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… The Universe will Provide
If you hold something to be a guiding truth, you need to live by it at all times. If you can’t live by it, then it must not be a truth.
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Is “Organic” Just a Buzz-word?
I remember when the “organic” food craze was just beginning to take off in Portland. Just about everyone jumped on the bandwagon and started offering organic varieties of everything you could think of. Meat. Poultry. Vegetables. Baked goods. I once saw a store advertising “organic water,” and that’s when I began to see the immediate craze for what it was: a poorly-defined marketing term. In the Early Days Anyone could call just about anything organic because the definition of what constituted organic was very much in flux. For some products, it meant the food (or its ingredients) had not been…
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Avoid Abstraction Layers if You Can
I like abstraction layers because they make life easier for developers. I dislike abstraction layers because they raise issues for new developers who have yet to master them.
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WordPress and Shadow Taxonomies
Abstractions build false confidence for new developers – so I’m going to show you how to build a post-to-post relationship system in WordPress from scratch.
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Popcorn Trees
Until last weekend, my evening strolls have been in the dark – often in the wind and the rain as well. This past week, though, they’ve been in the waning sunlight of a just finished day with clear blue skies overhead and the laughter of families carrying from the park down the street.
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How to Fight Burnout
Some people say I’m a workaholic…
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WordPress Core Proposal: Portability
This is less a proposal for a new feature, and more a discussion about a drastically lacking capability in WordPress: It’s not portable.
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Own Your Space
Knowing who you are, where you stand, and being able to hold your ground when challenged is the difference between living and living in fear – the latter of which I would argue is no sort of living at all.
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The Goal of Blogging
There are conflicting opinions as to what would prompt someone to keep a daily blog.
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Role Models
Of all the advice I’ve ever received, words I’ve received from my father are the most precious.