Hi, I’m Wesley Sinks. I’m a marketer, creative problem solver, and musician. This is my personal site where I write about technology, creativity, and whatever else I’m learning.
I’m a life-long advocate for free and open source software, the creator behind LinuxCreative, and I currently serve as the Digital Content Specialist (webmaster) at University of Florida Levin College of Law. See my work history.
I keep things simple and try not to take myself too seriously. Most of what I know, I learned by breaking things and coming back to fix them. I write about that process and whatever I’m curious about.
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I’ve spent years dabbling in the kinds of things that make you sound a little unhinged at dinner parties: mindfulness, affirmations, sigils, orgonite — the whole hippie-nerd crossover catalogue. I’ve gotten real benefit from some of it and had a good laugh at the rest. But one practice that stuck is also the simplest: a daily mantra I say to myself. It’s never profound. It’s not polished. It’s a little goofy. And that’s why it works.
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I have spent thirteen years building for the web, and most of that time I have not known what I was doing. The useful thing I learned wasn’t how to stop feeling that way — it was how to stop pretending I didn’t.Published in /blog/ on
Dreams can be a window into our deepest feelings, helping us make sense of what lies beneath the surface. But sometimes, they also reveal the hidden distractions that pull us off course in life. Reflecting on my dreams from last night, I’ve decided to call these distractions “flow disruptors.” (No, not the medical devices.)
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The new gallery lightbox navigation added in WordPress 7 is super cool! However, when a lightbox is opened in WordPress 7, it adds the inert attribute to all direct children of the <body> element. At UF, we used a Bootscore-based WordPress theme (a boilerplate Bootstrap CSS enabled theme), which wraps the site content in a <div id="page" class="site"> (see header.php), causing the entire site to go “inert” when the gallery lightbox is opened–not ideal.
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Despite giving very specific instructions, sometimes users don’t follow them. By default, Gravity Forms does not offer image aspect ratio validation on a file input field, so I had my n8n WordPress code chat agent generate this. I have not tried using the code, and this was for a specific form, so it would need to be modified and tested before use.
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