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Daniel Andrlik
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Daniel Andrlik lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia. By day he manages product teams. The rest of the time he is a podcast host and producer, writer of speculative fiction, a rabid reader, and a programmer.

Hmm… I am liking this new look. It is still just a WordPress template, but I’ve made a few little modifications to it and written a few extra functions for WordPress to use in order to facilitate the process. I think I will stick with this for a while.

Maybe I’ll finally get back to writing in here now that I don’t feel the strong need to keep tweaking the code. :-)

EDIT: Credit where credit is due: original theme design by Brody Vercher. Minor visual modifications and new PHP functions written by yours truly.

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