asides – jazzsequence

The life of a developer

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You have a broad plan. Say, you want to move your website to a new host. I’ve been running this site (which is a WordPress multisite that also includes my partner’s blog, the blog we originally created to share pictures of our kids, a personal portflolio-type site…

March 18, 2025

Comparing AI models: The “what band am I thinking of?” version

I have several other posts to write about different things I’ve been playing with on ChatGPT, especially since they’ve dropped a ton of new stuff into Plus, but today, I want to talk about an experiment I like to call “what band am I thinking of?” The test This didn’t even start out being an…

December 7, 2023

I was on the WP Tavern podcast

If you want to hear me talk about how great I think Composer is (and sound relatively intelligent doing so), check out the WP Tavern podcast episode I recorded a while ago which just went live. Thanks Nathan for having me on!

March 23, 2023

WordPress 5.9: Full Site Editing Is Here

Block Themes Change the Way Site Owners Interact With Their Site, but What Does It All Mean? Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’re a WordPress developer. You’re building a site for a client. The site is complex, with a lot of different layouts, depending on the page and the marketing objective. Your…

January 27, 2022

New beginnings

After four years of agency (and some product) work at Human Made, the time has come to say goodbye and start a new adventure. As of September, I have been working as an engineer at Pantheon on the new CMS Ecosystems team as a WordPress specialist. I’m sad to be leaving my friends at Human…

November 1, 2021