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Notes from ELC Summit 2020, including talks on leadership, management strategies, and specific tools and tactics to support eng leaders.
Notes from ELC Summit 2020, including talks on leadership, management strategies, and specific tools and tactics to support eng leaders.
Update 3/6/21: Better Font Awesome 2.0.0 has been released! Please see the wordpress.org support thread for details. TLDR; I finally got around to updating Better Font Awesome to support Font Awesome v5! This update includes many changes, and it’s important to get plenty of real user testing before publishing the update to the WordPress plugin repo. If … Continue reading“Better Font Awesome v2 ready for testing. . . again!”
I’m making a lot of coffees now that I’m working from home, and it’s kinda fun to document them as I make them. In no particular order, with more to come. . .
Week #1: Coaching Skills Questions + Playbacks + Split-tracks Ask more questions! Ask more open questions! Question of the week for me: “What are the options?” Playbacks “I heard you say ____. . .” Split-tracks “I hear you saying a few things, which one should we start with?” Empower your partner to decide – there’s … Continue reading“LifeLabs manager training notes to self”
In this article, I’m going to teach you how to build banquette seating for your home, including blueprints, materials list, and all the instructions you should need to make your own bench seating.
In this article, I’m going to teach you how to build banquette seating for your home, including blueprints, materials list, and all the instructions you should need to make your own bench seating.
Intro I coach a leadership program out in Colorado, and recently coaches and participants alike have been talking a lot about how to effectively manage the demands of the program in conjunction with work, family responsibilities, to-do lists, personal care, and all the other things life entails. I’m no organizational expert myself, but I do have some … Continue reading“The Tools I Use to Organize My Life”
Over the past couple of months, I’ve received a ton of inquiries asking when Better Font Awesome would support the latest batch of icons in Font Awesome 5+. It’s been a long time coming, but I’m happy to announce that the Better Font Awesome v2 beta is ready for testing! DOWNLOAD THE BETA » What’s … Continue reading“Better Font Awesome 2 ready for testing!”
During my career I’ve authored a bunch of different WordPress plugins, and I always told myself that I’d do something special if one of them reached the 100,000 install mark. Much to my delight, Better Font Awesome (my plugin that let’s you insert all sorts of really great icons ) recently surpassed 100,000 active installs, and so I’m … Continue reading“The journey to 100,000 installs”
Hello good people of WordPress! I’m super excited to announce that we’re hiring here at NerdWallet in San Francisco. If you are (or you know) a senior-level WordPress developer, then read on (or check out the listing). Why is this exciting? It’s not often I get this excited about a hiring opportunity, but in this … Continue reading“We’re hiring! Looking for a senior WordPress engineer.”
Writing WP-CLI Commands That Work by Steve Grunwell Benefits Easier to perform bulk ops Better vis into WP internals Cron, cache, transients, etc Not subject to timeouts like browser Better filesystem access Ability to script (automation) Good places to use it Deploying updates Troubleshooting issues with cron, caching, transients Scheduled maintenance routines Data migrations and transforms … Continue reading“LoopConf: Notes from Day 2”
