My WordCamp San Francisco Experience
I was fortunate enough to attend my first WordCamp San Francisco last weekend. When I say “fortunate,” I mean that in the very truest sense of the word, for I would not have been able to go without the...
View ArticleChapter 4 Now Available
Hi kids, here’s a book update. Chapters four through six are currently in review, but that’s not holding us back! If you’ve purchased the MEAP (Manning Early Access Program), chapter four is now...
View ArticleI’m in Love
I’ll admit it, I’m a WordPress theme junkie. It’s what I do, after all. I love seeing what the big theme shops put out almost as much as I love building them myself. I’m also perennially distracted by...
View ArticleLightning Storm
Last night, WordPress DC (which, if you live in/near Washington, D.C. and love WordPress, you really must join) held a round of lightning talks covering a range of WordPress and WordPress-related...
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Taking After School Activity Providers Back to School
It’s back to school time again, meaning it’s also back to after school activities. Thing 1 is in chess club and takes piano lessons. Thing 2 wants to be a Girl Scout Daisy. There’s also a bevy of after...
View ArticleOops, I Did It Again
Yesterday, as I was frantically researching for my upcoming talk at WordCamp Baltimore, I wanted to get all the details on WebKit’s implementation of the srcset attribute. A link to .Net magazine, a...
View ArticleJust Call Me “Fallout Girl”…
When 2013 is all said and done, it will have been quite the eventful year for me, including turning 40, writing a book, winning Twitter, and attending my first WordCamp San Francisco. Sandwiched into...
View ArticleA Matter of Trust
Apple, in all their presumptuousness, has now pushed iOS 7.0.3 to both my iPhone and my iPad. I have not yet installed iOS 7 at all, nor do I want to. It’s ugly, it breaks with my muscle-memory...
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One Person’s Bug Fix…
…is another person’s broken workflow. Courtesy of XKCD: XKCD comic #1172
View ArticleNot Quite So Out of Touch Maybe?
It seems the reports of my future isolation have been somewhat exaggerated. A couple of weeks ago I saw a new doctor at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore who still recommended the RAI treatment, but basically...
View ArticleWhy No, I Won’t Cry for You, Mike Shanahan
By the time you read this, heck, by the time I’m finished writing this, Redskins coach Mike Shanahan is likely to be out of his job. This has become a macabre ritual on the Monday following the end of...
View Article5 Suggestions for Improving Your Podcast
I listen to a lot of podcasts. No, seriously, a lot of podcasts. On all different subjects: Apple, space, movies, front-end web development, and even one particular radio show that has described itself...
View ArticleHome Sweet Home
Today I returned home from my exile to the West Virginia mountains after receiving my iodine-131 treatment last week for thyroid cancer. While there was certainly a “vacation” aspect to the whole thing...
View ArticleOf Books & Podcasts…
Quick update! Due to travel schedules, my podcast appearance will be on March 27. Please adjust your calendars. Great news, everybody! Actually, terrible news. Well, a little bit of both, but more...
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CodeKit and Grunt and Gulp, Oh My!
There is no denying that CSS was the first great revolution in the front end web world. Without it, think of what the web would look like; most likely, it would have remained limited to its academic...
View Article“Stop bitching and fuckin adapt”
I think I just wrote my fastest plugin ever. Inspired by a Twitter request from Jeff Chandler, I adapted Matt Mullenweg’s classic “Hello Dolly” plugin to instead stream the words of wisdom from the...
View ArticleWatsonbombing
Watsonbombing: when your response to a request for help consists solely of IM’ing a URL to a vaguely-documented API with the implication, “Get to it, kid.” The post Watsonbombing appeared first on...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Jetpack
I’m not the first to write a post like this, nor will I be the last. But Jetpack, the ubiquitous plugin from Automattic, is likely one of the most polarizing collections of code in the WordPress...
View ArticleAnnouncing a New Plugin: Flipboard Magazine Widget
Hey you, yes you! Take a look at my sidebar. See that magazine-cover-looking-thingy? That’s thanks to my new plugin, Flipboard Magazine Widget. You can grab it over here at the WordPress plugin...
View ArticleNSCorp.com Wins iNova Award
RP3′s big summer project — the Norfolk Southern corporate redesign — just won gold in the 2013 iNOVA awards for best redesign in technology and services. Yay, team! The post NSCorp.com Wins iNova Award...
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