Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

Category: Musings

  • Multilingual Coding

    So I’m with a relatively small team. That means that I get to do things I wasn’t strictly hired to do. I do tech support, customer support, I’m technically a Front-end Developer but now am getting pretty strong with my Back-end skills. All-in-all working with a small team is a great way to explore your…

  • Facebook Refugee Unplugs From Social Media – NPR

    Katherine Losse, Facebook’s 51st employee, has recently left after spending five years at the company. Rising from customer service representative to ghost writer for Mark Zuckerberg, she’s recently left Facebook to live on a farm and write a book: The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network. I haven’t read it…

  • The Importance of Safari’s Reader Button

    With the rise of the new “Retina Display” monitors screen resolution is now minuscule. With is awesome for watching HD movies and browsing HD photos, but reading… is difficult. In the past I found myself clicking CMD+ on most sites just so I could comfortably read the screen. But that’s usually a bad idea of…

  • Why Automattic Should Buy Path

    (Alternate Title) How WordPress Can Fix Social I went to the breakout NYC PandoMonthly Event this by Pando Daily past week. It was a pleasure watching Sarah Lacy (@sarahcuda), doing what she does best: interviewing one of my heroes Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) all about WordPress, how he got started, the future of WP, social networks…

  • Why Use WordPress? The Long Reason

    WordPress is a CMS (Content Management System). In the late 90’s, when I first began building websites, you used to have to create a separate page for every page on your site. One would think that that follows a certain logic. But if you consider this further there are many elements on each page that repeat themselves…

  • Facebook vs Twitter: So what’s the difference between them?

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

    Social networks have been growing rapidly. EVERYONE who is ANYONE is a part of at LEAST one and usually many networking platforms. Some use them for reconnecting with long-lost friends, while others use it to aggressively market their new… whositzwhatzit. But with so many new and crazy things out there it’s hard to decide what…