Boro Sitnikovski In this write-up, we talk about recent performance improvements that we did on WordPress 6.3, sharing both our findings and journey. While this post will mostly be around performance improvements at the code level, we want to emphasize that when we write code, we first want it to be readable, correct, secure, and only after that, performant. ... Read More.
L. Jeffrey Zeldman What’s it like to work at a fully distributed company with a worldwide team and culture guided by a Creed? Welcome to “Life @ Automattic,” an occasional series of Q&As with the people behind the products. Today we spoke with Doyle Irvin, a senior product marketing manager for WordPress VIP. Who are you, what’s your ... Read More.
L. Jeffrey Zeldman What’s it like to work at a fully distributed company with a worldwide team and culture guided by a Creed? Welcome to “Life @ Automattic,” an occasional series of Q&As with the people behind the products. Today we spoke with Talent Operations Wrangler Elizabeth Urello. Who are you, what’s your job title, and where do ... Read More.
L. Jeffrey Zeldman Welcome to Automattic Women—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to design and develop Automattic software and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee, Marjorie R. Asturias, chats with us from her home office. Who are you, and what do you do? I’m a proud Automattician based in the ... Read More.
L. Jeffrey Zeldman What’s it like to work at a fully distributed company with a worldwide team and culture guided by a Creed? Welcome to “Life @ Automattic,” an occasional series of Q&As with the people behind the products. Today we talked with security engineer Alexander Concha. Who are you, and what do you do? Hello, my name ... Read More.
L. Jeffrey Zeldman Open source practice lead and community steward Josepha Haden Chomphosy chats about what brought her to Automattic, and what keeps her here. ... Read More.
L. Jeffrey Zeldman Welcome to Automattic Women—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to design and develop Automattic software and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee, Rebecca Williams, talks to us from her home on the Wild Atlantic Way coastline of Ireland’s Louisburgh, County Mayo. Who are you, and what do ... Read More.
Alister Scott At WordPress.com we strive to provide a consistent and reliable user experience as we merge and release hundreds of code changes each week. We run automated unit and component tests for our Calypso user interface on every commit against every pull request (PR). We also have 32 automated end-to-end (e2e) test scenarios that, until recently, ... Read More.
Marcus Kazmierczak We are proud to announce the full open sourcing of the WordPress.com desktop app. You can access the source and documentation on GitHub at the automattic/wp-desktop repository. The core application Calypso was released as open source a few weeks ago, and now the work that went into building the desktop applications using Electron is available ... Read More.
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