Jason Caldwell

Member Since: March 9th, 2017
Location: Willow, Alaska
Website: jaswrks.com
Job Title: Code Wrangler
Employer: Automattic
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Bio

[‘Tactical Bracket Typer @ Automattic’] … husband • father • hacker • alaskan. I’m a senior software engineer, small business owner, and team leader. I build web-based applications with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash, and other languages.

Interests

PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, jQuery, package managers.

WordPress Origin Story

I fell in love with WordPress back in 2009. I created several themes and plugins. Some friends joined me and together we started a business and sold them commercially (e.g., s2Member, Comet Cache, and others). Over the years my skills improved, as did my familiarity with the WordPress codebase.

Contribution History

Core Contributor

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Created a new ticket, #43224, in Core Trac:
Extract `$utf8_pcre` from `wp_check_invalid_utf8()` into a separate ...

3 years ago
Created a new ticket, #43177, in Core Trac:
REST API allows empty comments containing only whitespace

3 years ago
Created a new ticket, #42828, in Core Trac:
Hard-coded 403 status in REST response should use ...

3 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Concept: A Developer Dashboard, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
Got it. I hope this happens :-)

3 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Concept: A Developer Dashboard, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
Your diagrams look like a fantastic idea to me! The fact that you don't already…

3 years ago

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