Jen (aka Jane) on WordPress

My cell phone runs out of juice all the time, and I don’t realize it until those moments when I need to call/text someone or when I need to hit up Google Authenticator for 2fa. When I’m out a...

https://jane.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/cell-phones-engagement-disconnection/

Good article in the New York Times about the relationship between agriculture/cattle and water resources. Yet another good reason to give up eating slaughtered animals! It’s seductive to think ...

https://jane.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/meat-makes-the-planet-thirsty-nytimes-com/

My name is not really Jane. I started going by Jane instead of Jen in 2001 when I moved to Seattle and took a job at Microsoft. How did I wind up as Jane? Needed a nickname (the MS “alias” �...

https://jane.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/my-name-is-changing/

Today I turn 41. It’s also the end of my quasi-leave of absence, and on Monday I’ll be returning to full-time work at Automattic on the Dot Org Team. When I do so, it will be in a new role; �...

https://jane.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/changes/

In junior high band, we played Linus and Lucy. My high school band teacher was a jazz clarinetist, and he liked Dave Brubeck. As a teenager I bought the CD of the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtra...

https://jane.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/rip-dave-brubeck/

A few months old. but extremely well said. If we don’t stop bashing and abusing each other for not writing code the way we think it should be written, or for it not being perfect and polished, ...

https://jane.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/well-said-elizabeth/

Ryan Boren has been my most constant coworker since I started working on WordPress four and a half years ago. As lead developer, he had to be my sounding board for everything, and he made me smar...

https://jane.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/happy-birthday-rboren/

I get this email every day with an excerpt of something interesting from delanceyplace.com. Usually I delete them without reading because however interesting it doesn’t seem worth the few minut...

https://jane.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/collaboration-walkman-vs-ipod/

How many times a day do you encounter someone being rude, mean, aggressive, or telling you that you did something wrong because it wasn’t what they wanted? How often is that person you (acting ...

https://jane.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/on-negativity-part-i/

I wrote this long post this morning, then went looking for an old post to see if I’d written about it before (I thought I might have but couldn’t remember). I went to edit.php to see if any t...

https://jane.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/oops-ignore/