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  • How Multiple Programs Makes Siren Easier To Maintain
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    How Multiple Programs Makes Siren Easier To Maintain

    Other affiliate plugins for WordPress are notoriously bad at maintaining affiliate programs, particularly when the program has several special conditions. This post dives into how Siren avoids these pitfalls.

    May 2, 2024
    Project Siren, WordPress
  • How Siren Promotes Collaboration Among Your Affiliates
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    How Siren Promotes Collaboration Among Your Affiliates

    Siren allows you to create more than one reward program on your site. This creates unique opportunities for your affiliates to work together. This post explores some ways different programs can combine together so that everyone wins.

    April 12, 2024
    Affiliate Program, Project Siren, WordPress
  • The 40 Hour Work Week Is Sapping Your Best Employees. There’s A Better Way.
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    The 40 Hour Work Week Is Sapping Your Best Employees. There’s A Better Way.

    For many people (myself included), 40 hours a day is too much. I believe that we’re long overdue to shake up this work model, and using knowledge from my nearly 20 years in the workforce, both as an employee, and a business owner, I have come up with what I believe is a better way to measure success.

    February 25, 2024
    Affiliate Program, Business, Project Siren
  • Meet Charlie, Our Summer Camper
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    Meet Charlie, Our Summer Camper

    Earlier this year we bought a used camper to put on our seasonal lot in Vermont. This post talks about the camper, and how it stacks up with our other campers.

    August 21, 2023
    challenges, Charlie, DIY, homeschool, RV Life, Tiny living
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    How Prototyping Makes Me a Better Developer

    I have found that writing unit tests for exceptionally complex projects has forced me to change how I approach my work in some cases. This post talks about how I write prototypes of code to hash out how a project will work quickly, as a part of my design process.

    March 3, 2023
    Productivity, programming, Project Management, Test Driven Development, Web Development
  • Our Camping Rig Coming into 2023
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    Our Camping Rig Coming into 2023

    A deep look at our current camper, and how it compares to our previous camper.

    January 16, 2023
    challenges, DIY, homeschool, lifestyle, Ricardo, rv family life, RV Life, Tiny living
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    Your Site As a Central Hub

    I believe we’re on the cusp of turning our personal websites into complete representations of our online presence. This post goes over how I think this can be accomplished.

    November 17, 2022
    fediverse, mastodon
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    How to Find Your People on Mastodon

    This post talks about how I have discover people on the fediverse, and cultivate the content curated so that I can find more people I want to meet.

    November 13, 2022
    mastodon, twitter to mastodon, twitter transition
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    Adiungo – A Content Ownership Manifesto

    First off, let’s get this out of the way – Adiungo is pronounced “Ah-DOON-Go”, and the closest translation to English is “add”, but it also is used to “join, harness, attach, and incorporate”. I felt that these words accurately describe the goal of this project. The purpose of Adiungo is to help people take control […]

    November 6, 2022
    projectAdiungo
  • How To Move From Twitter to Mastodon
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    How To Move From Twitter to Mastodon

    Learn how I made the switch from Mastodon to Twitter, preserving as much of my online identity, and connections as possible.

    November 4, 2022
    twitter, twitter to mastodon, twitter transition
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