Carrie Dils

👋🏼 quick intro: Built my first site in 1995 and immediately fell in love the power to publish online. Stumbled into open source in 2011 (#WordPress) Currently teaching #FrontEndDev at LinkedIn Learning, trying to keep my clients happy, and figuring out what I want to be when I grow up. Let’s chat

I'm so gosh-darned excited! css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

My Saturday fun time includes creating a Claude skill to pump out podcast notes, email blast, and social swipes for @themenoposseshow.bsky.social. I also finally got around to creating a brand voice guide.

I just registered for #WPA11yDay, a free, virtual 24-hour conference on WordPress accessibility taking place October 7-8, and you should too! Get your free ticket at wpaccessibility.day/2026/. #WPAD2026 #WordPress #a11y

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming https://theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nefarious-plot-to-undergo-years-of-m-1850433563/

Cool 😎

Taking a moment this morning to remember 9/11 and the terrible loss. So many lives changed in an instant. Where were you/what were you doing when you heard/saw the news?

Verified via Snopes (yeah, they’re still around!). www.snopes.com/fact-check/v...

Matt Mullenweg has accused CFO Mark Davies of conspiring with board members. Meanwhile, BlackRock's latest filing has valued Automattic at 83% below its 2021 peak. 🔗

I am begging you to stop using AI to write your video scripts. Shortform content is becoming unwatchable and that's not even the crazy part

Y’all already knew this, but NextDoor app is just a bunch of Karens.

Hey @thebloggess.bsky.social! Caught your book on the “shop used” shelf at the wonderful Bookstore on the Square in Fort Collins. It’s not signed, so please come visit. :)

I’m obsessed with the Merlin app for birdsong identification. Also, there’s a lot of white winged doves around which means I’ve always got Stevie Nix in my head.

Officially a resident of Colorado which means (among many other fantastic things!) I can log into Bluesky without privacy-invasive age verification.

Just put a new battery in the car for the first time. Feeling like a proper lesbian! 💪

I finally saw the @bsky.app age verification and nope'd right out of providing 1) my credit card, 2) partial SSN, or 3) ID scan. The bypass is to VPN on a server outside of TX. C'mon.

I'm looking for examples of using Claude/Agent skills for writing content in a brand voice. Specifically, I'm thinking about workflows for my podcast (e.g., drafting show notes, email blasts, etc.). So far I'm liking this model the @wordpress.org marketing team uses: github.com/WordPress/ma...

🦊 Wrote down some rambling thoughts on “AI”: as generational damage, on what repair might look like, and on asking what happens next. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/all-to...

For a recent project, I tried something different: running two themes side-by-side on the same #WordPress site using #ThemeSwitcher Pro. The unusual part is that both themes shared a single header. Read on to learn about the architecture and some "gotchas". carriedils.com/one-header-t...

So soothing...

We did a thing today: Sold our house in TX! 🤝 I’m sad to leave a truly amazing and supportive community of friends, but I’m also so freaking excited for a change of scenery (and weather). The mountains are calling!

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I think this is my favorite episode so far. 💖

Brandi Carlile's new single coincides with the launch of a partnership between Carlile and the National Park Foundation—which she calls the nation’s most trusted way for people to support national parks—to raise critical funds to preserve and protect them. Fine song written with Aaron Dessner

Claude now says things to me like "Holler if you want...xyz" I feel seen.

Calendar invites are my love language.

Heads up maintainers of packages, this is a big deal: github.com/orgs/communi...

Umm, @ipstenu.org did you target my insta account with these ads?

Cool!

I changed out a leaky p-trap and now the house smells like an unrelenting fart.

A for sale sign went up in our yard today. Our Texas exodus is officially in the works.

🙌 Huge shout-out to @joedolson.bsky.social and @rianrietveld.bsky.social for supporting my efforts on this and pushing it over the finish line. Also, thank you ❤️ to InstaWP for donating the testing environments when we determined that using Playground wouldn't work. Read the official announcement:

Trump just sent letters to Congress claiming he doesn’t need authorization for the Iran war because there’s a ceasefire. The 60-day clock under the War Powers Resolution? He says it stopped when the shooting stopped. That’s not how the law works.

The pilot on my flight just made an A-Team pun: I love it when a plane comes together. I think I’m in good hands. ✈️

If you’ve been impacted by GitHub blips, here’s an interesting look at why.

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

I got tired of Substack platforming Nazis, white supremacists, and convicted rapists, so I made a browser extension. Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link and redirects it to `archive.is`. They never see your traffic. You still get to read the thing tho. jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-subs...

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Random question: who owns a portable or home steamer for clothes. I’m looking for a recommendation.