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WIPW: Spring fling, WordPress contribution…
Highland games Spring Fling Last weekend we had a Highland games spring training. This is the first event for many of us in the upper Midwest. We had 15 or 18 athletes come out and I helped host this in our in a park by our house. We spent all day about 9 AM to…
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WIPW: Highland games, plugin updates, etc.
This is the second “WIP Wednesdays” post, and it’s a day late. Oh well… it’s been a busy week! Here’s what I did… Highland Games prep This is the second year in a row that we’re having highland spring training at the park across from my house. This year I’ve made myself new implements for…
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WIP Wednesday: April 2, 2025
Recently, I ran across Jen Schultz’s blog where she’s started doing “WIP Wednesdays“. I like the idea of sharing the “process versus the product”. So I thought I’d go ahead and implement my own to share what I’m working on and to keep track of things in more digital environment. These WIP Wednesdays probably won’t…
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On being a “community taught” developer
This is a post from a place of humbleness and gratitude. This has been my journey within development and it might be different from yours. Take what is helpful, learn, and pass on the gratitude. Web development is a wild career path, and encompasses a lot… Like, waaaaaaay too much to encapsulate even in a…
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Once upon a time, I lifted the Dinnie Stones…
“In 2023, I lifted the Dinnie Stones.” When I say that to folks, they usually return a blank stare. That’s ok with me. It’s pretty uncommon. I saw once that more people have submitted mount Everest than have lifted the stones. Makes the story even better 😁. I smile and continue my tale of lifting…
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Learning to sketch and watercolor
Last year we went on a trip to Yellowstone National Park and while we were there, I saw somebody sketching and painting a memory. I thought this is really cool and I would love to have sketches and watercolor of trips and travel and little vignettes of time spent somewhere else or just… life. Never…
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How to Headless: Defining Ways to Decouple or Use Static WordPress
This post originally appeared on the Strattic.com blog on April 28, 2022. Over the past few years, you may have heard phrases like: What the heck is all of this lingo?! The web has come a long way over the years, and there’s plenty of vocabulary to show for it, and our WordPress corner…
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Local PHP and NodeJS Version Control
When working on projects with your local computer, it’s essential to be able to test new versions of the languages you’re using. Browser JavaScript is fairly straightforward: use the browser, make sure it’s updated, etc. However, with server-side languages (like PHP, NodeJS, Python, Go, etc.), there’s a little more nuance. Some systems come with languages…
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Setting Up or Resetting My Macbook
Every now and then, fresh start is a good idea. These are some notes and links I’ve accrued from resetting my Macbook a time or two. These are just notes and links, they might be non-sensical, if you think I should polish them up, let me know. Backup: Export VSCode settings and keybindings https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35368889/how-can-i-export-settings With…
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Personal Git Commands and Setup
Just about everyday, I’m working on and committing code to a repository using Git. This is pretty standard for developers today, and just like any developer, I decided that writing out git status, git add -p, git commit -m…, etc., was just too much work 😁. This lead me to spend several hours putting together…