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Talks & Podcasts
Talks, panels, and podcast conversations I’ve been part of, newest first. Mostly infrastructure, security, and how the internet actually holds together. Everything here has a recording or a write-up you can check out.
Talks & Panels
Mar 2021 · Atarim Web Agency Summit
WordPress.com: Best Practices for Serving the Most Demanding Clients
A panel for agency folks on keeping high-expectation clients happy on WordPress.com, with Stephanie Hudson (FocusWP), Jennifer Dodd, and Marjorie R. Asturias. I was there for the infrastructure side of the conversation.
Replay was attendee-only, so no public link.
Podcasts
Jan 2022 · Unwind (Handmade Network) · Ep. 18 · 44 min
State of the Network 2021
A look back at a year of Handmade: the Handmade Seattle conference, the projects coming out of the community, and where the network was headed in 2022.
Sep 2021 · Unwind (Handmade Network) · Ep. 16 · 84 min
How The Internet Works, with Tyler Leeds
My coworker Tyler, a network engineer at Automattic, and I dig into how networking works below the abstractions (BGP, routing, the human side of running it) and what that means for people who write software.
May 2020 · Unwind (Handmade Network) · Ep. 5 · As host
Interviewing Ryan Fleury
I flipped the mic on the show’s regular host and interviewed him about Handmade Network’s history and mission, programming philosophy, the web, and where computing is going.
Writing Elsewhere
Aug 2026 · Make WordPress Security
The Core Security Initiative
The announcement for the WordPress core security team’s push on a tighter security release process, a smaller vulnerability backlog, and putting AI-assisted scanning in the defenders’ hands too.
Want me on your stage or show?
I’m happy to talk security operations, running infrastructure at scale, WordPress security, or the soft skills that make engineers easier to work with. Conferences, meetups, podcasts, internal team sessions: all fair game.