Hi, my name is Jonathan.
I am a developer educator from Cape Town, South Africa with a passion for open-source software.
I work at Automattic as a full-time sponsored contributor to the WordPress project, working with the Training team on Learn WordPress. We create educational content for the WordPress community, and my focus is on developer-related content.
This site is my personal blog, where I write about all sorts of things, but mostly with a focus on web development.
Opinions are like assholes, everybody’s got one and everyone thinks everyone else’s stinks. Simone Elkeles, How to Ruin a Summer Vacation If you’re doing anything in the public space, from building products to putting out content, you’re going to get feedback in a variety of different ways, from reviews to comments to discussions on social…
This post is the first in a series on exploring my role as a developer educator in an open-source project. To read more of the posts in this series, check out the developer educator tag archive, or subscribe for updates at the bottom of this post. Lately, whenever folks ask me to introduce myself, and…
For several years Firefox was my go-to browser. I don’t recall when or why I stopped using it, (I think it was something about the Google Meet integration) but some time back I moved to Brave and never switched back. I like Brave, but I am worried about the fact that almost every browser today…
If you follow my blog, you’ll know that during the last two weeks of December 2023, I started hacking on a little game built on top of the WordPress Interactivity API. Well, two weeks later, that game project has consumed all my spare time, but I am pleased to announce that version 1.0 has been…
2023 has probably been my most eventful year since I started writing review posts in 2016. I didn’t set any specific professional or personal goals for 2023. This is largely because my professional goals are very tied to whatever projects I am working on with the WordPress Training Team, and my personal goals are simply…
It started out as a silly little idea I had one day, it’s now a fully-fledged game block! It even has a dedicated game page, which you can visit by clicking the link below. Dodge – an interactive WordPress game You can take a look at the code in the GitHub repository. Read the original…
Powered by WordPress, The Block Editor, and the new Interactivity API! To learn more about the Interactivity API, why not read the Getting Started guide? Want your own countdown on WordPress? Download the Interactivity API Countdown plugin, and make sure to install the latest version of the Gutenberg plugin.
About a month ago I received an email in my inbox with the following subject line: Jonathan – This is the Best Bag for Gaming Consoles Now the subject line grabbed my attention for three reasons: Anyway, the subject line was intriguing enough for me to read the email. It was from Joclyn, the Media…
As I mentioned in part one, one of the reasons I wanted a gaming handheld was that I had some work trips coming up, one to the US, and one to Europe. Part one only covers the unboxing and setup experience, so part two will cover a few days of day-to-day use at home before…