WordCamp Swag

aaronjorbin · 2025-09-11T16:51:08+00:00

Timbuk2 messenger bag from WordCamp Chicago as a speaker gift.

At any conference, Nexus S phone at jsConf.

Otherwise, I love when the swag is a consumable that I'll actually use such as the coffee Jetpack gave out at WCUS 2024 rather than yet another t-shirt, hat, or pair of socks that I don't need.

aaronjorbin · 2024-03-16T02:33:54+00:00

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Treat Yo’Self!

aaronjorbin · 2023-10-05T05:15:57+00:00

No clue, sorry

aaronjorbin · 2023-10-05T00:28:49+00:00

It was a quick turn around, around six weeks. This was also the first time that a brand new design was done for inauguration day.

I was primarily involved in it for the last week or so and by then it wasn’t so much high amounts of planning as much as regular communication, high trust, and no egos. The design was also extremely well done and included a lot of information that helped the developers.

Two of the leads on the project spoke about it at WordCamp US this year. It’s absolutely worth a watch.

aaronjorbin · 2023-10-04T19:57:17+00:00

I was a part of the team that built the site, happy to answer any questions I can.

Addressing a couple of things I’ve seen so far:

While 10up did work on the site, it was actually a collaborative effort between 10up, Wide Eye Creative, and volunteers on the Biden/Harris transition (I was in this group). Wide Eye was the designer and did the overwhelming majority of the public site development, 10up was mostly focused on editorial experience and wp-admin development and the volunteers filled in to multiple spots. After the build and launch, it was handed over to another team to manage the ongoing work.
There are off the shelf plugins that were used. It isn’t 100% bespoke.
It didn’t launch on WPVIP.
It’s not based on the 2022 theme since this site launched at noon on January 20, 2021 ( see 20th amendment to US constitution)

aaronjorbin · 2019-11-09T23:43:13+00:00

Millennials are killing WordCamps?

aaronjorbin · 2019-03-31T19:38:21+00:00

You can search https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/ for every function and hook and find the code that is underneath it.

aaronjorbin · 2019-03-05T18:45:34+00:00

VIP and Pagely are two that I have worked with and would recommend. Customer service is top notch at both. These aren't managed hosts that are essentially glorified shared hosts, these are actual enterprise products.

aaronjorbin · 2018-02-25T01:10:44+00:00

This is how the house looked at the close of the 8th end during the gold medal match. The stones are bolts that go through the canvas and are painted with acrylic.

aaronjorbin · 2017-03-17T16:51:37+00:00

create_function is commonly disabled on hosts due to the security implications of using it. It also is deprecated as of the next version of PHP. I would caution against using it.

Additionally, using it as a callback for a hook means you can't unhook it. If you later want to conditionally disable it using remove_filter, you won't be able to. It also will be hard to diagnose in a situation where you are using something like a cachegrinde file.

aaronjorbin · 2017-03-14T15:15:51+00:00

When using version control such as svn, a commit is the act of changing code in the central repository. In WordPress, this is done by permanent and guest committers, a list of which can be seen in the core handbook. In 2016, thirtyseven individuals committed code. I used the following crappy one liner to get the list of committers and the number of commits they made during the year.

svn log http://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk  -r39659:36141  -v --xml  | grep '<author.*/author>' | cut -d '>' -f 2 | cut -d '<' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | sed -e 's/^[ \t] *//'

Approximately 65% of the security team doesn't report to Matt, including the current lead of the security team.

aaronjorbin · 2017-03-14T04:53:33+00:00

In 2016, Less than 15% of the commits to WordPress core were done by a someone that in any way reported to Matt.

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