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Family Matters
Brothers and sisters I have none but this man’s father is my father’s son.
Who is the man?Answers
The man is my son.
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A Ping-Pong Ball in a Hole
Your last good ping-pong ball fell down into a narrow metal pipe imbedded in concrete one foot deep.
How can you get it out undamaged, if all the tools you have are your tennis paddle, your shoe-laces, and your plastic water bottle, which does not fit into the pipe?Answer
All the tools are random things that are not going to help you. All you have to do is pour some water into the pipe so that the ball swims up on the surface. And if you say that you don’t have any water, then think about what you drank today and if you can use that somehow.
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Bulbs
There are three switches downstairs. Each corresponds to one of the three light bulbs in the attic. You can turn the switches on and off and leave them in any position.
How would you identify which switch corresponds to which light bulb, if you are only allowed one trip upstairs?Answer
Keep the first bulb switched on for a few minutes. It gets warm, right? So all you have to do then is … switch it off, switch another one on, walk into the room with bulbs, touch them and tell which one was switched on as the first one (the warm one) and the others can be easily identified.
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Fork in the Road
You are travelling down a country lane to a distant village. You reach a fork in the road and find a pair of identical twin sisters standing there.
- One standing on the road to village and the other standing on the road to neverland (of course, you don’t know or see where each road leads).
- One of the sisters always tells the truth and the other always lies (of course, you don’t know who is lying).
- Both sisters know where the roads go.
If you are allowed to ask only one question to one of the sisters to find the correct road to the village, what is your question?
Answer
There are a few types of logic questions:
Complicated question: “Hey you, what would you say, if I asked you …?” A truth teller is clear, but a liar should lie. However, she is forced by the question to lie two times and thus speak the truth.
Indirect question: “Hello there beauty, what would your sister say, if I asked her where this road leads?” The answer is always negated.
Tricky question: “Excuse me lady, does a truth telling person stand on the road to the village?” The answer will be YES, if I am asking a truth teller who is standing at the road to village, or if I am asking a liar standing again on the same road. So I can go that way. A similar deduction can be made for negative answer.
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Tokyo 2024
Whether it’s about the block editor, site editor, building blocks, designing themes, creating patterns, or just using WordPress—ask me anything and I’ll follow up with you.
One big thing I’m working on
It’s not uncommon for website builders to offer a perspective that allows you to see more of your site by stacking sections of a page together. In WordPress, these are called “Patterns.”
I envision a similar experience within WordPress, especially as patterns continue to become more and more significant for the WordPress page building experience.
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Composing pages with patterns from a zoomed-out view reduces the granularity of editing, while further simplifying selection, rearranging, removing, and styling of entire sections of a page at a time—providing more confidence that a design is coherent and visually appealing.
This is much more than a different perspective, but rather a first iteration towards a “simple mode” for editing sections of a page at a time and composing new pages. On that front, it would be interesting to explore engaging content-only editing as you select a section of a page to edit when zoomed out.
Blocks I’m building
I’ve started sharing the blocks I built for my blog because I find them interesting and believe you might learn something new by checking out the code. Your suggestions for improvement are also welcome—it’s a learning opportunity for both of us.
I recently built a dark mode toggle block and a cards block, each using different techniques to showcase various methods for building WordPress blocks. I also have a video on YouTube where I cover the basics of building a dynamic block with the help of ChatGPT.
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Ask me anything about wordpress
Sharing meals builds trust, jumpstarts relationships and drives momentum—essential for distributed teams. These shared experiences foster unity and enrich collaboration, much like WordCamps do for the WordPress community.
One big thing I’m working on
It’s not uncommon for website builders to offer a perspective that allows you to see more of your site by stacking sections of a page together. In WordPress, these are called “Patterns.”
I envision a similar experience within WordPress, especially as patterns continue to become more and more significant for the WordPress page building experience.
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Composing pages with patterns from a zoomed-out view reduces the granularity of editing, while further simplifying selection, rearranging, removing, and styling of entire sections of a page at a time—providing more confidence that a design is coherent and visually appealing.
This is much more than a different perspective, but rather a first iteration towards a “simple mode” for editing sections of a page at a time and composing new pages. On that front, it would be interesting to explore engaging content-only editing as you select a section of a page to edit when zoomed out.
Blocks I’m building
I’ve started sharing the blocks I built for my blog because I find them interesting and believe you might learn something new by checking out the code. Your suggestions for improvement are also welcome—it’s a learning opportunity for both of us.
I recently built a dark mode toggle block and a cards block, each using different techniques to showcase various methods for building WordPress blocks. I also have a video on YouTube where I cover the basics of building a dynamic block with the help of ChatGPT.