I recently completed a week of paid time off, which allowed me to completely level and landscape my front parkway with custom pavers. It also gave me some time to reflect on how time off affects my work once I return and what makes for quality time off.
Category Archives: Thoughts
Why running beta can be bad, even if you know what you’re doing.
A while ago—about the last post on this blog—I decided to start running Trunk. Since 3.6 was a few weeks away at that time and I wanted to know what was going on with Post Formats, I also modified the site to utilize some of the fun new functions. Then the Post Format upgrades were […]
Nitti
It’s got a weird name; apparently it was named after an Al Capone henchman. Nitti is the font that IA writer selected for their popular writing apps. It’s monospaced, beautiful, and I want to put it in my code editor. In fact, I’d be happy if pretty much everywhere I did writing had this font. […]
Thirty before Thirty
Thirty things I’d like to accomplish before I turn 30. I put it here so the internet might hold me accountable. Finish a WordPress based choose-your-own adventure theme that I’ve been working on (intermittently) with my sister for the past few months… Finish a WordPress theme for composers / solo musicians that I’ve been working […]
Weblog vs blog
Someone — who I’m not going to name to protect their journalistic integrity — postulated that “weblog” was coming back into vogue. It’s not. View the current results on Google Trends
Responsive Advertising
There’s been a lot written about the problem of advertising on responsive devices. Quite a bit less has been written about potential solutions. Virtually nothing has been written about solutions that take into account the way things currently are. Thing is, I need that solution. So, I’m defining my problem here as a way of thinking […]
Trying a new look
In time for WordCamp San Fransisco and WordCamp Portland, I’m trying out a new theme. After leaving the realm of freelancing to work full time for 10up my theme became almost instantly obsolete. This new one is designed to focus more on writing with the hope (read: dream) that I’ll blog a little bit more. […]
Catch up: Joining 10up, WebVisions, WCSEA, PDX-WP
So for a while it looked like I actually might be regularly writing things for the blog. At least it looked like it to me. Possibly. Maybe. Then I got hired by a top-tier web development agency: 10up, LLC and I moved to Oregon and my life has been all sorts of busy since. This […]
WordPress Anti-Hacker
Hackers suck. If you’ve ever dealt with your WordPress site getting messed with, you’ll probably agree (and perhaps have more choice words). A client’s site recently got hacked due to a server configuration misstep, but I learned quite a bit about how a WordPress hack can look, some tools to try and get people back up and running, and how to keep it from happening in the future.
WordPress Plugin Search is Beautiful
The new and improved WordPress plugin search is glorious. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, click through to get the low-down.