JR Tashjian

  • My Great Great Grandfather

    My Great Great Grandfather, taken by my Grandfather.

  • Color slides from 1954.

    Color slides from 1954.

  • GE no.6 Sure-Fire Flash Bulbs

    GE no.6 Sure-Fire Flash Bulbs. Some old leftovers of my grandfathers photography days.

  • Playing Super Mario Kart on RetroPie

    My Niece and Nephew enjoying Super Mario Kart on my RetroPie.

  • Peel – A Case for People Who Hate Cases but Love Their iPhone.

    I hate cases, always have. Why make my Phone which was built to be thin, thicker? I know some people do need cases to protect their phones from the elements and drops, I’m not one of those people. When I purchased the iPhone 6S I started looking at cases and even bought the Silicon Case…

  • Evodesk

    I’ve debated getting a standing desk for a while and finally decided on the Evodesk as the one that would best work for me. I had been feeling fatigued sitting all the time but I didn’t want to get a fixed desk for standing. Although there have been a few motorized sit-stand desks that I’ve…

  • An Homage to Strict Coding

    Intent is both one of the most difficult-to-describe, yet most critical, aspects to the maintainability of good software. The more intent we can show in our code, the more quickly newer developers (and developers who haven’t been inside a codebase for awhile) can gain confidence in working with an older system. Finally, when we write strict code,…

  • Our Band at Praise in the Park

    I posted a picture before the event started and now I’ve received some photos of the actual event. These are those photos 🙂 I play the guitar, my father plays the bass, and my sister sings in our church’s worship band. We were invited by Faith Baptist Church to play some songs along side them…

  • Praise in the Park at Collins Park

    I’ll be playing guitar with my church‘s worship band today alongside Faith Baptist. Should be a pretty good turnout. Little nervous 🙂

  • Leaving Automattic, Available for Freelance

    Tomorrow is my last day at Automattic. I joined Automattic just over two and a half years ago and I’ve enjoyed every moment of it. Everyone I got the chance to meet and work with were humble, helpful, and brilliant people. It was an exciting time traveling to various places with my team and coworkers,…

  • Royal Mountain Motocross – May 2015

    My brother has started to get back into racing dirt bikes and decided to hit the track this past weekend. He had a mechanical failure during practice and we weren’t able to get it fixed before the races. We had a fun time watching the races anyway and I took a lot of photos and…

  • Five Ways to Secure Your WordPress Plugins

    I wrote a piece on the VaultPress blog recently about some basic security practices plugin developers should know and include in their own plugins. This sums up my beliefs on being a plugin/theme developer: Writing plugins for WordPress gives us so much freedom and flexibility on the platform and with this ability comes a responsibility…