JR Tashjian
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Ember’s Glow
I could stare into a fire for hours when camping. CC0 licensed photo. Submitted to the WordPress Photo Directory.
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Tranquil Reflections
Here’s a shot I liked from a camping trip w ith my now brother-in-law back in 2011. CC0 licensed photo. Submitted to the WordPress Photo Directory.
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Afternoon Huddle
CC0 licensed photo. Submitted to the WordPress Photo Directory.
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My Homelab
In February 2021, I purchased my first enterprise grade rack-mounted server. I had a simple reason for doing so: I wanted better resiliency for my important digital archives, and the ability to run an extra service or two alongside it. Now a year and a half later I have a 18U server rack with multiple…
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Joining GoDaddy
I am so excited to announce that I’m joining GoDaddy! I’ll be joining as a Software Engineer on the WordPress Experience team starting Monday. I can’t express how excited I am about this opportunity, every bit of it is surreal. I’ll be working alongside Rich Tabor, changing the way people use WordPress on GoDaddy’s Managed…
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Excellence
No matter what you do. Do it the best way you can—or not at all. If you want to reach your full potential, that’s the quickest route. It’s also the hardest.
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My Favorite Podcasts
For the longest time music was my source of productivity. Music can quickly get me into “the zone” when I’m working and enables me to get a lot of tasks completed in a short amount of time. I definitely still play music to get into this zone but over the last few years I’ve enjoyed…
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Busy is a Decision
You don’t find the time to do things, you make the time to do things.
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Gary Vaynerchuk on Motivation
People love the feeling of being motivated. They don’t like putting in the work to do something about the feeling.
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Unqualified
Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it.
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Success
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Joining 10up
I’m excited to announce that today marks the first day of my employment as a Web Engineer at 10up! Being an independent consultant for the past two years has been a blast but I’ve missed working with a dedicated team towards a common goal. 10up has always been a huge name in the WordPress community…
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Featured Image Fallback for Child Pages
Continuing from the same project where I needed to highlight a parent page in a WordPress menu when on a child page, featured images is another place where I wanted some custom functionality. This custom functionality I’m about to share wasn’t necessarily a requirement but I wanted to make it as simple as possible for the…
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Self Doubt
I was a person who always had excitement and passion in my career. I was excited when I got my first job as a web developer and I pushed myself hard to learn everything I could to be knowledgeable in everything I did. For years I would have ideas and build them, find new tech and try…
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Completed the Motorcycle
It is complete! Took a little over a month of waiting for parts, disassembly, cleaning, painting, and reassembly. I think it looks pretty good 🙂
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Gas Tank Installed
Gas tank mounted! All that’s left is the front end and side panels, new brake fluid, and a little more cleaning/detailing.
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Painted Gas Tank
Painted the gas tank black, but not really. Seeing how Plasti Dip works out on it and it’s a cheap method to painting the gas tank. If it doesn’t work out I may stick with a white tank and a black bike.