• There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

    ― Marie Antoinette If you’re new here, you might not know that many years ago, I used to have seizures and that the medicine I was on then made me forget a LOT. When I say a LOT, I mean I don’t really have solid memories of the years between 2005 and 2012. Three years ago,…

  • I spoke at WordCamp US and you can, too. Really, you can.

    I spoke at WordCamp US and you can, too. Really, you can.

    Early last spring (2018), I submitted three proposed talks for WordCamp US, the annual conference for developers and users of WordPress. It was to be held in Nashville later that in year, in November. In this post, I’m going to share the three things I wanted to speak about, two reasons why I almost didn’t…

  • An AAR of the Freelancer’s Conference (inspired by the Fyre Festival documentary)

    In 2016, I launched a conference for freelancers that would be held the following year, in April 2017. In late February 2017, I cancelled that conference and refunded all of the tickets. After watching the Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix this afternoon, I decided to write a bit about my own failure launching an event,…