Now

This is a now page, describing what I’m currently focusing on. I try to keep it up to date.

I just returned back to work from a few months of baby bonding leave with my son who was born in January this year. I am extremely grateful that I got to spend so much time with him and witness all his daily developments. At the same time, I am eager to get back into all things WordPress and performance now that I’m back – all while entering this new stage in life where I have both a child and a job. I’m excited for that.

At this point, I’m mostly catching up on all the developments that I either missed or only slightly noticed over the past couple months – as always, mostly in scope of WordPress core and the WordPress Performance Team.

In the little bits of time that are left here and there, I continue working on my own little WordPress projects and producing electronic music.

In terms of my personal WordPress projects, I am mostly focused on the WP OOP Plugin Lib library, which facilitates OOP best practices in WordPress plugins without reinventing the wheel, leading to a more maintainable plugin codebase with low risk of bugs and incompatibilities with other plugins. I am currently expanding and polishing the library’s APIs and adding test coverage. I’d like to launch a first 0.x version soon, including documentation. Closely related to this, I’m also working on a WordPress plugin starter template that uses the library, which can serve as a starting point or at least a good example on how the library can be used in a plugin.

On the side, I continue to maintain my MU plugins repository, as well as my plugins in the WordPress.org repository. There are some that I haven’t updated in years, and eventually I’d like to revisit and modernize them.

But for now, I’m just excited to be back in action and see what the future holds.