Dennis Snell (@dmsnell) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: January 9th, 2014
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
Website: dmsnell.blog
GitHub: dmsnell
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.

Contributions Sponsored

Dennis Snell contributes 30 hours per week to the Core team.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Team
WordCamp Speaker

Activity

Submitted pull request #39081 to WordPress/gutenberg:
[data] Fill out type definition for data registry

4 days ago
Closed pull request #38460 on WordPress/gutenberg:
[Blocks] Preserve source markup in invalid blocks

1 week ago
Submitted pull request #38923 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Blocks: Remember raw source block for invalid blocks.

1 week ago
Created issue #38922 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Unrecognized Blocks: Preserve content of invalid and missing blocks

1 week ago
Submitted pull request #38794 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Blocks: Deprecate `isValidBlockContent`

2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #38638 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Tests: Remove `originalContent` from fixtures

3 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #38638 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Tests: Remove `originalContent` from fixtures

3 weeks ago
Merged pull request #36839 into WordPress/gutenberg:
[Docs]: Add docs for `schema` in block API

4 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #38460 to WordPress/gutenberg:
[Blocks] Preserve source markup in invalid blocks

4 weeks ago
Merged pull request #37795 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Compose: Rework types of createHigherOrderComponent for closer match to API

1 month ago
Merged pull request #37929 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Docgen/stop crashing on missing return types

1 month ago
Merged pull request #38148 into WordPress/gutenberg:
[docgen] Refactor code to use require() instead of JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync())

1 month ago
Submitted pull request #38148 to WordPress/gutenberg:
[docgen] Refactor code to use require() instead of JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync())

1 month ago
Submitted pull request #37929 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Docgen/stop crashing on missing return types

2 months ago
Merged pull request #37763 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Block API: Separate validation stage during block parsing

2 months ago
Submitted pull request #37795 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Compose: Rework types of createHigherOrderComponent for closer match to API

2 months ago
Created issue #37766 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Docgen: Crash for untyped @param descriptions on default re-export

2 months ago
Submitted pull request #37763 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Block API: Separate validation stage during block parsing

2 months ago
Submitted pull request #37239 to WordPress/gutenberg:
[@wordpress/data] Add types to the useSelect function

3 months ago
Merged pull request #37017 into WordPress/gutenberg:
[@wordpress/data]: Refactor use-select in preparation for adding types

3 months ago
Submitted pull request #37017 to WordPress/gutenberg:
[@wordpress/data]: Refactor use-select in preparation for adding types

3 months ago
Merged pull request #36190 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Data: Update types and fix type error

3 months ago
Submitted pull request #36839 to WordPress/gutenberg:
[Docs]: Add docs for `schema` in block API

3 months ago
Submitted pull request #36190 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Data: Update types and fix type error

4 months ago
Merged pull request #36062 into WordPress/gutenberg:
[data]: Rename types file from .d.ts to .ts

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #36062 to WordPress/gutenberg:
[data]: Rename types file from .d.ts to .ts

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #35870 to WordPress/gutenberg:
WIP: Use inner blocks for lists

4 months ago
Submitted pull request #35869 to WordPress/gutenberg:
WIP: Explore typing on core data packages

4 months ago
Pull request #35368 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Test Setup: Add more-complete mocks of common timer functions

5 months ago
Closed ticket #32378 on Core Trac:
Image Uploads automatically puts "Olympus Digital Camera" as caption

2 years ago
Mentioned in [45929] on Core SVN:
Formatting: Improve accuracy of `force_balance_tags()` and add support for custom element tags.

2 years ago
Created ticket #47375 on Core Trac:
Blocks API: Add server-side `serialize_block()`

3 years ago
Mentioned in [45267] on Core SVN:
REST API: Always urlencode_deep() query args in get_items methods.

3 years ago
Closed ticket #45312 on Core Trac:
parse_blocks return non-existing empty blocks

3 years ago
Mentioned in [45190] on Core SVN:
Bootstrap/Load: Remove duplicate leading slashes on inclusion of various files under `ABSPATH`.

3 years ago
Created ticket #46238 on Core Trac:
REST API: Allow conditional field registration

3 years ago
Created ticket #46199 on Core Trac:
REST: Escape already decoded values when adding query args

3 years ago
Mentioned in [44576] on Core SVN:
Blocks: Add a `$source_block` parameter to the `render_block_data` filter.

3 years ago
Mentioned in [44165] on Core SVN:
Editor: Merge some minor bug fixes.

3 years ago
Closed ticket #45481 on Core Trac:
Classic Block bold and italic

3 years ago
Mentioned in [43815] on Core SVN:
Editor: Minor bug fixes.

3 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2018

4 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……

5 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…

5 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…

5 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…

5 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…

5 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Orlando 2016

5 years ago
Mentioned in [38785] on Core SVN:
KSES: Deprecate `wp_kses_js_entities()`.

5 years ago
Mentioned in [36366] on Core SVN:
Themes: Enhance filtering options for allowed themes on a network.

6 years ago

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