Tag: wordpress
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WordCamp US 2023
I debated for a long time whether I should attend WCUS this year or not. The main reason was time. Between work projects, focusing on the apprenticeship and studying, it was also a weird period coming back from a 3-month sabbatical and I felt like I should focus more on coding than anything else. But…
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How do we stay connected?
Working remotely has become a reality for many during the pandemic and for a lot of people this has became a permanent move. Some companies have switched into being 100% remote, like Shopify, others have adopted an hybrid approach, but the truth is, several people will now work from home (or from anywhere). And this…
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The road so far
And here I am. Two weeks into the Developer Apprentice Program and I haven’t gone crazy. YET! 🤣 If you don’t know what I’m talking about, the Developer Apprentice program is a career path program at Automattic to help people who want to move to a software engineering role. You can rotate into a developer…
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Repost: 5 Surprising Facts I’ve Learned About Working Remotely
Hai there! I’m back already and today I am reposting my own post that was published in the Happiness Engineer Blog yesterday on a few things I’ve learned about working remotely. Check the post below: Here at Automattic, we have been doing this work-from-home thing for a long time now. This was actually how I found out…
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Laughter is the best medicine
During the month of January, I will be posting (tentatively) one post every day as part of the #bloganuary challengeToday’s Prompt: What makes you laugh? Let me start talking about what doesn’t make me laugh: racist, sexist, fatphobic, LGBTQAI+phobic jokes. That doesn’t make me laugh. I really like F.R.I.E.N.D.S but it’s a TV Show that did…
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New Look
After almost 3 years I have decided to change the layout of my blog. 3 reasons led me to this: First, I love messing up playing with blog layouts Second, we are moving from our older themes into full block-based themes and I was using one of the older themes, so it was time to…
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The Grand Meetup 2019
Being part of a distributed company means you will be on your own most of the time, at least physically. As a company, we are constantly communicating via Slack, we have channels for everything, from official company announcements to water cooler channels that goes from Fitness to Supernatural (the CW TV Show) and people who…