Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

WordPress SiteHacks

Or, How to leverage WordPress to do cool stuff to your site I gave at talk at WordCamp NYC this month, so I thought I’d explore some of the ideas I touched upon in blog form. WORDPRESS, YOUR WORLD, YOUR DATA Too many companies provide social services for “free,” quite literally banking on your data.…

November 6, 2015
WordPress: Your World, YOUR Data – Slides

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October 31, 2015
Are Online Services EVIL?

Edit – October 14, 2018 – Since the 2016 elections, the revelations about Cambridge Analytica, and more stories about Facebook trying to overstep the privacy bounds I am no longer convinced that there aren’t bad intentions. At best they’re negligent. I’ll be giving at talk at WordCamp NYC this month, so I thought I’d explore…

October 27, 2015
Proof of Concept: I made my very own Foursquare (Swarm) on WordPress… and you can too

I’ve always loved the concept of Foursquare. Sharing locations is awesome, although somewhat creepy. How do you leverage the awesomeness while avoiding the creepy factor? Sadly today it’s basically impossible to protect yourself against being tracked, if you have a mobile phone. But I’m not going to give away my apartment key to everyone around,…

October 19, 2015
What is the Ideal Advertising Platform?

I’ll be giving at talk at WordCamp NYC this month, so I thought I’d explore some of the ideas I’ll be touching on in blog form. I’d love your feedback below to further my research. This essay delves into an aspect of owning your own data vs. being someone else’s product. Speaking personally, as a…

October 11, 2015
Last Song Before Night By Ilana C. Myer

I’m a proud husband, what can I say. I know on this blog I don’t normally stray from my usual topics about tech, and development. But I would be amiss if I did not mention this huge event in our life. So I hope you’ll forgive this digression. I’m a not-so-closet geek complete with a…

October 11, 2015
How We Solve Problems: Recursion

From Wikipedia: recursion is the process of repeating items in a “self-similar” way. Self-similar, in mathematics, is an object that is exactly or approximately similar to a part of itself. A Koch curve has an infinitely repeating self-similarity when it is magnified. In practice, when programming, this is when a method calls itself. This s…

September 22, 2015
Part II: The Founder Institute, Lessons Learned

Some of you are familiar with Inkwell—I founded it as part of the curriculum for the Founder Institute (FI). I had come to FI to see what I could do with the idea, and that idea carried me through to graduation. What I got from the Founder Institute I came to the Founder Institute wanting…

September 3, 2015
Part I: Inkwell Inc, Post Mortem

Some of you are familiar with Inkwell—I founded it as part of the curriculum for the Founder Institute. I had come to FI to see what I could do with the idea, and that idea carried me through to graduation. The Idea Inkwell was going to be a crowdfunding platform specifically for authors. With the…

September 1, 2015
How to use JSONP (AJAX to SSL) in WordPress, an EASIER way

I’ve already written about How to use JSONP in WordPress Development. I explain how it works, and why you would use it there. At work we work with several domains and I’ve had to use quite a bit of JSONP, I’ve rethought how to use it, and made this micro-framework to make it a LOT…

July 2, 2015