WP Hacker Cast – the official launch post.

About a year ago (literally, I got the domain renewal notification two days ago) I came up with a podcast idea.  I had just finished reading “Milestones – The Story of WordPress” and I thought how awesome it would be to interview every single one of the core release leads, from Matt all the way up to Helen, and dive deep into the ins and outs of leading a WordPress release. I started by reaching out to two of the release leads, Drew Jaynes and Helen Hou-Sandi. Helen because she had just lead the 4.7 release and Drew because I’ve actually met him in person. Both were keen but had other things going on at the time. So I put it on hold until they were available. A few months later the idea resurfaced in my head, mostly because I had just helped Craig Hewitt launch the Seriously Simple Hosting extension for the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin. I thought about all the WordPress developers I already know, both locally and internationally, who weren’t necessarily WordPress release leads but whose stories I would love to hear. So I decided to retool the podcast to focus on those folks I refer to as ‘WP Hackers’, people who use WordPress and write code with/for it every day. I’ve since recorded my first four episodes (3 of which are publicly available on the WP Hacker Cast website) and I’ve had good responses so far. I’m slowly learning about the extra things needed for a podcast, like a subscription option as well as submission to things like iTunes. It’s all a great learning process. I’m happy to anncounce that you can now subscribe to new podcast episodes via email, directly from the site. Use the ‘Subscribe to the WP Hacker Cast’ form in the sidebar to receive fresh podcast notifications in your inbox. The podcast is also now listed on iTunes and Stitcher, so you can consume the episodes using your favourite podcast player. Please feel free to comment on the episodes, or contact me directly with feedback, comments and suggestions. I’m always looking for WP Hackers to talk to or interesting topics to discuss.