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For a long time, my personal website was a built on WordPress. I’ve worked with WordPress a bunch in my career and felt like it was a good…

If you’re like me, you’re probably stuck using jQuery more often than not. It’s everywhere, and to be honest it’s a solid, mature library…

This post is written with WordPress’ new fancy-pants editor, Gutenberg. WordPress version 5.0 is coming out very soon, likely in the next…

If you pay attention to Google and it’s indexing rules, you’ve probably heard that you need an SSL certificate on your site. I’ve known this…

Before MDN started to organize their JavaScript documentation, finding answers to your JavaScript questions often landed you on Stack…

Lately, VS Code has been getting a lot of hype in the dev community. It’s been around since for a few years and TBH is a really sweet editor…

I’m mostly logging this here for my own benefit, but if the Google gods brought your here, sweet! Just came across another fun quirk with…

Something that’s come up recently in the front-end world is the topic of a learning curve and JavaScript tooling such and Webpack and Babel…

After getting my VPS shut down for a second time by Digital Ocean (which apparently was issuing DOS network packets – no further explanation…

Ask any PHP developer and they’ll tell you Xdebug is the best thing since sliced bread. While true, it’s also one of the biggest pain in the…

EDIT, May 9, 2016 I noticed that the form wouldn’t submit when not logged in, so I’ve updated the gist to include a check to see if a user…

Love the WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin, but want a field for adding in code with syntax highlighting? Just released, a new plugin…

This is more an informational post for myself, but here’s some nifty commands that help debug what’s going wrong on a server when things…