• WordCamp Updates

    I have two little bits of WordCamp news to share. I’m delighted to be speaking at this year’s fifth anniversary edition of WordCamp Miami, taking place May 9-11. My session…

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  • Plugin Slam!

    A number of years back, when I was still quite new to the Montreal WordPress community, our local meetup group held a “plugin slam,” which was a kind of show-and-tell…

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  • So You Want to Engineer Happiness

    One of the best things about being a Happiness Engineer is telling people I’m a Happiness Engineer. Inevitably, their eyes light up and a smile inches across their face. Sometimes…

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  • Charleston

    There is something special and surreal and intense and wonderful about getting together and living with your colleagues – who hail from around the world – for a couple of…

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  • Learning from Beginners

    I spent yesterday mentoring an eclectic group of students at a Ladies Learning Code workshop, which introduced HTML and CSS – the building blocks of web design – to a…

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  • Cindy’s Caribbean Chicken Curry

    As some of you know, I work on the Theme Team at Automattic, helping WordPress users with all things theme-related. We recently rolled out a new recipe shortcode which lets…

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