Author: Jonathan Desrosiers
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Reblog of Jeremy Felt: Be the bazaar
Reblog via Jeremy Felt One of the great tensions in WordPress is the balance between cathedral and bazaar. I think one of the great things Matt has done as the product owner of WordPress is finesse this in both obvious and non-obvious ways. At its best, the WordPress community thrives with ideas as to how…
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Six Years a Committer: My WordPress Commit-iversary
November 30, 2024 marks the 6 year anniversary of my first commit to WordPress Core. To celebrate, I’ve compiled a list of statistics breaking down which areas of the code base my commits changed, and how contributors were credited in those commits.
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The State of the Badge
The State of the Badge is an exploration of the current practices around WordCamp Badges paired with a proposal to improve them for all WordPress events going forward.
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How I Commit to WordPress Core
Last month at WordCamp US in Portland, OR, all of the Core Committers in attendance met after lunch for an informal gathering. There was no agenda, but the goal of the the meeting was essentially to meet (some for the first time), spend time together, and discuss anything that may be on our minds. If…
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Speaking Experience at WordCamp US 2024
Last month I ventured west to Portland, Oregon to attend WordCamp US 2024. It’s both easy and hard to believe that a month has passed since the event. In addition to helping out at Contributor Day and the Bluehost booth, I gave my first ever joint talk with fellow contributor, Core Committer, and good friend…
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I Love Building Software – A Poem by Aaron Jorbin
I love building software that lets people speak, sell, do as they please. Everyone gets a voice, a product, or a protest. Freedoms, four of them, all boxed up in neat little binaries.
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11 Years of Contributing to WordPress
Today marks the 11 year anniversary of receiving my very first “props” for contributing to the WordPress project. In WordPress, giving “props” is the way credit and attribution is given to anyone who contributes to a given change in the software. Props should be given to all those who contributed to the final commit, whether…
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My Immaculate Grid Wish List
This was a post I had started in September of 2023. I played really consistently through the playoffs last year, but fell off during the off season as things got busy around the holidays. I’ve been getting back into the swing of including Immaculate Grid in my daily routine with the season coming up and…
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Properly Recognizing Contributors in Large Open Source Projects
Last week I gave my talk at WordCamp Asia 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan titled Properly Recognizing Contributors in Large Open Source Projects. I was really happy with how it went! It was so cool to see my talk live translated into Chinese, and AI captioning for 57 languages(!) was available through a third-party service during…
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WordPress Photo Directory & I: Weeks of February 11th, February 18th, February 25th (weeks 6, 7, 8)
A summary of interactions with the WordPress.org Photo Directory during weeks 6, 7, and 8 of my 366 photos in 2024 challenge.
a11y accessability ai automation Baseball career days Change.org Chess Code community Conferences CSS CSS3 elementary school GIT Hall of Fame Hayden-McFadden Instagram Internationalization JavaScript Jetpack jQuery kids MLB Movies MySQL PHP Plugins Slides Social Media SVN Translations Triage Team Version Control wcpvd wcpvd2012 webmentions WordCamp Asia WordCamp Providence WordCamp Sessions WP-CLI