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Taylor Jadin

I work at Reclaim Hosting as our Community Instructional Technologist. I am passionate about educating and empowering people who want to make cool stuff on the web.

New blog!

New blog!

Hey folks. I switched this blog over to use Ghost hosted on Reclaim Cloud! I have a lot of cleanup to do (posts to tag, featured images to import, get old comments to work on old posts, get old footnotes to render correctly etc.) and a bunch of design stuff

What's a Website?

Today my 4 year old asked me about what I was working on. And I said “I’m working on a project, a website.” She then asked “What’s a website?” 🤯🤯🤯 … like of course she wouldn’t know that, but I had very little idea how to explain that to

Breaking WordPress with a simple plugin

I am prepping for next week’s Workshop for DoOO and WordPress Multisite Admins, and I wanted to create a plugin that could display an error page for the purposes of showing how to troubleshoot a broken WordPress site caused by a problematic plugin. In the past I’ve asked

A Stream Deck button to Start or Stop OBS Virtual Camera

This is a quick follow-up on a post from two years ago where I talked about making a button on my Stream Deck that automatically launched OBS and started the Virtual Camera feature. I tend to use the Virtual Camera feature quite a bit, particularly in Slack Huddles, which don’

Hacking on Owncast's UI for ReclaimTV

One of my big goals for the year at Reclaim was to really beef up the video platform we use at Reclaim for our streams, as well as flex courses and workshops. We do publish stuff to YouTube, and we’re certainly not leaving that behind, but I wanted self-hostable

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