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Aug 07, 2024
My Values for Technical Leadership
My professional values as an engineer, architect, and technical leader.
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.
Apr 08, 2024
Building a CLI from scratch with TypeScript and oclif
I'm building a pair of CLI programs in TypeScript and decided to use oclif for flag parsing and releasing. I needed something more than the getting started doucmentation they had so I wrote it myself.
Feb 09, 2024
Goodbye Auth0
My 6 years at Auth0 ... how it all started, what Auth0 meant to me, and why I will proudly wear that shield for as long as the swag holds up.
Jul 06, 2023
Conducting a Great Technical Interview
Technical interviews are a vital component of culture building and setting your team up for success. Here is how I make sure they go well and have a great time doing it.
Mar 22, 2023
Scratching an Itch: Command Line Budgeting
After over a decade of trying to budget using existing tools, I decide to write my own in TypeScript. It turned out great!
Aug 19, 2022
Published: Federation and Single Sign-On with OpenID Connect
After a years worth of work and a number of delays (on my end), I finally published my first liveProject with Manning!
Mar 07, 2022
Engineering Velocity from the Bottom Up
When I look to increase my velocity, I'm trying to deliver more work I'm proud of without burning out. I want to get the most out of my time and maximize the parts of the job that I enjoy. Here's how.
Jan 11, 2022
Generate new Eleventy post drafts with Hygen
Making new boilerplate files is one of many tiny professional pet peeves that makes me ask "what would a real engineer do?" Answer: automate it!
Jan 04, 2022
Eleventy Custom Content Type Collections and Layouts
How-to on creating separate collections and layouts for a custom content type. In this case: cocktails!
Dec 12, 2021
We Need Your Beginner's Mind
We need your experiments and your questions and your feedback. Your lack of understanding is a valuable attribute that goes away as you gain experience.
Nov 01, 2021
Taking Notes: Why and How
I've been writing for myself regularly for probably 15 years and have tried out many different systems and apps. Recently, I think I finally found the right one.
Oct 12, 2021
Accept-Encoding, Content-Encoding, and ERR CONTENT DECODING FAILED
An error message in a browser-based app lead to some digging and learning about content encoding and negotiation.
Dec 31, 2020
Protect your WordPress REST API with OAuth 2 using Auth0
In this post, we are going to add the ability to use Auth0-generated access tokens for WP REST API endpoints that require an account and certain capabilities.
Nov 27, 2020
Testable Documentation Spike #1: "It's Just Code"
My first spike on finding a system to take linted, tested code and outputting usable markup. This spike uses Docco to turn transpile commented JS files to HTML.
Oct 28, 2020
Technical Research: Testable Documentation
I've been thinking about documentation quite a bit lately, especially the code-centric type, and how to avoid punishing myself for spending time writing it. Here's the start of my research project to that end.
Aug 30, 2020
WordPress Unit Testing Techniques
I've learned a lot about how to avoid common issues and making life writing tests in WordPress a little easier. This post is a collection of ways I've found to accurately and thoroughly test a plugin.
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.
Jan 15, 2020
Notes from Rock Your Code Reviews with Dr. Michaela Greiler
I attended a great webinar led by Dr. Michaela Greiler on code reviews. I had my own opinions going in, of course, but I learned a lot and had a number of questions that I had (and didn't know I had) answered.
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.
Jun 27, 2019
Specializing vs Generalizing
Should you specialize and go deep or generalize and go broad? I'd argue they they are two sides of the same coin.
Jul 10, 2018
Pitfalls of Being a WordPress Developer
Something happens to you as a developer when you start on and stick with a single platform for a long period of time. As you get better and better at that platform, you get further and further away from the rest of the ecosystem.
Jan 05, 2017
Engineer Support for Content and Communication Rockstars
Regardless of the industry, when people care deeply about what they're making and who they're helping, it shows.
Oct 09, 2016
Repo: Missed Search Log for WordPress
Concept for a log of search terms with no results on a WordPress site.
Aug 09, 2016
Brewery Site Framework for Craft Beer Branding Gods
In one of those "meant to be" moments, I met the founder and president of the mind-bogglingly talented craft beer agency here in Seattle, Blindtiger. Oceania (Oce for short) invited me down to the office to talk shop and it just clicked.
Jun 11, 2016
Community and eCommerce Site for Massive Minecraft Community
8-month engagement to provide engineering, strategy, code review, pair programming, performance reviews, and security guidance.
Apr 01, 2016
Latest Deals Site Built on Rank It WP
A WordPress child theme gone mad! Built-in click statistics, moderation controls, grabbing text and images from submitted links, and expiring content.
Mar 30, 2016
8ninths Site Rebuild
Just in time for an announcement by Microsoft about their HoloLens project, we launched a complete site rebuild for 8ninths, focusing on their VR and AR capabilities.
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.
Aug 19, 2015
Semi-eCommerce Site for a Local Composites Distributor
This site was a partial migration from a custom PHP and MySQL application that was in dire need of an update. Collaborating with a talented designer, I built a site housing almost 400 products and dominates search ranking for high-value, niche terms.
Apr 09, 2015
WP-Drudge on Alan.com
Alan Colmes needed a central hub for his news curation and community surrounding his radio show and books. We've been iterating on this site for a few years and finally settled on a very customized version of the WP-Drudge theme I created.
Jan 08, 2015
Building a Community Curation Theme: The Making of Rank It WP
I’ve been working on a new theme over the last few months and, now that it’s ready for use, I wanted to walk through how it was built. This is definitely the most technically-involved theme I’ve ever built and I learned a lot (more) about WordPress in the process.