I should know better. As a guy with two theatre degrees, I know first hand the terrors (and joys) of putting oneself and one's work before an audience. You can try to tell yourself that you don't 'need' or even 'want' their approval, but the truth is you wouldn't be there at all if you didn't. Rod Serling's voice is under any live presentation saying "submitted for your approval" to ... +more+
Working with web tech as with any segment of the IT/Computing world it is easy to fall into what I call a user tunnel. A user tunnel forms when we use the same technology the same way again and again with great or at least reliable success. User tunnels may or may not include work-arounds that compensate for software shortcomings and bugs, but they do keep the user attached to ... +more+
I've been using, installing, administrating, figuring out, breaking, fixing, hacking, tweaking, and pushing WordPress since back in 2006 when I created this blog (I never bothered much with WordPress.com until much later when a client asked me to customize the look and feel of a site hosted there).
I have used ...
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