Alex
Alex
@alex@www.alexstandiford.com

Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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  • The last moment before I flipped my desk. #WordPress

  • I have a person who is technically avid, and needs a job. They are willing to learn, and work, but really freaking need a boost to get started. Anyone hiring?

  • Alright, let’s have some fun. I need fun beer names that play off of music. Bonus points for alliteration with the beer style. Even more bonus points if it’s metal. Example: “Pentatonic Porter” I’ll be using these for a fake brewery website I’m building.

  • Been playing with theme.json, and something that really excites me is that since it’s just a JSON file, you can use it, and parse it in other places. I’m using Tailwind to tie the color palette used by Tailwind directly to the theme.json palette, for example.

  • The more I get into blocks, the more I dislike that raw markup is saved to the database. This makes it impractical to build a design system with Gutenberg because WHEN (not if, when) you need to change the markup of a block, you can’t without a filter, or a database find/replace.

  • A much-needed storm here in Taos

  • I think it was Ubuntu 9.04 – Jaunty Jackalope https://t.co/5xhiBlnrXT DEFINITELY 9.04. I somehow found this video and was like MULTIPLE DESKTOPS? MY DESKTOP IS A CUBE? WOBBLY WINDOWS?! WHAT IS THIS SORCERY?! youtube.com/watch?v=3xZmlZ…

  • Hot take time! Cid was not a bad kid. He was an intelligent, inquisitive child who had a certain proclivity for pyrotechnics, and his outlet happened to be blowing up his toys. He did not deserve the trama for playing how he wanted to play.

  • Nothing makes me panic quite like when a config file opens using Nano instead of Vim.

  • One thing I see in many custom #WordPress sites is the misuse of custom post types. Sometimes they’re perfect, but sometimes they are a terrible choice. wpdev.academy/wordpress-tips…