Category: Personal

  • Falling Off The Social Graph

    Falling Off The Social Graph

    After blogging for over 13 years on this site and having a personal web presence (“being my own webmaster” as I imagine cool kids said back then) for years before that, I have rode a wave of how much to make your site an expression of yourself and how much to make it something for…

  • 2016: The Year of Bad Typing ⌨️

    2016: The Year of Bad Typing ⌨️

    I type a lot. All day, everyday. My primary role at Automattic is of a communicator. 99.9% of which occurs via a keyboard. ⌨️ I haven’t had any problems, except maybe once a week, my wrists hurt a little toward the end of the day. I wouldn’t typically think about it except typing is my…

  • Happiness Badges

    A number of Automatticians worked to create these “happiness badges” for a variety of roles that Happiness Engineers serve in. The badges were retroactive to things you’ve worked on in the past too. For me, the badges represent work in our old “Core Happiness” team, Jetpack, VaultPress, WordPress.com’s public forums, Themes/CSS (even though I turned…

  • Goals Recap: 2015Q2

    Goals Recap: 2015Q2

    The second quarter (and change) of the year has passed and, in an effort of accountability, let’s recap what progress I’ve made on my goals for this calendar year.

  • Goals Recap: 2015Q1

    The first quarter of the year has passed and, in an effort of accountability, let’s recap what progress I’ve made on my goals for this calendar year.

  • Switching to Dvorak

    Been thinking of doing this for awhile.