Nerd alert: I’m posting this in case anyone finds themselves with the same issue and needs a fix; if you don’t care about databases feel free to skip this one 🤓 For a recent post I wanted to use an emoji. I also wanted to use emojis in a post ages ago and wasn’t able to… […]
My life & thoughts

The 2017 plan
– I have part of a plan – What percentage of a plan do you have? – I dunno… Twelve percent? Guardians of the Galaxy So this isn’t much of a plan right now, but something made me not want to use the words resolutions or goals; resolutions just get broken, but I guess these are […]

My 2016
Last year was a pretty big year for me, including more travelling than I’ve ever done, more WordCamps, heaps of knitting and crochet, one bunny died and a we adopted a new bunny to be friends with our remaining rabbit. Nearly every month I ran and/or attended WordPress meetups in Sydney, in the CBD and north […]

Farewell Kaylee Rabbit
I thought that today I would spend time reflecting on and writing about the Automattic Grand Meetup, from which I’ve just returned. It’s the one time in the year that all of Automattic gets together to train, develop, discuss, and party. However, that reflection will have to wait as I have something closer to my […]

Kristen is an Automattician!
This month I officially joined the ranks of Automattic! For those in the know, I am a Happiness Engineer on the Store team. For everyone else, I do support for WordPress.com, mainly for Business plan customers. I love my new job. Helping people with their websites is what made my blog popular, it’s how my […]
A thought on sharing & helping
My name is Luka… what is she saying? Is she actually asking that we don’t ask…