UPDATE: I did have to turn off the widget as someone was attacking it. Nothing happened to my site, but SiteGround has a limitations on scripts run before they shut down the site without talking to their user. George Stephanis and I created a nifty little WordPress plugin over the last couple days for funsies… Continue reading Fight with colors on my blog, please
Category: WordPress
On being a friggin cyber designer
I live in mild terror of a single question. It usually crops up when I meet someone for the first time. It’s not because the question is a difficult one for most people. In fact, it’s one many people enjoy answering. What do you do? Well, shit. I guess it’s time for me to attempt… Continue reading On being a friggin cyber designer
The shape of WordPress shapes the web
I’ve been thinking a little about the design of PowerPoint, WordPress, and WordPress.com lately. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about Edward Tufte’s criticism of how the design of the PowerPoint software is to blame for the Challenger disaster. I saw Edward Tufte speak about information design a few years ago and one of the points… Continue reading The shape of WordPress shapes the web
WordPress commit
This weekend, a whole new set of committers were announced at the first ever WordCamp US. I was among those #blessed with commit. What the heck is commit? For those of you who don’t hang around making Internet all day, commit is just a term for the ability to send code somewhere. In this case, it… Continue reading WordPress commit
WordPress Dark Admin concept
I spent a couple evenings a week or so working on an updated design for WordPress. I just wanted to see where I could go with it. There’s no current plan to implement it (other than maybe spinning up another MP6 and fiddling with things). It’s far from feature complete, but I think it’s at a… Continue reading WordPress Dark Admin concept
Adios Vagrant, hello again MAMP (Pro)
I’ve been using VVV (Varying Vagrant Vagrants) for a bit over a year now with a few helper scripts for WordPress development primarily, but alas it’s time to end our relationship. The upkeep time isn’t worth it. It’s caused my computer to crash on a few occasions now. I’m not saying it’s bad by any… Continue reading Adios Vagrant, hello again MAMP (Pro)
Editing the editor
Photo via Jeff Golenski