Mathew Packer

For the 432nd time in the last 10 years, I’ve decided that I don’t need to have separate websites for my photography, freelance development work, and personal blog.

I’d always thought I should keep work and personal stuff well separated, now that I’m older and wiser, I realise that I should keep it together as they’re both very much connected.

I’ve been really enjoying the work of photographer Jeremy Cowart of late, you should check it out, and one thing that he does that I’m a fan of is not only share his work, but also share things going on in his life and with his family, you can often see how the two influence each other.

So what does that mean for the website here?

Expect to see a whole load of different focal points, I work in a few different spaces, I’m also involved in the administration of a football club, I love tech stuff, I play video games, I’m a Dad, I’m a husband, there’s no end to the sort of stuff I can publish here!

@miraz For an additional test, does it pickup the webmention from this reply?

⚽️ Wellington Phoenix are looking quite handy versus Sydney FC this afternoon, that last goal was very well worked!

⚽️ I'd imagine Sydney got a talking to during half-time. I don't imagine they'd even be satisfied with a draw.

@shindakun hmmm, interesting…let’s try another test and see if this response arrives. When I pasted the link to reply to, micro.blog/shindakun… into the Response Properties field in WP this time it seemed to parse a lot more information. I wonder if there was something wrong in the previous configuration…

I’m also going to post the text into the Excerpt field to see if that has any effect.

Darling Hasbro ‘The Child’ with adorable accessories
I must have this Baby Yoda! I want to see what happens when an incredibly powerful force user is raised by a person who disintegrates car thieves. Star Wars The Black Series The Child Toy 1.

Syndication Links now supports per-post syndication to Micro.blog from WordPress

The inimitable David Shanske released the 4.2.0 version of the Syndication Links plugin for WordPress this evening. In addition to some other useful upgrades and bug fixes, the big new feature this release adds is excellent syndication support for Micro.blog.

🔗 How To Speed Up WordPress And Get PageSpeed Insights Score 100

The “back” button is your enemy. You only have a few seconds to hook a visitor and get him or her to stay away from it. You better make each second count.

🔗 How I Keep Track of New Music Releases

Every Friday I open up the Music app, go to the For You section, scroll all the way down to the bottom and look at the “New Releases” section. This section looks at your library and shows you new albums from the artists you have in your collection.

🔗 video: 3 ways to hang a gallery wall

Show us your gallery wall efforts by posting a photo to Instagram. Tag @dominomag & hashtag #SOdomino!

🔗 How to watch the Marvel movies in order | TechRadar

Here’s a chronological guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) — Read on www.techradar.com/au/how-to/how-to-watch-the-marvel-movies-in-order

🔗 How to speed up your WordPress site for a faster, greener and eco-friendly web – Marko Saric

This should pretty much be your base install whenever you're working with WordPress.

The EFL Cup (referred to historically, and colloquially, as the League Cup), currently known as the Carabao Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. Organised by the English Football League (EFL), it is open to any club within the top four levels of the English football league system – 92 clubs in total – comprising the top level Premier League, and the three divisions of the English Football League's own league competition (Championship, League One and League Two).

Info from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFL_Cup

This is part of my "saved info" series, where I save links to subjects I've researched online.

The FA Cup, also known officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competition in the world.[1] It is organised by and named after The Football Association (The FA). Since 2015, it has been known as The Emirates FA Cup after its headline sponsor. A concurrent women's tournament is also held, the FA Women's Cup.
— Read on en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup

OS X, Lightroom, and the new Photos App:

Earlier this week, OS X 10.10.3 was released, which includes the much-anticipated new Photos app — Apple’s full replacement for both iPhoto and Aperture. 

I’ve been using Photos App for several months now (since the first beta was made available). It’s now a major part of my photography workflow, and, therefore, my life. 

So, here’s a basic outline of my workflow.

I quite like Kenneth’s workflow, I might adopt something similar with Lightroom CC and Apple Photos. Also doesn’t matter what device I’m on, it works on my MacBook Pro and iPad Pro.

https://help.micro.blog/2018/setting-up-wordpress/:

Bringing your WordPress blog to Micro.blog.

At half-time, the Clippers look a lot stronger than the Rockets. Their defence is strong, Harden just can’t get open, and even when he does he’s having to take tough shots. 🏀

Newcastle No 2 Sportsground. Watching the Jets W-League team train. ⚽️

And just like that, I got the Rockets the win… 🏀