Memories of days gone by. If you know, you know.

Apple pie will be made.

As Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and I spend time reflecting, I’m thankful to know a lot of you and have you in my life. You're good folks. Some have helped me out of tough jams this year. And a few contributed to saving my life on one of my darkest mental health days. Thank you.

A beautiful Autumn sunset in northern Ohio

Recently completed a Fresh Perspective audit for a web hosting company. I was able to identify issues in the Upgrade purchasing flow, confirmed great live chat support, and identified issues with Softactulous and WP Toolkit. Auditing is not just about finding the bad.

If you use any of the products fooplugins.com offers, let me know. I'd love to get in touch with you and have a chat.

I mailed a letter to Santa Clause today. I asked him to get/give me a job that pays enough to get by. Let’s see if the big guy pulls through lol.

Rest In Peace Zeel Thakkar. Thank you for your contributions to WordPress. Heartbreaking. asia.wordcamp.org/2026/in-lovi...

This appears to be a big change. Developers are encouraged to leave feedback and opinions in the comments. make.wordpress.org/core/2025/11...

Ultralight trackers make it possible, for the first time, to track the migration route of individual butterflies. Here are the routes taken by six monarchs this fall. Poor CMP032 got blown out to sea in New Jersey, and still managed to make it back to Florida. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Part Yorkie. Part prairie dog…..

Marketing is kind of fun if you experiment with dumb shit to see how it works lol Too many people want to follow a playbook instead of making their own

Slap dashed a block template into my WP Peeps plugin this morning. Adding page templates to a plugin used to be a significant pain, but now it's trivial! developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/08...

Big milestone! The Media Library for Digital Shopfront CMS is DONE. This was a massive lift, but it's working beautifully, complete with folders & tags. We're officially in new territory for this project. Check out the full demo! https://tinyurl.com/ds-update-11-14 #BuildInPublic #WebDev #Laravel

This is a great read and something I've witnessed firsthand. blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the-...

Work that I'm interested in doing in the WordPress Product space. Product testing Product management Verifying product pipelines Working with a Product Team to enhance Products Testing and Updating Product Documentation Product Liason I enjoy working behind the scenes to make something a success.

I’m not an expensive employee. If I could find someone or a business to pay me $2,000-2,500 a month for work, I’d be happy. That allows me to pay my two most important bills. I’m available for hire or even contract work. hirejeffc.me

When I was young and naive, I thought you needed to purchase Business Planning software to create a Business Plan. I purchased the software, but never created a plan. No plan could have been created that outlined the events that transpired. Ultimately failed. But learned a lot.

I don’t know if it’s a superpower or just a trait I have, but I can make almost anyone laugh in-person. It has surprisingly come in handy more often than not and good things have happened because of it.

If you're going to get on LinkedIn and spout some crap about WordPress to tout your dumb static site generator tech stack sales pitch, at least spit out facts. Signed, someone who doesn't like the smell of bullshit.

I always look to my past to see better times than the present. Would be nice to look into the future and see times better than the present.

Is your WordPress product compatible with WordPress 6.9? Does it look and function the way it's supposed to? With the release of WordPress 6.9 Beta 3, you should know the answers to these questions already. If you don't, we can chat and work something out hirejeffc.me#auditing-pro...

Looks like Fall to me

If people end up not being able to receive their snap benefits to purchase food, watch out at grocery stores when loading your car with groceries. People are about to get robbed for food.

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Crazy that a WordPress product company would lay off some of their best customer support people. Might as well hold up a white flag next to a big sign that says “We give up”

I took my Fresh Perspective skills and utilized them on WordPress 6.9 Beta 2 today :P

When my tax preparer sees the total amount of income we’ve made for the year, they’re going to ask, how the fuck are you getting by? lol

We had a friend deliver us some homemade applesauce she made. It's better than Mott's. So, I grilled some pork chops and slathered it on them. Delicious!

Black Friday is right around the corner. My End-to-End Product audits take two weeks or less to complete. Let me help you confirm that you're not leaving on the table during the biggest shopping days of the year! hirejeffc.me#auditing-pro... Let's Chat! calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0...

So um, besides backups, how do you all put your website behind version control?

5 seasons in and Only Murders In The Building still has its charm. This season has been great. Hell of an episode last night. Was not expecting to see those folks.

Why Tumblr’s costly technical debt derailed migration.

If you wanted to win a Halloween decoration contest, here’s a guaranteed winner.

Bed head :D

Going out to an apple orchard later today and will devour the largest apple fritter they have.

So far, this might be the best testimonial. Maybe....

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I jokingly asked my butcher if he would smoke my turkey for Thanksgiving. I was shocked when he said yes. I asked why he didn't tell me about that sooner and advertise it. He said, Because it's too much work. They smoke a few turkeys a year for people. I'll be one of them.

I know this links to a tweet on that "other" social media site, but this is an awesome testimonial I received x.com/themergency/...

The ultimate compliment. When you make something so good, it gets the green light for its features to land in WordPress core to benefit millions of people. Hell of a good job Mike Mcalister www.therepository.email/ollies-menu-...

BWAHAHAHAHA Yankees waste another Aaron Judge Season.

I had my first virtual call with a client to discuss my findings in a Fresh Perspective review. The consensus is that the time I invested in their product, along with my years of experience, produced ideas and suggestions that other people can't. I'm on the right track here.

Use Smart Milestones Instead of Dumb Admin Notifications hirejeffc.me/use-smart-mi...

I’m leaning into this all the way. I’m a digital plumber unclogging product pipelines!

Hi there super harvest moon

This is a great article with excellent advice for new plugin authors iconick.io/why-your-wor...

One of the superpowers of AI, having the ability to do things with your product, is that it eliminates the need for users to be familiar with the UI. So if the UI is trash, people can still get things done because AI can do it for them. However, a trash UI is still a trash UI.

Just vibing