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  • What does the light on the Twelve South AirFly mean?

    What does the light on the Twelve South AirFly mean?

    Twelve South’s AirFly allows you to easily connect your Bluetooth headphones to the in-flight entertainment system on an airplane. Plug the AirFly into the headphone socket on the seat back and enjoy a Bluetooth connection to your headphones of choice!

    The instructions provided get you started but are sparse on details of what the various combination of light mean on the device. There are 3 versions of the AirFly available too – AirFly SE, AirFly Pro and AirFly Pro Deluxe – but the light is the same on each.

    So, for the curious, here’s what it means…

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  • Don’t be a Dick

    Don’t be a Dick

    Back in 2012 I attended a meetup for bloggers, during which the journalist Stuart Heritage gave an excellent talk about writing. And number 8 on his list of things that he felt were important was, well, what you can see in the image above.

    Tongue-in-cheek it may seem but it was important to Stuart and has stayed with me since. In fact, it became an important part of his first book. It’s a modern interpretation of “be excellent to one another”, I guess, but is more realistic – you don’t have to be amazing, just don’t be terrible.

    I often think, in whatever I’m doing, “am I being a dick”. Sadly, it’s a mantra that more people should really pick up.

  • What is your #1 tip for businesses going digital? 

    What is your #1 tip for businesses going digital? 

    Get involved with the WordPress community and commit to the Five for the Future initiative to give back to WordPress what it gives to you as a business.

    And it doesn’t have to mean doing anything with code – just being able to write documentation, translate a language or edit a video is all it takes to take part.

    And, you can learn so much from that contribution aspect too.

    David Artiss, courtesy of Themeisle
  • How to remove AI features from Jetpack

    How to remove AI features from Jetpack

    The Jetpack WordPress plugin now comes bundled with Jetpack AI Assistant – a suite of AI powered add-ons for your site. These, however, are not free, beyond an initial trial. However, once those trial features have expired, I found that the upgrade messaging in the editor was getting in the way.

    So, how do we turn this off?

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  • Now with added Bluesky!

    Now with added Bluesky!

    I rarely run beta versions of software, let alone alpha, but that’s what I’m doing right now. Autoblue is a new, free, plugin to add Bluesky connectivity to your WordPress website.

    Right now it offers 2 features – automatic posting to Bluesky from your site and integration of Bluesky replies into your site comments.

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