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3 Secrets Your Audience Is Keeping From You.
Outsourcing your social media management to social media management services is a lot like littering on the side of the road – it ruins the landscape and like the mafia into concrete – disappears you within a sea of same. …https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/3-secrets-your-audience-is-keeping-from-you/
#branding #business #businessAdvice #digitalVisibility #hardTruth #marketing #marketingFails #marketingStrategyFails
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3 Secrets Your Audience Is Keeping From You.
Outsourcing your social media management to social media management services is a lot like littering on the side of the road – it ruins the landscape and like the mafia into concrete – disappears you within a sea of same. …https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/3-secrets-your-audience-is-keeping-from-you/
#branding #business #businessAdvice #digitalVisibility #hardTruth #marketing #marketingFails #marketingStrategyFails
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3 Secrets Your Audience Is Keeping From You.
Outsourcing your social media management to social media management services is a lot like littering on the side of the road – it ruins the landscape and like the mafia into concrete – disappears you within a sea of same. …https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/?p=16215
#branding #business #businessAdvice #digitalVisibility #hardTruth #marketing #marketingFails #marketingStrategyFails
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3 Secrets Your Audience Is Keeping From You.
Outsourcing your social media management to social media management services is a lot like littering on the side of the road – it ruins the landscape and like the mafia into concrete – disappears you within a sea of same. …https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/?p=16215
#branding #business #businessAdvice #digitalVisibility #hardTruth #marketing #marketingFails #marketingStrategyFails
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3 Secrets Your Audience Is Keeping From You.
1. We aren’t seeing what your throwing down. You’re invisible. What do The Gould Group, The Harris Group, & The Webb Real Estate Group all three have in common within their industry? They all posted the same social media content on the same day at the same time. Audiences fol…https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/3-secrets-your-audience-is-keeping-from-you/
#branding #business #businessAdvice #digitalVisibility #hardTruth #marketing #marketingFails #marketingStrategyFails
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3 Secrets Your Audience Is Keeping From You.
1. We aren’t seeing what your throwing down. You’re invisible. What do The Gould Group, The Harris Group, & The Webb Real Estate Group all three have in common within their industry? They all posted the same social media content on the same day at the same time. Audiences fol…https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/3-secrets-your-audience-is-keeping-from-you/
#branding #business #businessAdvice #digitalVisibility #hardTruth #marketing #marketingFails #marketingStrategyFails
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What Would You Give In 30 Years To Be Where You Are Today?
Age brings with it mortality, pains, aches, worries, possible declines in health, and an inevitable end to vitality. From this perspective today is worth appreciating, today’s health is worth being thankful for, tomorrow we’ll wish we felt as good as we do today (even with our current sufferings).
https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/what-would-you-give-in-30-years-to-be-where-you-are-today/
#aging #bigPicture #bigPictureThinking #context #health #introspection #meditation
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David Lynch On Eating The Same Thing Every Day
“Habit in a daily routine, when there’s some sort of order, you’re free to mentally go off in any direction. You’ve got a safe sort of foundation and a place to spring from. It’s very important for me. The purer the environment – the more fantastic the interior world can be, it seems to me.” David Lynch #filmm…https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/david-lynch-on-eating-the-same-thing-every-day/
#creativity #Environment #filmmaking #imagination #Psychology #routine #theMuse
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Winding Down The Evening With WordPress.
#indieweb #opensource #PatreonAlternative #personalWebsite #selfhost #Web3 #Wordpresshttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/winding-down-the-evening-with-wordpress/
Now that I’m rounding off the rough edges to my WordPress workflow – I’m emerging on a new satisfaction in maintaining a personal online presence outside of corporate owned platforms.
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Unity > Timeline > Matching Video Performance to Animation Timings w/ Frame Accuracy!
#Timeline #Tools #Unity #Unity3D #VideoPlayer #VirtualProduction #VR #WorkflowsSpring is in the air and new workflows are hatching 🐣! Subscribe for future workflows.
Here’s how to match your prerecorded video performances to event and animation timings within your virtual worlds using Timeline within a Virtual Production pipeline.
PRODUCTION PHASE
We cannot build that which we cannot see. Let’s enable frame accurate video performance previews in Unity using Timeline so we can visualize our work with precision!
- Browser > Unity Asset Store > Free Default Playables Asset > Add To Assets
- Unity > Package Manager > Search ‘Default Playables’ > Install
- Timeline > Add Track > Video Script Playable Track
- Video Script Playable Track > Add Video Script Playable Asset
- Inspector > Assign Video Player
- Inspector > Assign Video Clip
You now have frame accurate video performance previews from Timeline.
Scrub slowly. Fast scrubbing won’t work and isn’t available.
Animate your game objects and VFX to desired effect.
EXPORT PHASE
- Timeline > Video Script Playable Track > Video Script Playable Asset > Inspector > Unassign Video Clip
- Recorder > Export
Notes:
Assigning both a Video Player and a Video Clip to your Video Script Playable Asset is required for frame accurate working previews (if you’re missing one of the two – no previews for you).
And at the same time…
Failure to clear the assigned Video Clip from the Video Script Playable Asset will prevent reliable video playback during export (your video clip will invariably freeze at some inopportune moment during playback whether you are exporting or merely entering Play Mode)…
These are the things I wish anyone had cared to document publicly or cared to teach me personally.
Oh, the hours I’ve lost to the churn of fumbling around In the dark while attempting to unearth a tenable workflow such as I’ve outlined here today, for myself and for you.
Many “gotcha-gremlins” lie in wait to steal our time and sanity when it comes to integrating live action performance with virtual environments believably – together I believe we can clear the path for future storytellers who have yet to arrive and who will have meaningful stories to tell.
What stories will you tell using Unity for Virtual Production?
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Gearing Up: A StoryTelling Adventure of Substance.
#filmmaking #StoryTelling #Unity3D #VirtualProductionhttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/gearing-up-a-storytelling-adventure-of-substance/
Currently at a stage where everything is still a ‘work-in-progress’. Expecting much improvement over the next few days.
Finally returning focus to virtual production, now that the WordPress component of my ‘ambition infrastructure’ is complete.
Anticipating reciept of personal 20′ x 20′ Green Screen soon.
I’ve just posted the latest of my virtual production composites (it’s rough at the moment. The final goal being to achieve a much more robust key from within Unity)
Nonetheless, excited to be keying video using methods enabling video subjects to recieve light and cast shadows within virtual environments.
After reviewing the most recent releases of Unreal Engine, I have once again returned to Unity 2021.3.35f1 .
Unreal Engine (Native Apple Silicon versions of 5.2 and 5.3 tested) proving far too unreliable.
User ExperienceUnreal EngineUnity 3DEditor✅Workflow Simplicity✅Reliability✅Render Simplicity✅Render Quality✅ (slight edge)✅Working Environment:
Apple M1 MacBook Air (Base Memory)
Unity 2021.3.35f1 (HDRP project)
Deckard ChromaKeyer (Indie License)
Green Screen Video Clip (Mixkit.co)Shoulders of Giants (on which I’m Standing)
The Modern Electrical Grid
More To Come!!
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Telling Greater Stories With Fewer Resources. Virtual Production, Unity Game Engine.
#AppleSilicon #filmmaking #macOS #StoryTelling #Tools #Unity3D #VirtualProduction #YouTubingToday, I’m breaking new ground in my creative journey.
I’m dynamically re-lighting and seemlessly integrating pre-lit green screen video into wildly varied scenarios using the Unity Game Engine.
We’re all familiar with green screen. No need to explain the concept here.
Historically, green screen video has always fallen into the category of ‘What You Film Is What You Get‘. Failure to light your green screen video correctly for its intended final composite yields a final product that looks like… bad green screen.
Virtual production eliminates this limitation.
Here’s a Green Screen Video Receiving Shadows From A Virtual Environment.Here’s The Original Flatly Exposed Green Screen Recording.Flipping The Script With Virtual Production
Virtual Production flips this script, entirely. If I wish to composite myself into a forest environment – I am no longer required to film myself as if I were in a forest environment at the time of recording. Same is true for any scenario my imagination dreams up.
Virtual production introduces new flexibility throughout my creative production pipeline. I am beyond excited to push through past barriers and imposed limitations.
Fewer Resources. Greater Possibilities.
No large crews. No large lighting setups. No large expense.
Today, All I need Are:
The Right Tools (Virtual Production & My Mac).
My Ambition & Imagination.
My Fervent Passion For Creative On-The-Fly Problem Solving.In The Past, My Options Were Limited:
“Go-broke-attempting-to-go-big”.
Scale down my imagination.
Give up & move on.
(Not an acceptable solution among the options.)Today, my world gets a lot bigger.
The Outcome of New Possibilities!
I can film or live-stream in front of a green screen – compositing the resulting video in a manner which is reactive and interactive with the virtual world in which I choose to tell my tale.
This just might be worth dancing over 🎉.
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'Sundays Are For The Birds 🦜'
I love this little guy, so much. He’s significantly responsible for making this house a Home (for which I’m, in no small way, immeasurably grateful!) …
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Sundays Are For The Birds 🦜
#birdLife #Birds #conure #Environment #mentalhealth #Ornithology #Pets #Psychologyhttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/sundays-are-for-the-birds-%f0%9f%a6%9c-2/
Greencheek Conure (Pyrrhura molinae … aka Cuddle Monster)I love this little guy, so much.
He’s significantly responsible for making this house a Home (for which I’m, in no small way, immeasurably grateful!)
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Are you a great communicator? Let’s find out.
#communication #Community #Culture #education #informationSharing #society #teachinghttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/are-you-a-great-communicator-lets-find-out/
Can we follow along with you 100% & arrive at the desired outcome if we cannot hear you?
Can we follow along 100% with you & arrive at the desired outcome if we cannot see you?
If your visuals are filling in gaps created by your auditory teachings – your teaching strategy is flawed.
If your auditory information is filling in gaps created by your visual teachings – your teaching strategy is flawed.
Flawed communication breeds friction and frustration.
Flawed communication is everywhere: it is in others and in you.
Be specific in speech.
Just because your visuals illustrate – don’t think you can get away with saying “this” and “that”. Use the properly specific nouns language gives you.
Remember, what if there were no visuals, what if the visuals were interrupted, what if someone looked away”?
Saying “this” and “that” won’t snap inattentiveness back to the program – specifically mentioning the name of what someone is interested in will bring their attention back.
Be consistent at every step.
If you teach Step One with a granular low level, detailed approach – lock this approach in for every step of the way.
Don’t switch it up and provide a high level overview for Step Two and then return into the details for Steps Three and Four.
You’ll lose people. It’s frustrating to follow. It generates questions which you should be answering. It sews a silent, angered, impatient derision in your audience.
There are additional pillars of strong communication, but damn if the two pillars mentioned here aren’t HUGE REOCCURRING OFFENDERS.
Let’s all do better. It begins by working on our own communication, trust me when I say – too few of us have any laurels to rest upon.
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'Found Words of Wisdom To Ground Ourselves By.'
To all the #writers #artists & #creators who need to hear this as much and as often as I do. #writing #WritingCommunity @EmilyMoranBarwick I’m appreciativ…
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Found Words of Wisdom To Ground Ourselves By.
#authenticity #connectedness #consciousness #selfDiscovery #unconsciousMindhttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/found-words-of-wisdom-to-ground-ourselves-by/
To all the #writers #artists & #creators who need to hear this as much and as often as I do. #writing #WritingCommunity
I’m appreciative of crossing paths with this post. As someone deeply engaged in his discovery of self – this post is a vibe.
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'Unity. Live Capture. Video Streaming Not Supported On Apple Silicon.'
Does #Unity have plans to support Live Capture ‘video streaming’ for Apple Silicon? Asking for a friend…my best friend……https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/unity-live-capture-video-streaming-not-supported-on-apple-silicon/
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Unity. Live Capture. Video Streaming Not Supported On Apple Silicon.
#AppleSilicon #filmmaking #mobilefilmmaking #Unity #UnityLiveCapture #Unity3D #VirtualProductionhttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/unity-live-capture-video-streaming-not-supported-on-apple-silicon/
Does anyone know if #Unity has plans to support Live Capture ‘video streaming‘ for Apple Silicon? Asking for a friend…my best friend… Asking for me.
Background:
Virtual Production within Unity Editor requires the Live Capture Editor Package along with the Virtual Camera Companion App for iOS (these two apps link an iOS device with a virtual camera inside of Unity Editor).
The simplicity of this setup is beautiful – it allows a Camera Operator to use an iPhone as a combined ‘Camera, Field Monitor, & Take Recorder‘ while remaining untethered to the host machine.
It’s amazing!
Working experience on iOS – Unity 2021.3.24F1 (Intel)
‘Video Streaming Supported‘The Issue:
In 2020, Apple switched from Intel chips to their own Apple Silicon. Performance gains for Unity Editor on ‘base hardware’ like the MacBook Air M1 8g became an absolute possibility – it’s a dream team (between Unity & Apple) in so many ways…
But we lost ‘Video Streaming’ for Apple Silicon.
Non-Working experience on iOS – Unity 2022.3.19F1 (Apple Silicon)
‘Video Streaming Not Supported‘.The ‘video streaming’ link between Unity Editor and an iOS device is an absolute requirement for virtual productions using Unity Game Engine. Without ‘video streaming’, Camera Operators cannot see what they are doing (they can still operate and record – but they’re flying blind with no view into the virtual world.)
State of The Editor:
Unity Editor 2021.3.24F1 (Intel) supports ‘video streaming’👍.Unity Editor 2022.3.19F1 (Apple Silicon) does not support ‘video streaming’ 👎.Do you know of a solution for getting Live Capture to properly communicate live-video previews from Unity Editor 2022+ to Virtual Camera app on an iOS device?
Leave a comment or write a Webmention if you have a way through this problem, thank you!
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Unity. Live Capture. Video Streaming Not Supported On Apple Silicone
#AppleSilicon #filmmaking #mobilefilmmaking #Unity #Unity3D #VirtualProductionhttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/unity-live-capture-video-streaming-not-supported-on-apple-silicone/
Does anyone know if #Unity has plans to support Live Capture ‘video streaming‘ for Apple Silicon? Asking for a friend…my best friend… Asking for me.
Background:
Virtual Production within Unity Editor requires the Live Capture Editor Package along with the Virtual Camera Companion App for iOS (these two apps link an iOS device with a virtual camera inside of Unity Editor).
The simplicity of this setup is beautiful – it allows a Camera Operator to use an iPhone as a combined ‘Camera, Field Monitor, & Take Recorder‘ while remaining untethered to the host machine.
It’s amazing!
Working experience on iOS – Unity 2021.3.24F1 (Intel)
‘Video Streaming Supported‘The Issue:
In 2020, Apple switched from Intel chips to their own Apple Silicon. Performance gains for Unity Editor on ‘base hardware’ like the MacBook Air M1 8g became an absolute possibility – it’s a dream team (between Unity & Apple) in so many ways…
But we lost ‘Video Streaming’ for Apple Silicon.
Non-Working experience on iOS – Unity 2022.3.19F1 (Apple Silicon)
‘Video Streaming Not Supported‘.The ‘video streaming’ link between Unity Editor and an iOS device is an absolute requirement for virtual productions using Unity Game Engine. Without ‘video streaming’, Camera Operators cannot see what they are doing (they can still operate and record – but they’re flying blind with no view into the virtual world.)
State of The Editor:
Unity Editor 2021.3.24F1 (Intel) supports ‘video streaming’👍.Unity Editor 2022.3.19F1 (Apple Silicon) does not support ‘video streaming’ 👎.Do you know of a solution for getting Live Capture to properly communicate live-video previews from Unity Editor 2022+ to Virtual Camera app on an iOS device?
Leave a comment or write a Webmention if you have a way through this problem, thank you!
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mUnity. Live Capture. Video Streaming Not Supported On Apple Silicone
#AppleSilicone #filmmaking #mobilefilmmaking #Unity #VirtualProductionhttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/munity-live-capture-video-streaming-not-supported-on-apple-silicone/
Does anyone know if #Unity has plans to support Live Capture ‘video streaming‘ for Apple Silicone? Asking for a friend…my best friend… Asking for me.
Background:
Virtual Production within Unity Editor requires the Live Capture Editor Package along with the Virtual Camera Companion App for iOS (these two apps link an iOS device with a virtual camera inside of Unity Editor).
The simplicity of this setup is beautiful – it allows a Camera Operator to use an iPhone as a combined ‘Camera, Field Monitor, & Take Recorder‘ while remaining untethered to the host machine.
It’s amazing!
Working experience on iOS – Unity 2021.3.24F1 (Intel)
‘Video Streaming Supported‘The Issue:
In 2020, Apple switched from Intel chips to their own Apple Silicone. Performance gains for Unity Editor on ‘base hardware’ like the MacBook Air M1 8g became an absolute possibility – it’s a dream team (between Unity & Apple) in so many ways…
But we lost ‘Video Streaming’ for Apple Silicon.
Non-Working experience on iOS – Unity 2022.3.19F1 (Apple Silicon)
‘Video Streaming Not Supported‘.The ‘video streaming’ link between Unity Editor and an iOS device is an absolute requirement for virtual productions using Unity Game Engine. Without ‘video streaming’, Camera Operators cannot see what they are doing (they can still operate and record – but they’re flying blind with no view into the virtual world.)
State of The Editor:
Unity Editor 2021.3.24F1 (Intel) supports ‘video streaming’👍.Unity Editor 2022.3.19F1 (Apple Silicon) does not support ‘video streaming’ 👎.Do you know of a solution for getting Live Capture to properly communicate live-video previews from Unity Editor 2022+ to Virtual Camera app on an iOS device?
Leave a comment or write a Webmention if you have a way through this problem, thank you!
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📙 #MyFirstMac – Hashtag of The Day (Mastodon)
#3d0814 #Apple #b92a68 #cf2e2e #Culture #EEE #Environment #experience #ff9300 #ffffff #filmmaking #macOS #MyCurrentMac #myFirstMac #software #technologyhttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/myfirstmac-a-socially-prompted-post/
My first awareness for Apple computers in my life began with the original iMac. Here’s a brief rundown of my history with #Apple computers beginning with #myFirstMac
To my mind, this is the computer that introduced the concept of a computer possessing personality and consideration toward aesthetics.
Before this iMac, every computer was an off-yellow, beige box of corporate-doom heralding an era of oppressively questionable design choices – the iMac became the computer of the people, for humans, for individuality.
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'Mesh Editing Directly In The Unity Editor?!'
Wow, direct editing of meshes within the Unity editor exists through the #proBuilder package.
No more round trips to Blender & back again. Seems like a slick party trick 👍.
https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/mesh-editing-in-editor-with-unity-%f0%9f%a5%b3/
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'Crumb-diddily-umptious'
Working from anywhere often means getting to work with my best friend on my shoulder. And sometimes this means while he’s having a snack. #remoteWork #birdLife #birdsofTwitter #parrot #conure #lunchbreak …https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/crumb-diddily-umptious/
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'Crumb-diddily-umptious'
Working from anywhere often means getting to work with my best friend on my shoulder. And sometimes this means while he’s having a snack. #remoteWork #birdLife #birdsofTwitter #parrot #conure #lunchbreak …https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/crumb-diddily-umptious/
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Crumb-diddily-umptious
#birdLife #birdsofTwitter #conure #lunchbreak #parrot #RemoteWorkhttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/crumb-diddily-umptious/
Working from anywhere often means getting to work with my best friend on my shoulder. And sometimes this means while he’s having a snack.
#remoteWork #birdLife #birdsofTwitter #parrot #conure #lunchbreak
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If at first, you don’t succeed… try, try again. …
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Mesh Editing In-Editor with Unity! ?
#gamedev #MeshEditing #MeshEditing #ProBuilder #soloDev #Tools #Unity3Dhttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/mesh-editing-in-editor-with-unity-%f0%9f%a5%b3/
Mesh editing is here for imported models inside of the Unity Editor! No more round-trips to Blender and back. Meet the updated ProBuilder Package for Unity Game Engine.
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Early Thoughts on iOS FilmMaking with Blackmagic Camera App & iPhone 15 👍
There’s much to love from H.265 and LOG, plus LUT support (Camera overlay or Baked in), support for external SSDs, clean HDMI output, aspect ratio framelines, focus and exposure peaking and precision control over every aspect of your #filmmaking.
iOS #creators & #YouTubers can download from the App Store here.
In my brief experimentation so far, the Blackmagic iOS App looks to be a well rounded, robust production oriented camera.
#CinemaMode for stock #iOS #camera app is the tool which switched me from being an #Android #photographer and #filmmaker to using an #iPhone 13.
The iOS stock camera remains in my eye as the camera choice for superior output from a minimal-effort workflow in #vlogging and spontaneous on the go filmmmaking.
Blackmagic bringing LOG colorspace, non baked-in LUT workflows, clean HDMI output, AND support for external SSDs are #gamechanger capabilities for the #iPhone15 and newer, though!
(The future and conceptual marriage of Cinema mode and LOG encoding together is the #mobilefilmmaking dream. 🤞)
#Filmmaking #iOS #iPhonography #Cinema #DIYFilmmaking
https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/early-thoughts-on-ios-filmmaking-with-blackmagic-camera-app-iphone-15-%f0%9f%91%8d/
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A Grateful Moment With WordPress
#digitalNomad #grateful #indieweb #locationIndependent #opensource #patreon #RemoteWork #thankful #WebDev #website #WooCommerce #Wordpresshttps://mindcreatesmeaning.com/dear-wordpress/
Thank you for enabling such a beautiful office, today. I’m grateful.
#Shoutout to #WooCommerce and to a slew of #indieweb #WebDev #OpenSource #Developers around the world. I’m REALLY #grateful for what I’m able to create as I stand on the shoulders of giants!
Walking Desk made possible with #Wordpress & iOSToday, I’m also #thankful for healthy #website #pagespeedscores.I’ve worked incredibly hard to achieve these core web vital scores from Google & GTMetrix.
I truly feel a sense of accomplishment in attaining these performance scores.