• Have you tried it to see what breaks?

    Last year, my team received a challenge from our CEO to try to significantly improve our purchase flow along with a bit of time pressure. For several months, I’d had a good, high-level idea of how we might improve our purchase flow. But, as the idea lacked concrete implementation details, we kept prioritizing other work…

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  • Getting a list of all Google Fonts

    As part of a recent audit that I was doing of Google Font usage in a codebase, I had a need to get a list of all Google Fonts. But, after a bit of searching, I wasn’t finding an easily consumable list of these fonts. But, it turns out that if you get an Google…

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  • Where’d that 7 come from?

    I shot this target last week. Just that one shot that must’ve come from someone else.

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  • Target backer after match

    After getting done with the Texas State Indoor Championship this past weekend, one of the most satisfying things is taking a look at the backer and seeing your overall group. It’s especially satisfying the more that I shoot out the black.

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  • Simple Github Webhook handler in PHP

    Over the past month or so, I spent a bit of time working on setting up a local development environment for a project that I’m working on. As part of that, I also set up a deployment flow using a simple Github webhook handler in PHP. I modeled this Github webhook handler very much after…

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    Code for Github webhook handler in PHP
  • Portugal Road Trip 2022

    This past June, following the Crew meetup in Porto, Sara and I rented a car and drove from Porto to Lisbon. We stopped at several places along the way as well including Nazare and Sintra.

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  • Jetpack Crew Meetup in Porto

    In June, I flew to Porto, Portugal to join the Crew team on their meetup. After nearly 2 years with Automattic not having meetups, it was great to see some old friends as well as meet several new people that we’d added in the past couple of years. Near the beginning of the meetup, I…

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  • How to export Github pull requests

    I had the need recently to export Github pull requests from a repository to a CSV so that I could do some analysis. I wasn’t able to find a simple way to this in the Github UI. When I searched, I found several tools. But, the API seemed quite simple, so I just wrote a…

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  • Hangout Music Festival 2022

    About a month ago, Sara and I went to Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama. This trip was Sara’s birthday and Christmas gift for 2021. The only thing that she asked for – to see Post Malone in concert. Originally she suggested that we go to Lollapalooza in Europe, but I was sure that…

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  • Family Trip to Beavers Bend

    This weekend, the family went to Beavers Bend State Park in Broken Bow, Oklahoma for some kayaking, hiking, and just hanging out in a cabin. Here are some photos from the trip.

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