I recently discovered Rodrigo y Gabriela, a duo of Mexican guitarists playing fast rhythmic acoustic guitars. Think Flamenco on steroids meets furious Rock. I’m totally hooked and want to share :) The first track a friend introduced to me was their cover of Led Zep’s Stairway to Heaven, and I immediately thought “wow, gotta check [...] → Read more

Look at what the mailman finally brought me today: OMG. I’m all excited. Writing stuff is great, submitting Word documents for proofreading is great, reviewing PDF chapters is great, downloading the whole ebook is great but, man, holding the hefty nifty paperback, feeling its weight, substance and existence… Wow :)[...] → Read more

Every year, Christmas is a truly awesome event at my parents’ with my sisters, wife and brothers-in-law. We offer each other a shitload of gifts while eating fine food cooked by Mom and drinking top notch wine prepared by Dad. In those dozens of gifts, of course a lot are mostly jokes or inexpensive stuff, [...] → Read more

Wife and kids decorating our Christmas tree: This is my first time lapse video. After having taken 150 pictures I decided it would be a good idea to read a few tutorials on how to make time lapse videos, and, well, it would have been slightly better the other way around :) The exposure is [...] → Read more

Sometimes users of stuff I code are nice enough to send me a donation that fits into a Paypal email notification. And sometimes users are just crazy cool and their donation require the postman in person :)[...] → Read more

This is a short PSA to warn potential buyers: don’t buy The Internet is a Playground from David Thorne aka @27bslash6. It’s a scam.[...] → Read more

Obligatory geekness and proselytism: “Ask me about WordPress” I just got it in the mail today so I instantly dropped all current affairs to take the picture :) Love this t-shirt? Get yours now on WordPress Shirts where you can vote for the next design they’ll print (my favorite one is Powered by WP by [...] → Read more

From my experience, here is how time is spent when writing a book about WordPress plugins: Seriously, the brainstorm part is ridiculously important. Writing standalone snippets only is neat sometimes, but on the long run it might leave the reader with the impression they won’t be able to glue the various parts into a functional [...] → Read more

Disclaimer: This one is more awesome than a Nintendo Sixty-FOOOOOOOOOOUR for Christmas. You will want to buy it. You will buy it. The tshirt itself is pretty regular: black, a not too fancy “Let Your Dark Side Out” slogan across the chest. Nothing to scream for. But then you sort of flip the shirt up [...] → Read more

This shirt nicely matches my mood sometimes at work, especially if the day is crippled with meetings. I like its aesthetic simplicity, the university athletic look and the “subtle” details that completely escape the non-initiated bystander (anno 1337 and the latin motto “Subsiste Sermonem Statim” which apparently translates to “Stop Speaking Immediately”) Seriously, sporting a [...] → Read more