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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  • In light of the recent upgrades to Underpin, I spent this evening giving the theme boilerplate a little love. Hopefully the documentation upgrades will make it more-obvious how you’re supposed to use it. github.com/underpin-WP/un… #WordPress

  • I get queasy when I need to make a WordPress Widget. Setting up the fields, rendering the HTML, and getting fields to actually save is a PAIN. Which is why Underpin’s Widget loader is one of my favorite loaders. It makes creating widgets less-painful. github.com/Underpin-WP/wi…

  • Making some progress with making Underpin more-modular. It was so monolithic, and I think will benefit from being broken up a bit. Side bonus – every loader gets a readme now, so the documentation is a bit stronger. Beware – copypasta and typos abound! github.com/Underpin-WP

  • Cleaning up my GitHub repos today. Moving some, deleting many, archiving a few, and publishing some as well.

  • I just got a free $45 dollar bottle of wine from a local winery entrepreneur. Told him what I tasted and I’m pretty sure I offended him so much that he walked away. Which sucks because the wine is REALLY good.

  • -Ben bursts out door- WE NEED TO GO TO SPACE SOON. -Me- I agree. -Ben- I wan to go to the moon! -Me- Me too! -Ben- I want to see some aliens. -Me- Me too. I know what he meant – “I want to go to space, land on the moon, and see the aliens”,…

  • Getting my ass kicked

  • Ok this got me. reddit.com/r/funny/commen…

  • Good god I’m yearning for the days where playing a game consisted of inserting a cartridge, and turning the console on. Been fighting tech for 90 minutes to play a game with my son. It’s ridiculous. Turn on switch, open Minecraft Attempt to connect Switch to PC Switch needs authenticated Authentication fails because my IP…

  • The chasm between the nomad who chose this life vs the one to whom this was forced upon is so, so disheartening. The difference between me and a homeless person is small, but I’m celebrated while they’re stigmatized all because I happen to have a source of income. It’s bullshit.