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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.

  • 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.