{"id":1041,"date":"2016-05-23T09:42:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T13:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.neo.wordcamp.org\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2016-05-23T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T13:42:37","slug":"speaker-interview-eric-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-interview-eric-meyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Interview: Eric Meyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at WordCamp Northeast Ohio, we are pretty big fans of the Lifehacker series “How I Work”<\/a>. We asked our speakers to do a WordPress take on that idea, and thus was born “How I WordPress”- a series where some of the best minds in WordPress share a bit about their process with our readers\/attendees.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Name<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eric Meyer<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cleveland Heights, OH<\/p>\n

Current Gig<\/strong><\/p>\n

Co-founder, An Event Apart<\/p>\n

Career Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

I started on the web in 1993, became a webmaster in 1994, worked for Netscape 2001-2003, went indie, and co-founded An Event Apart. Along the way, I wrote some CSS books for various publishers, and created a bunch of tools and techniques that got tossed onto the web for anyone to use. The ones I thought would be niche went viral, and the ones I thought could go viral stayed niche. Recently shifting into UX and the philosophy of design, but staying involved in the technical side.<\/p>\n

One word that best describes how you work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Randomly.<\/p>\n

Current Mobile Device\/Why<\/strong><\/p>\n

iPhone SE. I had an iPhone 4S, and the SE came along just as I needed a new phone (the battery on the 4S was wearing out), and the SE was the right size for me.<\/p>\n

Current Computer\/Why <\/strong><\/p>\n

2013 MacBook Pro. It just works for me, and being able to drop into the Unix shell or fire up a Windows VM mean I effectively have three platforms on one machine. Yes, despite my awareness of the technical realities, I still consider OS X and Unix as being distinct, mostly because users do.<\/p>\n

What apps\/software\/tools can’t you live without?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MailMate, Terminal, BBEdit, Transmit, all the browsers. Photoshop a close runner-up.<\/p>\n

What do you listen to while working?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Usually a playlist of instrumental music, since writing gets disrupted by music with works. If I\u2019m doing something a little more repetitive (like data analysis) or writing code, I mix it up with mood-appropriate playlists. If I\u2019m doing something really basic but lengthy, like translating data from one format to another, NPR podcasts.<\/p>\n

What sort of work are you up to now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m part of the team running An Event Apart; writing the fourth edition of \u201cCSS: The Definitive Guide\u201d; creating CSS tests and participating in the discussions about CSS Grid Layout; and writing and thinking about how to promote more a more humane and respectful approach in design.<\/p>\n

What’s your sleep routine like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sub-optimal.<\/p>\n

What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth enduring some temporary discomfort to get to do something remarkable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here at WordCamp Northeast Ohio, we are pretty big fans of the Lifehacker series “How I Work”. We asked our speakers to do a WordPress take on that idea, and thus was born “How I WordPress”- a series where some of the best minds in WordPress share a bit about their process with our readers\/attendees. … Continue reading “Speaker Interview: Eric Meyer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-interviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NH2X-gN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}