I’m getting impatient with rebuilding my personal site in Go, so I’m sticking with WordPress

I want to move deadhandmedia.com from Hugo to a dedicated Go app so that I can get more experience with Go. Learning Go has been a slow process for me as I try to create a todo app that has the same fidelity that an out-of-the-box Ruby on Rails app would have if I had …

Remembering what it’s like to know nothing: WordPress.com edition

WordPress.com is pretty confusing to me. When I originally set this site up, I knew basically nothing about websites. Rather than an about page, I made an about sticky post. It seemed like the best option I guess–I didn't know any better 🤷‍♂️ So today I made an about page. That experience sucked: I couldn't …

First reactions using WordPress.com as a WordPress developer

I've built a lot of WordPress sites. But I haven't administered a lot of WordPress sites. As a matter of fact, I've only really been administrator on three: this blog, a self-hosted blog, and SacMusic.com back when that was a WordPress site. Since it's been years since I've been responsible for any of those, I …