GlotDict, Wordpress and Mozilla with Daniele Scasciafratte

The Developers' Bakery

Today I’m excited to have on stage Daniele Scasciafratte, the Open Source Multiversal Guy. Daniele is involved all over the places: he’s a WordPress core contributor, a Mozilla contributor, and the author of the book “Contribute to open source: the right way”.

In this episode, we start from GlotDict, a browser extension Daniele wrote to support WordPress translators. But that’s just the starting point! We’ll touch on what is means to be a WordPress core contributor, how Mozilla is different from WordPress and the love/hate relationship we all have with PHP.

Daniele also wrote an Open Source book: “Contribute to open source: the right way”. This book is like a survival guide for any Open Source newcomer. We’ll talk about how the book came to be and what are the main takeaways from it.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

• 00.08 Intro
• 00.54 Episode Start
• 02.36 Daniele’s Introduction
• 04.25 What is Glotdict?
• 08.48 WordPress and the modern web
• 15.07 What does it mean to be a WordPress core contributor?
• 21.46 PHP
• 26.12 Daniele & Mozilla
• 32.28 Writing an Open Source book
• 41.56 One takeaway from Daniele’s book
• 47.38 Further reading
• 52.57 Where people can find you online?

Resources

• Mte90/GlotDict on Github
• Daniele’s Book: Contribute to open source: the right way 3rd edition
• 2 years of GlotDict or Why I made my first browser extension for the WordPress community
• Mentioned Books:
  • The tao of coaching
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Daniele’s Podcast - Opinioni in Open Source 🇮🇹
• @Mte90 on Github
• @mte90net on Twitter
• Daniele’s Website

Show links

• Podcast Website
• The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify
• The Developers’ Bakery on Apple Podcasts
• The Developers’ Bakery on Google Podcasts
• @thebakerydev on Twitter
• @cortinico on Twitter