sarcasm master here, but as the article points out the problem is first with the UI (as actually many tech human interaction problems are) If you flag bad questions and answers only to moderators instead of flagging it to the OP you get a disconnect

OTOH fighting the sense of entitlement is an uphill endless battle. You can for example force comment on downvotes, but as someone that does it alot, I will be the first to acknowledge that it just leads to many pointless arguments

@TomJNowell API is a contract. Can you imagine your landlord changing a rent contract just by himself without notifying in any way the renter?

some changes are minimal and might be considered cosmetic, which is not what pento wants to do (add a field indicating if content is gutenberg), but regardless it is the state of mind that do not get the contractual obligations of an API that prevents me to even bother commenting on that issue

github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/6435

which leads to github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/2649

... it is unsurprisingly that not only pento do not get it

Very productive day so far ;) found a description for all the americans that think that GDPR will have zero impact on them - They are living the trump dream.

Morning. Having problem with a backend where load-scripts.php fails (when editing a post). The request made has 3 load[]= parts, if I request each of those individually it works. Is there a simple way I can have WP split this into 3 separate requests?

ah, define( 'CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false ); should work, will try it

worked

@MarkKaplun all the more reason to raise the point

tom

do you get benefits at your job

like health care

@MichaelEcklund when you say benefits, that depends on the country

paid time off

health, vision, dental?

e.g. I get private healthcare, but as a UK national it's not the same as what the US employees get what with the NHS

retirement investments?

and everybody in the UK gets paid time off, statutory requirement of 20 days + 8 bank holidays

and we get pension etc

okay so does automattic provide anything other than an income to you?

though again, all UK employers are required to have one unless you explicitly opt out

sure, coworking expenses, computer, WordCamp travel, swag, etc etc

my main thing I need is healthcare

you seen the embroidered timbuktu bags with the WP logo on them?

if I can get that I'd love to apply there

healthcare wouldn't be an issue

I say apply

what's a good starting point

how do you mean?

I'm not super advanced, but i'm also not a newb

like what position would be a good place to apply for

well have a look through the different roles listed, not all are technical, plenty of variety

I wanna code

I like writing code

I can only comment so much from a VIP side of things though as far as roles are concerned

What do you do in VIP

You write custom code for people's websites?

I'm a Launch Engineer

oh

VIP doesn't build websites for clients, we host them

ahh

the clients get an agency or one of our vetted FP's to build it for them

do you use GCE?

if we write code, it's usually tools or examples

I don't know what GCE is

Google Cloud Enterprise

nope, Automattic has its own servers

Systems does the whole installing servers in racks and running stuff in data centres shebang

much cheaper at our scale than going with AWS or GCE

I suppose.

VIP-wise, I'd suggest if you wanted to go hardcore on writing code, apply for the Platform Engineer position, they're doing a lot of stuff with React/JS/Node/PHP and a little Go

else, the Expert Debugger role might be better

What about a Code Wrangler?

it's essentially VIP Engineer Lite, for those who aren't quite at that level but are expected to be given a little training

Technically I'm a code wrangler

oh okay so if I apply to be a Code Wrangler, I might end up in VIP?

but Code Wrangler is more of an Automattic role than a VIP role

vip.wordpress.com/careers are the VIP positions

oh you're specific to WordPress

we've a separate hiring funnel and more autonomy than Automattic in general

not 100%, we do host the odd Node based site, and we've a lot of tooling and infrastructure that isn't WP

I wanna get in on writing code like plugins

maybe jetpack or woocommerce

but the focus is towards enterprise clients running WP at VIP

then an Automattic role would be better, and you'd mention you're particularly interested in those in the covering letter

I should just apply as a code wrangler on automattic?

I don't really mind what I do.

I just like to write code and improve wordpress

Yeah, there's a lot of teams a code wrangler could end up on, you can help guide that with what you say when you apply and afterwards during interviews and trials

can I see your resume? would you mind sharing or is it kinda secret

hah it's public on my site but I don't really update it

oh is it? that's a good idea

but tbh Automattic doesn't care much about it, more of a formality, the covering letter and community contributions massively outweigh it

I've been self empoyed since 19

tomjn.com/curriculum-vitae

I've not touched the bits past employment history in a few years, they could do with being rewritten

wow that format is different than i've seen

What should I do about references, if I've been self employed

Clients?

I don't know, but I would guess so

or other people you worked on joint projects with

but that's a somewhat general UK style CV/Resume

only time my references have ever been checked was when CFTP worked with the Scottish government, and we needed clearance for handling childrens data

ahh

You've got a very nice resume in my opinion

very solid

I'm doing it Tom

made up my mind.

This is what I want

good luck man!

I wish more people would explain why they're asking something