Open Source 10

Jul 31, 2024

Imagining a Personal Data Pipeline

I've been thinking a lot about personal data lately: where it's stored, how to extract it, and what to do with it. Here's where I landed.

Feb 09, 2020

Taking WordPress to Eleventy

How I converted 12 years of posts in WordPress to an Eleventy static site ... and loved every minute of it.

Oct 31, 2019

Learnings from Full Time Primary Interrupt (On-Call)

What I learned spending a month as the primary on-call for an open source support team.

Feb 07, 2017

1PPM: month 1 (and 2)

I found a group of folks online who committed to launching 1 project per month (1PPM) and it resonated with me in a big way. This is what I did for my first one.

Oct 09, 2016

Repo: Missed Search Log for WordPress

Concept for a log of search terms with no results on a WordPress site.

Jan 18, 2016

A(nother) WordPress Starter Template

This theme is an extension of a framework created for a local agency that wanted a way to spin up custom WordPress sites quickly and correctly. It grew into the starting point for all sites that I create.

Feb 17, 2015

Gist: WP-CLI migration from ejunkie to WooCommerce

Apr 21, 2014

Why Open Source? Why For Sale?

A question I’m often asked by friends and colleagues is how I decide what I sell and what I give away. There’s no formula but there is a rationale.

Nov 12, 2009

Create a simple website with the Google Docs CMS

In attempt to solve one problem, I figured out a way to easily publish and manage data on the web by using a simple Google Documents spreadsheet.

Oct 11, 2009

Drudge Report template - 3 column link display page in HTML

I started from scratch and made this very simple, lightweight, one-file, one-page site template that mimics the layout of Drudge report with a few extra features.