The Token Disconnect

On the most basic human level, I suspect our generation still hasn’t processed our shared collective trauma of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and our anger is now still coming out in very unhealthy ways. With crypto we’ve decided to do the most American thing ever, to commoditize our rage at the financial system into a financial product. Because after all, we’re just temporarily embarrassed millionaires and the only problem with CDOs wasn’t the moral hazard, but that you didn’t have a piece of the action.

Source: The Token Disconnect

Moving Forward

You may have heard the news: Moving On.

After working together for 4 years, we decided the best move for Reaktiv and each of us personally is to part ways. I’ve been leading client services since joining as a partner in 2014 and Norcross led our products, all of which will remain at Reaktiv Studios moving forward.

What happened?

There’s no #wpdrama here, and that has been one of the biggest lessons in this. Two people can be friends, work well together, and have similar goals but still decide to make a change. Norcross starts working with LiquidWeb in May, a client we’ve been working on some really cool things with. So, while he is leaving, he’s not going far and it’s a good thing for him and for us.

What’s happening with Reaktiv?

The team is staying in place and we’re having our best year yet. I’m lucky to come to work every day with such a capable, creative, and fun team. And we’re growing ?.

Moving forward, we’ll continue to grow as we expand our team and service offerings.

What about you?

Why, thanks for asking! My goal is to make Reaktiv Studios the best place to work in WordPress. In terms of my personal role, I’m continuing to lead client services and will be implementing a new growth plan on the product side. Design Palette Pro is stable but there’s definitely untapped potential there.

I’m excited to continue serving our clients and the WordPress community with Reaktiv Studios.

WordCamp Miami 2014: Intro to Theming with Sass

Josh Eaton speaking at WCMIA 2014

Back in May, I had the honor of speaking at WordCamp Miami about Sass.

Josh Eaton speaking at WCMIA 2014

The goal of the talk was to introduce CSS preprocessors, and Sass in particular and give some examples as to how Sass can be useful for WordPress theme developers.

Presentation Slides

This was only the second WordCamp I’ve ever attended–WordCamp San Francisco 2013 being the first–and my first time presenting. I hope I never see the video. 🙂 It was a great experience and I’m looking forward to my next chance to help spread some WordPress knowledge.

I’m hoping there will be a WordCamp Indy in the near future…