Musings

2026-04-22 Don’t let AI make you lazy

2025-11-19 On Breaking Glass

2024-11-17 Wikipedia: The Price of Centralized Knowledge

2024-03-12 Lead your team like a Jazz band

2023-12-01 Another trip around the sun

2023-07-25 How I did it

2023-06-23 AlgoExpert and Technical Interviews

2023-05-14 On Self Care

2023-05-09 What I want to do next

2023-05-04 Today I was laid off with 20% of Shopify

2023-04-12 16. Everything Has its Place

2023-03-04 15. Be a PIG Person

2023-02-26 14. Set an Intention

2023-02-20 13. Don’t Join a Tribe, Instead, Embrace Nuance

2023-02-19 a single photon

2023-02-04 12. The Tools You Use Change the Way You Think

2023-02-03 The Hardest Part of Writing Tests is Getting Started

2023-01-25 11. Travel, It Expands Your Soul

2023-01-19 10. People Are Paid for the Value They Create for Others — That Does Not Mean That That is Their Worth

2023-01-13 9. Don’t Wait Until it is Empty to Refill Your Tank

2022-12-31 8. The “Good Shit” Happens Outside Your Comfort Zone

2022-12-19 7. Exercise and Stretch Your Body, Mind, and Soul Every Day

2022-12-14 6. Gamify, All the Things!

2022-12-13 5. Take Shortcuts, But Do the Work

2022-12-08 4. Take the Pretty Routes

2022-12-05 3. Hopes and Dreams are the Fuel

2022-12-04 2. Make it Work, Then Make it Work Well

2022-12-03 1. Wear Sunscreen

2022-12-01 0. On Being 42, and the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

2022-11-30 Yet Another Website Relaunch

2022-09-30 A Software Engineer’s Guide to Giving Feedback that Actually Matters

2022-04-11 Star of David

2022-03-17 Dignity in Tech

2021-12-01 A Year of Shakespeare

2021-10-22 Quality First

2021-07-11 Technical Interviews

2021-04-21 Buds of Spring

2021-04-17 I’m Back WordPress, I missed you! So Long Hugo, Hello JAMStack!

2020-12-27 Please Unfollow Me

2020-08-14 The Green New Deal that Isn’t

2020-08-09 A New Neighbor

2020-07-01 Recursion and How to Get All the records from a paginated API

2020-02-04 Rules for a “Smart” Home

2019-09-27 You’re not helpless, there IS something you can do to reverse climate change

2019-02-22 Two Fundamental Things Wrong with Social Networks

2019-01-18 On “Rockstar” Developers

2019-01-01 A New Year, A New Look

2018-12-22 Implementing Agile – Part III – Slicing Stories

2018-11-10 Implementing Agile – Part II – WIP

2018-10-07 Implementing Agile – Part I – Standup

2018-03-22 Make Yourself Dispensable

2018-02-08 Developers Are Lazy, And That’s A Good Thing

2018-01-04 Some Thoughts on Cryptocurrencies

2018-01-01 9×12 – A Weekly Book Project Gone Rogue

2017-11-25 Announcing the new ISDA.org

2017-11-12 Play To Your Strengths (The Leader’s Serenity Prayer)

2017-10-17 [Video] It’s broke: how do I fix it? Debugging your code in WordPress

2017-08-27 A React + Redux WordPress Theme — Version 2.0

2017-08-20 Open Source: To Use Or Not To Use (And How To Choose)

2017-06-18 On Assholes and Leaders

2017-05-14 How to set up a local WordPress Vagrant development environment

2017-04-21 It’s broke: how do I fix it? Debugging your code in WordPress

2017-04-18 Debugging your code in WordPress: Tools of the Trade

2017-03-14 How to see if a class was added to an element using JavaScript

2017-01-29 A Weekly Book Project

2017-01-20 Plugin Concept: Request Post Feedback (with revisions)

2017-01-16 Developing A Theme for WordPress Using ReactJS, Redux, and the WP REST API

2017-01-06 Thoughts about “Who” and Hiring

2016-12-07 Is npm not installing properly on Vagrant running on Windows?

2016-11-02 Refactoring a WordPress plugin, Object-oriented, a start

2016-10-28 Technological Evolution, Microsoft vs Apple

2016-10-03 How to Globally Ignore files from git

2016-08-30 Ep7 – We hold these truths to be self-evident

2016-07-10 Ep6 – Owning Books

2016-07-01 Why doesn’t flush_rewrite_rules() work on my WordPress plugin?

2016-06-24 Ep5 – We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead

2016-06-19 Object Oriented WordPress Plugin Development

2016-06-16 Ep4 – Blood, Toil, Tears, And Sweat

2016-06-07 Ep3 – Why We Need To Avoid Taboos

2016-06-03 Ep2 – We Choose To Go To The Moon

2016-05-29 Ep1 – “For if Achillês is left alone to fight…” – Zeus Cloudgatherer

2016-05-16 The Privacy / Convenience Polarity is a Myth

2016-05-12 SUPER Simple React webpack Tutorial, so you can start ‘Getting Started’

2016-05-08 Say: “Alexa, turn on the living room lights”

2016-02-23 Pondering Sam Harris’ thoughts on digital backdoors

2016-02-07 On Encryption VS Security

2016-01-03 How to Back up Your Database on Vagrant Halt

2015-12-29 My 2015 Weekly Book Project

2015-12-20 Watch the video of my WordCampNYC talk!

2015-11-15 Example #2: How WordPress Assets Manager Replaced Our Sharefile

2015-11-08 Example #1: Augmenting Ozh’s Twitter Archiver

2015-11-06 WordPress SiteHacks

2015-10-31 WordPress: Your World, YOUR Data – Slides

2015-10-27 Are Online Services EVIL?

2015-10-19 Proof of Concept: I made my very own Foursquare (Swarm) on WordPress… and you can too

2015-10-11 Last Song Before Night By Ilana C. Myer

2015-10-11 What is the Ideal Advertising Platform?

2015-09-22 How We Solve Problems: Recursion

2015-09-03 Part II: The Founder Institute, Lessons Learned

2015-09-01 Part I: Inkwell Inc, Post Mortem

2015-07-02 How to use JSONP (AJAX to SSL) in WordPress, an EASIER way

2015-06-30 Why we need to avoid taboos

2015-06-28 WPNYC: Typography – What You Should Not Do

2015-06-20 How I Rea[r]d – Audible has changed everything

2015-06-17 Typography, how to choose fonts for your site – WPNYC

2015-06-12 Web Typography – A quick and dirty guide to Enqueuing Fonts in WordPress

2015-05-11 How to recursively make a directory (folder) with PHP

2015-05-08 Don’t be TOO clever with your UX designs – Why I cancelled my Coin

2015-04-24 If you feel that this site is running snappier, you’re probably right.

2015-03-15 “The Crystal Goblet or Printing Should be Invisible”

2015-03-08 Learning to Walk in Space

2015-02-26 I Didn’t MVP

2015-02-01 Long Live the QR Code

2014-11-20 Support NASA – The Plan

2014-11-16 Dear NASA

2014-11-04 How to use JSONP in WordPress Development. The Quick-and-Dirty QuickStart Guide

2014-10-13 Tech and Academia

2014-09-08 Why I went to the cloud…

2014-08-23 Setting up an Ubuntu Desktop LAMP development server

2014-08-06 Announcing IlanaCMyer.com

2014-07-20 We Choose

2014-07-09 Database Indices

2014-06-29 Demystifying the WordPress Plugin

2014-06-26 Labor Surplus is a Resource to be Tapped, Not a Liability to Mitigate

2014-05-18 Why I use Bootstrap, and what I get from it

2014-04-25 To the FCC: Thoughts on Net Neutrality

2014-03-22 Leveling Up Your Development Skills with a Pinch of SysAdmin

2014-03-18 How to Convert Docx to HTML

2014-02-02 Handling a PHP unserialize offset error… and why it happens

2014-01-29 How to Use a post-receive Git hook to mark a deployment in NewRelic

2014-01-24 What I Want to Hear About this Tuesday at the State of the Union Address

2014-01-12 Introducing Assets Manager for WordPress

2013-12-07 Code Is Poetry

2013-12-01 How WordPress Works: Dissecting the Database

2013-07-26 I May Be Ridiculously Good Looking, But It’s My Choice If I Want To Be Seen Naked

2013-06-13 Why Technology Killing Jobs is a Good Thing

2013-05-24 How to Write a CSV Directly to PHP://Output I/O Buffer With fputcsv()

2013-05-22 Turning Tricks: Using Action and Filter Hooks in WordPress

2013-03-24 How to Use AJAX in WordPress Development. The Quick-and-Dirty QuickStart Guide

2013-02-03 WordPress postmeta is useful, but be careful

2013-01-27 No Thanks to Parallels… VMWare Rocks!

2013-01-21 Create an ePub out of a Category on your Site

2013-01-13 A Domain-Agnostic Social Network

2012-11-21 Why Automattic Doesn’t Need to Buy App.net

2012-10-24 Of Tapas and Apps

2012-09-23 Multilingual Coding

2012-08-17 Facebook Refugee Unplugs From Social Media – NPR

2012-08-03 The Importance of Safari’s Reader Button

2012-06-22 How to Debug WordPress

2012-05-25 Why Automattic Should Buy Path

2012-05-23 Responsive Design – WordPress NYC

2012-04-27 Responsive Web Design – Solving the Pitfalls of `Display: None`

2012-04-22 WordPressNYC Show Notes: Books to Read About Responsive Web Design and Why

2012-04-08 Interesting IE vs Chrome Trend

2012-03-29 A Small Thought About Adaptive Web Design vs Responsive Web Design

2012-03-16 Why I tried Twitter’s Bootstrap and What I Didn’t Get from It

2012-03-01 Form Input “Placeholder” Attribute Polyfill

2012-01-22 No More Passwords* – Log into WordPress using a QR Code

2012-01-18 How to Add META Tags – ROBOTS NOFOLLOW,NOINDEX – to Your MediaWiki Site Head

2011-12-15 Beautiful WordPress 3.3 Site in Under 30 Minutes

2011-09-14 Announcing: The Redesign – Part One

2011-09-04 Revised Font Stack | Responsive Type Design

2011-08-28 LessCSS and CSS3

2011-08-22 How and Why I Wasted My Time Today — or — A New (FAIL) Way to Run Internet Explorer on Your Mac

2011-08-07 The Many Facets of Content Pertaining to Responsive Web Design and Object Oriented CSS

2011-07-31 How to add a divider between menu items in css using only one selector

2010-09-04 Why Use WordPress? The Long Reason

2010-08-11 How To Integrate Salesforce With Cforms (and have multiple Salesforce Web to Lead forms in WordPress)

2010-01-01 Facebook vs Twitter: So what’s the difference between them?