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Happy Mother’s Day to my wife, Rebecca. It was this day in 2014 that we found out we would be parents. Just over 7 months later we would…

Here’s a little deviation from the garden. I spent most of the day today finishing up the restoration of a child-sized roll top desk. This…

While making the tea light centerpiece I, of course, made some mistakes. Luckily, wood can be a forgiving medium. Here’s a little video on…

I made this tea light centerpiece for my wife on Mother’s Day 2019. This is the first project where I remembered to video the process, so…

This week I was tasked with performing a quick audit on an existing client site for WordPress 5.0 compatibility. The site had already made…

When testing many facets of the OptinMonster embed code I find myself needing a clean & quick HTML page on almost a daily basis. For most…

It will come to no surprise for those who know me. I have a hard time focusing for any significant period of time. Of course, this issue…

I was happy in Jetbrains land. Everything was familiar. Everything fit into my workflow perfectly. For 4 years every bit of development was…

Photo of landscape from a deer stand. A still pond on the right. Even when you come back empty-handed the time has not been wasted. Hunting…

My team and I at OptinMonster are in the process of building a true drag & drop solution for the campaign builder. This represents the…

Back in November Jason Fried (CEO of Basecamp) published a treasure trove of an article detailing how they, the team, structure their work…

The Boy Scouts and many outdoorsmen/women have a code of leaving the campsite better than you found it. That means picking up trash even if…

There’s an old saying, “Make hay while the sun shines”. It means you should get your work done while the conditions are favorable. No…

So many of us (developers) suffer from an extreme form of hubris. My programming language of choice is the “right” one. My chosen framework…

In support of my 2017 tech trends I’ve done my best to look away from screens and create more with my hands. Cooking is one of the ultimate…

It’s difficult. Being a parent. A team lead. A homeowner. A husband. It’s difficult to know when to rest. There’s always something you could…

Everyone is trying to predict the year’s biggest global tech trends. AI, self-driving cars and VR usually populate the top of the list…

One of our newest OptinMonster developers has already made a big splash by introducing even more automation to our development flow. For the…

Comments on pages by default. Not sure why that is a thing but we’re talking about 13 year old software here. It’s easy enough to turn off…

We all face challenges in our daily lives. The difference between those who go to sleep feeling fulfilled and those who don’t is the former…

It’s 2017. I have no clue if this year will be better than the last. What I do know is my reaction to events has the greatest impact on my…

Over the last few weeks I’ve begun a push to increase our test coverage in OptinMonster with PhpSpec. Doing so will allow the team to…

During the design phase of the new OptinMonster SaaS we realized that there was one killer feature that could set us apart from our…

Do you know what I hate the most about CSS? Styling form elements. Yes, most browsers provide some sensible defaults, but clients never seem…