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Guides and tools for moving to WordPress from various other hosts, software, and website formats.
Currently features: Squarespace, Tumblr, HTML, RSS, Wix, Drupal, Blogger, and other WordPress sites.

"The artifacts of internet life are personal—that is, not professionally or historically notable—and therefore worthless."
On the corrosion of internet culture

"Next to sliding streams of data they scurried.  Legs, articulated far too many times, flashing along the power lines and down among the fiberoptic cables, the techno-spiders danced.  
When the Fae had returned..." Short fiction Inspired by the spiders-triggering-the-eerie-singing-recording story

When a search is *unambiguous*, so straight to the relevant category or item instead of listing a bunch of close matches.

"Labels or sample text inside a form field makes it difficult for people to remember what information belongs in that field once they start data entry."
Mainly a problem when used to *replace* labels or hints, but even when entirely supplemental, there's a bit of cognitive load added.

"It’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up, insist that they’re the “platform for free speech” without quite understanding what that actua…"

"For some, deciding to go to therapy is the hardest part of the process. For others, it's finding an affordable therapist. Nevertheless, once you make it onto your therapist's couch, you might..."

"Instead, he fired basically anyone who knew anything about fighting spam, put in place braindead stupid solutions that anyone with any experience in the field would tell you wouldn’t work… and then made the problem way, way, way worse."