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My T1D Journey: The First 24 Hours
In July 2022 my middle child, Teddy, was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes (T1D) at the ripe full age of seven. We’re now two years past diagnosis and it’s time I unpack this story. I’ve condensed it as best I could and split it into 5 parts: Learning from our care team We were discharged by…
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My T1D Journey: Our Diagnosis
In July 2022 my middle child, Teddy, was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes (T1D) at the ripe full age of seven. We’re now two years past diagnosis and I’m ready to start unpacking the story. I’ve split this story it into 5 parts: First of all, what is T1D? Type-1 diabetes, T1D for short, it is…
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Four Years after our Robbery
Today marks four years since I was robbed. Someone entered my home, presumably between 12-6am while I and the rest of my family were sleeping, and liberated the premises of my LEGO collection. And nothing more. I wrote a blog post on the day of the theft to catalog some things and hopefully find the…
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Piecing it back together: one year after our lego theft
It’s been a year since someone broke into our home, while we were sleeping, and stole only our Lego collection. This continues to be the strangest thing I’ve ever experienced and I hope it forever will be – I don’t know if I could handle anything stranger. Throughout the year we have heard the same…
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Stolen LEGO: Two weeks later, now with a $2000 reward
The past two weeks have been a blur. This is, by far, the strangest thing that has happened in my life to date. I sincerely hope it goes down as the strangest thing ever, because I don’t think I’m prepared for anything weirder than this. Here’s a quick high-level summary and you can find more…
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Help! My entire LEGO collection was stolen!
Did you take my entire LEGO collection? Because somebody did. If it wasn’t you, can you help me find the thief? A list of sets, some photos of the collection, and media coverage appear at the very end of this post. Read the follow-up post, with details on a $2000 reward Read the one-year-later epilogue…
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Conditionally change JetPack Infinite Scroll trigger to “click” or “scroll”
Earlier today I was trying to change the “type” for JetPack’s Infinite Scroll behavior to use “click” only for the front page. For all other archives I wanted JetPack to use the standard “scroll” type (you know, the namesake for Infinite Scrolling). I think the infinite_scroll_has_footer_widgets filter is the right choice, but is_front_page() isn’t yet…
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Serve Missing Media from a Production Server via Apache/Nginx
When working on a website locally, it can become quite tedious to pull down all media from a production environment – particularly if you just need to spot-check one or two key areas. In some cases, the production sites I work with have media folders that are more than 1GB (!!) in size. In fact, it’s not…
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Becoming a Better Developer: Week 1 Review
This past week has been absolutely packed with new knowledge. I’ve distilled it as best I can for now. I hope future travellers will benefit from this as much as I have. Getting Started This past week I read the first four chapters of Clean Code and several relevant blog articles: The Case Against Singletons in…
From the Desk of Brian Richards
A collection of thoughts and Ideas from Brian Richards, creator of WPSessions.com