#24 – Aki Hamano on Building Useful Blocks for Fun
On the podcast today we have Aki Hamano. Aki is a freelance developer from Japan. He builds websites for clients and enjoys setting himself difficult problems to solve. He came to my attention when Justin Tadlock wrote an article about a playful block that he’s created. After a little further exploration, it turns out that Aki’s been busy in his spare time creating a range of blocks, all of them useful and all of them freely available in the WordPress plugin repository. We start off by having a brief chat about what the WordPress scene is like in Japan. Is there a strong sense of community, and do in-person events take place? We then move on to talk about how he became interested in creating blocks. Did he find it easy to understand the new skills required to get up and running and was there enough documentation to make speedy progress? We spend the remainder of the podcast talking through the five blocks which Aki has put in the WordPress plugin repository. Often, they were created to scratch his own itch, to solve a problem that he faced in his work, but sometimes, as with his excellent Piano Block, it…
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