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  • State of the Word 2021

    WordPress has State of the Word 2021 event a couple of days ago on December 14 (my birthday too!) and you can watch the recording here:

    For WordPress veterans, you all might have been hearing the buzz about Full Site Editing. For those of you who just noticed the news about Full Site Editing right now, I promise I will blog about it later (?) I actually have been wanting to write about it with hope that I can help a bit on sharing more information about templates and how you can max up templates using FSE. I personally hyped about FSE and I have been spending quite some time tinkering and doing some testing on my test sites.

    Anyway! I actually thought Matt will have a live streaming from the Antarctica. We heard about him taking a trip to the Antarctica and I feel it would look super cool to see him delivering SOTW speech with penguins around, you know. And I really like penguins.

    “Hello, hello! Welcome–”

    (PENGUIN INTERRUPTING NOISES)

    “I’m Matt–”

    (MORE PENGWEN NOISES. “HUMAN HAS CAMERA. WADDLE TO WAVE AND SAY HI. HELLO HUMAN.“)

    Anyway.

    I got quite surprised I see him appearing in SOTW podium in New York.

    “NO PENGUINS?”

    Yeah. So.

    Lowkey expecting to see some emperor penguins shuffling closer to him and as he delivers his speech we see the penguins starting to center on the camera.

    You know what they say about penguins:

    WE PENGUINS WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD WIDE WEB.

    (Definitely historically incorrect but we never know because The Antarctica is filled with scientists and I won’t be surprised to see some penguins waddling away with some papers on their beak.)

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  • “Hazy dusk” by Jay Faiz

    Story by my good friend: Jay Faiz

    It started with a light tap tap tap on your window on a particularly hazy dusk.

    Tap tap tap.

    Tap tap tap.

    Just enough to annoy you and tickle your curiosity, even though you are fully aware that you’re on the thirtieth floor and it is impossible for anyone to do it since you are sure that there are no ledges outside and there’s no way that a window cleaner would work at this hour.

    Tap tap tap.

    You drew the curtains and saw it.

    It smiled slightly, waved its scrawny hand, and said hi.

    And disappeared.

    From then on, whenever the day ended hazy and everything is all orange and gray, you hear that light tap tap tap on your windows.

    Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap.

    Bonus:

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  • “Not one of us” — Jeffrey Zeldman

    “Not one of us” — Jeffrey Zeldman

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  • Inktober Day 31: Risk

    I want to work more on the whole action/drama on this drawing. I’m trying to capture the waterfall, but I guess it’s another day of learning.

    And with this, Inktober 2021 is officially finished!

    When you are scared, but you do it anyway, that’s brave.

    Neil Gaiman (“Coraline”)
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  • Inktober Day 30: Slither

    I like snakes. I always feel their images on mass media are rarely justified. In Disney’s animation “The Jungle Book,” Kaa is displayed as one of the antagonists as Disney himself felt that audience would not sympathize with snake character — despite the Kaa character on the novel is actually one of the mentors for Mowgli, alongside Baloo and Bagheera.

    But I have to admit, Disney’s snakes are hilarious. Kaa (The Jungle Book) and Sir Hiss (Robin Hood) are my favorite.

    This work shall be titled as “Ssssssselfie” (get it? Get it?)

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  • Next project: Intermediate Theme Developer

    I want to develop themes that sing praises for the 2000s. I always feel we could have a bit more 2000s-era whimsy.

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Nindya. Kapkap. she/her. Indonesian in Malaysia. Millennial. Lo-fi. Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Murder mystery genre.

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This is my personal blog, so anything goes. Everything written here came from me, and is not a reflection of my family or the place where I work (although, to be fair, I’m a housewife now, so the things written here are not reflections of my throw pillows on the sofa.) While things here are generally PG-13, I must remind you that I’m an adult, which means some topics might be too heavy for younger readers.

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