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I don’t mean to alarm you but sometimes I see someone has written Javascript and just move on with my life.

I don’t mean to alarm you but sometimes I see someone has written WordPress and just move on with my life.

As WordPress 4.7 hits the streets, I am in awe of @helenhousandi for leading the release and her deputies @jeffpaul & @aaronjorbin.

My last full day in the US was spent at the WordPress contributor day working on core.

The most practical outcome of this was some final debugging (I hope) of the Twenty Seventeen header. David has put in a tonne of work on this theme, he deserves be proud of it.

I’m writing this up in the flight lounge waiting to board the first leg of my flight home. The last few days have been ver busy catching up with people, meeting new people and general socialising.

I’m both sad to be leaving but looking forward to getting back home.

The one and only @thewebprincess has joined us at @humanmadeltd. Woot. https://hmn.md/2016/12/05/dee-teal-has-joined-human-made/

The second day of WCUS yesterday and I managed to see two talks. This brings the total of talks to two ;)

I started the day in Joost de Valk’s talk about SEO and finished with Matt‘s annual State of the Word, Brian has written up a summary on Post Status.

I spent a small chunk of the day figuring out a bug in the Twenty Seventeen video header with a few others. It looks like we’ll be using feature queries. If this gets in, it will be the first use in a default theme which is a little exciting.

First day of WordCamp US yesterday, the conference is the reason for this trip.

These things are usually about the hallway track so I made the effort to do that for the day.

For lunch I went to Cafe Lift with a small group to have the French Toast. Aaron sold this as the best meal in Philly’s best cafe.

After the burger incident I was sceptical but it was damn good.

For dinner I went to a restaurant with some HM and various WordPress people.

It was another day spent with people I know online and I loved it.

Travel day yesterday, I caught the train from NYC to Philly. Whoever told me not to fly, good work that person.

One of the reasons I love this industry is the willingness for people to share their techniques. I spent the trip down with Stuart from XWP talking review processes and coding.

Similar conversations at the Post Status Publish after party. I also got the chance to meet others on the core team I’ve worked with an not met.

Dinner was with a bunch of HM work mates, in most cases catching up for the first time since WordCamp Europe.

Y’all should know the electoral college is not even close to the beginning of the problems with how y’all run your elections.