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My Journey to Happiness – Part 1
I’m so excited to officially announce that I’m a Happiness Engineer at Automattic! I started this journey in July 2018 and I was rejected twice. I’m hired as a Happiness Engineer after my third application submission in October 2018.
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How I Learned About Domain Forward with Masking
Yesterday I had a very interesting discussion with one of the volunteers at the WordPress.com support forum and an Automattic’s staff about a topic posted on the forum. And thanks to this topic, I learned about domain forward with masking.
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Rewarding September
Looking back in the month of September, I have a feeling that it’s a slow and unproductive month. However, my progress tracking notes on my journey to become a Happiness Engineer seems to say otherwise!
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WordPress.com vs WordPress.org Explained Using an Analogy
In this post, I’ll try to explain the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org using an analogy.
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First WordPress KL Meetup
Today, I attended my first WordPress KL meetup for the topic of What, Why and How of WooCommerce, presented by MK Chan, CEO of MKECM IT Solutions.
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No Pain, No Gain
There’s easy learning like spoon-feeding all the information required to you and there’s another way of learning which requires a certain amount of pain so you would remember well. I learned a lesson recently in a hard way. After I was rejected by Automattic, I reviewed the CV and the assignment I submitted to them…
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The Assignment And The Rejection
Background: I sent in a job application for Happiness Engineer at Automattic on 12th July 2018. So this post is about the assignment I was required to complete and submit in order to be considered for the next stage of the whole hiring process, i.e. the first interview.
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A Leap of Faith
Today, I made a leap of faith by hitting the submit button on the Job Application for Happiness Engineer form at Automattic. It started a few months ago when I was doing the random Google search on the keywords like “freelance jobs in Malaysia”. After a few clicks here and there, the Work with Us…