Year: 2022
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Reading 2022
I’m inspired this year by one of my colleagues to do a little more than just a list of their books and a brief thought. I read 23,154 pages across fifty books from twenty-nine authors. 13 of the books were rereads of books I’ve read in previous years. I really enjoyed reading the Kingkiller Chronicles…
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Migrating from Roam to Obsidian
This is my opinionated guide on migrating note-taking apps from Roam Research to Obsidian.md. I go through this in three parts, the initial export and import, cleansing the data and some tweaks to make Obsidian a little bit more Roam-like. I’d also highly recommend reading Denise Todd spelling out some different options in her thorough…
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Published on WordPress developer news
This week I had my first post published on the new beta WordPress Developer Blog! The post is about managing the state of your Gutenberg block/component or other wordpress/data based React application. Its aimed at people who have a little familiarity with React and are reading WordPress Javascript code. The post started from some notes…
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Reading 2021
Shiang: Empire of Salt book II by Conn Iggulden, second part of the trilogy I started reading at the end of last year. The Sword Saint: Empire of Salt book III by Conn Iggulden Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. This felt big. Henry VIII is kind of a big deal in British history, his marriages…
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Being hired at Automattic
I started working for Automattic as a senior back-end software engineer in June. It’s an amazing place to work, the culture and processes are really distinctive – which I’ll explain more about another time. For the uninitiated, Automattic are the people who make WordPress.com, tumblr, Pocket Casts and much more besides. When I was considering…
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