I arrived in Amsterdam with a splitting headache. A group of Chassidic men were seated a couple of rows in front of me, and my anxious 18-year-old self was worried that the plane might be targeted by terrorists who’d blow it up or hijack it and fly it into a building. As a consequence, I […]
A while ago, there was a call for WordPress Core Committers to share their development setups. Many of them have already done so; I’m finally getting around to sharing mine. As far as I know, I’m one of the few people that use git-svn. Not only does it shield me from the quirks of Subversion […]
Out of the nearly four years that I’ve been living in Berlin, this was only the second time I was in the city for May 1st. What I didn’t realize (although it shouldn’t have come as much of a surprise) was that, aside from some far-left demonstrations in Kreuzberg, May Day to Berliners is largely […]
This year, I spoke at WordCamp Europe for the first time. I gave a presentation about the Block Hooks API that I’d been working on for the previous couple of months. Find a video of my 10-minute lightning talk below, or have a look at the slides.