Notes on working deeply in a remote team Long-time readers will remember in 2016 I had a post, Deep Work in practice, hit the front page of Hacker News and enjoy fifty thousand or so visitors. That post discussed the… [Keep reading]

In one of the least-relevant-to-WordPress articles I published there, I recently covered the difference between an active record ORM system vs one using the data matter pattern. ORMs are essentially systems by which PHP (or any language) objects are stored-to… [Keep reading]

Innovative usage of what Gutenberg is really good at. This is the kind of thing which is really exciting about Gutenberg: taking innovative plugins and giving them scope to work with WordPress really well. This post shows how Logic Hop,… [Keep reading]

I really liked the WordPress term glossary put out by Bridget Willard and the WordPress marketing team a few months back. This project seems to have no relationship to that other than a similarity of intent. What's really cool about… [Keep reading]

Happy Labor Day! SiteGround has bumped its sign-up discounts up to 70% for all shared hosting products through September 9th. If you've been needing hosting for a new project, or wanting to change hosting for yourself or a client, now's… [Keep reading]

A literally incredible tale This is, quite honestly, the best technology conference talk I’ve ever seen. From the abstract, which states the keynote: “will burn important professional bridges, likely forcing me to join a monastery or another penance-focused organization”, to… [Keep reading]

My link post last week was inspired by my attendance at Southeast PHP. In response to the talk I gave there, a fellow speaker reminded me of this talk from Rich Hickey, a creator of the Clojure programming language. It's… [Keep reading]

Secure your work, then copy the methods. A couple of weeks ago Google launched its Advanced Protection Program, which more or less looks like a response to state-sponsored hackers targeting Google accounts. It’s pretty interesting, requiring the usage of two… [Keep reading]

I gave one of my most-loved conference talks last week at Southeast PHP. (That's Southeast United States 🤓) In preparation, I recorded the talk as a video and put it on YouTube. And, I made a valiant, but ultimately failed… [Keep reading]

Do your standup whenever suits you, on video. This SaaS has everything required for being overhyped, including a .io domain name, launch post on Hacker News, and cool but probably unnecessary feature set. It is, however, cool enough that it… [Keep reading]

Inclusivity is a great goal for any event that's open to anyone who doesn't know each other well. I feel like one of the many small steps one can take to decrease the feeling of loneliness people experience as remote… [Keep reading]

Over the weekend, an extremely skilled and SEO-savvy content writer we've been working with recommended me this resource. It's a nicely formatted PDF full of deeply sane advice on SEO-aware content creation. It's free, but it is behind a mailing… [Keep reading]

I've often idly considered what it was like to become an author of WooCommerce extensions (plugins) to be sold on WooCommerce.com. Because I have so many other priorities, I've never sought out that information for myself. But care of the… [Keep reading]

I have a client who needs to be able to create PDFs of his WordPress posts, including for custom post types that he specifies. I tried a few solutions, and WordPress PDF Templates is definitely the best I've found. There's… [Keep reading]

Open source illustrations for your projects This is the most useful link you’ll see all week: a fantastic collection of open source illustrations you can use in all sorts of projects, and all sorts of settings. They’re in PNG or… [Keep reading]

I really enjoyed this little talk I found while idly browsing YouTube recently. Wentin Zhang, who works at Adobe, draws something I didn't have any idea CSS could so easily: a mustache. I know, I've seen the artisanly drawn CSS,… [Keep reading]

Jason Fried on a better solution to all-day, all-the-time group chat. I came across this post from Jason Fried (of Basecamp and 37signals) last week. It was published in 2016, but feels more relevant than ever. Jason, whose authority on… [Keep reading]

I'm very interested in other programming languages. Sometimes my interest lacks follow-through. (I've intended to learn a list of languages and tools longer than my arm, I've really tried hard to learn about 5.) Despite (or because) of that, I… [Keep reading]

A really good "how to start a blog" post from a site and team that knows its stuff. Over the last couple of years I've been consistently impressed with how the CodeinWP team has built out a top-quality content marketing… [Keep reading]

While writing WordPress Security with Confidence last year, I spent a lot of time waiting for the latest revision of the OWASP Top Ten, the 2017 version. They ended up taking too much too long to publish, and I made… [Keep reading]

A Quora feed hits my email everyday, and it's mostly "Why was Thanos afraid of ___ when he defeated ___?" content. I'm not sure why that's what's in my feed, but there you have it and feel free to ask… [Keep reading]

Set expectations about when you work. This is a solid post from Dean at WP Buffs, who makes the case for freelancers to set out a “how I work” document which sets client expectations. Proactively setting these expectations lets you… [Keep reading]

I realize this is local news, but we're trying to make sure we sell out WordCamp Denver this year, which requires some exceptional effort. So if you're near Denver, Colorado, and don't have plans for Saturday July 28, you should… [Keep reading]

Or: Is your landing page good enough to get customers? Whenever I do new marketing work for WordPress products, I nearly always recommend spending time on the landing and product pages. If these are no good, then you’re making all your other… [Keep reading]

I was recently for the WP Builds podcast. Nathan Wrigley was a warm and welcoming host, and we spent a lot of time talking about WordPress security. What I love about being on podcasts, aside from it being faster than… [Keep reading]