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This was a long and winding path. Every couple of years I go through the same problem. New PHP version, determine installation method, feverishly Google. Sigh. For my own sanity. I thought it was best to record my workflow. I tried installing PHP via a tried-and-true method: Awesome. Easy enough right? I now should have […]

Came across this post on Hacker News and just had to share it here too. This is one of my favorite things to see on the web and it never fails to make me smile. My favorite is JS Paint, I mean just look at it! I never really considered cataloging them in a blog […]

I’ve been isolated in my Inwood (Manhattan) apartment since March 6th. I’m fortunate (and privileged) to be able to work from home. You could say things have been busy at work. At home, during off-hours I try to keep busy to keep my mind busy. It’s important to keep myself occupied. I want to avoid […]

I haven’t developed a new WordPress theme for this website (that I really loved) in a long time. So naturally, it was time to re-examine my personal tech stack. If you personally know me, you know I’m a WordPress advocate. Big fan of ol trusty. There’s a few problems with WordPress I’ve been hung up […]

I turned 31 roughly 3 months ago. I didn’t publish anything in celebration of my birthday. You could say I’ve been a little busy. But recently, myself and many others are now participating in the largest work from home experiment thanks to the outbreak of COVID-19. But here’s a brief recap of my first year […]

As some of you may know, I’m an avid Apple Music user (shocker). I’ve never really been a big fan of Spotify as some of my friends and co-workers are. It’s always seemed like a second-hand service to me. They’re meddling in my favorite podcasts, they rob musicians of their dues, they maintain a music […]

I use git log a lot. It’s real handy. But you know what — it’s pretty unwieldy and takes up quite a bit of terminal real estate. I finally decided to do something about it. Every time I ran git log, my terminal becomes a total mess. I knew about this little dingle: Which prints […]

The easy, fast, and safe way.

Wasn’t Tumblr remarkable? I don’t travel to Tumblr’s realm anymore. But, I know plenty who still do. Even with their bullshit adult-content ban — it’s still a great resource for artists, designers and those who crave visual stimulation. Hell, it’s a neat place to get your toes wet in blogging. The adult-content ban was probably […]

This took some googling, so I thought I would document my findings here. Locally If you’re already on the branch you’d like to rename, just run: If you’re on say master, and you have a branch you want to rename now but no checkout, run: Now that you’ve taken care of your local branch, there’s […]

Jason frequently hits the nail on the head. It’s pretty rare that predictions of his don’t hold water. He’s the proprietor of the kottke.org. One of those great places your can find on the web where name is the address. 2019 is surely going to be a golden year for bloggers, web journals, and anyone […]

So here’s a new one for ya. I was working on a branch all day, closed the laptop, went home and fell asleep. Nothing out of the ordinary. The next day, I awoke, and upon returning to work, immediately began working on a new problem. The issue arose when I discovered to my horror that I […]

Today, I’ll be turning 30.  I’ll spare you the cliche painful words from an aging youth, and the expected drone of middle-age melancholia. I’ll even spare you the expected pessimism for squandered or lost youth.  Instead, I’d like to remind everyone that the carrot isn’t important, chasing it is. I’m not dead yet, and like any […]

Alright, we’ve all been there. You got some merge conflicts. Or there’s a last minute hotfix. You feverishly make a commit. Then, your worst fear is realized only after you’ve pushed it remotely. You made a mistake. The horror. First, don’t sweat it. You have options. Most of the time, when I do this, I just need […]

As part of my ongoing effort to become more effective at Git, I stumbled into an interesting problem. At Vimeo, we have a lot of branches named after issues reported in Jira. Some branches take on the name of the project or component or a very specific fix. We also have branches that don’t follow […]

If you build or customize WordPress themes, coming across Namespaces are going to become more and more commonplace. I think they’re pretty cool. I have never enjoyed having to write (or parse for that matter), custom_functions_with_a_weird_long_name. Steve Grunwell has a fantastic primer on Namespaces, and how to use them in WordPress. I also learned about Singletons (and their […]

A while back, Dave Rupert wrote a neat post on some of the subtle issues with CSS Grid. The Big Kahuna is, CSS Grid doesn’t play nice with <input>s (for now I suppose). Long-story-short, I recently had a quick project involving a web-form and CSS Grid. As Puzzling and as frustrating as it was to […]

Is Foundwork a Dribbble-esque network for artists and galleries?

As a WordPress Guy, and advocate for online publishing — I’ve always been curious about the New York Times digital publishing “stack.” A lot has changed since the printed word. Text editors, paragraph blocks, header arrangements, interactive graphs, revision history, and data structures — journalists these days have a lot more responsibilities to handle than just a […]

Hop aboard. Let me tell more about flow content and proper HTML sectioning.

Who doesn't love going down the rabbit-hole on Wikipedia? Easily one of the most beloved treasure troves of information. Well, a couple of days ago, Nirvar Pangarkar (@nirzardp), Designer at the Wikimedia Foundation documented his process for rolling out a new feature at Wikipedia. This new feature, isn't particularly groundbreaking. But, I do suspect it […]

Time for another roundup of links! This month we have sinkholes in West Texas, a misinformation satire site called Scarfolk, a Tetris game that berates you, cool stuff from IBM and a few other goodies.

I took my camera out for a weekend afternoon last week. I did some people watching (a guilty pleasure in this urban jungle) at my neighborhood museum, The Brooklyn Museum — then ended up at Washington Square Park. It was a sunny bright day (despite the melting ice and snow from the days previous).

If you’re like me, you love System Fonts. They can keep your webpage loading-time speedy, and they look damn good. Craig Hockenberry (author of the snippet below), was previously a software developer for Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe. He’s been at the center of figuring out how to leverage these fonts for use on the web. […]

How does anything ever get done? Have you ever thought about it, I mean — it’s amazing that tunnels or bridges are built, elevators are renovated, inventions are made and progress happens. Sometimes I take a step back and marvel at the fact that emails are sent, plans are drawn, and things get done. Other […]

This month I collected some interesting links worth sharing. Some notables include: an iOS AirPod concept design, Starbucks bathroom reviews website, a post from Scott Galloway on marriage, and the technology behind my website page transitions and more.

I’m leaving Facebook(dot com). But that doesn’t have to mean goodbye. I’ll be around ✌️

Last month, I shared some February jams. Coming out of January, last month saw more nostalgic plays than anything. This month, I’m feeling more exploratory. Wether it’s the Nashville babes Daddy Issues or the incredible Nosaj Thing’s latest LP.  I didn’t forget about Dent May either. He’s something else. Apparently, he’s a Mississippi transplant drying out in […]

The last time I penned anything lengthier than 140 characters about music was probably during the times of xanga. Today was a busy day at the office. I was feeling a little inspired, and a little chaotic. Nonetheless, this playlist really brought me back down to earth. This past week, a lot of these artists got […]

Looking back on 2017, it was such a crazy year. Moving from Texas to NYC, the roadtrips, the work and the politics. Really looking forward to giving 2018 a run for its money.

Accessibility is important. But it’s also difficult to manage. The a11y checklist is a great resource to ensure your web projects are up to snuff. WordPress has some accessibility baked in, but it doesn’t check all the boxes. Wether you’re on a small team, or managing a WordPress install by yourself — ensuring all your images […]

Want to checkout the latest version of WordPress? Or Gutenberg? Just swap your WordPress version in your composer file with the dev-master. Caveat: it requires the wordpress-core dev-master. Could prove useful for testing.

We’re going to setup a remote server (say hosted on DigitalOcean), with Trellis’ automated deployments. It’s magical. Oddly enough, as of 2018, this guide is still pretty much up date and relatively unchanged. We started by getting our local environment setup but now we need to get our production environment setup so we can get deploys […]

Okay, so it’s been a while since last time I wrote about Roots (shoutout to Rob for pointing it out). The last time I wrote about the Roots Stack, things were more or less the same. But I felt compelled to write this guide ever since Sage got a version bump. Secondly, no one enjoys […]

It’s a pretty loaded term. Web Design… whoof. Let’s dissect this, because it encompasses a very wide range of disciplines. Heres’ just a sampling of what is expected of a typical web designer in no-particular order: Overall Website Styles (style guides, typography, uniformity, continuity, etc.) Wire-framing / Prototyping Components Styles (UI such as forms, headers, […]

It’s the year 2000 and The Dot-com Bubble has just arrived. I was 11 years old at the time. I don’t remember it. What I do remember is playing Chess on Yahoo! Games or chatting with friends on AIM. Those were the good ol days. However, researching The Dot-com Bubble has been eye-opening. Two major […]

Wouldn’t it be neat to embed your Unsplash photography on your WordPress site?  Unfortunately, there’s no WordPress plugin available. If you’re not familiar, Unsplash is a huge library of photographs for commercial and noncommercial purposes. It’s an awesome resource for designers, prototypers, and developers alike.  If you have a profile with Unsplash, you should check […]

Good news everybody! Yeah, this is going to be awesome. May the web enjoy healthy browsing again. While I may be in “AMP is bullshit” camp, I can still respect the solution it is trying to solve. I totally agree with others that it is the web developer’s responsibility to load pages fast. As John […]

This post was previously updated on November 01, 2018. We all have to deal with it at some point. The Flash Of Unstyled Content. Yuck. What a name. According to TechRepublic it has its origins documented as far back as 2001. There are a wide range of fixes. This fix however is super duper easy to implement […]

Want to add your ACF’s to your AMP’s? If you’re unfamiliar with AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) by Google. It’s basically a new way to serve super fast, lightweight compiled versions of a webpage to mobile users. It has its own validation spec. Really really huge honking websites like Polygon, Washington Post and The Verge all use AMP on […]

I wrote a new tutorial since this one is a bit out of date.     Okay so a few things have changed since my April post. I figured I’d write an update on how to get started with Trellis and Bedrock. There has been a ton of commits since then. Again, I’m assuming you’re on a Mac […]

First off, these are personal suggestions that have worked for me. But honestly none of these will help you if your significant other is not motivated to make it work. A relationship is a two-way street and these tips operate on that premise. 👏 Make lots of plans together. Future plans, way-way-out-in-the-future plans, virtual plans, […]

Several years ago, I made the mistake of snoozing my alarm clock one too many times. I was running late for my 8:00am Typography II class. I didn’t know it yet, but it was the last time I’d ever be late to a class. I was in a rut. I was rude and callused in […]

UPDATE: I updated this post here 👀 WordPress is a beast. Setting up your local machine, mysql, keeping track of users, managing dependancies and plugins, setting up your vhosts—jeez, all of that can be a daunting task. Let’s automate some things. I’m making a few assumptions here. Such as you probably have Node, npm and Bower […]