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I Built A Knowledge Base Using The Block Editor, And Whoa.
Reflecting on my experience building my first completely custom full site editing theme, from start to finish.
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Your WordPress Affiliate Plugin Is Making Your Life So Much Harder.
Your WordPress Affiliate Plugin is making your life so much harder. They look at affiliate programs backwards, and as a result, you create a single, gigantic, complex program. This is really limiting! Let’s dig into the pitfalls of that. The simplest version of these programs need to capture different commission types, and rules. – Special rates for affiliate groups, products, and affiliates – The first, or the last tracked visit wins. These rules get spread all over WP Admin. This has some consequences. With this approach, you have to go all over the WordPress dashboard to get to the bottom…
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Siren’s Tracking System is Bananas
Old Affiliate plugins use “visits” for tracking. I realized that we can do so, so much better. By calling them “Opportunities”, Siren makes it possible to track anything, from visitors, to bug reports, and anything in-between.
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Siren’s Tracking System Is Bananas
Old Affiliate plugins use “visits” for tracking. I realized that we can do so, so much better. By calling them “Opportunities”, Siren makes it possible to track anything, from visitors, to bug reports, and anything in-between.
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YNAB Sent Me A Personalized Gift, And I Love It!
I wrote a blog post about how I adapt the YNAB method to also budget my time. The nice folks at YNAB noticed, and sent me something nice.
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Please, Safari, Fix This!
Safari has single-handedly made me terrified to hit the escape key because it will either do what I expect it to do, or it will completely disrupt my workflow.
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Turn Down The Difficulty
After an unexpected all-nighter in a hospital waiting room, I stumbled upon a game-changing thought: “How can I turn down the difficulty?” This simple question has revealed a powerful strategy for navigating life’s unexpected challenges.
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Small Adjustments
I think this time budgeting approach is finally going to be what helps me actually start exercising consistently. I’ve been budgeting my time with timers over the last several weeks. One thing about this setup is that you create “buckets” of time, but don’t really dictate exactly when those buckets get emptied. This is a really useful thing because it makes it easy to experiment with when you do different things, and it allows you to on-the-fly make adjustments based on how your day is going. One such example, is I have had the time blocked out for weeks to…
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I Applied YNAB Budgeting To My Time, And It’s Changed My Life
Have you ever thought of budgeting your time like money? Well, I did, and I have noticed that I am more productive, I avoid burning myself out, and I’ve been able to adapt to unexpected things that happen during my day without completely losing my day in the process. Most importantly, however, I feel a lot less stressed out about my schedule.
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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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