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January 25, 2022

WordPress 5.9

January 25, 2022

WordPress 5.9 just dropped. A 0.1 release like this always makes me nervous, but you can't hold back the tide, so I tested it on another site, and nothing broke. At least I haven't found anything yet. So I updated this site, and everything still works, at least at a glance.

Looks like, as usual, they just crammed a lot of new crayons in the box, nothing that I would use. Honestly, I am light-years ahead of them, and don't expect them to ever catch up. I just worry that their sideways upgrades will break something.

Web Stuff, 01/25/22

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Audiovox Mandolin

This body is maple plywood over a hollow pine core, double-bound. It came out very lightweight, too light to balance even a guitar neck. This was originally going to be the 12-string, but I realized that it would never balance. So I shuffled parts and bodies between some other projects - a planned six-string got canceled and became the twelver. That left this body free. I thought about it a while and decided it would make a good mandolin.

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