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Apr 08, 2024

Building a CLI from scratch with TypeScript and oclif

I'm building a pair of CLI programs in TypeScript and decided to use oclif for flag parsing and releasing. I needed something more than the getting started doucmentation they had so I wrote it myself.

Jul 06, 2023

Conducting a Great Technical Interview

Technical interviews are a vital component of culture building and setting your team up for success. Here is how I make sure they go well and have a great time doing it.

Aug 19, 2022

Published: Federation and Single Sign-On with OpenID Connect

After a years worth of work and a number of delays (on my end), I finally published my first liveProject with Manning!

Mar 07, 2022

Engineering Velocity from the Bottom Up

When I look to increase my velocity, I'm trying to deliver more work I'm proud of without burning out. I want to get the most out of my time and maximize the parts of the job that I enjoy. Here's how.

Oct 12, 2021

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

An error message in a browser-based app lead to some digging and learning about content encoding and negotiation.

Nov 27, 2020

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

My first spike on finding a system to take linted, tested code and outputting usable markup. This spike uses Docco to turn transpile commented JS files to HTML.

Oct 28, 2020

Technical Research: Testable Documentation

I've been thinking about documentation quite a bit lately, especially the code-centric type, and how to avoid punishing myself for spending time writing it. Here's the start of my research project to that end.

Aug 30, 2020

WordPress Unit Testing Techniques

I've learned a lot about how to avoid common issues and making life writing tests in WordPress a little easier. This post is a collection of ways I've found to accurately and thoroughly test a plugin.

Jan 15, 2020

Notes from Rock Your Code Reviews with Dr. Michaela Greiler

I attended a great webinar led by Dr. Michaela Greiler on code reviews. I had my own opinions going in, of course, but I learned a lot and had a number of questions that I had (and didn't know I had) answered.

Oct 31, 2019

Learnings from Full Time Primary Interrupt (On-Call)

What I learned spending a month as the primary on-call for an open source support team.

Jul 10, 2018

Pitfalls of Being a WordPress Developer

Something happens to you as a developer when you start on and stick with a single platform for a long period of time. As you get better and better at that platform, you get further and further away from the rest of the ecosystem.

Apr 12, 2017

Self-Teach or Go Back to School?

Advice to a few friends on learning web development.

Feb 07, 2017

1PPM: month 1 (and 2)

I found a group of folks online who committed to launching 1 project per month (1PPM) and it resonated with me in a big way. This is what I did for my first one.

Mar 23, 2015

Become A WordPress Developer Overnight After 4 Months of Work

This is a summary of an email I sent to someone who wants to get into creating custom WordPress themes and plugins. I've been doing this for over 7 years now and would like to think I have something interesting and helpful to say about this.

Apr 21, 2014