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Large mechanical migrations are miserable. You know the kind: a naming convention was wrong, a pattern propagated across 20 files over three years, and now fixing it correctly means touching everything at once. This means creating a monster PR that’s impossible to review, impossible to revert cleanly, and guaranteed to conflict with everything else in…
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Just over fifteen years ago I shared about joining Automattic and today is the fifteenth anniversary of my start date and has me in a reflective mood. The past fifteen years have seen alot of change both personal and professional and this post is only going to contain some of the highlights. Over the past…
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It has been a long time since I have written publicly despite writing around 400 words a day across internal P2s at Automattic for the past 15 years! I’m not sure how this happened but I think in part it is due to the fact that I fell out of love with the theme on…
Peter Westwood 