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Just finished listening to this book on Audible (pro tip: Listen at 150% speed). Below are some bullets that really stood out to me. * Business plan - Google initially created a business plan that didn’t actually tie the engineers to anything. In hindsight this worked quite well in allowing them
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There's some task managers out there, as well as information on productivity and task management systems, whether digital or something analog. I started thinking about what a task manager that works how I think, taking inspiration from all the things I've used over the years. This
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Just finished watching an excellent video from James Clear on the small changes you can make in your life to improve over time. This lines up very closely with the daily habits I've been practicing last year. I highly recommend checking out this talk! Sharing my sketchnotes below:
WordPress Themes
Over the last few weeks I have had quite a lot of requests to release the WordPress theme that runs this website. I'm happy to announce that my WordPress theme, appropriately named "Tabor", is available on ThemeBeans. Over the last few weeks I have had quite
Design
Designing beautiful and highly functional WordPress themes is not as simple as opening your design editor of choice and going to town. There’s a lot more to think about when it comes to developing beautiful WordPress themes that intentionally focus on both form and function. It’s important to
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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
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https://make.xwp.co/2017/08/30/contributing-to-wordpress-core-as-a-non-developer/ Sharing a post I wrote for XWP, where I work as a Product Owner / Designer.
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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
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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
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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
Development
You get one chance to make a fantastic first impression. Just one. WordPress itself isn’t particularly known for its first impressions, and WordPress themes in general are notoriously difficult to get rolling. Sure, it’s easy to install WordPress and upload a theme. But what happens next? Why not
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Push-ups Can you do a push-up? Whether it’s from the knees or strict I’m sure you can. Go on, try one now. That was pretty easy right? Do you think you could do one more tomorrow when you wake up? Earlier this year I was reading