Felix Arntz (@flixos90) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: November 28th, 2012
Location: San Francisco, USA
Website: felix-arntz.me
GitHub: felixarntz
Job Title: Developer Relations Engineer
Employer: Google
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Bio

Developer Relations Engineer at Google. WordPress Core Committer. Previously Yoast. Runner, musician, movie geek. Aprendiendo español. Fueled by Mountain Dew.

Interests

Music Production. Movies. Brostep. WWE. Cocktails. Soccer. Running.

WordPress Origin Story

September 2012: Started working with WordPress
November 2012: Signed up for wordpress.org
March 2013: Published his first plugin on wordpress.org
October 2014: Reviewed a WordPress book
November 2014: Started working with WordPress multisite
June 2015: Attended his first WordCamp (WCEU in Sevilla)
June 2015: Did his first contribution to WordPress core
October 2015: Became co-organizer of the WordPress meetup Cologne
February 2016: Started contributing to WordPress core regularly
May 2016: Became a component maintainer of Multisite
May 2016: Gave his first session at a WordCamp
September 2016: Became co-organizer of the WordPress meetup Dusseldorf
October 2016: Co-organized WordCamp Cologne
November 2016: Became a WordPress core committer
June 2017: Attended his first WordPress community summit
August 2017: Became a component maintainer of Roles/Capabilities
February 2018: Gave a session at LoopConf
April 2018: Started working part-time at Yoast
April 2018: Became a component maintainer of REST API
November 2018: Started as DPE in the Web Content Ecosystems team at Google

Contributions Sponsored

Felix Arntz contributes 5 hours per week to the Core team.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Team
Documentation Contributor
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

Activity
Plugins
Favorites
Translations

Submitted pull request #190 to WordPress/performance:
Update module descriptions (specifically `webp-uploads`) based on latest updates

3 days ago
Submitted pull request #189 to WordPress/performance:
Update @wordpress/env to latest version

3 days ago
Closed issue #142 on the WordPress/performance repository:
When uploading, generate both WebP and jpeg format images by default

3 days ago
Merged pull request #188 into WordPress/performance:
Add retry mechanism for constrained environments.

3 days ago
Closed issue #142 on the WordPress/performance repository:
When uploading, generate both WebP and jpeg format images by default

4 days ago
Merged pull request #147 into WordPress/performance:
Add the `sources` property to each image size

4 days ago
Created issue #187 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Allow developers to tweak which image formats should be used

5 days ago
Merged pull request #178 into WordPress/performance:
NPM script to update `@since n.e.x.t` tags

6 days ago
Closed issue #90 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Automate @since tags generation using the `n.e.x.t` placeholders

6 days ago
Mentioned in [52772] on Core SVN:
Cache API: Add `wp_cache_flush_runtime` function

1 week ago
Committed [2679149] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.68.0

2 weeks ago
Committed [2679148] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.68.0.

2 weeks ago
Mentioned in [52707] on Core SVN:
Cache: Use wp_cache_*_multiple() in core functions.

2 weeks ago
Mentioned in [52700] on Core SVN:
Cache: Add `wp_cache_*_multiple` functions.

2 weeks ago
Mentioned in [52669] on Core SVN:
Taxonomy: Remove cache expiry limitation in WP_Term_Query.

4 weeks ago
Committed [2671574] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.50.0

4 weeks ago
Committed [2671573] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.50.0.

4 weeks ago
Created issue #137 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Further evaluate default thresholds for enqueued assets

4 weeks ago
Merged pull request #108 into WordPress/performance:
Rename `object-caching` to `object-cache`

1 month ago
Closed issue #68 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Setup `.github` templates

1 month ago
Merged pull request #88 into WordPress/performance:
Issue templates for bug reports and feature requests

1 month ago
Closed issue #25 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Create Site Health Audit Enqueued Assets module

1 month ago
Created issue #135 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Enhance reliability of how Site Health enqueued assets module detects assets

1 month ago
Created issue #134 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Ensure Site Health enqueued assets module excludes admin-specific assets

1 month ago
Merged pull request #54 into WordPress/performance:
Add module to alert about excessive JS and CSS assets

1 month ago
Created issue #133 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Prepare initial release

1 month ago
Committed [2664615] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.49.1

1 month ago
Committed [2664614] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.49.1.

1 month ago
Created issue #130 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Expose WebP support under Site Health status tab

1 month ago
Merged pull request #89 into WordPress/performance:
GitHub action for automated plugin deployment to wordpress.org

1 month ago
Pull request #112 merged into WordPress/performance:
Update JS focus code owner per recent change

1 month ago
Submitted pull request #112 to WordPress/performance:
Update JS focus code owner per recent change

1 month ago
Closed issue #33 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Allow programmatic control of which modules are enabled

1 month ago
Merged pull request #87 into WordPress/performance:
Allow programmatic control of active modules via filter

1 month ago
Committed [2658914] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.49.0

1 month ago
Committed [2658913] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.49.0.

1 month ago
Closed issue #52 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Implement GitHub action to ensure necessary labels and milestone are present on...

1 month ago
Merged pull request #85 into WordPress/performance:
GitHub Action to validate flags and milestones.

1 month ago
Merged pull request #72 into WordPress/performance:
Add `readme.txt` and related update script

1 month ago
Mentioned in [52579] on Core SVN:
Media: Add a missing `/` in post thumbnail lazy loading regex.

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Changes to JavaScript Coding Standards for Full Prettier Compatibility, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Yes, this change by itself indeed does produce a gap. Please don't take parts of…

2 months ago
Pull request #20 merged into wp-cli/super-admin-command:
Trigger core actions when granting or revoking super admin permissions

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Changes to JavaScript Coding Standards for Full Prettier Compatibility, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This definitely makes sense from a maintenance perspective, and I also agree it makes sense…

2 months ago
Mentioned in [52437] on Core SVN:
Embeds: Fix oEmbed host script enqueueing on block-based themes.

2 months ago
Submitted pull request #72 to WordPress/performance:
Add `readme.txt` and related update script

2 months ago
Closed issue #46 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Module Slugs Naming Proposal

2 months ago
Merged pull request #58 into WordPress/performance:
Update module directories to be within their focus directory

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Enhanced lazy-loading performance in 5.9, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Lazy-loading images was introduced in WordPress 5.5 and later expanded to also cover iframes in…

2 months ago
Committed [2650232] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.0.0-rc.2

2 months ago
Committed [2650231] to Plugins SVN:
updated version to 1.0.0-rc.2

2 months ago