Author: Joshua

Last week I installed the iOS 11 public beta on my phone. After playing with it on my iPad for a few months I figured it’d be safe enough to add to my daily driver. It’s a new OS that adds features to a pretty established OS, no real surprise there as someone who uses […]

Contributing to WordPress Core as a non-developer Sharing a post I wrote for XWP, where I work as a Product Owner / Designer.

I gave talks/workshops at WordCamp Toronto 2017, WordCamp Baltimore 2017, WordCamp Europe 2018, and WordCamp for Publishers 2018 on the importance of sketching, wireframes, and prototypes. You can watch these online at WordPress.TV.  In this talk I shared simple steps to create sketches and wireframes that you can add to any development ticket or website […]

While I’m busy building my life, working, learning, planning, and all around staying busy, I often catch glimpses of something far more important that’s quickly passing me by. My son is 4 years old, and right now one of the highlights of his day, especially since it’s Summer time and he isn’t in preschool, is […]

As a teenager I tried running. Any attempts quickly ended in a fit of coughing with my lungs feeling ripped out. Finally around 19 a friend took me running for 2 miles. He kept us at a medium jogging pace, and at the end I didn’t feel like I had lost any major organs. Just […]