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Tech Juice Cleanse

Tech Juice Cleanse warm-up: WordPress weeding and identity iteration

I have some free time coming up and I’ll use some of it to work on a little garden plot of personal tech-adjacent projects. I’m calling it a Tech Juice Cleanse. The intent is to:

1. Exercise my values and motivations through novel–even quirky–teaching perspectives
2. Learn tools to bring to life some ideas that have been waiting patiently for me to get around to them
3. Generally re-connect with the fun parts of being a tech worker. NB: There will be sewing.

Step 0 was to update my WordPress theme. The old one was perfectly functional and had banner photos harvested from treasured travel memories, but it was visually clunky.

So out with the old, in with Rikke. It’s nice, right? I’ve done precisely zero CSS wrangling, just some tweaks from the WP dashboard. I increased the number of preview lines, changed the body font and re-arranged the widgets in … Read the rest

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