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
I have decided that from now on, in my personal notes I’m now calling “action items” “quests” because it’s more fun.
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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.
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Alex Standiford
It’s that time of year where I start getting back into the habit of waking up at 5AM to work on side projects before I start my day in-earnest. It’s always been the most-productive time of day for me, and I think I can attribute a lot of my career growth to this time-block. I know it doesn’t work for everyone, and I don’t do it year ’round these days, but I’m glad to be back.
