• GM The Sixth

    A preamble (starting at the end) Waiting to board the plane from Vancouver to Montreal – on my way home from this year’s Automattic Grand Meetup (GM) – my colleague…

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  • Five

    Five years ago today, I started working full-time at Automattic. It’s the longest I’ve ever worked for someone besides myself. Thanks to Automattic, I’ve eaten pastéis de nata in Lisbon,…

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  • The CSS Song

    One of my greatest delights as a Happiness Engineer helping users with their WordPress themes is witnessing “lightbulb moments” – seeing people start to understand technical concepts that had been…

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  • The Great Canadian Flash Talk, Eh?

    At the 2016 Automattic Grand Meetup (GM) in Whistler, British Columbia, I did a joint flash talk for the first time, with my awesome colleague Laurel Fulford. Since we were…

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  • BCN

    I had the opportunity to visit Barcelona for a team meetup this month. Amazingly, bits of Spanish from my long-ago university days somehow managed to re-emerge in my brain, ocasionally…

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  • Spotlight on Happiness Engineering

    If you’ve ever wanted to know more about what it’s like to work at Automattic or are curious about the role of a Happiness Engineer, check out this short video…

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