I first met Rafael Ehlers at PressNomics this last spring. I’d already met some of his co-workers from MailPoet, and he already knew who I was from talking to them, so we had common ground right off the bat. We didn’t get much time to talk then, but we’ve talked a bunch on Slack ever…
O texto também está disponível em português do Brasil. The Beginning Back in 2001, while still in high school, I had an internship at the state governor’s cabinet, which had a staff of around 300 people. I fixed computers and printers, installed Windows, set up networks, and so on. Then, at the beginning of 2003,…
Any time someone wants to master a craft they must choose to work through the obstacles to get there. It takes time, energy, patience, and often tears. In this week’s essay, “WordPress Shouldn’t be Learned in Isolation“, Julie Kuehl talks about her decision to master WordPress, and the path she’s chosen to take to accomplish…
Chris Lema wrote a blog post. Surprising, I know. But there’s a particular one that I keep going back to and it has guided me for the past couple of years. It was January 2013. In the process of trying to rebuild my life I had made a decision to pursue computer programming of some…
This week’s essay is from Dan Griffiths. Dan is a freelancer from Omaha and he does a lot of work with Easy Digital Downloads as well as his own projects. Dan’s story was tough for me to read. It exemplifies exactly why we decided to include essays from people living in places commonly thought of…
The 1980s were a veritable playground for anyone who could gain access to what was quickly becoming one of the most coveted inventions of all time: the computer. No longer the size of a refrigerator, innovations from companies like Tandy, Commodore and Apple made personal computers a reality and, like so many others, I couldn’t…
I’m a fangirl. You know those people who dress up in Starfleet uniforms and get called ‘Captain’? Or the ones who go to comic cons and wait in line to get autographs? Or maybe you’ve met the ones who play pretend in the city streets, using Rock Paper Scissors to determine whose vampire is more…
This week’s essay is by Ramya Pandyan, someone I’ve had the great pleasure to get to know over the last several weeks. Her story of growing into a professional writer is a fascinating one, and she’s a really fun storyteller, so it’s a great read. As always we have a place over at WPChat for…
ByRamya
This is a story I’ve told many, many times before. Only, I’ve never been asked by anybody within the WordPress community. So far, my stories have always been for my readers. My name is Ramya Pandyan but I’m better known as IdeaSmith. My first brush with blogging began in the late 90s when the internet…
This week’s essay from Aditya Kane is particularly interesting for me because he’s not a developer. As a developer myself it’s very easy for me to find other developers to contribute, but harder to find people who do other things. I tend to think of “making a living with WordPress” as only coming from development,…
