What and why: Coding standards

Tarei on January 25, 2020

During my day job with Human Made we build sites at scale for enterprise clients – with WordPress as the CMS. Our team and clients are based all over the world, being completely remote.

Our engineers find themselves on multiple projects each year and coding standards have a huge part to play in making transitions, onboarding and daily working a much happier experience.

WordPress Coding Standards

WordPress already has a set of coding standards which aren’t enforced within the WordPress codebase itself currently – but is generally accepted across the community.

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Stock photos for lazy people

Tarei on January 22, 2020

I love scrolling Instagram and Facebook looking at peoples photos and their wonderful windows into their life (or the window we are allowed to peer into with permission).

However, I don’t like taking, being in or managing photos. So I had a look at some stock libraries that could find me some photos to use within WordPress posts for the year.

For the record, I’m 💯 okay with the perception of stock images being trash in the web world.
The images used so far are just text searchable from Unsplash via a plugin – but they serve the purpose and bring colour to the blog.

If you want to be really lazy, grab this article and see what fits you best – written by Kinsta, it shows a few ways you can stay in WP and use stock libraries https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-stock-photos/

Remember – lazy is often efficiency in disguise.

Startup Idea: Positive Change

Tarei on January 21, 2020

Make a positive change, by rounding up your digital transactions to the nearest dollar and donating it to charity.

Ultimately, this idea could scale up to complete transactional data from bank accounts so users are donating automatically from their true account data. Some banks already do this and store the excess amount into a savings account.

Calculation options:

  • Bank sync like mint.com, wave.com or zero automation with bank data.
  • Integration with PoS (standard and ecommerce) to capture at transactional levels.
  • Integration with payment gateways like PayPal or stripe.

People like the idea of donating, but too often charities attempt to place donees on a subscription model. Positive Change takes the hassle out of donations, by handling donations automatically or via vendor opt-in.

Donees either donate and forget, or sign up for an account to track donations, select their preferred charities and even print out annual tax rebate forms.

Image and idea released under Creative Commons license but honestly – this idea is nothing new, pass it forward!

2020: More posts promised

Tarei on January 20, 2020

My dear friend Ralf Klis decided to start blogging daily this year over at https://ralfklis.com/.

After 20 days, in 2020 I figured this could be super useful.

The useful thing is, he’s not just writing about WP and tech, but covers startup ideas, ecology, the harder questions and some weirdly specific Ralf things.

My biggest hesitation with writing to date was trying to fit everything into a WP bubble of content – the reality is, WP is ultimately such a minor time spend for me and dedicating an entire blog to it is just limiting.

It’s also just nice to maybe shake out of the social media, user tracking bullshit and keep some thoughts off the digital grid so to speak.

If you are here for WordPress or web development topics – I’ll still be writing em, but under specific categories. You ain’t missing shit though, last post was 3 years ago – and it’s no longer valid or published.