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"During the year or so spent in post-production, working on more than 1,500 VFX shots, we would frequently compare our VFX works-in-progress with the original footage, ensuring we were getting the details right," Ball tells EW. "I often found myself completely mesmerized by

Life moves pretty fast, but my sabbatical felt slow and long and relaxing. What a gift to find, after 3 months, that I am, in fact, who I might have been all along. Automattic has long championed remote work and Sabbaticals. I love reading the stories of employees and how

From my experience, this happens all too often: Companies, projects, products, software, strategies, everything gets cluttered with stuff that isn’t adding value. That stuff also inflicts pain, if not directly then by adding complexity. And once added, the stuff tends to stay for good because almost nobody thinks to

Yesterday Brett told me about his conversation with a long-time but out-of-touch acquaintance who said he was following him on social channels. He even referenced a post that Brett made the day before but didn’t tap an emoji and leave a reply. Even a few years

Aaron Jorbin posted an update with things he did in WordPress in July. During the month of July, I contributed to 19 tickets on trac, made 8 commits to core, received 28 props, reviewed 3 make/core posts, updated some documentation for committers, mentored 1 release of WordPress and worked

Apple announced the Vitals Watch App at WWDC. Last week I finally got a chance to test it out. Since it’s still in Beta I won’t comment on it specifically (I’m guessing things will change), but it’s an interesting take to have an app take 7

Look, this was never going to be a device I loved. And I suspect most won't love it in 2024, even though many would have in 2008. But kudos to Clicks for trying something new and old in our era of black slabs of glass. This is old

He’d been plagued with long-term unemployment for quite some time before this, and really I think he was supposed to be a comedian and not a worker bee. Megan shares her own struggles with unemployment and adds on with a story of her cousin who took their life

As I buy and enjoy a lot of magazines throughout the year, I was curious myself. And I’m glad I did, as I found several that I did not know existed until I started looking. I love magazines. As an illustrator and graphic designer I loved pouring through pages

In the spirit of trying to be a reflective and self-aware person, I’ve recently wondered why I’ve always been a reader. Beyond the enjoyment of it, the pragmatism, the vanity of wanting to appear smart, why do I read, really? What is perhaps my deepest motivation when