Profiles

Marvel has been a constant Daredevil especially. There’s something about a character defined by conviction and consequences that never gets old. Star Trek for the lore and the deeper message underneath it. John Wick for the pure craft of it. And when I need to turn my brain completely off Aqua Teen Hunger Force and anything in that same vein of gloriously pointless adult animation.

I was an early believer in blockchain technology for purposes beyond speculation the smart contract idea genuinely excited me, and Web3 pointed at something real. I still believe in what it could be. What it largely became is a different conversation.

History is where I live when I’m not building things. Not just the official version the esoteric undercurrents, the strange belief systems, the spiritual evolution of cultures across time.

I’m a researcher at heart. If there’s a rabbit hole worth going down I’ll find it and I’ll be in there a while.

Culture, history, the weird and the overlooked. That’s the territory.

My relationship with WordPress started in 2003 when it became clear that PHPNuke and the CMS systems like it weren’t going to hold up. The switch wasn’t difficult it was obvious. Rather than lean on auto installers I took the time to do it right. Full manual installs. Learning every step of the process by hand. The rituals, as I came to think of them.

Like most people it was plugins and themes that pulled me deeper in. That and a blogging experience that was genuinely as easy as writing an email. As my skills grew I started bringing others along MySpace bloggers who lost their home when that ecosystem collapsed, writers who tried Blogger and found it too limiting, people who just couldn’t connect with early Facebook’s tools. I became the person who helped them make the move.

Along the way I got to know every type of WordPress user in this ecosystem. The premium crowd and the freemium crowd. The tinkerers who want to break it and rebuild it. And the ones who got burned by nulled themes and sketchy plugins and couldn’t figure out why their site kept getting compromised.

WordPress taught me PHP coding standards, CSS, responsive design, and as the platform evolved it pushed me into React and headless architecture. Every era has been a new layer of education.
For me WordPress is a ritual. If you know, you know. When you don’t, you don’t like it. And if you respect it actually respect it it’s not the slow insecure mess the LinkedIn crowd loves to complain about.

That reputation belongs to people who installed a nulled theme in 2014 and never updated a plugin. Not to WordPress.