jazzsequence

  • How to create an iPhone ringtone in 2 minutes

    How to create an iPhone ringtone in 2 minutes

    I used to have a dumb phone. It was one of those LG deals with a slide-out keyboard that made it okay for texting. I was super-excited to finally get an iPhone and jump into the 20th Century with everyone else, but found it more difficult to get custom ringtones and sounds on my iPhone…

  • How fast your server is really does make a difference

    If you follow me on twitter, you may have seen me tweet this: Just moved my site and OH HOLY CHRIST THIS @bluehost VPS IS FAST! cc @MikeHansenMe — @jazzsequence (@jazzs3quence) January 26, 2015 Here’s how that came to be. I wrote a post last week. You may have seen it. It was about gender…

  • A Formal Request for More Female Creatures in Magic: the Gathering

    A Formal Request for More Female Creatures in Magic: the Gathering

    Hey Wizards of the Coast. I have a request. Let’s see more female creatures, yeah? Depictions of women in Magic are not entirely uncommon. It’s often enough that a deck will have at least a couple. And yet, when I think about creatures — specifically non-human creatures — almost always they are shown as masculine.…

  • 30 Most Frequently Played Songs of 2014

    It’s the time of year when everyone is making end-of-year lists of various things. I decided to make a list of the top songs I’ve listened to in 2014. Now a few things went into this and there should be some things stated up front. First — I almost always listen to music on random.…

  • Hacking WordPress Search for Fun and Profit!

    I wrote a blog post for WebDevStudios that’s kind of based on my WordCamp SLC presentation I just gave. (You can also check out the slides for that, if you want.) Hacking WordPress Search for Fun and Profit!

  • The single greatest contribution to open source by WordPress is documentation

    I’m going to throw an idea out there, and that is that the single, most important contribution that WordPress has made to open source software as a whole is documentation. When I first started using WordPress 8 or so years ago, that was the biggest difference between WordPress and other platforms. You could search for…

  • Plugin API/Filter Reference/wp link query args

    I made a WordPress Codex page: Plugin API/Filter Reference/wp link query args « WordPress Codex.

  • Why you should care about frameworks

    I wrote a blog post about the HTML5 Boilerplate framework, specifically, and frameworks in general for the Pluralsight blog that was published yesterday. Check it out: Why you should care about frameworks You can also check out my Pluralsight course on HTML5 Boilerplate if you’re interested in learning more about it.

  • This…what…I don’t even…

    After watching this, I went down the rabbit hole and decided to try to have a conversation with one of these bots. It went about as well as you might expect.

  • Did I ever tell you about the time I talked to a chatbot?

    Cleverbot: Are you ambitious? Me: Sure. Cleverbot: How are you? Me: Fine. Cleverbot: Are you tired? Me: Maybe. Cleverbot: Are you or not? Me: Yes. Cleverbot: Good. Me: It’s good that I am tired? Cleverbot: Yes. How r you? Me: Okay. Cleverbot: Do you like Lady Gaga? Me: Nope. Cleverbot: I still like you. Me:…