Jonathan Poole, Web Developer / Brightwork LLC

07/11/2018

Entertainingly written exploration of web application security:

The following is a true story. Or maybe it’s just based on a true story. Perhaps it’s not true at all.

05/29/2018

Great article. https://medium.com/the-mission/an-ambitious-persons-take-on-work-life-balance-i-almost-lost-hope-in-my-marriage-b6f0c0355c2

The Snowball Principle:
1. Get the fundamentals right FIRST and make them non-negotiable.
2. Have Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals (BHAGS), but be patient with them.
3. Replace all-or-nothing sprints with a marathon mentality.

We hit rock bottom. Now, we’re happily married 12 years. Here’s what I learned.

01/16/2018

A good winter read:

Research shows your beliefs are often responsible for your happiness. And a few of them cause a lot of problems. Here's what you need to know to fix them.

12/19/2017

“There are legimately viable ways of preserving freedom on the Web while taking the platform forward and keeping it competitive against proprietary alternatives from tech giants. But it can only happen if the Web takes a courageous step towards its next level. If it stays in its current form, the Web has little chance of being relevant while America’s FCC kills Net Neutrality rules, the W3C favors DRM, and tech giants build their Web-less vision of the future.”

Open Source Hacker

11/14/2017

The third release candidate for WordPress 4.9 is now available. A release candidate (RC) means we think we’re done, but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s possible we’…

10/12/2017

WordPress 4.9 Beta 2 is now available! This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new versio…

10/09/2017

I love conditional breakpoints. Really! They’re my favorite debugging tool. When I got started in web development, “debugging” for me meant creating a and appending strings to its contents to act as a log. But once Firebug rolled around—and then when browsers started baking in t...

10/04/2017

Learn how to always display the current, checked out git branch name from command line.

09/26/2017

WordPress 4.8.2 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. WordPress versions 4.8.1 and earlier are affec…

09/22/2017

A Tennessee city firmly rooted in the past keeps moving on with new music in historical buildings, vintage guitars in a modern museum and a river’s unchanging beauty running through it.

09/19/2017

Looking forward to this event.

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