They’re hunting squirrels, again. I think they may be disappointed to find this spot doesn’t have nearly as many as Shenandoah or Lake Hartwell ????. That being said, the acorns are definitely still falling, so maybe they’ll get some action.
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Alex Standiford
I just did the single longest drive with a camper in-tow we’ve ever done. We went 680 miles, starting in Hartwell GA, and parking for the day in Lafayette, LA. I do not enjoy staying in Mississippi Alabama, or Georgia based on previous experiences in these places, so we decided to rip off the Band-Aid and skip all of that in our drive to TX this year. 10/10, would drive again.
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Killing My Agency Was A Good Choice
Since shutting down my agency last year, I’ve noticed a considerable uptick in the quality of work I find. Let’s hope this trend is a signal that my pivot was the right choice, and it continues to grow.
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Alex Standiford
That’s a wrap for this summer! Starting our trip back to Texas this week. We have a few fun stops along the way, including the Smokies, the Poconos, and Shenandoah.
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Alex Standiford
I LOVE THIS IDEA. I’ll be interested to see how this progresses.
I hope it’s possible to detect that the current environment is the playground. That could allow developers to tailor parts of the experience for the preview, such as pre-importing sample data, pre-configuring connections to APIs, or other un-imagined things.
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Alex Standiford
Lesley recently shared a really fun anecdote about how she became weirdly synonymous with pizza. I love these stories, and it’s a pretty interesting case study for the “wacky” TLDs. I didn’t remember her plugin’s name, but I did remember that she was somehow associated with Pizza.
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Alex Standiford
Fellow WordPress developers building websites, I beg you. Please learn about must-use plugins, and every time you think about adding a special hook to your functions.php file, think for a moment – is what you’re adding going likely going to want to continue to be used when you change themes? If so, put it in your must-use plugin instead of the theme. You’ll save yourself (or the next person to work on this site) so many headaches when you change the theme in the future.
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Alex Standiford
Thinking a lot about this phrase from Stephen King’s “On Writing” a lot today. He said it specifically about writing, but I have found that it applies to idea generation in-general.
There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun.
