These are additional notes for the WordPress twenty twenty four child theme that this site uses. The source is available on Github at: https://github.com/ev3rywh3re/jesse-james-block At this point the scaffold has been built with NPM support for TailwindCSS as well as the included ReactJS component and dependencies. The completed configuration and installation will give us two…

I was a working soldier, I guess. I crewed tanks, and eventually drove for our CO. I was in for Desert Storm, but stayed at Fort Knox. I became a motor pool rat, so the head mechanic used me to move things. I wish I had a picture of my military drivers license. I also…

As I write this the WordPress community is once again changing in the social, and market focused ways. There has been turmoil in it’s development, so the technical changes also keep going. As a developer who comes from a creative background, I am happy to put more creative tools in front of less technical users.…

That careful work to reshape one of Mom’s old hats for reuse. I still couldn’t find her favorite hat.

My power just came back on moments after I started some small engine repair.
This is where I complicate the project more to experiment with making the theme use more ReactJS functionality in a full site editing child theme. It’s also out there: https://github.com/ev3rywh3re/jesse-james-block
It’s always fun when the smallest selfish ideas become places for learning, ha!. I built this one little thing that can typically hang out on the home page to show a random featured image from a category of posts. I’m sure there are other ways, but having worked on some neat block themes in other…