Briarwood

After helping organize nine WordCamps, I’ve made just about all the mistakes. Hopefully I’ve learned from each of them. Recently an organizer of an upcoming WordCamp asked me my thoughts on using food trucks to feed WordCampers. The pro is that you get a nice variety of foods to choose from. Much better and much…

Improving Productivity

This post supplements a presentation originally delivered at WordCamp Los Angeles 2015. Most folks have to work to make a living, which is totally fine. Many of us have chosen to work in the WordPress world because if we have to work, we want to work on something we enjoy with people we like. In doing so many of us…

The Story of Me

Last Christmas my wonderful wife gave me a National Geographic DNA kit. (On our trip to Morocco, one of our travel companions had completed this process and I was fascinated.) Today my results came in. For the most part, if you know me, the results are not too surprising – lots of northern European action….

Orange County Designer Meetup Links from 3 March 2014

Here are some helpful links from the Orange County Designer Meetup from 3 March 2014. Sass – Sass is the most mature, stable, and powerful professional grade CSS extension language in the world. Bourbon – A simple and lightweight mixin library for Sass. Neat – A lightweight semantic grid framework for Sass and Bourbon. Bitters – Scaffold styles, variables and…

Ideal El Porto

Well, the water could have been warmer, but otherwise setting were perfect.  The water was clear and glassy.  There was just enough breeze blowing off the shore to throw a little mist off the crest of the wave.  The crowds were low by El Porto standards.  And the waves, oh the waves.  They rolled in…

The Sausage Is Back

Big waves on order this week.  I went back up to Harbour to borrow the Sausage again.  Man, I dig that board.  I need to get one of my own.  Although I am tempted to try getting it in a quad set up.  Anyway, big beautiful waves at the Sunset Jetty today.  Long peely rights…

All Back Together Again

Finally!  The rains have stopped, the holidays are over and we all managed to stay healthy to get together for another coveted El Porto Friday.  Great crew today to: Josh, Mike, Aaron, Edgar, CW, and even Sean stopped by to say hello (but couldn’t stay).  It was a junky day too, but I think we…

Bolsa Chica Friday

All of the LA-based crew how to bow out today, so Sean and I opted for Bolsa Chica instead.  It was super foggy.  So foggy one couldn’t see the break from the shore.  Tensions were high while out in the water.  We had to be on orange alert for a rogue wave to come out…