Hello, I'm Chris Wiegman. I am a software engineer, teacher, speaker, aspiring writer and pilot. I focus on WordPress, developer experience and humane and sustainable technology.
Hello, I'm Chris Wiegman. I am a software engineer, teacher, speaker, aspiring writer and pilot. I focus on WordPress, developer experience and humane and sustainable technology.
On Saturday we returned from our first trip to see family in almost two years. It was both wonderful and one of the most stressful things I’ve done in a long time. This wasn’t our first trip of COVID. In…
A few months ago I wrote my annual development toolbox post for 2021 covering the hardware and software I use to get my work done. While it was current at the time, it wasn’t complete. That’s because I really didn’t…
Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends and family. It’s been a long and stressful almost-two years for all of us but here’s to hoping you have something to be thankful for in your own life. As much as I’ve been…
Last Friday I wrote about switching this site from Plausible Analytics to Jetpack’s WordPress.com stats. One of the biggest points I made in the transition was the improved privacy of Jetpack’s solution that now seems to match Plausible’s. In doing…
I’ve made yet another big change to this site. As of Nov 7th I have moved back to Jetpack (WordPress.com) Stats from Plausible Analytics to provide the insights I need to keep on track with my goals for this site…
I’ve had somewhat of a rocky history with using Gutenberg. When it first came out it was so slow that I couldn’t even use it on the little Chromebook I had bought specifically for writing – I wound up selling…