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    Reflecting on a trip to New Mexico

    Jacob Martella

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    July 13, 2022

    This summer we took a trip over to New Mexico, and it was probably the best vacation ever. Here’s what all went down in our seven days in the Land of Enchantment.

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    Life

    New Year's resolutions for this year

    Jacob Martella

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    January 3, 2020

    It’s a new year and a new decade. As we start 2020, here’s a look back at my resolutions from last year and what i hope to do this year.

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    Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress

    Developing with WP Rig

    Jacob Martella

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    December 30, 2019

    If you’re looking for a great starter theme to build your next WordPress theme on, you might want to check out WP Rig. It’s got everything a developer could want.

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    CSS, Web Development

    How to preload your CSS and why you should

    Jacob Martella

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    February 13, 2019

    You’re trying speed up the page load time of your website and you’ve tried everything. But it’s still not quick enough. Have you tried preloading your CSS and JavaScript resources?

    Continue Reading: How to preload your CSS and why you should
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    Web Development

    The value of open source

    Jacob Martella

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    January 23, 2019

    What’s the value in using and contributing to an open source project? Well beyond the price, it’s really quite remarkable.

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  • Person looking at laptop showing Gutenberg editor with custom ACF block
    Block Editor, PHP, Web Development, WordPress

    Creating Gutenberg blocks with Advanced Custom Fields

    Jacob Martella

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    January 16, 2019

    Playing with Gutenberg can be fun. But creating blocks in JavaScript can be tough. But ACF will be giving developers help in the future.

    Continue Reading: Creating Gutenberg blocks with Advanced Custom Fields
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    Life

    My New Year’s Resolutions for 2019

    Jacob Martella

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    January 2, 2019

    Ah, yes. The calendar has flipped to 2019. And now we all set goals for ourselves that we might keep for two weeks. But it’s still a fun exercise. So here are my resolutions for 2019.

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    Life

    An update into life headed into 2019

    Jacob Martella

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    December 31, 2018

    It’s been a while since I’ve written anything, so here’s a brief update about the last month or so of 2018 and what’s coming in 2019.

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    Web Development, WordPress

    After WordPress 5.0 everyone needs to take a breath

    Jacob Martella

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    December 13, 2018

    WordPress 5.0 came out last week and was met with almost every emotion under the sun. There’s at least a bit of a divide in the community. So now what?

    Continue Reading: After WordPress 5.0 everyone needs to take a breath
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    Block Editor, PHP, Web Development, WordPress

    Object-oriented programming in a Gutenberg world

    Jacob Martella

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    September 7, 2018

    So now that we know why object-oriented programming might be good for your next WordPress plugin, let’s try it with a plugin that creates custom Gutenberg blocks.

    Continue Reading: Object-oriented programming in a Gutenberg world
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