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My personal favorite is the Media Player layout. The responsive breakpoints need a bit of work here, but the thumbnail grid becomes horizontal on mobile and is touch scrollable.

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The carousel layout lets you set number of visible videos, as well as your speed interval. I'll be working on refining control positioning in the near future.

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Here's the Grid layout on the backend. Users can set the number of videos they want to show and how many columns the grid has.

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Here's the simple vertical list on the front-end. Admin users have the ability to show titles, and position the titles above, to the right, and to the left of the videos. I might add some flex alignment options later down the road when my usage credits are refreshed 🙃

Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 25/06/2025

“Nononono… That’s a nasty nasty comment. The song is called ‘Total Obliteration of the Heart.’ TOTAL. 100%. Nobody’s seen a heart obliterated like that. It’s why they wrote a song about it. Eclipse? Nobody’s ever heard of eclipses.”

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 25/06/2025

Not a New Yorker but Staten Island and the Bronx seem to be living up to their reputations.

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 20/06/2025

My friends and I witness a mobile crane fall in Alexandria (over near the water treatment facility). Haven’t read any news about it though. Came home to a fence project, too.

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 13/06/2025

Debating whether or not to be gentle with you. There’s SO much to unpack just right here. But dropping my kid off at school is infinitely more important. Bye, girl 👋

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 13/06/2025

Oh yeah, it’s MY framing that’s problematic… bsky.app/profile/alex...

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 12/06/2025

Not Slate working overtime to hate on Bluesky…

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 02/06/2025

Gave the #TransAlp750 a wash and a chain wax yesterday before doing some light hooliganism on the Parkway. On my way back a dude asked me from his car if it was a brand new bike. Didn’t have the heart to tell him it was 9 months old with 6K miles on it, just nodded in agreement. #motosky

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 05/03/2025

Should I bring this shirt back? I think I should… It’s only reasonable given all the things.

A charcoal-heather colored t-shirt with athletic script writing that reads “Apoplectic”

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 22/02/2025

Timely (prologue from the novelized Star Wars trilogy hardback).

ANOTHER GALAXY, ANOTHER TIME.
The Old Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time. No need to note where it was or whence it came, only to know that ... it was the Republic.
Once, under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the Jedi Knights, the Republic throve and grew.
But as often happens when wealth and power pass beyond the admirable and attain the awesome, then appear those evil ones who have greed to match.
So it was with the Republic at its height. Like the greatest of trees, able to withstand any external attack, the Republic rotted from within though the danger was not visible from outside.
Aided and abetted by restless, power-hungry individuals within the government, and the massive organs of commerce, the ambitious Senator Palpatine caused himself to be elected President of the Republic.

He promised to reunite the disaffected among the people and to restore the remembered glory of the Republic.
Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears.
Having exterminated through treachery and deception the Jedi Knights, guardians of justice in the galaxy, the Imperial governors and bureaucrats prepared to institute a reign of terror among the disheartened worlds of the galaxy. Many used the Imperial forces and the name of the increasingly isolated Emperor to further their own personal ambitions.
But a small number of systems rebelled at these new outrages. Declaring themselves opposed to the New Order they began the great battle to restore the Old Republic.
From the beginning they were vastly outnumbered by the systems held in thrall by the Emperor. In those first dark days it seemed certain the bright flame of resistance would be extinguished before it could cast the light of new truth across a galaxy of oppressed and beaten peoples ...

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 30/01/2025

I live not very far from DCA in Huntington. We get a dozen+ daily helo overflights at altitudes of just a few hundred feet. Just this morning one shook the house and I tried to report it via the helo noise complaint app they set up for area residents, and…

Due to a lack of funding, this system is no longer collecting your helicopter noise complaints. Please contact your local elected officials and urge them to reactivate this critical community engagement tool. Thank you.

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 16/12/2024

Arlington’s lamest motorcycle cop is running radar on Ft. Meyer Drive, hiding behind a street sign, and then literally stepping out in front of cars, in the rain, to pull them over.

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 11/12/2024

They went to work for Honda.

A black, 2024 Honda TransAlp 750XL with some sweet and very expensive off-roading adventure gear mounted on it.

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 26/09/2024

Henchman 24 lookin’ ass…

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 23/09/2024

It was the finding outest of times…

A post from Matt Mullenweg in the Announcements channel of the Make WordPress Slack:

@channel I want to let everyone know that WP Engine has initiated formal legal action, so anything you text or communicate regarding their abuse of the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks, including on private DMs or channels in this Slack, could be part of a legal discovery process. It's unfortunate we got to this place. This is Real Legal stuff now. All DMs on Slack will likely be preserved and discoverable. I do not want anyone in our community to incur personal legal costs as a result of WP Engine's malfeasance, so if you need any support there, I will happily cover any bills there. https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1fn3mjr/comment/lokzvec/.

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 23/09/2024

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 20/09/2024

My mom squirreled away this 40 year old piece of edutech and I am absolutely beside myself that my almost-reading-aged kiddo gets to learn with it 🔥

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 19/09/2024

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 17/09/2024

Big ups to @jacobsberg.bsky.social for getting me on the bandwagon.

Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 14/09/2024

Oh, I have that Vision package too!

Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 14/09/2024

Please update your contact info for me accordingly.

A Spotify playlist titled ‘dreamy indie sleaze’

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 31/08/2024

It’s a whole thing here in NoVA.

Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 09/08/2024

Yesterday + today's installment of #buildinpublic for CatalystThemes.com: 🥴 Got wary about my color scheme and wiped out all previous modifications. The sameness of web product sites these days irks me, but I need to strike a balance of unique & neutral.

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 09/08/2024

It’s almost like nothing has changed in 125 years, give or take.

Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 08/08/2024

Will also take an eLegend for good measure.

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Tom Finley @tomfinley.com · 05/08/2024

Today I: ✏️started working with content I wrote, and spiffed up in ChatGPT 🔧implemented Nick Diego's MegaMenu Block experiment. 🔪 refined my homepage hero a bit Definitely need to perform some accessibility audits on the color scheme & revise accordingly.