{"id":401,"date":"2025-10-16T22:23:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibma.org\/wphibma\/?p=401"},"modified":"2026-01-04T14:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:48:15","slug":"how-to-contact-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibma.org\/wphibma\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"How to contact me if you need help with a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am happy to help if I can. But my time is limited. Even I (*gasp*!) need some downtime. As you are taking the time to read this, you are already ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things I appreciate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Be polite. Be positive.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you ask for my help, you need to be stuck. Being lazy is not a reason to ask for help. Having tried everything 4 times and still ending up in the same place is.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ask yourself: What&#8217;s in it for the person I am asking for help? Learning is my goal in life, so when I help you, I want to learn something too, whatever that may be. I looooove complicated setups and puzzles. Not just technical stuff.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You have to have a learning mindset. I like to educate. I hate copy&amp;paste.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I am fine with an initial question, like &#8216;This is my problem. Can you help?&#8217; if you want to avoid writing an essay that ends up in the spam box.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When you mail me your problem, try to explain the context of why you are doing things, what you have done, what has failed, and what you&#8217;re next steps would be.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You are in the driver&#8217;s seat. I am just helping you to find your heading. So, don&#8217;t wait for me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I absolutely looooove hearing that you solved your problem, what the problem was, and how you got there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My e-mail address is &#8230; well &#8230; I am sure you can figure that out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy to help if I can. But my time is limited. Even I (*gasp*!) need some downtime. As you are taking the time to read this, you are already ahead. Things I appreciate: I absolutely looooove hearing that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibma.org\/wphibma\/?p=401\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibma.org\/wphibma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibma.org\/wphibma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibma.org\/wphibma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibma.org\/wphibma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibma.org\/wphibma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibma.org\/wphibma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibma.org\/wphibma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibma.org\/wphibma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibma.org\/wphibma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibma.org\/wphibma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}