Carl Alexander
@twigpress
Currently building @YmirApp in public. I tweet about bootstrapping, programming, devops. Avid memer. Often confused with his more handsome cardboard double.
Let's talk about what it's like to contribute to WordPress outside of the project itself. I've been doing it out of my own pocket for over a decade and it's been a struggle. It's made me think a lot about open source sustainability in WordPress. So here's a 🧵 and a warning 🤣
Tokyo is such a magical city and this one unique reason for it! Also get @McReynoldsJoe's book! It's an awesome tour guide for the city 💖
1/Here's something a lot of people I talk to don't understand about Japanese urbanism, and why Japanese cities are so special.
New Dev Pulse: Expanding the Stack. @zstepek and @twigpress are joined by Jason Cosper to chat about what's it really like doing "all the things" as a developer? From infrastructure to consulting to community. openchannels.fm/beyond-hosting…
Carl Alexander is the creator of Ymir. Ymir is a serverless solution for WordPress. Carl shared a case study recently which I know you performance minded people can appreciate: blog.ymirapp.com/case-study-ope…
We are back with a new DevPulse, Expanding the Stack. In this special episode we welcome back @ifyouwillit, one of our former hosts. This time he is chatting with @zstepek and @twigpress about Reinventing Careers and Building Resilience dothewoo.io/reinventing-ca…
Getting a lot of love for this article I put together. I want to give props to @twigpress for inspiring me to write technical articles ❤️
🚀 Optimise your WordPress queries for better performance! Check out our latest post on improving WP_Query efficiency with key parameters to reduce memory usage, enhance speed, and avoid common pitfalls. 💻📈 spacedmonkey.com/2025/04/14/enh…
New episode of DevPulse, Expanding the Stack. It's our final wrap of #CloudFest 2025 and the Hackathon with @twigpress, @RobertJacobi and @zstepek dothewoo.io/our-final-wrap…
my advice is to stop looking for things that look like good opportunities instead think about what you really want to work on for a decade of your limited life
A conversation is happening right now with @RobertJacobi @twigpress @zstepek all about @cloudfest 2025. Watch for it next week. #CloudFest
"Somebody a long time ago did a meme for me because I used to say that all the time. It was a Beastie Boys meme—'Soft skills to pay the bills,' basically. Absolutely. Absolutely. Because I've been a proponent of soft skills for 15 years or something." @twigpress
Will you be attending @cloudfest? if so, make sure and say hi to nine of our hosts who will be there, either at the Hackathon, the event, or both. @adamweeks610 @karmatosed @sirjonathan @courtneyr_dev @RobertJacobi @Bovelett Matthias @karimmarucchi @twigpress
Hey, our first DevPulse, Expanding the Stack. The concept came from host @twigpress and @zstepek loved it. They invited @tessak22 to talk about code to community and a lot of stuff between. Great conversation! dothewoo.io/90490-2/
Hey, spotted our host @twigpress getting nerdy with @tessak22 .. make sure and listen in. Oh, and I would say there is a 99% chance you will see these two again, but with the table turned, on our new show DevPulse - Expanding the Stack soon.
99 Dev Problems with Carl Alexander x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
NEW SHOW for Devs at Do the Woo ⌨️ DevPulse. Hosts @schmitzoide and Mike will keep up the tradition of Woo DevChat. But @zstepek and @twigpress start a new one under DevPulse called "Expanding the Stack" #WordPress #developers #code
Tissue box upgrade. My kid found a pack of stickers. I told him @twigpress from Canada. He got so excited and told me the time we went to Canada (and didn’t see Carl) #LostMeAtHiImCarl
Woah, you can literally edit your Laravel app within AWS Lambda? This is insane. Reminds me of the FileZilla days, FTP into production, save changes and you're rolling.
Early Access Launch Is Now In Progress For Everybody On the Waitlist! 🚀 Incredibly excited (and nervous, lol) to get this out to everyone. The public access launch is on November 1, 11:00 a.m. ET. If any waitlist deals are left, you’ll be able to snag them on a first-come,…
🧵 About five weeks ago, pre wpdrama, I started working on the relaunch of the snicco/fortress site. And... TBH, I hated every minute of it. I'm used to working all day in the IDE, not WordPress. PHPStorm has me spoiled - everything is one key press away, barely using the…
If Sentry had an opt-in choice in the payment flow to give some amount of $ of to open source, would you consider it? e.g. [x] Add 1% to my bill to contribute to Open Source software (assuming it was transparent on the what was happening with the money)