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\nSteve Persch<\/a><\/b> is speaking on Why your site is slow<\/a><\/b> at WordCamp Minneapolis.<\/div>\n

What inspired or motivated you to give this talk at WordCamp?<\/h2>\n

I want to move the web development community beyond a checklist mentality when it comes to web performance. Focusing on the technical checklists often obscures underlying problems that result in slow sites.<\/p>\n

How do you \u201ccreate intention\u201d in your job, career, or life?<\/h2>\n

I perform with an improv company called Comedy Sportz and we have a game called “What are you doing?” In that game, the question is always answered with something other than what you are actually doing. In normal life and work I often ask myself that question too. I may want the answer to be “writing code to get a test passing” but the answer might actually be “checking email while tracking three Slack rooms.”<\/p>\n

If you were a WordPress Plugin, what Plugin would you be and why?<\/h2>\n

WordPress GitHub Sync. Years ago I rebuilt my blog in Jekyll (and now again in WordPress with GitHub Sync) because I love the idea that anything (content as well as code) can be improved by anyone with a pull request.<\/p>\n

If you were not doing your current job, what profession would you be in and why?<\/h2>\n

I got in to web development because I was working at a theatre company that needed a blog. I made a WordPress site and just kept digging deeper, thinking I might eventually hit bottom and come back up to working in theatre. Now it seems more likely that I’d take my coding experience to the data journalism community.<\/p>\n

What professional and\/or research resource(s) can’t you live without?<\/h2>\n

I have gotten hooked on PHPStorm recently. Compared to simpler text editors it makes navigating multiple files so easy. Learning a codebase gets much faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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