Dennis Snell

Member Since: January 9th, 2014
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
Website: dmsnell.blog
Job Title: Software Design Engineer
Employer: Automattic, Inc.
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Bio

As a Code Wrangler at Automattic, Inc., I spend my days designing software. As a nomad, I own very few things and enjoy living simply. I love cooking, engineering, photography, and my faithful God, Jesus Christ.

Interests

I’m passionate about programming theory, engineering design, and teaching software design. If you want to meet up at a WordCamp we could spend hours into the night discussing any problem no matter how big or small and get out our laptops to explore some ideas together.

WordPress Origin Story

At the time I found WordPress I had been building primitive CMS systems out of Google Docs, Smarty, and FCKEditor – what a different world! Once I realized that I could have a fully-fledged website building system for free and which got better as time passed I was hooked and abandoned all of my custom website coding.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Team
WordCamp Speaker

Activity

Closed ticket #32378, in Core Trac:
Image Uploads automatically puts "Olympus Digital Camera" as caption

1 year ago
Created a new ticket, #47375, in Core Trac:
Blocks API: Add server-side `serialize_block()`

2 years ago
Closed ticket #45312, in Core Trac:
parse_blocks return non-existing empty blocks

2 years ago
Created a new ticket, #46238, in Core Trac:
REST API: Allow conditional field registration

2 years ago
Created a new ticket, #46199, in Core Trac:
REST: Escape already decoded values when adding query args

2 years ago
Closed ticket #45481, in Core Trac:
Classic Block bold and italic

2 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2018

3 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post JavaScript Chat Summary for May 23rd, on the site Make WordPress Core:
For everyone making a claim that something is simpler or has an easier learning curve……

4 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post JavaScript Chat Summary for May 23rd, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The "vanilla JS" discussion often ends up sounding a lot like, "don't use code other…

4 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post JavaScript Chat Summary for May 23rd, on the site Make WordPress Core:
As a second "large thought" I would like to pose the question of what we…

4 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post JavaScript Chat Summary for May 23rd, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Also I should have added *Reason* which is a project by FaceBook putting a face-lift…

4 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post JavaScript Chat Summary for May 23rd, on the site Make WordPress Core:
So to start out I should say I love JS and React and Redux And…

4 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Orlando 2016

4 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 4.5: What’s on your Wishlist?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
After having done work with notifications at Automattic, I'd be happy to help. Please feel…

5 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp US 2015

5 years ago
Created a new ticket, #33848, in Core Trac:
Protect against vulnerability in Netscape 4?

5 years ago

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