Articles | Joni Halabi

I have a sign in my kitchen that says: Be bold.

In design, white space is the part of a page or illustration that is left unmarked.

I find barriers to access all the time.

Appelflap is a Dutch apple fritter.

My email box is almost always full of messages from friends, colleagues, newsletters, and the not-so-occasional spammers.

OpenAI announced its new model for creating images in ChatGPT yesterday.

I got an email from WordPress.org yesterday.

I trust books.

I am in the middle of a big project at work and decided to create a new section of our site for it.

Let's talk about red flags for a moment.

Dear Matt, I am tired.

Naming things is hard.

My daughter takes taekwondo.

Almost a year ago, I published an article about what could be described as the worst way to revert tags in git.

It has been years since I finished a side project on time.

First, a story 8:50 am The red sedan pulls into the school driveway.

I am not a naturally social person.

I am a minimalist at heart.

I am about to go into "mom mode" for this post, because I recently came across (and almost fell for) the most clever phishing attempt I have seen to date.

I have been using git for (checks watch) over a decade and reverting commits still trips me up.

I started working with custom Gutenberg blocks sometime in late 2017.

This post has been a long time coming.

With the latest news about exponentially-rising tuition costs and student debt forgiveness, I keep asking myself whether college was truly necessary.

I am a published author.

Joni is a full time developer.

I have spent the last several weeks (slowly) evaluating different email newsletter solutions because, according to my marketing plan, a newsletter is something I should consider starting.

They say, "try to do something that scares you."

Today is my birthday.

Something happened this weekend.

Oh carousels.

I was recently given the task of making the WordPress core RSS block look exactly like one of our custom blocks posts block.

Once upon a time, there was a (not exactly) young girl who decided to have a full-time tech job, solo-parent a pre-schooler, and publish a book.

I've been thinking a lot lately about my early career as a developer.

I have been meaning to write more, mostly to have some sort of creative outlet that does not involve code.

In an effort to spend more time on Twitter[1], I came across a tweet with the following advice: Go to the library and read 100 books published in your category in the past five years I know I need to do more market research about my book.

Well, the text is done!

It has been a busy year!

My last blog post was about WordPress theme customization with JSON.

The new WordPress editor ("Gutenberg") has been a part of our lives for almost 2 1/2 years.

I have been creating custom WordPress blocks since Gutenberg was in beta, though the vast majority are for work.

This is a post long in the making, even before the days of our global pandemic and quarantines.

Once upon a time, there was a WordPress post editor that discovered it had turned into a simple HTML editor....

March 23, 2020.

If you are a developer who hosts your sites on Pantheon, I would be willing to bet that you also use Terminus.

A few times a year, we hold an internal event at work that we call "Serendipity Day."

I have been a professional developer for 20 years.

A very common editor update that us WordPress developers make is to add options to the featured image meta box in the post editor.

We have been working all year to replatform our websites at work from Drupal to WordPress.

I wanted to update this category in my blog one more time before "signing off".