Today marks the one year anniversary of my editing job at SitePoint.
It sure went by fast - in fact, I was genuinely surprised when LinkedIn “likes” started popping up. In this short post, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on the past 365 days, and share with you what I’ve learned and how things changed.
Chaos in the Old World
When I first took the job and stepped into Tim’s shoes, I’m not going to lie - I was overwhelmed. With a big and chaotic author roster, I had very little time to get familiar with the writers, the approach to accepting drafts, the editing process and the aspect of communication with both HQ and the author pool.
Vagrant still not having been a tool as popular as it is and Docker basically not existing yet made things more difficult to test - every code sample came with its own prerequisites, and it was more work than my home Linux playbox could handle, sometimes reinstalling the PHP development environment several times per day. My machine looked messier every day.
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