Block Editor Migration
It was a fair amount of work to migrate Snopes to the block editor since they have a lot of content that was written with the classic editor. The project was too big for me to handle alone, so we hired a project manager and a couple of developers from Human Made for five, two-week sprints.
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Personal Site Build
There are a few technologies that I have wanted to work with or extend my knowledge around, so I set out to do them on my website. To avoid maintaining a database, I chose not to use WordPress or another CMS. Using Webpack and Markdown files; I built a static site generator. It can be committed to Github and requires little maintenance. The infrastructure is defined in Javascript and provisioned in AWS using Pulumi.
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Prism.js integration
Considering this was to do a complete migration from custom field plugins, it was a perfect time to rethink how writers enter data for each of our content types. We met with several folks from the editorial team to better understand their workflow and what the pain points are in the classic editor.
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