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Contribute Developer Documentation to Gutenberg Another post in my series on contributing to the WordPress Gutenberg project.

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) The May 2020 Windows 10 update—that eventually made its way out late into June—brought with it an upgraded Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Smiles per Gallon Fact: the Bugeye Sprite gets the most smiles per gallon.

Book Review: It Came with Oil I recently purchased an old British car, a 1960 Austin-Healey Bugeye Sprite.

Sprite Theme Song My car even has its own theme song 😁 ((–VIDEO MISSING–)) Lil Red Riding Hood 🎵 Lil Red Riding Hood By Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs

Embracing Windows 10 First off, I am a huge proponent for Linux, it has been my primary OS for many years.

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Create a Block in Typescript I’ve been reading and learning Typescript recently, and I quite like it.

Vonnegut: Buying an Envelope When Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope: “Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man.

Conditionally Load Block Assets, Part 2 Another look at conditionally loading block assets for WordPress blocks, assets being JavaScript and CSS files loaded by the browser.

Course Review: Writing in the Sciences A review of the Writing in the Sciences online course that I recently finished.

Deploy WordPress Plugins Using Github Actions Using automation makes your current life easier by taking tasks off your hands; plus makes your future life easier by documenting a repeatable process.

Async is the Key to Distributed Work I wrote A Year Working Remotely after my first year at Automattic — a company now at 1,000 fully distributed employees across 76 countries.

Conditionally Load Block Assets Updated: see Conditionally Load Block Assets, Part 2 that explains a better way, as pointed out in the comments.

Lessons from Walt Disney On a sunny day, my family and I went up to San Francisco to visit the Walt Disney Museum.

Linting Markdown Syntax Linting is the process to check code for potential errors and enforce a style guide, but linting is not just for code; you can lint markdown documents for the same reasons.

Using the Pomodoro Technique I recently started using the Pomodoro Technique to help me focus.

Build a Block Series - Part 7: Placeholder In this seventh part, I do away with screencasting and work on improving the editor interaction with the QRCode block.

Unix Crontab Introduction cron is a utility that you can use to schedule and automate tasks.

Notes on Technical Writing Over the past year, I’ve worked off and on documentation for WordPress.

Reading List 2019 A look back at what I read in 2019, split into fiction and non-fiction books.

Bauhaus Centenary Block To celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the Bauhaus design house, our team created a celebratory block for the WordPress editor, see our announcement post on Automattic.design.

Build a Block Series - Part 6: QRCode In this sixth screencast I get down to implementing the QRCode part of the block: loading the qrcode.js library and trigger it using the saved URL to create a QRCode.

Build a Block Series - Part 5: ES6+ Syntax The fifth part of my series walking through building a Gutenberg block for the WordPress editor.

Build a Block Series - Part 4: Block Attributes The third part in my series walking through building a Gutenberg block for the WordPress editor.

Build a Block Series - Part 3: Anatomy of a Block The third part in my series walking through building a Gutenberg block for the WordPress editor.

Build a Block Series - Part 2: WordPress Plugin The second part of my series walking through building a Gutenberg block for the WordPress editor.

Build a Block Series - Part 1: Development Environment I’m kicking off a new series of screencasts for building a Gutenberg Block for the WordPress Editor.

Good first issue on Gutenberg This post and screencast walks through the process for how you can make your first contribution to Gutenberg.

Coding a Storybook Story Being inspired by my colleague Jon Q videos for building a Gutenberg Component.

On Fruit Trees and Code Bases A fruit tree planted in a nice sunny spot, given water and time will grow.

Switch from Ubuntu to Manjaro I switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro for my primary Linux system, a Dell XPS laptop.

Allowing SVG in WordPress Content I ran into an issue when trying to save SVG as part of a block.

wpsync - Markdown to WP wpsync is a command-line tool to sync a local directory of markdown files to your WordPress.

Sports Books In the March 14, 2019 episode of the Bill Simmons Podcast, Bill and the Sports Repodders go over their list of their favorite sports books, ones they recommend to read for up-and-coming writers and those interested in the craft.

The Story of the Laggy Mouse A story as old as time, not all the stories involve computers and peripherals, but the tale is known by all do-it-your-selfers, home-depot-excursioners, and other fixers-of-small-things.

Using Firefox user.js settings file The Firefox user.js file stores user settings, the file is loaded each time Firefox starts.

Making the Juxtapose Block This post walks through my process of creating the Juxtapose Block for the WordPress block editor.

Reading List 2018 A look back at what I read in 2018, split into fiction and non-fiction books.

Block Rocking WordPress WordPress 5.0 introduces a new editor based around blocks.

Gutenberg blocks without the build step You can create Gutenberg blocks in ES6 code without the build step, this makes it easier to maintain and develop.

My Debugging Process Here is the process I go through when trying to debug a tricky coding problem.

Summer Sabbatical My company, Automattic, has the wonderful perk of a 3-month sabbatical every 5 years.

Greatest Day in Fantasy Football What was the single greatest day a player scored in fantasy football?

Ubuntu Guide for Mac Converts Here are some tips and tricks to help Mac users adjust to Ubuntu and Linux.

Ethernet, FTW!

Terminal Heatmap Chart Awhile ago I created a simple script to create bar charts on the command-line for when I published my running year in review, 2017 example here.

Three-Point Calculator You be the coach, adjust shot percentages see how the affect scoring.

Automate deleting your tweets with a Raspberry Pi I’m a tweet deleter.

Gutenberg can do that!