Nick Button at The Guardian: I was also exhausted: exhausted at missing out on the nuances of conversation; exhausted from asking people to repeat themselves and always feeling the need to apologise; exhausted at missing out on song lyrics; exhausted by feeling irritated at competing with other voices; exhausted at finding my way through distortions … Continue reading I finally decided to wear my hearing loss rather than hide it
Author: Paul Wong-Gibbs
Engineering Director at Indigo Tree.
With significant experience in delivering enterprise-scale WordPress for international banks, newspapers, and magazine publishers, Paul has a keen interest in understanding projects holistically, improving processes by how things are built, and helping colleagues achieve success.
Paul has also made substantial open-source contributions to projects like BuddyPress, Achievements, and WordHat (a Behat extension for WordPress).
Brought up on a diet of digestive biscuits, crumpets, and tea, Paul likes spending his spare time exploring side project ideas that don’t end up going anywhere, playing video and board games, and eating ramen. Away from the screen, he enjoys reading, gardening, and dreams fondly of luxury travel.
Previous: Daily Telegraph (UK), Automattic, Human Made, Pragmatic.
Created: BuddyPress, Achievements, WordHat (Behat).
Say hello at wpcom@byotos.com, on Twitter as @pgibbs, or on Github at https://github.com/paulgibbs/.
Convenient Git defaults that aren’t defaults
Almost all the time, my Git branch upstream will be origin, and being prompted to git push --set-upstream origin branchname is tedious. To set this and forget it, run: git config —global push.default current 🥳
Hacky CSS Selectors
With CSS, for years now, I thought that we could only use an element once as a selector to increase the overall specificity. e.g. .my-class to div .my-class. However, I learnt very recently that we can repeat selectors more than once and it adds to the specificity value, as each is matched individually (it made sense when I … Continue reading Hacky CSS Selectors
What I’ve learnt from (ten) years of contributions to BuddyPress
By yours truly, from an Automattic company meet-up in 2014. Then-titled "What I've learnt so far in about 5 years of contributions to BuddyPress": 1) Sometimes you have to believe that something is a good idea for a long time before other people do. If the idea has your passion, keep believing and sell the … Continue reading What I’ve learnt from (ten) years of contributions to BuddyPress
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