Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

Create an ePub out of a Category on your Site

Still under development. It doesn’t handle images yet. Hence not publishing to the WordPress plugin repository. However. It WILL create an ePub of all the posts in a category when you save a post. If you have images in your posts then the ePub will open fine, it just won’t validate at http://validator.idpf.org The code…

January 21, 2013
A Domain-Agnostic Social Network

Ever since the guys at Diaspora raised 200k on Kickstarter I’ve had an itch I am trying to scratch. I wrote a little bit about this already but thought it would be good to flesh out the idea a bit more and put it out there for the sake of “the conversation.” As users of…

January 13, 2013
Why Automattic Doesn’t Need to Buy App.net

… It looks like they have their own social API out there already. Several months ago I suggested that Automattic purchase Path. Sadly it turns out that it would probably be too expensive (see comments). But the idea behind the post is still oh so true. I still want to own my own content. I…

November 21, 2012
Of Tapas and Apps

You might have noticed that I was in Spain last week. I love Spain! What’s not to love? Flamenco is like a window into a lost ritual enchantment of another time and place. Spain was home to artists such as Picasso, El Greco and Dali. There can be very little fault found in Spain and…

October 24, 2012
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…

September 23, 2012
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…

August 17, 2012
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…

August 3, 2012
How to Debug WordPress

I recently stumbled across this nifty gem in the WordPress Codex: Debugging in WordPress. Basically, php has ways to suppressing errors, and by default WordPress will do this for you as well. Why? Well, you don’t want everyone who stumbles onto your site to see all the errors your code is making. The problem is…

June 22, 2012
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…

May 25, 2012
Responsive Design – WordPress NYC

In case you missed it, there _were _60 people on the waiting list… Here’s the talk I gave at WPNYC in April about Responsive Web Design. I spliced out my piece from the full video, but if you’d like what you see here, Sonja did a great job canvasing the Responsive Design conversation. My talk…

May 23, 2012