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Happiness Engineer at Automattic, lover of knitting, crochet, sci-fi and more
Last July my team went to Japan. On our main activity day we went for a hike on a portion of the Kumano Kodo trail. It was quite the challenge for me: completely useless at walking long distances, especially up hills. Despite that it was scenic, interesting, and satisfying. Beauty Wildlife Oddities Signs and writing […]
My current team at work is named Patronus and we have just spent a week in Shirahama, Japan. Shirahama is a coastal town in the Wakayama Prefecture, South of Osaka. For the first few days it was pretty quiet, it felt like we had the place to ourselves. It got a little busier over the […]
After WCEU, I took the opportunity to visit my cousin who is living in Switzerland for the summer. Not far from where she lives is a town called Grindelwald and up the mountain from there, Pfingstegg. As it happens, our grandparents visited there about 40 years ago, so we decided to try to find all […]
Woot! WordCamp Europe (WCEU) is just a few days away; and as I write I am in the airport lounge doing some work, enjoying some dessert, and thinking about WordCamp. I love WordCamps in general for a number of reasons. In no particular order some of those are: learning teaching amazing community swag inspiration community […]
The GM Each year (nearly) everyone at Automattic gets together for the Grand Meetup (GM). The GM is essentially a company retreat. We work, we train, we develop, we discuss, we play, we eat, we drink… it’s an amazing time of getting to know each other better and working and planning towards better products and better […]
On my trip to WordCamp Europe, via Prague, I got to go on a tour to Český Krumlov. It was fantastic! Český Krumlov is a town to the South-West of Czech Republic, which is famous for its castle. The castle began being built by the Lords of Krumlov in 1253, giving the oldest parts of […]
