“If you leverage a 3rd party and you don’t control it you’re dependent on them to be as good or better at infrastructure than you are.”

“There used to be a question about whether we should use open source tools; these days no one questions using open source software.”

“BuzzFeed as a technology driven company; Technology is a first-class citizen; everyone sees that.”

For some reason I felt compelled to apply to speak at WordCamp San Francisco. That’s like this for WordPress geeks…

Design is like shaving: do the job right, and nobody will notice it’s been done at all.

Don’t brand engage me

Good to see that little site I built could stand up to 1,166 concurrent visitors. #polarization

General Border gave the order, but Drummer Hoff fired it off.

“A team crippled with indecisiveness will just cause individual efforts to flounder” – from a Quora post on engineering culture.

Hey Twitter. What problems are you working on today?

The 7-11 in Georgetown has a large number of tennis balls for sale. #theMoreYouKnow

Nerds love treadmill desks. @ Carr Workplaces Farragut North instagram.com/p/pFI5pGDe5Z/

OH: ” ‘Russell’ is an abbreviation for rude underrated snarky silly enigmatic likeable loser” – I like it.

Current DC Forecast: Swamp Ass.

When designers are handing off a custom web font to devs, include a link to it not just a name. #wcphilly

Hey designers! Devs love style guides to see a layout of all the different site pieces in one place. Think of designing a system. #wcphilly

Instead of creating a custom walker to change CSS classes in a menu, just use a filter codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/F… #wcphilly

wordpress.org/plugins/wp-client-… WP Client Reference is a plugin for documenting how to update content for a WordPress site. #wcphilly

Totalslider.com is a developer friendly WordPress slider. Because apparently sliders are still all the rage #wcphilly