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Reflections on a recent WP Product Talk episode, and my thoughts on what WordPress may have lost touch with over the years.

It’s been a heck of a week. I left my job, my wife started working on her art professionally, my kids started going to public school for the first time ever, I released a big Siren update, and I started picking up freelance work.

3D printing is fulfilling the promise it made to me in 2005, and it’s been a genuine joy to dive back into it.

Reflecting on my experience building my first completely custom full site editing theme, from start to finish.

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… Continue reading Your WordPress Affiliate Plugin Is Making Your Life So Much Harder.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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… Continue reading Small Adjustments