Open source student.
I waited 17 years to watch the Matrix. At first it was because of some long forgotten arbitrary reason involving my opinions of Keanu Reeves and the original hype of the movie. When that wore off it was kind of fun to have just not seen it. I did see the copious gunfire in the … Continue reading I’m going to watch the Matrix sequels because
The only reason I find myself having to update Java is to maintain the Elasticsearch server we have running at WSU. Every time I want to update the provisioning configuration, I end up with 25 tabs open trying to figure out what version is needed and how to get it. This is hopefully a shortcut … Continue reading For the next time I’m trying to figure out how to update the Java SDK
A long, long, long time ago, sending email via your website was really horrible. Alongside the static HTML powering your Guestbook, you had some copy/pasted CGI script your ISP somehow allowed you to use that probably didn’t work, but oh crap it started working I hope it doesn’t break now. A long, long time ago, … Continue reading Send and receive email for your domain with Postmark and Amazon’s SES, S3, and Lambda services
I wrote this as a post for a friend a bit ago with the intention of cleaning it up to publish at some point. I kind of like the informality, so I’m mostly leaving it as is. Enjoy! Reading core code was a big step in becoming a better WordPress developer. I remember having a … Continue reading Becoming a better WordPress Developer
This was a really interesting listen. Pieter Hintjens, the founder of ZeroMQ, lays out a handful of rules for building open source communities. Put people before code. Make progress before you get consensus. Problems before solutions. Contracts before internals. Everything you do as a founder of a community should be aimed at getting the people … Continue reading Pieter Hintjens on Building Open Source Communities
As I write this, we have the WP REST API enabled for 1083 sites across 54 networks on our single installation of WordPress at Washington State University. It’s probably worth noting that this only counts as one active installation in the WordPress.org repository stats. 🙁 It’s definitely worth noting how we use it! 🙂 Our … Continue reading How we’re using the WP REST API at Washington State University