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JR Tashjian

  • Unqualified

    Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it.

  • Success

    Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Highlighting parent page in WordPress menus

    Menus in WordPress are a really simple and easy way to manage various navigation bars in a theme. wp_nav_menu() does a lot of the work automatically and includes a number of CSS classes for styling. Highlighting the current page is especially useful using .current-menu-item and .current-menu-ancestor classes. There was one issue I recently ran into though.…

  • 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…

  • 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 🙂

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Water Pump

    Had to remove the water pump to extract the rest of the drain bolt. It broke off when I put it back on after flushing out the coolant. The replacement bolt arrives tomorrow.

  • Tail section complete!

    Tail section complete! Little bit everyday. It should all be ready by the weekend.

  • Smoked integrated taillight

    This thing is gonna be all blacked out! The light is a lot brighter than my previous one and has a couple of different features. First is that when the brake is applied the light flashes bright a few times before holding bright as a warning to drivers behind me that I’m braking. This gives…

  • Two Brothers Black Series M-2 Carbon Fiber Exhaust

  • Damaged O-ring

    My assumption as correct! O-ring on one of the fuel injectors was damaged causing a leak and loss of power at times (fuel not getting to one of the cylinders). Replacing all the O-rings and gaskets now.

  • Disassembling to clean the fuel injectors and replace seals.

    Disassembling to clean the fuel injectors and replace seals.

  • Successfully got the intake manifold off.

  • Matte Black

    Making a bit of a change to the motorcycle this time. Going matte black instead of gloss white.

  • Getting the motorcycle street ready again.

    Old fairings and gas tank removed. Ready to take the air box and intake manifold off. Parts to fix the fuel injectors should be coming in soon so I can get this thing street ready again. Itching to ride.