Jonathan Desrosiers is a Principal Software Engineer at Bluehost, a WordPress Core Committer, and a leader in Open Source. He cares deeply about purposeful user experiences, collaborative communities, advocacy for Open Source contributors, the open web, and a well-placed two-seam fastball.
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WordPress Photo Directory & I: Week of January 14th (week 2)
A summary of interactions with the WordPress.org Photo Directory during week 2 of my 366 photos in 2024 challenge.
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WordPress Photo Directory & I: Week of January 7th (week 1)
A summary of interactions with the WordPress.org Photo Directory during week 1 of my 366 photos in 2024 challenge.
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Happy 40th Birthday Matt!
Today is Matt Mullenweg’s 40th birthday. While I’m not particularly close to him, I do consider him a friend in some ways. I’ve met him in person many times, though it’s often very brief. In the 17+ years I’ve used WordPress, I’ve also listened to him talk more than I can even estimate. Much of…
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The WordPress Photo Directory: I’m the newest contributor
I finally uploaded my first photos to the WordPress.org Photo Directory. Here’s my thoughts on the process and a challenge for myself during the 2024 calendar year.
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Making my website my own curated space
I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want from my own website. Here’s some rough thoughts around making my website my own curated space for everything.
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Speaking applications: a pet peeve
There’s one super common question on event speaker applications (especially for WordCamps) that often trips me up. I think there’s a better way to gather the same information while providing more flexibility to organizers.
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Exporting private Slack history: notes for my future self
A summary of experiments with tools that can be used to export and view private Slack interactions for archival purposes.
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Updating WordPress to use more modern versions of Node.js/npm: Part 2
In August, milestone 1 was reached for ongoing work to update the WordPress and Gutenberg build tools to use more modern versions of Node.js/npm. Like anything WordPress, this comes with some interesting challenges and requirements. Here’s the announcement post detailing the changes.
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Five Years: My WordPress Commit-iversary
Today officially marks 5 full years since my first commit to the WordPress open source project. In the context of the WordPress project, a committer is a contributor with the ability to modify the main WordPress repository. Since 2004, roughly 90 people have been granted commit status for WordPress Core. If you’re interested in learning…
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WordPress 6.4.1 Rapid Maintenance Release: Technical Details and Timeline
After the 6.4 release, it was reported that a small change within the bundled library responsible for making and managing HTTP requests was causing problems for a small subset of sites. Here is a technical breakdown of the problem and how contributors to the WordPress project responded.