I’m a WordPress developer, writer, and instructor. I’m the Technology Director at HDC. You’ll usually find me around MasterWP and the Understrap theme framework.
Here I share my latest writing, tech videos, podcast appearances, and scribbled-down thoughts on everything from WordPress and tech to just regular life stuff.
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It’s all on Mastodon now
I’m logging into a lot of very cool Mastodon clients. Is that a good thing?
Announcing A New Podcast, with Yours Truly and an Even Better Cohost
Introducing viewSource – a weekly conversation around tech, web development, and WordPress with hosts Aurooba Ahmed and Brian Coords.
Copilot + WordPress: A Few Tips
Tips and tricks for using Github Copilot with WordPress development as I try to write a plugin using AI pair-programming.
“Just in case” vs “just in time” learning
Listening to this podcast, I was reminded of a concept that I hadn’t heard in a while: “just in case” learning versus “just in time” learning.
What’s the point of a daily blogging goal?
I’m not sure why I’m blogging every day but I know why I’m not stopping.
The Information Ecosystem of Litter Boxes
As I think about the future of the internet, I’m genuinely concerned about our inability to create deeper meaning at scale or to even be able to share information in a reliable way.
A Mild Defense of Meta Boxes
WordPress Twitter was provoked this past week with a critique of developers using ACF meta boxes and options pages to control content.
Thoughts on designing for developers
We’ve been tightening up some internal processes at work, one of them being the design-to-dev handoff process. This is just a brief collection of thoughts for designers from the developer perspective.
Finding a newsletter workflow for WordPress
You’d think that creating an email newsletter in WordPress would be easier in 2023.
Human and non-Human Writing
There are different types of writing, writing for humans and writing for robots. Guess which one the robots are good at.