Hallway Chats

Introducing Rob Ruiz Meet Rob Ruiz, a seasoned Senior Full Stack Developer with nearly two decades of expertise in WordPress innovation and open-source magic. As the Lead Maintainer of WP Rig since 2020, Rob has been the driving force behind this groundbreaking open-source framework that empowers developers to craft high-performance, accessible, and progressively enhanced WordPress themes with ease. WP Rig isn’t just a starter theme—it’s a turbocharged toolkit that bundles modern build processes, linting, optimization, and testing to deliver lightning-fast, standards-compliant sites that shine on any device. Show Notes For more on Rob and WP Rig, check out these links: LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robcruiz WP Rig Official Site: https://wprig.io GitHub Repository: https://github.com/wprig/wprig Latest Releases: https://github.com/wprig/wprig/releases WP Rig 3.1 Announcement: https://wprig.io/wp-rig-3-1/ Transcript: Topher DeRosia: Hey everyb

June Liu is the Creative Strategist at backpocket ACE, where she helps projects run smoothly and accessibly. She’s also the co-editor of WP Wonder Women and co-founder of Speed Network Online.

Amber Hinds is the CEO of Equalize Digital, Inc., is the lead organizer of the WordPress Accessibility Meetup, board president/co-lead organizer of the WordPress Accessibility Day conference, and participates in the WordPress core accessibility team.

Joni Halabi works at Georgetown University where is the web web content manager for the office of the president. She also volunteers on the WordPress Accessibility Day project, managing the translation of transcripts into a variety of languages.

Toby Cryns is the owner of TheMightyMo.com, a WordPress agency in Minneapolis MN.

Nancy Lyons is the CEO and co-founder of Clockwork, an enterprise web development company in Minneapolis MN. We've known her through the internet for years, and it was a delight to get to talk to her in this episode.

Evelyn is a very unusual guest in that we brought her into the WordPress community! Years ago when Liam and Tara started this podcast they hired Evelyn as their transcriber. Since then, Evelyn has gotten to know more than 175 WordPressers by transcribing their interviews here on Hallway Chats. Her perspective as an "outsider" was quite heartwarming.

In February Topher and Cate went to WordCamp Birmingham and Topher was able to interview both Aisha Adams and Marcus Burnette in the hallway.

Believe it or not, this is Robert's second time on Hallway Chats! His first was back in 2017 with Liam and Tara. Since Ny and Topher had never talked to him on here, we decided to give it another go!

In November 2022 Topher went to WordCamp Italy in Milan. While there he had conversations with James Baldacchino, Luisa Ravelli, Caroline Crossland, Paolo Scala, and Samah Nasr.

Topher and Sophia met with Benjamin Zekavica and Moritz Bappert, both WordCamp Europe 2023 volunteers.

Topher and Sophia met with Evangelia Pappa, Lena Lekkou, and Hacer Yilmaz, all three WordCamp Europe 2023 Organizers.

Topher and Sophia met with Amy for the first time in this episode. We talked about WordPress, Linguistics, and WordCamp Europe.

Topher and Maestro met at WordCamp Buffalo a few weeks previous, and then conncetted again in Hallway Chats to talk about his WCEU talk.

Topher and Iolanda got some time at WordCamp Italy in Milan to chat about her experiences in WordPress.

Topher and Maja got some time to sit at an outdoor cafe in Barcelona Spain and talk about how she got into WordPress.

Topher and Nyasha had the opportunity chat with Lesley Sim about life before WordPress, free diving, and founding a company.

Topher and Nyasha have a great conversation with Tom on topics ranging from art, design, and artificial intelligence.

Topher and Vassy meetup for a live, in-person Hallway Chat at WordCamp Europe 2022 and talk about her work in Digital Marketing.

In this episode of Hallway Chats we talk with Matt Mullenweg about travel, photography, Tumblr, and a little WordPress.