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  • If all you have is a hammer…

    The following post is a collection of tools that I use as to support my work as a digital designer at Automattic on the VIP Platform team. I tend to favour fewer tools, less software, less clutter. I like to think that it helps to stop the spread of information across platforms, products and software…

    If all you have is a hammer…
  • The Decline

    Earlier this year my wife Gemma and I took a short trip to Berlin. It is a place we have always wanted to visit and it didn’t disappoint. It is a city full of history, interesting architecture and most importantly, great food! Walking back to our hotel one evening, we discovered a building that stood…

    The Decline
  • Plugins, Plugins, Plugins

    For the past six weeks I have been working to retire a small library of shared plugins on the VIP Go platform. It was a slow and delicate operation that needed to be coordinated with clients and development partners. It required patience, accuracy and lots of testing. My task was to manually open pull requests…

    Plugins, Plugins, Plugins
  • Node-RED + WordPress = Magic

    We have just returned home from the Grand Meetup, the yearly Automattic get together. For one week the entire company descends on a single location and this year it was Whistler in British Colombia, Canada. We get to choose between working on a project, studying something new or our regular jobs for the week. This…

    Node-RED + WordPress = Magic
  • One more thing…

    I have a guilty pleasure. On a Sunday afternoon when the weather is bad I like nothing more than to sit down to an episode of Columbo. My wife and I have the entire box set and have made our way though every episode, including the pilots of Mrs Columbo. Watching a random episode is…

    One more thing…
  • Camp Contributions

    When you sit down and think about how to contribute to WordPress as a designer, your first thought is most likely: ‘How can I work on the core software using the skills I have?’. In the WordPress community we are lucky that there are plenty of opportunities for designers to get involved that don’t involve…