WP Hacker Cast

WP HackerCast – Episode 25 – Helen Hou-Sandi – Declaring our community’s definition of merit.

Featured image credit – Faces of Open Source / Peter Adams Show notes: 10up Distributor ClassifAI Helen @ WordPress.org WordPress 5.6 release squad The source of the amazing egg bread recipe Helen on Twitter

WP HackerCast – Episode 24 – Tammie Lister – The Future of Digital Experiences and All Things Esoteric

Show notes: Calm App Tammie on Twitter Tammie’s website

WP HackerCast – Episode 24 – Tammie Lister – The Future of ‘Digital Experiences’ & All Things “Esoteric”

The Future of Digital Experiences and All Things Esoteric

WP HackerCast – Episode 23 – Josepha Haden – Executive Director of WordPress

Show notes: WordPress Team Lead post Meeting Etiquette Updates to WordPress profiles and jobs.wordpress.net Hemmingway App Geekbot Josepha on Twitter WordPress Slack (@chanthaboune)

WP HackerCast – Episode 22 – Carole Olinger – A healthy dose of reality

Show notes: Luxembourg Plesk A tough desicion Carole’s Manifesto Lipedema WordPress Polyglots Team Toggl Wrike Carole on Twitter Carole on Facebook

WP HackerCast – Episode 21 – Jeff Pearce – Creative Technologist at Automattic

Show notes: WooNav: Integrated in WP 3.0 JavaScript for WordPress ES6 for everyone React for beginners Egghead.io Laravel Lumen RLabs Local by Flywheel Jeff’s blog Jeff on Twitter

WP HackerCast – Episode 20 – Tevya Washburn – Starfish Reviews and wpXPRESS

For the first new podcast of 2019 I had a great chat with Tevya Washburn from Starfish Reviews and wpXPRESS Show notes: wpXPRESS Starfish Reviews Izze Why Gutenberg and Why Now?

WP HackerCast – Episode 20 – Tevya Washburn – Starfish Reviews and WordXpress

For the first new podcast of 2019 I had a great chat with Tevya Washburn from Starfish Reviews and WordXpress Show notes: WordXpress Starfish Reviews Izze Why Gutenberg and Why Now?

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WP HackerCast – Episode 19 – Corey Maass – App Development for Fun and Profit (Part 2).

For episode 19 I finally get to sit down with Corey Maass, following up from where we left off in part 1, but almost 2 months later.  Show Notes: TechZing Live PodcastJim Carrey 10 million Remembering WhySlimFrameworkRedBeanPHPDerek SiversKanbanWPGelformCorey on Twitter

WP HackerCast – Episode 18 – Tomaz Zaman – Codeable

Today I am chatting with a man who has had a profound influence on my life, Tomaz Zaman, the founder and CTO of Codeable, the #1 outsourcing platform for WordPress. Show notes: Typo3CodeableYou are too cheap!All things Codeable.Codeable AMATomaz on FacebookTomaz on Twitter

WP HackerCast – Episode 17 – The Maker Cast: Fear of Launching

In which Craig and I discuss my next steps towards single foundership.

WP HackerCast – Episode 16 – Corey Maass – App Development for Fun and Profit.

It’s episode 16 of the WP hacker cast and today I’m talking with Corey Maass. Corey is an experience web developer, app maker, plugin builder and musician. Over the course of his career he has built a host of plugins and apps under his Gelform banner, but the most popular of those is the KanbanWP… Continue reading WP HackerCast – Episode 16 – Corey Maass – App Development for Fun and Profit.

WP HackerCast – Episode 15 – The Maker Cast: Selling up

In the second Maker Cast chat, I own up to the fact that I need to move onto something new. Craig and I discuss how to go about selling an existing business, some of the tools I can use to do so and how to plan the next steps of my new start up.   […]

WP HackerCast – Episode 14 – Daniel Bachuber – Humanist Software Development

It’s episode 14 of the WP Hacker Cast and today I’m taking to Daniel Bachhuber. Daniel is an experienced WordPress developer, having worked for companies like Automattic and Human Made. He is also a very prolific contributor to WordPress projects, such as the Rest API and WP CLI, the command line interface for WordPress. Daniel and I had a great chat about a wide variety of topics, from his experiences leading the WP CLI project, his thoughts on how open source philosophies apply to the wo...

WP HackerCast – Episode 13 – The Maker Cast 1

The WP Hacker Cast returns after a month’s break with a new show format. In order to try and mix things up a bit, I’m trying out a new show format, to alternate with the original interview format. What I’m calling ‘The Maker Cast’ will be a series of chats between myself and Craig Hewitt, […]

WP HackerCast – Episode 12 – Travis & Andrew Lima – Experiencing WordCamp

This week I’m talking to not one but two WordPress professionals. Travis and Andrew Lima are employees of Paid Memberships Pro, the most complete membership solution for your WordPress site. This is my second attempt to interview Travis and Andrew, the first went horribly wrong when I forgot to hit the record button. So we thought we’d try again. While I have known Travis and Andrew personally for a few years now, what I didn’t know was that we all experienced WordCamp Cape Town together f...

WP HackerCast – Episode 11 – Alain Schlesser – Improving WordPress

This week I’m talking to a very special guest, Alain Schlesser. Alain the first European guest on the podcast and I’ve been itching to chat to him since I started this. Since becoming a WordPress Consultant, Alain has made his mark on the WordPress project. He has been involved in contributing to WordPress core and is currently the maintainer for WP-CLI, the command line interface for WordPress. He has spoken at a variety of WordCamps, including WordCamp Europe and WordCamp US. Alain is a ...

WP HackerCast – Episode 10 – Hugh Lashbrooke – The WordPress Community

This week’s podcast is a little late and a lot unedited. Unfortunately last week I was dealing with some things which affected my ability to properly review, edit and prepare the podcast. Rather than post it days late, I’ve posted it here in it’s more or less unedited format, so I hope you enjoy it. This week I’m chatting to Hugh Lashbrooke, and Automattic employee and full time sponsored member of the WordPress Community team. While Hugh comes from a strong developer background, his love o...

WP HackerCast – Episode 9 – Simon Dowdles – Managing Multiple Things

Hi there and welcome to episode 9 of the WP Hacker Cast. Today I’m joined by Simon Dowdles, a fellow WordPress developer who I have known for about a year now as we work together on Seriously Simple Podcasting and Castos. Simon has a wealth of work, development, WordPress, Joomla, all kinds of experience, having worked for various agencies in and around Cape Town as well as his own freelance and side projects. I had a great chat with Simon and we spoke about everything, from development to h...

WP HackerCast – Episode 8 – Deborah Butler – Code Saloon

Happy New year and welcome to the first WP Hacker Cast of 2018. Hopefully you enjoyed Episode 7, even though it was just my rambling voice. Fear not though, as we are back to the regular format. Before I introduce my next guest I’d like to take this opportunity to perform the obligatory request for feedback. If you like this, or any of the other WP Hacker Casts, please take a minute to either leave a rating or review on iTunes, comment on this podcast itself, or use the feedback form on the...

WP Hacker Cast – Episode 7 – 2017 Review & 2018 Goals

This week is a much shorter podcast, as I review my resolutions for 2017 and look ahead for the new year. I also talk about a subject quite close to my heart, that of customer service. Sorry for the podcast length, but things will be back to normal in 2018. Happy Holidays. Show notes: My 2017 Resolutions WP Hacker Cast Feedback form

WP HackerCast – Episode 6 – Craig Hewitt – Productised services

If you like this podcast, please consider supporting my Patreon. Welcome to episode 6 of the WP Hacker Cast. My guest today is Craig Hewitt. Craig is the founder of Podcast Motor, a Podcast Editing And Production service, the owner of the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin for WordPress and the founder of the Castos Podcast hosting platform. He is also the co host of the Rogue Startups podcast, where he and his co host discuss the ups and downs of being single founders. While Craig does no...

WP HackerCast – Episode 5 – Gareth Allison – Creatives

Today I am joined by another Automattician based in Cape Town, Gareth Allison. Gareth works for the WooCommerce team as a marketing/designer/strategist (that’s his official title) and has a history of front end development, starting with static HTML pages and moving up to building websites with WordPress. He was hired at WooThemes some time later and finally joined Automattic as part of the WooCommerce acquisition. Gareth is also one half of local Cape Town comedy duo Derick Watts and the S...

WP HackerCast – Episode 4 – Dwain Maralack – From freelancing to Automattic.

Welcome to episode 4 of the WP Hacker Cast. Today I’m joined by WooCommerce Code Wrangler and WordCamp Speaker Dwain Maralack. Dwain is a fascinating chap to talk to and he has a wide range of both WordPress and development experience, both as a freelancer and an employee. He currently lives in Ceres, which is about 2 hours outside of Cape Town, with his wife and 8 month old son. Dwain and I sat down and talked about his WordPress story, from studying a National Diploma in IT, transitioning...

WP HackerCast – Episode 3 – Anchen le Roux & Page builders

In this episode I’m talking to Anchen le Roux. Anchen is the owner of Simply Digital Design, a web design and digital marketing studio based in Pretoria. Before she got into WordPress development Anchen used to be a .Net developer so she has some pretty serious development chops. She is organiser of the Pretoria WordPress meetup, one of the organisers of WordCamp Johannesburg and a speaker at both WordCamp Johannesburg and WordCamp Cape Town. Anchen was originally nervous to talk on the po...

WP HackerCast – Episode 2 – Justin Sainton & Gutenberg

Let’s get it from better to awesome! This month’s episode is dedicated to one of the hottest topics in the WordPress space right now, the new Gutenberg editing experience, and I couldn’t think of a better person to talk about this with than Justin Sainton. Justin is one of my favourite people in the WordPress space. He’s one of the four international people I met at WordCamp Cape Town who helped shape my decision to get more involved with WordPress. Justin has been running his own agency ...

WP HackerCast – Episode 1 – Seagyn Davis

For episode 1 of the WP HackerCast I chatted with Seagyn Davis from FlickerLeap. Seagyn and I met at WordCamp Cape Town in 2016 and have had regular conversations regarding WordPress development in the WPSA slack ever since. I sat with Seagyn to discuss his WordPress history (since 1.5!), how he became co owner of his own company and the current React vs Vue debate and his opinions on the decision. Show notes Purist Coffee Andrew Nacin – Challenging your WordPress Assumptions Flicker Le...