I’ve written briefly before about how I see differently things being on the Autistic spectrum. And today I want to dive in a bit deeper on some specifics. Now before I do, I want to make it clear, it’s a spectrum for a reason, and it impacts people in a variety of ways. For me…
Everywhere you see “that’s WordPress, our plugin isn’t responsible for that”. That’d be like buying a car and your brakes don’t work. Take it back to the dealer and they say “That’s a Brembo problem not ours”. Maybe you’re reading that and thinking “well that’s dumb”… exactly. It’s stupid right? Sure maybe it’s a manufacturing…
Settings. The bane of the developer and the bane of the end user. If you install 99% of WordPress plugins they have too many settings, a setting of a setting, of a sub-setting and to top it off, add another setting on. If settings were cake WordPress plugins would be that delicious chocolate cake that…
NFTs are all the rage. $100k for a jpg, heck even a million dollars for a png. Seems like a lot of money right? And you’d be correct it is a lot of money, but why are people paying so much for digital pieces that someone else can screenshot. I don’t know a ton about…
Bugs are a part and parcel of all software. If someone says they ship bug free software they are delusional. Quality assurance is hard. Quality assurance in the WordPress space is nothing short of a nightmare, but it doesn’t need to be that way. I’ve personally worked in quality assurance roles for multiple WordPress plugin…
Communication is tough, make no mistake about it. I’m no expert, you’re not an expert and anyone that says they are well they most likely aren’t. Communicating in a traditional office environment you have social queues, body language and often real-time communication. Transitioning to a remote-work environment can be a culture shock, someone says “ok”….
I don’t have a degree. I didn’t complete my education. I spent less than 1,000 hours on my traditional education between the ages of 12-16. You might have seen me say before on Twitter that I’m self taught and I mean it. See I had a tough time with School and my school and education…
Unicorn company, founder exits with $100 million dollars, startup comes from nowhere and dominates the market. No doubt you’ve heard all the stories and read all the articles and maybe you’re sitting there thinking “Well why can’t I create an overnight success?”. Next morning you get out of bed, buy a domain from GoDaddy for…
Let me tell you I’ve historically been terrible at setting boundaries when working remotely which may make you think “Jack, how can you advise me to set boundaries if you can’t even do it yourself”. That’s because I’ve been there and bought the t-shirt. You know the drill, team members located around the world, 4,…