All 242 of my posts

Jun 03, 2025

May 13, 2025

Thoughts on AI

Apr 23, 2025

Personal Data Pipeline Update

Aug 07, 2024

My Values for Technical Leadership

Jul 31, 2024

Imagining a Personal Data Pipeline

Apr 08, 2024

Building a CLI from scratch with TypeScript and oclif

Feb 09, 2024

Goodbye Auth0

Jan 21, 2024

Goodbye Vittorio Bertocci

Jul 06, 2023

Conducting a Great Technical Interview

May 05, 2023

My Journey, So Far, with Life Logging

Mar 26, 2023

An Open Letter to My Mental Boardroom

Mar 22, 2023

Scratching an Itch: Command Line Budgeting

Nov 21, 2022

If Your Loved One Has a Stroke

Aug 19, 2022

Published: Federation and Single Sign-On with OpenID Connect

Mar 07, 2022

Engineering Velocity from the Bottom Up

Jan 11, 2022

Generate new Eleventy post drafts with Hygen

Jan 04, 2022

Eleventy Custom Content Type Collections and Layouts

Dec 12, 2021

We Need Your Beginner's Mind

Nov 01, 2021

Taking Notes: Why and How

Oct 12, 2021

Accept-Encoding, Content-Encoding, and ERR CONTENT DECODING FAILED

Mar 06, 2021

Cards to Live By

Feb 14, 2021

Curiosity, Freedom, and Truth: My Path to Mindfulness

Dec 31, 2020

Protect your WordPress REST API with OAuth 2 using Auth0

Nov 27, 2020

Testable Documentation Spike #1: "It's Just Code"

Oct 28, 2020

Technical Research: Testable Documentation

Aug 30, 2020

WordPress Unit Testing Techniques

May 17, 2020

How we are teaching right now

Apr 04, 2020

A Moment in Time During the Pandemic

Feb 09, 2020

Taking WordPress to Eleventy

Jan 15, 2020

Notes from Rock Your Code Reviews with Dr. Michaela Greiler

Oct 31, 2019

Learnings from Full Time Primary Interrupt (On-Call)

Sep 08, 2019

Keys to Good Technical Documentation

Jun 27, 2019

Specializing vs Generalizing

Jun 11, 2019

Improvement as Experimentation

Jul 10, 2018

Pitfalls of Being a WordPress Developer

Apr 12, 2017

Self-Teach or Go Back to School?

Feb 07, 2017

1PPM: month 1 (and 2)

Jan 13, 2017

Getting the Non-Essentials Done

Jan 05, 2017

Engineer Support for Content and Communication Rockstars

Dec 08, 2016

How I Focus Now

Nov 26, 2016

Creativity Takes Time

Nov 16, 2016

Digital Detox

Oct 09, 2016

Repo: Missed Search Log for WordPress

Aug 09, 2016

Brewery Site Framework for Craft Beer Branding Gods

Jun 11, 2016

Community and eCommerce Site for Massive Minecraft Community

Apr 02, 2016

Redesign on JoshCanHelp

Apr 01, 2016

Repo: WP CSV Importer

Apr 01, 2016

Latest Deals Site Built on Rank It WP

Mar 30, 2016

8ninths Site Rebuild

Mar 17, 2016

Working with Me

Jan 18, 2016

A(nother) WordPress Starter Template

Oct 19, 2015

Much Needed Inspiration

Aug 19, 2015

Semi-eCommerce Site for a Local Composites Distributor

Jun 19, 2015

Installation Cold Brew: Buzz King

Jun 12, 2015

Lessons Learned in Agency

Apr 09, 2015

WP-Drudge on Alan.com

Mar 23, 2015

Become A WordPress Developer Overnight After 4 Months of Work

Mar 05, 2015

Intermediate Sass/SCSS class in Seattle

Feb 17, 2015

Gist: WP-CLI migration from ejunkie to WooCommerce

Feb 09, 2015

Progress In January

Feb 08, 2015

Blue Bottle Giant Steps

Jan 12, 2015

A Few Thoughts on WordPress Performance

Jan 08, 2015

Rank It WP: A Community Curation Theme for WordPress

Jan 08, 2015

Building a Community Curation Theme: The Making of Rank It WP

Jan 05, 2015

Systematic Goal Elimination

Jan 05, 2015

Mama Lil's Kick Butt Peppers in Oil

Jan 05, 2015

Make Coconut Chips at Home, Then Give Up and Buy Dang

Jan 04, 2015

Kina Tonic For A Unique Gin & Tonic Experience

Jan 01, 2015

Coconut Jam, Kopi and Toast, Singapore

Nov 18, 2014

Easy Feedback To-dos with Gmail and Asana

May 01, 2014

Programming Sucks

Apr 29, 2014

Connecting Strategy to Tactics

Apr 21, 2014

Why Open Source? Why For Sale?

Mar 05, 2014

My Favorite Hot Sauce Ever ... This Month

Feb 17, 2014

Redesign, Drupal migration, and WooCommerce to CiviCRM Integration

Feb 01, 2014

There is Cold Brew and Then There is Black Blood of the Earth

Feb 01, 2014

AleSmith Grand Cru - One of My Favorite Beers of All Time

Feb 01, 2014

I Don't Know What Exactly Makes This Coldbrew So AMAZING but I Do Know I Always Want It In My Mouth

Aug 15, 2013

Ballard to Fremont - Bikes and Brews

Apr 04, 2013

PROPER Web Development

Feb 18, 2013

Two Worlds, Existing Side-by-Side, Always In Conflict

Feb 13, 2013

Tips, tricks, and advice for visiting Paris

Aug 14, 2012

Thoughts on Focus

Aug 07, 2012

Don't Screw Around with Your Finances

Apr 12, 2012

The Right Way Has To Be The "Easy" Way

Apr 03, 2012

My WordPress Developer's Wishlist

Feb 26, 2012

Taking Your First Steps on Twitter: The 30 - 40 - 30 Plan

Feb 24, 2012

Quora: Are CMSs are more awkward than helpful a lot of the time?

Feb 15, 2012

How to be a better self-promoter in the creative industry

Jan 14, 2012

A Veggie Sandwich

Jan 10, 2012

Working with a web designer: help us help you

Nov 30, 2011

Loopholes and shortcuts, advances and mistakes

Nov 29, 2011

Improve Site SEO in 3 Steps: Analysis, Keywords & Monitoring

Oct 25, 2011

Using Google Analytics to determine a new page's performance

Oct 18, 2011

Great Content Is Like a Produce Stand in Paris

Oct 11, 2011

Share Facebook Page Items to your Profile

Aug 03, 2011

A Great Facebook Page for a Boring, Niche, or Unappealing Business

Jul 19, 2011

Hiring a Virtual Assistant

Jul 12, 2011

Create your own Social Network or Online Community - 10 tools

Jul 04, 2011

5 Reasons You Should Fire Your SEO "Professional"

Jun 28, 2011

Creating effective email marketing campaigns

Jun 21, 2011

I Don't Live the Life I Want (yet)

May 09, 2011

It Actually Happened - GetScientific is Alive!

Apr 12, 2011

Choosing Keyword Phrases for Content Pages

Mar 15, 2011

Web Literacy for Business Owners

Mar 08, 2011

Stoic Technology: Learning to Love Adversity

Feb 25, 2011

Big Step

Jan 13, 2011

Thoughts on web design and development pricing

Nov 30, 2010

Simple introduction to incoming links

Nov 08, 2010

Back home and feeling great

Oct 25, 2010

Staying positive

Oct 14, 2010

The Strikes

Oct 06, 2010

Cause for Alarm?

Sep 24, 2010

Reims - You Want To Go To There

Sep 21, 2010

3 Questions to Answer Before Building Anything Online

Sep 17, 2010

Miles to go before we sleep

Sep 06, 2010

Slowly but surely, I think we're starting to fit in

Aug 25, 2010

The unfamiliar and wonderful life we now lead

Aug 24, 2010

5 Reasons Why I Won't Build That For You (it's not just because I said so)

Aug 21, 2010

I see London, I see France

Aug 13, 2010

Leaving San Diego

Aug 10, 2010

Confessions from an accidental spammer

Aug 01, 2010

And so it begins - planning, preparation, and PayPal

Jun 24, 2010

What it means to me to be a free agent

May 27, 2010

A Layman's Intro to the Semantic Web: Web 3.0, ontology, and RDFa

May 05, 2010

Intoxicated by the possibility of making mediocrity hard to sustain (#100ppl)

Apr 22, 2010

Basic Website Analytics for Content Managers

Apr 14, 2010

Making a commitment to better output: NO MORE F*CKING TYPOS

Apr 08, 2010

Working with Greatness: The Processes Behind the Production

Mar 11, 2010

Make it Simple, Focused, High-Performance, and Polished: My Web Philosophy

Feb 26, 2010

Seasonal web traffic: what to expect and how to improve it

Feb 19, 2010

Essential Hardware And Software for Virtual Employees and Contractors

Feb 03, 2010

Give someone a social hand and write a review

Jan 14, 2010

Improving Website and WordPress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

Jan 05, 2010

RESPONSE ABILITY: An art project to benefit the homeless around the world.

Dec 30, 2009

Insane Ideas Are Life's Great Equalizer

Dec 04, 2009

6 key ways to improve your email communication

Nov 19, 2009

Traditional networking is dead

Nov 12, 2009

Create a simple website with the Google Docs CMS

Nov 09, 2009

Succeed by Finding Your Audience

Oct 27, 2009

Do it, then do it better: an iterative mindset

Oct 20, 2009

Is having your own website a dated concept

Oct 11, 2009

Drudge Report template - 3 column link display page in HTML

Oct 09, 2009

Recommended reading for web site owners

Oct 06, 2009

What is Talent?

Sep 30, 2009

New custom WordPress theme and structure at JoshCanHelp

Sep 03, 2009

Friends: holding you back or helping you?

Sep 01, 2009

Improve WordPress Performance by 36 Percent

Aug 13, 2009

Google Analytics Basics

Aug 04, 2009

Tracking your body data to stay motivated

Aug 04, 2009

3 things that help me to write quality content

Jul 31, 2009

Web strategy and resources links for July 31st

Jul 31, 2009

I am an FFK... nice to meet you

Jul 24, 2009

9 Great Web Strategy Links for July 24th 2009

Jul 23, 2009

Searches on Delicious are more powerful than you think

Jul 17, 2009

Web strategy links and Resources for July 17th

Jul 10, 2009

Trying to learn Photoshop? Here's what to concentrate on

Jul 10, 2009

Josh Can Help: Helpful web strategy links for July 10th

Jul 01, 2009

Tooting my own horn - Email marketing presentation

Jun 24, 2009

Website performance and health reports

Jun 18, 2009

What Is Web Strategy?

Jun 12, 2009

How I explained WTF Twitter is to my Dad

Jun 04, 2009

3 MORE Important Questions to Ask Before Sending Company Email Marketing

Jun 01, 2009

3 Important Questions to Ask Before Sending an Email Campaign

May 28, 2009

What Kind of Tech User Are You?

May 18, 2009

StumbleUpon: You Disappointed Me

May 11, 2009

The three things every business owner needs to understand about web sites

Apr 30, 2009

Pleased To Announce a New Client Website Launched: EMASPro.com

Apr 21, 2009

You can't go wrong with Fused Network hosting for small businesses

Apr 13, 2009

The Search for a New Cell Phone

Mar 26, 2009

"What is expected of a designer" on LinkedIn

Mar 23, 2009

Using the social technologies of the web effectively while staying out of trouble

Mar 11, 2009

My Answers for the 7 Questions to Ask a Social Media Expert

Mar 02, 2009

Path forward: How Josh Can Help Plans and Approaches Building a New Web Site from Scratch

Feb 19, 2009

Information Reservoirs (or) How I Keep Track of a Large Amount of Incoming Information

Feb 16, 2009

Craigslist feeds blocked from Yahoo Pipes via 403 error

Feb 11, 2009

Facebook Group vs A Blog: What's a Company to Do?

Feb 05, 2009

Website page titles - how to pick one and what they are for

Feb 02, 2009

Free software and websites that really, really, really help me

Jan 26, 2009

Creating a functional, useable, linkable website: start and maintain a blog

Jan 21, 2009

Advice to a client: don't just have a great idea and act on it – remember the bottom line too

Jan 15, 2009

Creating a functional, useable, linkable website: write a few articles

Jan 12, 2009

The Mad Printer... an interesting coffeeshop activity

Jan 09, 2009

You want to create a website but why? Make sure you can answer that question...

Jan 05, 2009

Josh Can Help brings you: 2009 Technology Resolutions

Dec 16, 2008

Getting started correcting your search engine problems.

Dec 12, 2008

Search Engine Optimization as a metaphor for life

Dec 08, 2008

Curing Underemployment (or) Josh’s Six Step Plan to a Great Resume (part 6 of 6)

Dec 05, 2008

Curing Underemployment (or) Josh’s Six Step Plan to a Great Resume (part 5 of 6)

Dec 04, 2008

Curing Underemployment (or) Josh’s Six Step Plan to a Great Resume (part 4 of 6)

Dec 03, 2008

Curing Underemployment (or) Josh’s Six Step Plan to a Great Resume (part 3 of 6)

Dec 02, 2008

Curing Underemployment (or) Josh’s Six Step Plan to a Great Resume (part 2 of 6)

Dec 01, 2008

Curing Underemployment (or) Josh’s Six Step Plan to a Great Resume (part 1 of 6)

Nov 24, 2008

My New ASUS EEE 1000H (or) How my life just got a whole lot more productive

Nov 20, 2008

Beginner Exercises to Learn PHP Programming

Nov 07, 2008

The Worst Possible Way to Work (or) How to Find a System That Works for You

Nov 04, 2008

Spam: what is it? what does it do? why am I sending it? who cares?

Nov 01, 2008

How to be an old(er) undergraduate or How I learned to accept what I've been given

Oct 27, 2008

A beautiful day, a piece of pressboard, some Montana Gold, and an illustration

Oct 23, 2008

Good advice to a client about building a blog from the ground up

Oct 20, 2008

What to do with great ideas (part 1)

Oct 13, 2008

Considering a career in software engineering or digital design?

Oct 10, 2008

What to do with downtime: slow-going tips post #1

Oct 03, 2008

Fresh cards from Fresh Impressions in Florida

Oct 02, 2008

This, a typical week

Sep 30, 2008

W3C Schools (via JCH) Beginner's Course in HTML for Emails

Sep 26, 2008

Password storage done right

Sep 24, 2008

How to make a Technology Taming Plan

Sep 22, 2008

Daily rebirth

Sep 18, 2008

Dripping my way along... a lesson from Seth

Sep 16, 2008

How to send HTML emails for free using Mozilla Thunderbird

Sep 11, 2008

HTML emails: the last word (until everything changes again)

Sep 09, 2008

I learned something today

Aug 28, 2008

One component of Josh Can Help's website philosophy - Understanding

Aug 23, 2008

Josh Can Help updates...

Aug 19, 2008

Screencasts: recording on-screen training videos

Aug 15, 2008

Building a homepage from a blog: Part 2: Finalizing the design and planning out mark-up and CSS structure.

Aug 11, 2008

Did your website or blog just crash suddenly? You might have a problem with your permissions...

Aug 07, 2008

Building a homepage from a blog: Part 1: Conceptualization and Planning

Aug 04, 2008

Graffiti art evolution: from drawing to painting to vector; moving your art into a new market

Jul 29, 2008

Random design inspiration post #1 - Currency

Jul 23, 2008

6 steps to easy typography in any document

Jul 21, 2008

Blogging 101: How to Write a Great Blog Post... a Reader's Perspective

Jul 18, 2008

New new business card design: the process + feedback

Jul 14, 2008

Want to self-publish? My review of Lulu.com

Jul 11, 2008

Is your wifi disconnecting frequently? Here's the fix...

Jul 04, 2008

"Customer service"

Jun 27, 2008

Thoughts on conferences

Jun 14, 2008

How to Tame Your Technology in Four Easy Steps

Jun 13, 2008

Why I freelance (a picture story)

Jun 06, 2008

Installing a font in Windows XP

May 25, 2008

CDs burning improperly? Songs skipping? Verification errors? I can help!

May 15, 2008

Please, resize your pics, for the love of everything that's good!

May 01, 2008

Self-Promotion, Me-Centricism, and Should Josh Help?

Apr 27, 2008

On-Demand and Web Publishing Resources

Apr 22, 2008

The 4 Components of a Great First On-Site Visit

Apr 15, 2008

Free Excel Invoice Template

Apr 12, 2008

New Business Card Design

Apr 09, 2008

Problem Solved #00001 - DSL, Wifi, printers

Mar 24, 2008

What Is This Blog For?

Mar 17, 2008

Josh Can Help Is Alive!

Jan 07, 2004

Eating: Half of the Equation