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Paul Jacobson

@paulj.me

Enthusiast, coder, runner, supporting WordPress customers at Automattic. Passionate about my wife and proud Dad. Israeli 🇮🇱. Support 🏳️‍⚧ & 🏳️‍🌈 rights More of me here: https://paulj.me/ and here: https://pauljacobson.link/

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Paul JacobsonAug 28, 2026

Quick PSA for students and teachers. We often receive requests for WordPress.com discounts for students. We have a special offer here: https://wordpress.com/education/

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Paul JacobsonAug 20, 2026

The Fairphone 6+ really appeals to me. Love the design! I probably won't see this in Israel anytime soon, though. https://youtu.be/v5v0LjXY6Fc?si=bZqruVSFohgMQzPp

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Paul JacobsonAug 19, 2026

PWA’s feel more reliable than native Android apps lately

I'm not sure if this is just my devices but a couple native Android apps on my Tab S9 tablet feel less reliable and perform worse than PWA versions of those apps. 🤔

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Paul JacobsonAug 17, 2026

Life, death, an wonder of the Cosmos

I really enjoyed this discussion between @astrokatie.com and @hankgreen.bsky.social in an episode of Hank's podcast, Humans. It's a wonderful perspective of science and discovery: https://pca.st/episode/c9c0a916-616c-4495-8877-436dffaee565

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Paul JacobsonAug 15, 2026

Being a mensch

I'm not really a religious person. Having said that, I enjoyed and appreciated this episode of For Heaven's Sake from the Shalom Hartman Institute about being a mensch from a Jewish perspective: https://pca.st/episode/be27db9e-2df5-47f1-9f34-af797a88de1c

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Paul JacobsonAug 15, 2026

Ahsoka – Season 2 teaser

I'm really looking forward to this. Also, there is a lot going on in this teaser trailer! https://youtu.be/Fdar7gTQnog?si=fkBI88OH8s1p0xVQ

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Paul JacobsonAug 12, 2026

Prettify your WordPress dashboard with OpenStation

If you're a bit bored of the classic WP Admin dashboard of your WordPress site, try OpenStation for a more computer desktop-style view. It's a nice change. I have mine set to "Living Tree".

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Paul JacobsonAug 12, 2026

Prettify your WordPress dashboard with OpenStation If you're a bit bored of the classic WP Admin dashboard of your WordPress site, try OpenStation (on GitHub) for a more computer desktop-style view. It's a nice change. I have mine set to "Living Tree". OpenStation adds a windowing system to WP Admin. There are still occasionally little...

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Paul JacobsonAug 12, 2026

Not so competent AI overlords

People are worried that our soon-to-be AI overlords will take over our lives and run human civilization into the ground with their superior intelligence. Those people probably haven't had the frustratingly frequent experience of seeing these agents utterly fail to successfully complete tasks we ask and empower them to do. Repeatedly.

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Paul JacobsonAug 11, 2026

Asterism – a theme for friends

I'm using the Friends plugin on my site to read my feed of people who I mostly follow on ActivityPub services like Mastodon. I didn't really like the included themes so I forked one I did like, Fedipress, and created Asterism.

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Paul JacobsonAug 10, 2026

Just when you thought you weren't being tracked One of my colleagues shared this link: https://kuber.studio/cookie/ It's a little unsettling just how much can be gleaned from my laptop even though I have a relatively private setup.

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Paul JacobsonAug 9, 2026

I was inspired by @reckless.bsky.social's interview with @toni.bsky.team to set up my own PDS and basically host my ATmosphere identity. It was a bit of a process but it seems to be working. If you see this on Bluesky, then, well, it's working.

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