9 minute readStats and discussion about April’s progress developing the WordPress plugin Print My Blog. Benefits other plugin devs, plugin users, and (let’s be honest) myself.
Read More Print my Blog Plugin Transparency Report – April 2019There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Read More Protected: Luggage Switch10 minute readHave you ever been on a WordPress.org plugin page, and seen a link saying “Donate to this plugin”? You probably didn’t click it. Nearly none of us do. But why not? You probably think you should, but something is preventing you. In this article, I explore the reasons we rarely donate to software we depend on, and what can be done about it.
Read More Why We don’t Donate to WordPress Plugins, Even When We Know We Should2 minute readWhere Did This Come From? I was previously putting my weekly updates for Print My Blog, the WordPress plugin, on the Open Collective page. But I don’t think anyone saw them (although I wasn’t sure, I didn’t have access to any analytics), it didn’t seem as usable from my phone (which is important when I […]
Read More Print My Blog Transparency Report, April 5, 2019 – Private Posts, Family Search Tutorial, and Hustling3 minute readUsually I quickly jot down my notes from general conferences of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. But this time I’d like to share my notes in a format that is approachable to those with different beliefs. I think that will be good for others to understand a bit more about beliefs of […]
Read More Personal Highlights from April 2018 General Conference6 minute readSo you have a blog to share your stories with friends, family, and the world. Great. But will it still exist in 50 years? How about 100? Most likely it will fall victim to the “Digital Dark Age“, and won’t be available. Your grandfather’s memoirs written on paper might be more accessible than your blog. […]
Read More Immortalize Your Blog by Turning It into a Family Search Memory5 minute readI used to make my transparency on plugin development reports right in Open Collective, but I really prefer to keep them on my blog, like I outlined last time. So here’s all my old reports compounded into one blog post. Reports From Open Collective 1.6.3, updated WordPress.org description, and comments feedback published on March 29, […]
Read More Print My Blog Transparency Reports – November 2018 to March 20195 minute readIt’s easy for WordPress plugin developers to be endlessly chasing “modern best practices” and building features they love, but actual users don’t care about. Over the past few months, I’ve been experimenting with a development methodology that avoids waste and stays focused on users’ priorities. I call it “Lazy Software Development,” and this is how it works…
Read More The 5 Promises of User-Led Software Development3 minute readYesterday, a site I maintain, earlychildhoodeducator.com, was having issues communicating with Amazon’s Product Advertising API. Here’s what I learned about the problem and how we fixed it (in case you’re likewise having issues with it!) How we use Amazon Product Advertising API The website is for an online school, and they have links to the […]
Read More Dealing with Amazon Product Advertising API Policy Changes5 minute readThe bane of all Javascript code using jQuery.ajax() is polluted JSON responses: when some HTML or other junk gets into your JSON response, making it unparsable and bringing the whole system to a screeching halt. In this post, I’ll show what you can do with polluted JSON to keep everything working. How It’s Supposed to […]
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