Tag: Open source

  • GitAudit, a tool to audit large open source Github repositories

    At Automattic, we are requested to do a yearly support rotation. Regardless of our primary role, we periodically rotate into support-facing responsibilities to stay close to users, understand real-world pain points, and make sure our product decisions are grounded in actual usage. For teams working on WordPress and its ecosystem, this often means spending time…

  • A story of software refactoring: Converging the post and site editors in WordPress

    TLDR WordPress has two block editors: the post editor that allows you to edit posts and pages and the site editor that allows you to edit templates, headers footers… Converging the post and site editors has been a difficult task, but we’ve completed it; read on to know the context, process, and consequences. A brief…

  • The WordPress block editor: a maintainer’s story

    Writing software is easy, sustaining it for years is harder, and doing it for open-source software is a challenge. Here’s a story about my journey to help build the WordPress block editor from a maintainer’s perspective, a perspective probably invisible to most developers and contributors (unless you’re an open-source project maintainer). The fun part As…

  • Write as blocks in an encrypted collaborative environment

    For WordCamp Europe Online Contributor Day, I’ve prepared a post to onboard new contributors. I’ve used notion.so for this. It’s great software, but a friend of mine rightfully commented about it being a missed opportunity to use Gutenberg. What if you could open your browser, type a URL, and immediately start typing in Gutenberg. and…

  • Awesome Algeria

    Now, that I'm back in Algeria. Let's try to build a solid developers community together. A first small step is trying to gather all these hidden developers. For that purpose, I put together an Awesome Algeria repository on GitHub.