Earlier this year, I changed team at work.

When I started at Automattic in 2019 I was assigned to Team Alpha, the engineering team responsible for WooCommerce.com. In 2020 the team later forked into teams Fire and Fuel, and I landed on the Fire side of the split.

This winter, though,

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In August, I celebrated my blog - with its homepage weighing-in at a total of just 481kb - being admitted to Kev Quirk‘s 512kb club. 512kb club celebrates websites (often personal sites) whose homepage are neither "ultra minimal" or "link pages" but have a total size, including all assets, of u automattic, web development, web, work, performance, blogging, smolweb

Yesterday, I wrote the stupidest bit of CSS of my entire career.

Owners of online shops powered by WooCommerce can optionally "connect" their stores back to Woo.com. This enables them to manage their subscriptions to any extensions they use to enhance their store. They can also browse a automattic, woocommerce, web development, code, work, stupidity, css, programming, web design

During one of the periods today that Facebook wasn't down, a friend who makes use of the platform shared a Facebook post with me, which read:

Has anyone informed work/colleagues about being ENM and how was it received?
I've informed a few colleagues but I am considering informing

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My employer Automattic's having a bit of a reorganisation. For unrelated reasons, this coincides with my superteam having a bit of a reorganisation, too, and I'm going to be on a different team next week than I've been on for most of the 4+ years I've been there. Together, these factors mean that automattic, published on gemini, work, job, open source

This post is part of my attempt at Bloganuary 2024. Today's prompt is:
What's your dream job?
It feels like a bit of a cop-out to say I'm already doing it, but that's true. Well, mostly (read on and I'll make a counterpoint!).
Automattic

I'm incredibly fortunate that my job gets to tick so

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There's a perception that a blog is a long-lived, ongoing thing. That it lives with and alongside its author.

But that doesn't have to be true, and I think a lot of people could benefit from "short-term" blogging. Consider:

Photoblogging your holiday, rather than posting snaps to social

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Among the many perks of working for a company with a history so tightly-intertwined with that of the open-source WordPress project is that license to attend WordCamps - the biggest WordPress conferences - is basically a given.

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I just spent a lightweight week in Rome with fellow members of Automattic's Team Fire.

Among our goals for the week was an attempt to strengthen the definition of who are team are, what we work on, and how and why we do so. That's basically a team-level identity, mission, vision, and values, automattic, board games, games, work, rome 2023, travel, dungeons and dragons, game, published on gemini

Now that travel for work is back on the menu, I've been trying to upgrade my "pack light" game.

I've been inspired in part by Beau, who I first met during my trip to South Africa in 2019 during my Automattic onboarding. Beau travelled from the US for a two week jaunt with nothing but hand

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