I’m writing this from my hotel room in Pune, India. This is my first time outside North America, so everything is new and interesting and exciting. I left home about 30 hours ago, going from Grand Rapids to Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany to Pune. Because of delays due to weather my layovers were cut quite…
I set out to to build HeroPress into something that would help people. My goal was to help the readers. Over time it has felt like the contributors are getting more out of it than the readers, and it’s felt like I personally am getting more out of it than anyone. I get to talk…
Due to some unforseen circumstances (life) there won’t be a new HeroPress essay this week. Instead I’m going to tweet quotes from past essays throughout the day. In order to do that I’m re-reading each essay. I had forgotten how really amazing these are. Each week I get so focused on the new one and…
It’s been a couple weeks since the GoFundMe met its goal, so I thought I’d give an update. We raised almost $400 more than I was looking for, which is great, because there were some unexpected expenses. I got my plane ticket, and instead of $1400 it was about $1570. I also didn’t realize ahead…
I’ve been aware that my web site needs to be accessible to the blind since almost the beginning of my development career. Back then web sites were all text anyway, and that kind of accessibility was pretty simple. With the advent of images, tables, and frames, things got pretty crazy, making web sites completely unusable for…
This coming weekend I’m presenting a case study on HeroPress for WordCamp Milwaukee, and in September (as you ALL know!) I’m doing a presentation on HeroPress at WordCamp Pune. I’d like for both of those presentations to have some feedback from readers about what HeroPress has meant to you, or how it has affected or…
10 days ago HeroPress contributor Saurabh Shukla sent me an email asking that I come to WordCamp Pune, India to present about HeroPress. I didn’t even know WordCamp Pune was happening, but I had wanted to go to WordCamp Mumbai VERY much, so I was incredibly excited. My first thought was “How can I afford…
Before the first essay on HeroPress I decided not to have comments enabled. I wanted each essay to stand alone as the ideas of that one person. Comments would change the message, whether they be positive or negative. Aside from that, many of the contributors open themselves up, exposing old wounds and sensitive memories. The…
This week begins a three week series on HeroPress of essays from people younger than 20. Someone wise pointed out that these aren’t necessarily stories about “the periphery” of WordPress. I’m choosing to go ahead with them though, because I think this is definitely a thin margin in the WordPress community, and one that we want…
This last essay from Lara Littlefield was the 10th essay for HeroPress. It feels like it’s been years. It’s hard to imagine a time when this wasn’t a part of my life. Our Kickstarter failed in mid-February and gave us time to think long and hard about what we were doing, and how it should…
