Darren Ethier

I spend a lot of my days in words. Code reviews. Slack threads. 1:1s. Docs. Blog posts like this one. Words are the medium of my work, my relationships, my thoughts. They’re also how I make sense of my own inner world as a husband, a dad, my beliefs, a leader at a company that […]

I’m sitting here writing this post, with a few days left in my 3 month Sabbatical. One of the great perks of working for Automattic is that every 5 years I have the opportunity to take a 2-3 month fully paid time away from my regular work with no expectations beyond disconnecting from work. It […]

One of the things I wanted to do during my sabbatical (more on that later this week) was to create (from scratch) a new block theme for my site. I haven’t done this in a long time and thought it’d be a good way to get familiar with the state of block themes as a […]