Hi, my name is Jonathan.
I am a developer advocate and educator from Cape Town, South Africa with a passion for open-source software.
I work at Automattic as WordPress developer advocate, creating educational content for WordPress, and my focus is on developer-related content.
This site is my personal blog, where I write about all sorts of things, but mostly with a focus on web development.
Slides and notes from my talk “WordPress in 2025 – Innovation meets refinement” at the WP Joburg December meetup. Slides Notes
One of the things that I discovered when I joined Automatic is that we have this amazing professional development benefit, and this covers a wide variety of things. There are courses and learn ups you can take within the company, you can expense books and learning courses. But the one thing that really, really worked…
The slides from my talk at Google Dev Fest Cape Town 2025
I’ve started a new series on my YouTube channel, all about my work at Automattic. So if you subscribe to this channel. You probably come here for like WordPress stuff or WordPress development stuff, or development AI stuff. Just stuff to do with development. But I kind of wanna start a new series of videos…
If you follow my weekly AI Coding live streams, they are moving to Tuesdays at 12 pm UTC. My Friday afternoons have been taken over by personal events, so I need to move the weekly streams. I’ll still post the stream recordings to my YouTube channel every Monday, which just means I have a little…
All the links from my Developer User Group talk: Next-Gen WordPress: Introducing the AI Building Blocks Presentation Google slides Links Example plugins
This year, I was fortunate enough to attend WordCamp US in Portland, Oregon. It was both my first time at a US WordCamp and a US flagship event. Monday: Arrival I arrived in Portland after approximately 23 hours of travel at around 10:30 in the morning and was met by a fellow Automattician, Ojoma Emina,…
Turn your local WordPress install into your AI coding assistant Slides Requirements Code repositories Resources Find me on social media
In just over a week I’ll be presenting a workshop at WordCamp US titled “Turn Your Local WordPress Install Into Your AI Coding Assistant“. If you’re planning to attend, this post is for you! I try to make my workshops as beginner friendly as possible, but there is some preparation you will need to do…