Featured essay · Vol. 13

All Confusion Matters

This is something I’ve recently come to articulate. When presenting ideas to our colleagues, friends, or even potential customers, it’s easy to get frustrated when someone “just doesn’t get it.” I mean, what’s wrong with them? The value of our idea is obvious, right? If they don’t get it that’s on them. We’re just a […]

July 15, 2026 3 min read Reflections · Technology

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2026 · Summer

10

Jul

Practical AI

5 min
AI

A lot of time with AI is spent thinking about its potential. We imagine what it might be able to do, how it could work, what we could accomplish. But for those of us that have been using (and wrestling…

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2026 · Spring
10

May

Truly Motherly

5 min
Reflections

Being truly motherly means more than merely being a mom. In fact, everyone is able to extend motherly love in a deep and meaningful way.

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16

Apr

Connecting in Narratives

7 min
Reflections, WordPress

Years ago my wife and I were in the Detroit airport getting ready to board a plain to Florida to catch a cruise to the Caribbean. We found our terminal, bought some water, and did our usual pre-flight rituals. Then,…

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01

Apr

The method is the message

2 min
Reflections

I recently read, and highly recommend the online book Practical Typography. The first thing I did was remove underlines from my links. Turns out, that’s a relic and no longer necessary. The name of the book really nails what it’s…

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29

Mar

Welcome to the table, AI! There’s plenty of room!

7 min
Technology

When my wife was doing her undergrad her friends would meet up in the cafeteria regularly for ice cream and probably other food. They would always sit at a round table. If someone walked up to the table asking if…

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2025 · Spring
19

Apr

Upon Whimsical Wings

1 min
Poetry

One time I sat afoot from the mossy cliff, my thoughts adrift and body stiff, I gazed upon strange and beautiful things: A tiny flock of birds upon whimsical wings

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2024 · Spring
24

May

Cultivating a productive team

5 min
Team Building

One of my greatest passions is cultivating productive teams. I like the phrase “healthy team” and define a healthy team as: Healthy people in healthy relationships doing amazing work I’ve never met anyone that really disagreed with this idea. The…

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11

Apr

WordPress Interactivity API: A Noble Attempt

7 min
WordPress

Back in the day… The first ever WordPress site I built on was in 2010. It was just before WordPress 3.0 came out. I’d never worked in PHP before, but had experience working in other languages. I heard WordPress was…

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09

Apr

User Interactivity Begins in the Server

9 min
WordPress

Having WordPress support the WinterCG project would not only improve the developer and end-user experience of WordPress, but help take the Internet to the next level. This is my thesis, which I would like to make a case for. A…

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2024 · Winter
01

Jan

Are websites losing relevance?

5 min
Uncategorized

Years ago I worked on a project with my dad to invent a new machine for a specific type of scientific testing. The goal was to make the best machine for testing the properties of bearing materials in the world.…

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