Location: Vermont, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, React, VueJS, Laravel, WordPress, Linux (LAMP/Nginx)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-jones-6505766/

GitHub: https://github.com/supersoju/

WordPress core contributor with 25+ years of enterprise PHP/MySQL development experience. Most recently at A2 Hosting/WHG, where I architected A2 Optimized (cross-platform performance optimization for WordPress, Drupal, Magento, and other CMS platforms) and TurboHub (Laravel-based management dashboard serving 1.5M+ WordPress sites across 4 continents).

Also founded Soju Web Development, building custom WordPress/WooCommerce solutions and SaaS products including centralized WordPress management tools. Strong background in full-stack development, system architecture, and performance optimization at scale.

Open to engineering roles or interesting challenges in WordPress/PHP ecosystems.

Ha! I had one of those in the late 90's. My father had it first and I inherited it when he passed. A couple of months after he bought it, I bought a 1985 LTD, which was basically a 4 door Mustang GT. He asked me if I wanted to race, I said it wouldn't be close. He said "Both cars have the same engine." Yeah, not quite. The Thunderbird had like 120hp, no fuel injection and bogged down to meet emissions, while the LTD had close to 200hp and was several hundred pounds lighter. Another person up the street had the same vintage Thunderbird with the 350ci and had done some work to it. That one went pretty good.

I was working at a web design company a little after windows XP went EoL. One site had a member on thier board who kept raising a stink because the redesigned site didn't work right on their computer. Found out that they were using IE6 or whatever on XP. Our estimate for the fix was $600, which was like an additional 2-3% on top of the original estimate so it was approved. The $600 was used to buy a new laptop for that board member with Windows7 and whatever the latest IE was installed.

Yacht (https://yacht.sh/) is good too if anything about Portainer upsets you.

Looks like a clone or fork of the UnRaid docker interface

Back before flexible web layouts or modals were a thing, we went through a phase of opening a new browser window for some content, and locking the size. Sometimes we'd want to open multiple windows and reference them later on, so we had a naming convention like "_popup_a" and "_popup_b". We had an intern one summer who coded all of his new window calls as "_poopup_X". I have no idea how the client actually found it, but boy did we hear about it.

Most every cPanel based hosting company, including the large ones, will offer a product with LiteSpeed. It's sometimes re-branded, but it's there. The main benefit is that it's a dropin replacement for Apache on cPanel servers and performs much better when it's tuned for that purpose than Apache.

Good to know. That said though, my understanding is that the vast majority (let’s say >85%) of sites these days are on managed hosting rather than shared hosting (or even VPSes) with cPanel.

I worked at a place in the late 90s that had a mix of older actual Apple Macs and newer Power Computing towers. One night some water line in the ceiling went and almost all of the machines got showers. Most of the wet Power Computing died but none of the Apple machines did. There was even one that retained probably a quart of water that was dumped out through the disk drive holes the next morning.

My wife has a similar problem with the iMac supplied wireless mouse. She'll go to click-drag something and catch the power switch, which is on the underside of the mouse, on the mousepad turning off the mouse. This has happened maybe four times in the two years we've had it, but everytime it's been "The computer crashed!" and gets power-cycled, losing work. Of course it's still "crashed" when it comes back up because the mouse is turned off. This post makes me feel like I should put a sticky note on there to check the mouse next time.

“I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I’ve understood them. They’re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash’s autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.” ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

I grew up in the strange time where the cars we got as "hand me downs" had 8-track players. At a yard sale we found an 8-track to cassette adapter, and then put one of those cassette to line input adapters to have a discman playing in these 1970s era cars.