A year and a half ago I started a small side business for fun with a good friend of mine. We’ve been designing and developing an array of physical retail products and selling them online and it’s been quite a journey. The main line of products we have invested our time, talents, and money into […]
Updates
My 2020 Year In Review
Well that was a garbage filled burning train wreck. I almost dare not look back for fear of being Medusa’d by the wretched catastrophic turd buffet that was last year. I’ve never written a year in review post before. Why start now? Well a lot happened, that’s why. A lot that I haven’t talked about […]
Foster care placements at the Maurer home
I should post more often. When so much time has passed it’s difficult to summarize all that has transpired. I don’t even know where to begin. I’ll start with a little context for the current situation. Back in early 2017, Ashley and I had been among the eligible and waiting adoptive families at a local […]
Recap and Lessons Learned From Sandhills Development Team Meetup 2017
Last month the entire Sandhills Development team gathered together in Keystone, Colorado for our annual team meetup. This was not the first team meetup for the company but was different than anything in the past for a few reasons: The meetup was for five whole days. It was not tacked onto a conference. All employees […]
I’m Speaking at WordCamp US
In just a few weeks, Joel, Steve and myself will be departing for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a week to attend the inaugural WordCamp US. This is an exciting trip for a number of reasons: I’ve never been to Philly This is the first ever WordCamp US This is likely to be the single largest gathering […]
We Made a Product!
For years now I’ve been making a living exclusively by providing marketing and web development related services to clients, most of which involved WordPress in some way. Today is an exciting day for me because we are giving the world a glimpse for the first time at an actual product we’ve been working on for […]
Home Improvement Never Ends
Lately we’ve been tackling some serious home improvement projects. I’m really proud of what we’ve accomplished and believe we’re going in an awesome direction. This house that we purchased more than five years ago has turned out to be a perfect home for us and has really come a long way. This past weekend I […]
Bevs are Back
Happy Easter! It has been a long winter and a long Lent. This year for my Lenten penance I chose to set aside all beverages besides water. It is the same penance I chose last year and maybe the year before. The fact that I have recent been unable to select a more creative annual […]
I’ll be speaking at WordCamp North Canton
Got the news a couple weeks ago that I’ll be among the speakers at the upcoming WordCamp in North Canton, Ohio. This will be my first opportunity to speak at a WordCamp and I’m pretty excited about it. The two sessions I’ll be presenting will be: Theme Customization Best Practices Enhancing the Admin UX for […]
Today
I’m still really looking for inspiration for my blog’s design. Very open to suggestions. I love playing with CSS and tweaking things out. I just need ideas. I would welcome anyone sharing links to blogs that have a nice look and might inspire me. I love doing this stuff, I’m just not creative when it […]
Badass
Now this is an awesome site. I am a pretty work-focused guy during the day so it is rare that anything is able to really throw me off and distract me while I’m in productive mode. But once in a while a site comes along thats just…awesome. Badass of the Week