Category: personal development
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How a Referrer Spam Plugin Slowed Down My Site
Initial Spike At the beginning of February 2024, I was experiencing a spike in my Google Analytics (GA4) data for a couple of my blog posts. It was a little shocking to me because the article that I wrote wouldn’t have warranted such traffic. I’m no habitual writer that gets that much traffic. I started…
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Three WordPress Meetup Talks In One Week
If you asked me how many talks I’ve attended in person and the amount I have watched online, I wouldn’t even know where to begin counting. Meetup events, design conferences, web development conferences, TED Talks, expo events, book club discussions, etc. It would mount to the hundreds, easily.
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Discovering other WordPress Meetups in Massachusetts
This past Monday I attended the Boston WordPress Meetup and got to listen to Rob Petrin talk about Gutenberg’s development roadmap within WordPress. So far, we’re on a very good path. A lot of new features have been indoctrinated into the system and are providing more options for users to build unique-looking sites.
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Becoming a Boston WordPress Meetup Organizer
Last year I wrote about my experience attending my first Boston WordPress Meetup in a while and how I asked the organizers if I could help out. Sure enough, I am now an official organizer managing some of the basic tasks!
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Proprietary Rights to Your Digital Content
The social web of today is highly integral to our daily lives. How we share these secondary extensions of ourselves is through digital social platforms. The vast majority of these proprietary platforms harness our activities through threads, forums, and instantaneous feeds. Utilizing our data, to make business and marketing decisions and suggestive social connections. It’s…
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Reflecting on 2023, Achieving in 2024
It was an interesting ride for the year 2023. There were a lot of lows initially, but as the year progressed, around the beginning of spring, things turned to mostly highs. Overall, the takeaways were mostly positive.
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Boston WordPress Meetup Experience
So I don’t remember when the last time I attended a Boston WordPress Meetup was, but it was definitely a time before COVID hit and when Microsoft kept their large amphitheater seating open. We all sat in bleacher-style wood seats while watching the presenters give their talks.
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Notes to Myself
Ever find yourself confused in the middle of a project and having to Google things all the time? Yes, we all have been there. This is not new. Well, this advice may sound obvious, but a developer should write notes, or blog about it for their own sake.
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WordPress WordCamp Rochester Experience
It started with a rainy Friday afternoon in Massachusetts, literally. It was the same storm surge that hammered New York City that same weekend, causing massive floods in the city. It took me nearly an hour to drive out of Massachusetts due to the slow traffic. But once I hit the open roads of Upstate…
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Attending WordCamp Rochester, New York 2023!
As you may already know, I have been a huge fan of WordPress since college. I’ve used the platform since 2008 and have fond memories over the past decade-plus, working on my own WordPress client work or tinkering with projects at an agency.