to wait 3 years, give or take.

    In the meantime, I am still tinkering on pet projects.

    Enter the Fediverse

    If you haven’t been paying attention to Mastodon and the Fediverse, I recommend you do. Decentralized social media is cool. With the help of a a project called Shuttlecraft, I now to have my own plot of Federated digital land. Come by won’t you?

    Enter Glitch

    With Shuttlecraft came a re-introduction to Glitch. I was completely unaware what they were up to, and that’s a bad on my part. Because while the internet is opening new languages, as someone who want to put something on the net, I felt you had two choices: a webhost that is still kind of antiquated, which a limited support of antiquated services, and going all cloud all the time – which can get costly.

    Then there is glitch. A webhost that’s kept up. Technical enough for developers getting into things like react & node.js, but not uber technical that you need to spin up cloud instances and install every Unix package and then configure your choice of webserver from scratch.

    If you haven’t taken a look at ethernick.com in a while, swing by there too, won’t you?

    Nap time is over

    Well, it looks like nap time is over, and I’ve got to get the little one. See you again in Movember.

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  • #Movember 2022

    The past few years have been rough. So like the last couple of years, I’ll be mowing down into a mo. It was so fun before. Here we go again. Donate via facebook or my movember profile.

    Support the Mo
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  • #Movember 2021

    The past two years have been tough. So like last year I’ll be mowing to mo . It was so fun before. Here we go again. #movember

    Support the Mo
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