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Taking good notes
Photo by Tracy Adams on Unsplash Stepping into the Developer Apprenticeship role some of what I needed to learn included what the team processes were, how to use the different development environments and tools, and various commands (CLI, GIT, and more). Having a check-in with one person and gathering all their ideas in a Google doc was great…
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The Developer Apprenticeship
Just this January I started a year-long Developer Apprenticeship at Automattic. The Developer Apprenticeship is an opportunity to move toward becoming a developer full-time. I’m spending this year with the Jetpack crew. Everyones path to get to the apprenticeship will be different – for me the current journey began just over a year ago when…
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Introducing ‘Easeful’ – an accessible theme built on the Genesis Framework
The last project I was working on before starting work as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic was a simple theme built on the Genesis Framework, incorporating elements of accessibility. I was working on this until around March of this year, but didn’t want it to disappear, forgotten, never to be seen again. So I’ve now…
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From Trial to Jetpack HE
Original Source: https://happinessengineer.blog/2018/10/24/from-trial-to-jetpack-he/ Four weeks into my Happiness Engineer Trial I recall the moment I was pinged in Slack to have a ‘chat’ about whether or not I was going to be recommended to HR for a ‘HR chat’ – the next stage in the hiring process. It had been an intense four weeks –…
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How to redirect a PDF in WordPress
Redirecting PDFs works in the same way as redirecting pages, and is important in order to maintain search engine rankings when you are migrating your site. There are some scenarios such as spaces in URLS that you need to be mindful of.