Underneath the Hood
Behind the scenes. The stage crew at work. Executive producer, bottle washer, boom operator, key grip. All of that, and more? Chief code cowboy.
But first? Blast from the past.
Underneath the Hood
What is the magic that makes this work? Have to believe in magic, to begin with, and the rest is easy. Prompted by a marketing e-mail from a small operation, it detailed the costs, the materials, the labor, and then, the storage, shipping, all of that. From growing in the dirt through the process of refining, and onto a finished product, handcrafted, the details, the individual steps — everything was illuminated in glorious, painstaking detail.
Underneath the Hood
I stumbled onto WordPress around ’08. It was the third or fourth “blog motor” I toyed with, first running my experimental weblog, and then, porting the horoscopes over to the motor as it made more sense from a technical perspective.
Better delivery system. More control over the output. Seemed most “future-proof,” at the time.
The WordPress motor (software) seemed quite modular, and that offered a way to customize the appearance so it didn’t look like a WordPress site. Even better.
Underneath the Hood
What’s missing from the answer to what’s “underneath the hood?” The original point wasn’t about the software, but the inner-workings. That remains a little more of a mystery. More magic, less technical.
I write in an online editor thing. Hooks straight into my various WordPress installations.
As simple as can be, that’s what’s underneath the hood.
Underneath the Hood
I write on the screen. The place I type turns that into a weblog-style entry, and that material gets posted.
Underneath the Hood
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It’s not the quantity of the errors, it’s the quality of the errors?
