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Oscar Gonzalez

I have no idea how I got here, but seems like I stumbled upon a little gem online. I was about to comment on a post, so I went through the registration process with Twitter... then I changed my mind about the comment. My eyes caught the attention of the "write a post" button.

What? Such a nice site, and focused on webdev & tech. Nice. And you can write posts? What is this?

/searches for #wordpress
... found!
Yes!

I got distracted with other parts of the site and after browsing around, it seems like an amazing site, part Twitter, part blog, vc, part tech community. Seems great, feels like the good old days of FOSS forums but in the modern version.

How did I not know about it before, or did I? -- Honestly, I have no clue right now.

But I'm glad to be here now and will check it all out.

Hello, everybody.

Oh yeah, the past 20 years have taken me through an interesting career in IT, networking, bizdev, and webdev and webdesign. Lately more so in marketing and training. I blog at notagrouch.com and manage a couple dozen other sites.

Expert in various fields, but just good enough as a coder to break stuff. I'm constantly searching for improvements and expanding my knowledge. Currently doing deep dives into SEO with WordPress and without it. I have a love and hate relationship with social networks... and I guess that's about it for my intro post.

Oh yeah... Also paying a lot of attention to the WordPress Gutenberg controversy.

And my own advice a year ago should have been: Start teaching now. Don't get complacent, and start expanding.

-OG

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Carsten Gehling

Hey Oscar, like your angle on development. Good developers break stuff all the time. That's how you learn.

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Oscar Gonzalez

Thank you! yes, I have learned that from great developers.