Chrispian H. Burks

coder. maker. writer. photographer.

Building My First App

I’ve been toying with the idea of building an app for quite a while. I’ve dabbled in various parts of it for projects over the years and I generally know how it all fits together. But I’m not a front end engineer by any stretch so this will be a bit of a learning curve. ... [Read More]

New Year – New Job!

It seems like I only blog when I have big changes. I really need to work on that. But today I’m writing here again because I have a big change. Today is my last day at my current job working on Blue Summit Supplies while working at Franklin Creative Solutions.  BSS, as we call it ... [Read More]

Just Deal With it

I’m not sure I have a point with this blog post but just really wanting to acknowledge some things to remind myself that everything I’m experiencing is normal. Erin and I have had a rough time for most of or marriage. We’ve thankfully been rock solid together, though it’s caused some stress here and there. ... [Read More]

Where ever you go, there you are [Stoicism]

The Best Retreat Is In Here, Not Out There People seek retreats for themselves in the country, by the sea, or in the mountains. You are very much in the habit of yearning for those same things. But this is entirely the trait of a base person, when you can, at any moment, find such ... [Read More]

The Next Chapter

Last week was my last week at WebDevStudios. I was working on the support side of the house in the Maintainn sub division of the company. The role was considered a support engineer role but most of the time it was new development for smaller to medium sized clients. When I originally applied it was ... [Read More]

Catching Up

Since my heart attack back in early December I’ve felt like I’ve been perpetually behind. While my body has been healing up I don’t think my psyche has quite recovered. We’ve been struggling for a while with bills. I was out of work for a while after my last job closed and I took a ... [Read More]

New Links Section + Tutorial

I’ve always liked sharing links of interest but I’m taking that content and putting it on my own site instead of puffing up social media. I’ll still share stuff there too from time to time but this will be the main place I share links from now on. They are mostly for me to find ... [Read More]

New Theme – Groovy 1976

I’ve had the itch to redo my site for a while now. I’m not a designer and I’ve not been super happy with the look of the site and so I decided to do something about it. This new look is inspired by the 1976 Keyset from Pimp My Keyboard. I want to get these ... [Read More]

Draft Post Disclaimer Plugin

My co-worker and friend Sal Ferrarello was telling us in one of our weekly scrums that he uses a draft category to post stuff that might not be quite ready for prime time. This gets the content out faster and its searchable but he added some code to display a disclaimer on those posts to ... [Read More]

Draft Post Disclaimer Test

Posts in the “drafts” category should be considered a work in progress and as such the contents should be used with caution. The goal of having public draft posts is to get content out that may be helpful but with busy lives we don’t always have a chance to review every detail. Warning! This is ... [Read More]