Latest posts

• Custom WooCommerce Checkout Fields

  2020-09-23

  Some things I learned on my first in-depth WooCommerce build. Including how to do JavaScript logic on elements in the cart/price totals on the checkout page.

• Laravel 8, Jetstream and learning Laravel

  2020-09-08

  For experienced Laravel developers, version 8 and Jetstream are really exciting. But as someone who wants to introduce people to Laravel as a way to build cool stuff, I really feel like there are some issues here.

• Remote work and the future of the high street

  2020-09-03

  The high street is dying. Remote/home working as a result of COVID 19 is exacerbating this. But I think there's an opportunity to do everything better.

• Announcing Beyond WP

  2020-08-26

  WordPress developers: Today I’m opening sign ups to a newsletter I’ll be starting soon called Beyond WP. It will be a resource that brings developer tools and ideas from outside the WordPress ecosystem to WordPress developers.

• LiveStreams: Discovering Gutenberg

  2020-07-12

  I'm live-streaming reviewing Gutenberg block-editor plugin releases and exploring new block editor features. Here's some info and thoughts on that.

• What is “kindness”

  2020-05-18

  This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the topic is "Kindness". In one online community I hang out in the question has been asked: "What does kindness mean to you?" I thought my answer was worth posting here in public. So...

• Video: Investigating WPForms email issues with clever developer tools: wp-cli, HELO, and Querious

  2020-04-16

  I recently had an issue with form notification emails not sending from a local development site. I used some advanced developer tools to diagnose this. This is a tour of those tools and how I used them to solve this problem.

• Video: JavaScript, reduceRight() and function/operator symmetry

  2020-04-14

  A friend of mine asked for use cases for the reduceRight JavaScript Array method the other week. I made a little video explaining it.