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Anyone who knows me can tell you that trust is a big deal for me. I have left jobs because of a lack of trust. I’ve quit organizations because of a lack of trust. I’ve killed friendships because of a lack of trust. If I can trust you – really trust you – then things…
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Every now and again, someone asks me how I got started in web development. They want to know what classes I took in college. What my degree is in. Who I studied under. It’s not a big secret, so I’ll tell you.
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Often, we look forward at those ahead to help build a personal definition of greatness – and then we chase after that with all our might. This is not a bad thing. It is when our definition of greatness becomes tied to achieving that target – which is often a moving target – that our…
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I’ve written at length on how to identify your perfect customer, regardless of your business’ focus, but finding a “perfect customer” for a blog is quite a bit harder. This blog is now over 6 years old, and I still don’t really know who my audience is.
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Logging in to your WordPress site as an administrator when your plan is just to write is a bad idea. The admin user should be for administration and you should use an editor-level user for writing. But this dual-login workflow can be needlessly complicated on many sites. Instead, I propose we introduce a SUDO mode…
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It’s a bit funny how so many people will think the exact same way at the same time assuming they’re unique. It’s a bit depressing how so many people think being unique – in a consumer context – is a good thing.
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Does “the fold” still matter, or is this an outdated concept left over from the days of print media? In many ways, the answer is “no” because the web is a very different place than print. But in some ways, the answer is also a resounding “yes!”
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Jetpack’s Photon service doesn’t like it when image assets are served over SSL. I took some time to dig in to the issue and coded a quick workaround to enable Photon on a site locked down to serve all assets over SSL.
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Some of the products I build for the web don’t come with a website. But I can still use Google Analytics to track their usage. Thanks to a handy PHP library I found on GitHub, I now have the luxury of tracking the execution of server-side scripts in the same analytics dashboard I use to…
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The Things that Matter Most video podcast is ready to go and will be kicking off its first episode this Friday at 9am!