https://hirozed.me Jamie's Personal Musings en-US https://hirozed.me/posts/hz-is-php Originally, I used Bradley Taunt's barf script, but there was one snag or another would come up, preventing me from just writing posts. I looked around for other static site generators, but they all seemed too overly complicated for this very small, simple blog. Then an "a ha" moment struck me. I'm a PHP developer, I know html, I can just create my own. https://hirozed.me/posts/thank-you Before you read, please keep this in mind: These thoughts are mine, and from my perspective. You, dear reader, will have your own perspective and I don't expect it to agree with my own. Feel free to read, have a thought, but you can keep it to yourself. https://hirozed.me/posts/wp-js-project I'm going to say something that could be controversial - WordPress is now a JavaScript project. I've written before about how I've been betrayed by the project that I've built my developer career on. These two posts, first a Mastodon post by Antonio Cambronero, then a blog post by Mika Ariela Epstein, have just reinforced those previous thoughs. https://hirozed.me/posts/im-back Hello all. It's been a while, huh? Here's what happened. https://hirozed.me/posts/betrayed I have been working in WordPress for the length of my dev career. Up until now, that choice has been good to me. But recently, I have been questioning that very decsion. With the entire ecosystem heading toward JavaScript first, PHP winds up fading into the background. The very language that allowed WordPress to take a significant chunk of the total websites, is now a second-class citizen. https://hirozed.me/posts/intro So, last year, I made it to 50. It's odd that when you say, "I turned 50!," what it actually means is that you made it to that year. With that said, I've decided to make my best effort to start blogging. I have wanted to do the blogging thing for most of my dev life, but Impostor's Syndrome would kick in.