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Freelancing since 2001. I ♥ #WordPress, #PHP, #CLI, #Mac, #writing, and a lot of other things.

Shifter – a serverless hosting solution for WordPress

Shifter is a hosting solution that converts your WordPress site into a series of static files delivering lightning-fast performance and built-in security. Utilize the normal WordPress dashboard to…

Recent Work: EDGE2016 Security Conference Website

This week information security professionals will be descending upon the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Knoxville, TN for the first annual EDGE Security Conference. The conference will bring…

Monday Morning Listen – Epoch by Tycho

Looking for some ambient jams for your office this week? Allow me to suggest Tycho’s latest release Epoch. I found out about this one on Friday, and I…

Meet Graham

What if you re-engineered the human body to survive a low impact car crash? Project Graham shows what such a person would look like. A catalyst for conversation…

Vicinity: Ambient noise enhancer

Looking for an ambient noise solution that doesn’t require an Internet connection? Vicinity for Mac is a menu bar app that plays a variety of ambient sounds. Boost…

About Gary Johnson’s “Aleppo Gaffe”… – @mwender on Medium

I wrote another post on Medium today. This time my topic is politics, specifically Gary Johnson’s gaffe about Aleppo yesterday. It’s the first time I’ve ever published on…

iPhone 7 Impressions – Marques Brownlee

Alright, if you’re a regular reader, my guess is you know all about the latest iPhone 7 Apple introduced yesterday. That’s not the point of this post. Rather I want…

Snipcart – a JavaScript-based shopping cart

Whenever I’m developing a website, I like to keep things simple. More and more these days, I’m finding that I enjoy building sites by coding static HTML and adding additional…

Get Free, Royalty-Free Music Every Week – Music for Makers

Music for Makers offers high-quality, royalty-free music to use in your projects. Bonus: You should also check out Zenmix.io. There you can build your own “immersive, nature-inspired soundscape to…

Dual-Screen Backgrounds – Twelve South

Twelve South, makers of popular Mac-only accessories, has released another set of dual screen backgrounds. Their latest collection is an Hawaiian Island Adventure. The set features four scenes…

Castro 2 — Play and Share Podcasts

Ok, since we all know what a *podcast* is (think Serial), it’s time we had a talk about your podcatcher. (Didn’t realize you had a podcatcher? Well, this…

Pulse CMS

I’m a fan of keeping things simple and efficient whenever I’m developing a website. Pulse CMS is just such an option. It’s a flat-file CMS that you can…

ProcessWire CMS

Are you a developer looking for a WordPress alternative? In your capable hands, ProcessWire is a powerful tool. For more on ProcessWire, check out this article from Smashing…

How Much to Make a Logo

Are you in the market for a new logo? Crew has created a nice web app to find out: How Much to Make a Logo

Dealing with Repetitive Strain Injury: Part One — Pick two: gaming, coding, and lifting

I’m not a real *blogger*, but sometimes I play like I’m one over on Medium. Today I published the first in my two part series on repetitive strain…

Modern Javascript

Modern Javascript is a free course to get you up to speed with everything from “vanilla JS, to ES2015, NPM and Webpackpro”. Building web applications with cutting edge…

Coupons at Checkout

Whenever you shop online and you see a field for entering a coupon code, do you open a tab and search for a discount? Now there’s a Chrome…

Web Design in 4 minutes

This is just lovely. In Web Design in 4 minutes, Jeremy Thomas takes us through the basics of web design by progressively enhancing the page as you read…

Enki – Daily Coding Workouts

I’ve really been enjoying my daily coding workouts via Enki. I’ve got it set to notify me each day at 8:45pm. Then I get to choose a workout…

Top Frameworks for WordPress Plugin & Theme Developers – IncludeWP

Developing your own WordPress plugin or theme? If your first step is choosing an existing framework for a head start, IncludeWP is a great place to find out about…