The last time I had a milestone at Automattic I was too busy on my sabbatical to write about the anniversary but it’s been a year and here I am. Six years on February 6th! Wow. And what a year. I got a new awesome laptop. This usually happens at around four years but I didn’t need…
We had a great WordPress meetup last night all about our favorite plugins and even some plugins created by local folks. My friend Jamii (who also hosted the event at her coworking space) put a nice writeup about it on her blog. There’s not surprisingly, a lot of great WordPress work happening in my town.
This past Saturday I had the very great honor of speaking at WordCamp Buenos Aires 2015 about one of my favorite topics, getting involved with the WordPress community. Slides are here: They are also on the WCBA15 site. And if you want to read the presentation I put full notes in a PDF. Please forgive any Spanish typos.…
Seven years ago today I must have signed up for a WordPress.com account to use Akismet or something. 🙂
Two of my colleagues (Deborah Beckett and Elizabeth Urello) and I spoke about support at WordCamp Philadelphia this weekend. This is a modification of the talk I did in Nicaragua a few weeks ago. Elizabeth Urello gets credit for the original idea 🙂 Sadly, these images don’t let you hear our delightful anecdotes and as…
I’m in Nicaragua for the third time in my life. The first was when I was born and the second was last year for WordCamp Managua 2013. This time I’m at WordCamp again. We’re in a lovely beach town called Las Peñitas, just outside of León, about an hour from Managua. I just gave a…
I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a blogging class for kids for a while. I homeschool my kids and for some reason it is so hard for me to get my kids blogging. I suppose it’s the old shoemakers kids scenario. Finally, I decided the best way to get them blogging would be…
