In October of this year, most of the people who work on Day One all traveled to Prague for a meetup. A chance to all be together, plan, work, and team build. It is such a great group of people. Working remotely is great, but there really is something magical about being in person withContinue reading “Day One Meetup in Prague”
Category Archives: Work
Happy Birthday Matt
Matt Mullenweg the CEO of Automattic, the company where I work, is turning 40 today. Happy birthday Matt. For his birthday he asked for people to blog so that’s what I’m doing. I figure he and Automattic have given me so much that this is the least I could do. So here we go, happyContinue reading “Happy Birthday Matt”
A warm welcome home
Earlier today I made it home after my first work travel since January 2020. It’s been a long time since I’ve been away from my family like this, and I’ve never been away from Ezra like this. It was awesome to get to see my team in person. Most of who I hadn’t met inContinue reading “A warm welcome home”
The move to Developer
This past year has been tough, exciting, and brought some big changes. One of the big changes was our adoption of Ezra. The other is the completion of the Developer Apprenticeship program I wrote about previously. As of the first of this month my role switch from Happiness Engineer to Developer became official! That’s theContinue reading “The move to Developer”
Quarter way through my apprenticeship
Time is flying by, I’m already over a quarter way through the year developer apprenticeship program at work. It’s been fun, exhausting, and rewarding all at the same time. Like all the teams I’ve been apart of so far at Automattic my new team is fantastic. All incredibly smart, dedicated, and willing to give theirContinue reading “Quarter way through my apprenticeship”
Developer Apprenticeship
Recently I received some very exciting news at work. I’ve made it through the application process and accepted into a new developer apprenticeship program. This means starting in January I’ll be spending a year working with a development team and learning, with mentorship, to be a productive, contributing, developer. This is a fairly new programContinue reading “Developer Apprenticeship”
Cape Split
Today was the first day of my Sabbatical from work. Three months were a all my typical excuses are no longer valid. I have the time and ability to do a bunch of things I’ve been putting off. I started today with one thing I’ve been putting off for a long time. Not really intentionally,Continue reading “Cape Split”
Distributed Team
Recently I was telling someone about my job for the first time. We were talking about how we communicate and how there is almost always someone else online working no matter when you are. They said something along the lines of that it must be like talking to some random stranger. While that’s true someContinue reading “Distributed Team”
Work, family, basketball
Seems like a lot of the posts I end up writing these days are either about work, family, or basketball. That makes a lot of sense because that is basically my life and I’m happy with all of it. There is a really nice balance with everything right now that hasn’t always been present. I’veContinue reading “Work, family, basketball”
Four years at Automattic
Today marks four years since I joined Automattic full time. 🎉As I mentioned last year this is the longest time I’ve ever stayed with a company and now we’re just extending that record. There was a point this year where I briefly thought about looking for a move though. For over two years now IContinue reading “Four years at Automattic”
Sandy McFadden 