Eric Mann's Blog

  • Valentine’s Day

    In high school, I wrote a short, 4-stanza poem titled My Beloved that no one really understood at the time. I was asked repeatedly who I’d written it for, and kept giving the cryptic answer, “I don’t know yet.” Fast forward a little over a decade and I finally met the women for whom this poem was meant: my wife.

  • Is Your TV Watching You?

    Have you considered your new TV might be spying on you?

  • WordPress Core Proposal: Offline Editor

    What would you want to see in an offline editor for WordPress? How would you approach building it? Would it be a core feature, plugin material, or something else entirely?

  • A Hack a Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay

    I do a lot of fancy work with WordPress that, at times, has me pulling my hair out in frustration with the lack of (or uselessness of) certain hooks in WordPress core. At the same time, I never hack core.

  • Hitting a Stride

    Seeing athletes who’ve trained for a half decade just to put on a few minute (or in rare cases an hour) long performance is breathtaking. To see hours and hours of effort over weeks, months, and years culminate to a brief moment in front of the camera is awe-inspiring.

  • Why I Write

    I have no less than 5 unfinished novels in my Dropbox. They’re all fun stories, and if you ever want to hear what they’re about I’ll tell you. But you’ll likely never see them on Amazon. Why, then, do I bother to write?

  • Daily Dogfooding

    I am appalled by the number of people who work with WordPress for a living but don’t use it outside of work.

  • Just Beneath the Surface

    When I work with new software developers, more often than not I find myself urging patience over expedience.

  • Inbox: How do I remove jQuery

    A message in my inbox this week asked for help removing jQuery from the front-end of a site. In this particular case, jQuery wasn’t being used and just slowed down the page.

  • WordPress Core Proposal: Code of Ethics

    The WordPress community has been abuzz recently about codes of conduct and behavioral standards – particularly at WordCamps. It’s been an interesting conversation, filled with passionate arguments on both sides. Not much progress has been seen at all, though.