Year: 2024
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Staying at Automattic
It’s been a rollercoaster couple of weeks at Automattic. Lawsuits have been filed. Colleagues have been lost . The misalignment between Automattic and WP Engine burst into the open a few weeks ago, and has escalated from there. At the root of it, is a breaking of the reciprocity norm – the moral expectation that…
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Frankenstein themes with Gutenberg
or how I started with this and finished with this: without editing a file or writing code. Starting off I started with the Geologist Blue theme, itself a derivative of the Geologist theme, both created by colleagues at Automattic. I’m still using the same font, and the same top navigation, but the colours are different,…
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2023 in review
Travelling I had a bit less travelling for work this year, but it was counter-acted by a lot of personal travel. For easter we visited Norway, we visited Alesund, Stavenger and Olden along with their fjords. Olden and the fjords it sits within – Innvikfjorden and Nordfjord were the highlight of the trip. We fell…
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Reading 2023
I read 14,936 pages across twenty six books from fourteen authors. Four of the books were rereads of books I’ve read in previous years. I finished reading the Wheel of Time series that I started last year. I enjoyed the series as a whole. It was a bit of a slog in places though and…
Dean Sas 