A few weeks ago, I shared a post in which I walked readers through how to achieve something within the context of WordPress. It essence, it was programming advice.

The post was received okay, though it wasn’t without its [valid] set of criticism (which I’ll address later). Luckily, most of the people who responded did so via comments and emails explaining why they took issue with part of the code, and how they would go about addressing it were they having to solve a similar problem.

Not everyone was like that (and they never are). Instead, if you share any code of any type in any fashion with anyone you’re likely to get some type of response reading something like

It’s okay, but it’s not how I would do it.

The problem with statements like this – especially for those who want to get better at what they’re doing – is it implies there’s a better way, but the way isn’t offered up as a solution.

Bummer.

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It’s one of those nights where I’m sitting at my desk after spending the majority of the day at the computer. This used to be the norm when I was younger, but now I try to keep my hours at my desk a bit more limited for a variety of reasons.

Sometimes, as we all know, work ends up keeping us up a little bit later and in places a little bit longer than we’ve anticipated.

In this instance, I’m working to track down a bug I’ve been after for a better half of the day and it’s something I need to get done now because later will be too late.

There’s other work to do and this is something that needs to be shipped, anyway.

If you’re someone who writes any type of code for a living, then you know the feeling of programming frustration I’m talking about: It starts off at a level of looking forward to getting back into the code with a level of confidence thinking:

“Okay, I’ve had time to step away from it. I should be able to come at this with a fresh perspective.”

Because sometimes that’s exactly what happens isn’t it?

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About two years ago, I wrote about My Day-To-Day: Path and why I was a fan of the social network. Two years ago – which is roughly a decade in Internet years, right? – and a lot has happened since then.

In fact, I stopped using the social network for a while, opted to start using it again, and continue to do so now. Occasionally, I’ll share content from Path to Twitter.

I did so a couple of weeks ago and received the following tweet:

@tommcfarlin Wow you still use Path. I thought that app was dead!

— Patrick Quirke (@pquirke) September 9, 2015

A completely valid opinion and one I’m finding more and more people are asking me about when they find out that I (and a few family members and friends) still use.

So I thought I’d write an updated post about Path and why I’m still a fan of the app.

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