I’ve been on sabbatical from work since mid-August. Today was my first day back. What did I learn in that time? No single moment of truth achieved I did not have that quintessential “aha” moment of clarity that I thought might come during this unique time off. This experience was a huge shift for me […]
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Yesterday began day one of 90 that I’ll be taking as a sabbatical from work. Every five years at Automattic we’re given an awesome gift of a paid sabbatical – something I’ve never dreamt possible in our current age. The word “sabbatical” is heavily laden with teaching references. Even dictionaries reference education in its definition: […]
Every year at Automattic’s Grand Meetup we’re required to give a flash talk of up to four minutes on any topic. This past year I gave mine on a subject related to my post “How Working Remote (Probably) Saved My Life“. I’m actually developing a much longer talk to dive deeper into what’s been involved […]
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Minutes can make a difference. This is something I quickly discovered early on when I started working remote. The granularity of a usable block of time was much bigger when I worked in an office and had a 20 minute commute each way. Unconsciously I believe I felt 15 minutes was the smallest unit of […]
Before Working Remote In July 2013 I started working remote at Automattic working on the WordPress for iOS app. I was pretty happy with my life at that time and the transition to the new job was not for reasons of disliking my previous job. In fact I loved working for Red Arrow Labs in […]
Tools to Help Test Localization Apple provides some pretty slick tools to help with localization testing in your apps. I had completely forgotten about two launch parameters that make it possible to find those pesky layout problems early: NSDoubleLocalizedStrings – Any calls made to NSLocalizedString will double the strings to simulate languages with longer words, […]
In case you missed it – the Swift programming language is finally Open Source! Today we launched the open source Swift project along with the Swift.org website. We couldn’t be more excited to work together in an open community to find and fix issues, add enhancements, and bring Swift to new platforms. But also hidden […]
Walking While You Work I’m not going to link to any articles or research about the benefits of walking while you work. I’ve been standing at my desk since I started working at home and to me this is the next progression. I have ADHD and I’m always trying to find ways to hack my […]
Some people have asked me what it’s like working for Automattic. Every employee of Automattic has a different perspective on what it means to work here. Here are a few things I feel are important to me. Work Wherever, Whenever Automattic is a completely distributed company. We have a headquarters in San Francisco, CA USA […]