Nineteen years, three states and a lot of shipped software. Filter it, scrub through the years, or step through it with j and k.
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21 moments, 2007 to 2026
I start building for the web, and find WordPress in the same year.
Over the next few years I build hundreds of WordPress sites, part time and then full time, and learn most of what I know about development by shipping things people use.
We move the family from the heart of Virginia to Dallas, Texas, for a front-end developer role at The Richards Group.
Answering everyone's WordPress questions turns into a job: Technical Product Manager for all WordPress work at The Richards Group.
WordCamp Austin on a whim, then co-organizing WordCamp DFW and joining the theme review team.
I start writing in earnest: practical guides for the churches and nonprofits building their first real websites.
An invite-only week with fifty business owners. I meet people I'll work with and for in the years after.
I join UF Health as a designer and front-end developer, and the family moves to Florida.
The publishing site behind Animal Airwaves and Health in a Heartbeat, nationally syndicated shows, built for a small editorial team to run.
Back from my first WordCamp US, I launch a directory of Gutenberg blocks for people who build sites for clients.
A passion project: software that helps churches and nonprofits plan the work of their missions.
Giving churches and nonprofits the tools they need for their missions is something I'll always love. It's the thread that runs through my own products today.
We launch a block-based theme across the UF Health system: millions of page views a year, almost 2,000 editors and authors.
A custom theme, plugins and a block library talking to third-party REST and SOAP APIs, designed and built by a small team over many late nights.
I join the team behind Ninja Forms, Caldera Forms and SendWP.
We move to Tennessee, buy our first house, and the family grows again.
A contraction timer, from idea to the App Store in under two weeks, my first app in React Native.
Principal developer of an eCommerce platform for WordPress: simple by default, with the advanced tools there when a shop grows into them.
A guide to testing Laravel 8, Jetstream and Inertia with Jest, for anyone stuck where I was.
Back at CaboPress, and this time out of my room: the deep, honest conversations that shape how I run a business.
A talk on transactional email, and the money most stores leave on the table by ignoring it.
SendWP, transactional email for WordPress, run end to end, plus newer tools for online shops.
Agent Ready Shops and the AI Crawl & Citation Report for stores getting found by AI. I write the code and answer the support email.
Keyhall for church rooms and keys, Phyle for church life: software built for how churches actually work.
Nineteen years in, a new home on the web, built in Laravel. You're looking at it.
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