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Attending Cloudfest and two new sponsors
After an exciting time at WordCamp Asia, March continues to bring awesome things for contribution to me. I am pleased to announce I am finally going to be taking part in the CloudFest Hackathon and also have two new sponsors, Big Scoots and Kinsta. This now means I am sponsored for just over a day…
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Vibe editing
The term “vibe coding” was first coined by Andrej Karpathy, describing a new paradigm where developers: “fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.” Rather than focusing on technical precision, vibe coding emphasizes surrendering to the flow, letting AI handle the complexities while humans guide the creative direction.…
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Attending WordCamp Asia and new sponsor for contributions
January flew by, and as I am heading out to WordCamp Asia, it’s time for a little update post. I also have some great news regarding sponsorship. Attending WordCamp Asia Next week, I will attend WordCamp Asia and am very excited to spend the day focusing on Contributor Day. I have lots of things planned…
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The season for tinkering
Like many, the holidays are about taking stock, reflecting, and recharging. They are also often about learning new things and experimenting. This year, I took some time to do just that and found myself returning refreshed with several excellent projects brewing. Move fast and break my things. At the start of the break, I knew…
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September in WordPress
With the leaves falling and changing colour this month of September has closed. Earlier in that month I wrote a reflection as I wrapped up my focus on default themes. This post wraps up the month just gone. It was a slower month with actually taking some time off during it to recharge and think…
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Contribution reflections
For the past six months I have been sponsored by Automattic for 2 days a week to focus on the default theme task force. First, I want to say thank you to everyone that supported and enabled this focus work. Stats When my sponsorship focus started the default theme queue had over 400 tickets and…
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Update on default theme focus
Since March, I have been sponsored to focus on the default theme task force. I wrote about this at the start of my work. Now that we have passed the midpoint, it’s a good time to check on what has gone on and where things are. Theme stats Statistics are incredible, but they can also be…
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Prioritisation is challenging in Open Source
Everything I write in this post comes from having been on many sides of projects. I have been the one lost, needing to learn how to prioritise, and the one looking to prioritise. Both are challenging to sit in, and simply knowing what to do is the eternal issue with a contribution. You can’t escape…
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Focusing contribution on the Default Theme Task Force
Back in December last year, there was a proposal for a task force focusing on the default themes. This came from discussions at the Community Summit titled ‘“Improving the maintenance of older default themes’. This was a great discussion that went in many directions, the key point was in order to progress we need to…