George Mamadashvili

@mamaduka.com

I like building things. Contributing full-time to @WordPress Core Block Editor, sponsored by @GoDaddy.

I have been missing the "What's new in Gutenberg?" posts on the Make Core blog lately, as I found this always to be helpful when checking what just got merged. So I decided to ask if any help is needed and how to make these, and did one this past weekend: make.wordpress.org/core/2025/02...

What’s new in Gutenberg 20.1 and 20.2?

This time, due to the smaller sizes of the releases, this post contains information for both the 20.1 (22 January) and 20.2 (5 February) releases. “What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the…

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Building software is like playing an open-world RPG.🎮 The main quest is shipping features. The side quests are fixing debt, improving performance and tooling. Ignore them, progress slows. Obsess over them, you forget the goal. Balance is key. Here’s how I approach it ⬇️ riad.blog/2025/02/07/m...

Mastering the side quests

Modern video games, especially the open world games all share similar mechanics around the game’s scenario. The player has a main quest to achieve in order to finish the game, but in parallel…

riad.blog

Building and scaling a great engineering culture is hard. Balancing quality and velocity? Even harder. I’d love to learn from you all—what tools, principles, and best practices have made the biggest impact in your teams? Reply and share your insights! 🚀

Did you know you can personally sponsor #WordPress contributors & help advance the #OpenWeb (even if you don't have the time or ability to do so personally)? Check out github.com/aurooba/spon... to find lots of folks like @aaron.jorb.in @karmatosed.art that are actively leading releases!

GitHub - aurooba/sponsor-wp-contributors: Sponsor WordPress contributors working hard to build WordPress

Sponsor WordPress contributors working hard to build WordPress - aurooba/sponsor-wp-contributors

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Aaron is another contributor you could also sponsor and help keep the WordPress project moving along. His work is tireless, and he is truly amazing. He does so much unseen, with a heart of open source. Please consider supporting him this year if you can. Having people like him contributing matters.

Aaron Jorbin@aaron.jorb.in · 2y ago

Now more than ever it's important for organizations that want to see WordPress continue to succeed to step up. I continue to be in search of more sponsors for the work I do on WordPress core. github.com/sponsors/aar...

This is so spot on. Two things: 1. Being focused on producing output the fastest way possible means that you will never prioritize "going deep" 2. Going deep (and down the rabbit hole) is how you learn more: but you need to balance it. Figure out how to do both: it's tricky!

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