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Next stop: Taiwan
I’m excited to share that my submission to speak at the second edition of WordCamp Asia in Taipei, Taiwan was accepted! Traveling to Bangkok, Thailand to speak at WordCamp Asia in 2023 was one of my highlights of the year. I’ve covered my talk “Migrating WordPress Core to GitHub Actions: A Retrospective” in previous posts,…
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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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I’m the newest contributor to the WordPress Photo Directory
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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Preserving 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. ๐ 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 youโre interested in…