Paul
Paul
@Paul@pauljacobson.me

Enthusiast, coder, Happiness Engineer at Automattic. Passionate about my wife and proud Dad. Israeli 🇮🇱. Support 🏳️‍⚧️ & 🏳️‍🌈 rights

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  • I ran my first timed 5km race

    Last week I ran my first timed 5km race as part of the annual Modiin Race. I set myself the goal of running in the 5km race last year when my wife and son competed in last year’s Modiin Race, and I’m pretty proud of myself for achieving my goal. I started running again towards…

  • Music in the park with Tal Kravitz

    Tal Kravitz performed at one of our city’s annual Autumn music festival events in a neighbourhood park yesterday. According to his bio on his Facebook Page – Tal Kravitz is a musician and a singer educated at Israel’s finest music institutions. He is also a traveler who journeyed on a personal search for original tribal…

  • Pretty sunset yesterday

    I thought I’d capture our sunset yesterday evening, as a panorama. It was pretty!

  • Summoning demons in Word

    Ah, yes, MS Word, my old nemesis … 😂 Source: Meredith Ireland

  • Winter is coming to Israel … eventually

    In between news reports abouts recent rocket attacks on Israel, and our ongoing leadership stalemate, Israeli media is reporting that Winter is coming. We might even have rain. That said, our weather forecasts have gone from somewhere around 80% chance of ⛈️ to around 30% chance of 🌧️. I’m still optimistic it will rain, eventually.

  • Build a membership site with recurring payments

    We launched a new Recurring Payments feature for self-hosted WordPress.org sites (powered by Jetpack) or WordPress.com sites today. It’s an awesome new way for anyone with a paid WordPress.com plan to earn money through their sites. Our new Recurring Payments feature for WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites lets you do just that: it’s a monetization tool…

  • Capturing your bucket shot

    I enjoyed Peter McKinnon’s short film about his journey to achieving one of his goals, titled “Bucket Shot” – His aim was to capture the popular Lake Moraine, with snow-covered mountains, while the lake was still liquid. It’s a beautiful scene, and well worth watching the film. Featured image: Laurent Gass PHOTOGRAPHIE, licensed CC BY…

  • My favourite songs this week

    I’ve heard some terrific new music lately, and I thought I’d share some of my favourite songs this week. Nick Mulvey I’ve been listening to more Nick Mulvey’s music, and enjoying many more of his songs. Here are my current favourites: I have a growing “Liked Songs” playlist on Spotify that includes all of these…