James Lau
@jameslau.bsky.social
Web developer, culinary explorer, globe trekker, sci-fi nerd, Star Trek, New England Clam Chowder addict, Red Sox fan, husband, dad. Soup solves all problems. Always travel! Personal website: https://www.jameslau.com/
🦊 Giving an in-person talk for the first time in SEVEN YEARS. A thing I used to do *all the time*, and now it feels novel. New, even. An almost-decade can bring a few changes. Apparently. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/retour/
Retour. — ethanmarcotte.com
Doing a thing I used to do all the time, and having some feelings about it.
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I just finished book two from @scalzi.com's Old Man's War series. On to book three!
Happy Friday, everyone! Just want to let you all know that I pushed out a new Boston WordPress Meetup website today! We'll be adding more content in the coming months. bostonwp.org #wordpress #boston #webdevelopment #webdesign #meetup
My son found one of my old cassettes the other day. son: "what's this?" me: DON'T PULL THE TAPE OUT!!!! son: "it is not sticky...." 😂
Why do dads have such good memories? Because we have large databases. 😂 #dadjokes
When you inherit a client project where Papyrus font.....might look better.....😫
Hey, this was an amazing episode from WP Tavern! How to reduce your carbon footprint on the web. B Corp Licensed folks, have a listen: wptavern.com/podcast/177-... #wordpress #sustainability #webdevelopment #webdesign
#177 – Charlotte Bax on Reducing Your Website’s Carbon Footprint
In this episode, Nathan Wrigley talks with Charlotte Bax at WordCamp Europe about making websites more environmentally sustainable. Charlotte shares her journey into sustainable web design, offers …
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It feels good to pass a completed site to a client for the final QA phase. #mondays
Helping clients this morning with cache issues, be like.....
I just signed up for a B Corp Readiness class in August. Tacking this to my new business.
I'm not old; I just like the music from the 1930s and 1940s.
Yesterday, I joined the WordCamp NYC organization group! Let's get this goin'!! #wordpress #wordcamp #wordup
Yesterday I ate my first kiwi fruit (freshly cut) in 25 years. I was always afraid it was going to give me one hell of an allergic reaction. Surprisingly, nothing happened! I'm still off coffee, by the way. It's five and a half years in now.
We all spend time watching stuff on YouTube. What's your YouTuber dream team if you could make one? Mine: Forgotten Weapons - Ian McCollum Vice Grip Garage - Derek Bieri Outdoor Boys - Luke Nichols
look, we're all out here making ourselves stressed out and miserable with terrible news all the time please let yourself enjoy this, for your own mental health
Working in Cursor and having it help me build out certain elements is no different than me foraging for code on StackOverflow, Code Pen, and various documentations and cobbling them together in my editor. In the end, the AI is looking through the same things, but faster.
I'm building a client site right now with a child theme spun up from Twenty-Twenty Five and absolutely loving it. There are still some minor gripes that I've had for years. Like, no WP core equivalent to ACF.
Holy crap, Pocket Casts has a transcription feature for their mobile app?! Yes! Thank you for this! But I guess it depends on the author of that podcast and if they upload any. 🤔
I am really happy that Pocket Casts is now accessible within a web browser. pocketcasts.com
Listen to podcasts with the best free podcasting app - built by listeners, for listeners.
Pocket Casts provides next-level listening, search and discovery tools. Find your next obsession with our hand curated podcast recommendations, and seamlessly enjoy and manage all your shows no matter...
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The Anthony Phoenix Branca Foundation website is now live! #Nonprofit #GivingMatters #SocialImpact #MissionDriven #WordPress #accessibility #WordPressWebsite #WebsiteTips #Webdevelopment #Webdesign #Opensource Client website: apbfoundation.com
For those who are just catching up from the Figma Site news, here's the segment where they walk you through it. www.youtube.com/live/5q8YAUT...
Config 2025: Figma product launch keynote (Dylan Field, CEO & Co-founder, Figma) LIVE at Moscone
YouTube video by Figma
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For those who run their own agencies, how much time do you spend in your client's community over your own (tech, branding, marketing) on a weekly basis?
This morning, I joined @pressley.house.gov and partners across the Commonwealth to highlight the ways in which the federal administration’s attacks against our treasured institutions are attacks on all of us.
