Joined January 2026
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Jan 22
I’m new here so I thought a get-to-know-me thread may be in order! 🧵
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As a solo-developer this is the guy who reviews and approves my PRs
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Tarek Zaher retweeted
May 29
And special shoutout to runner-up @tarekdevelops for his Ambient Backgrounds submission: playground.wordpress.net/?bl…
I loved fiddling with the sliders in the editor experience, and the output is 🤩
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May 16
I’ve been making my own board game for fun lately (think a combination of Risk and Catan with some fun twists) but it has given me a deeper belief in these product principles that apply equally as well to software 🧵
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May 16
3. Functional Harmony > Raw Functionality. It's so tempting to pack in every feature you can think of but the truth is that the more layers of complexity you add the more daunting your product is to new users.
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May 16
3.5. Simple complex is always better than complex complex. Take chess: on its face its rules are fairly straightforward but the complexity that emerges is almost infinite. Now think of how complicated taxes are. Make stuff that's more like chess and less like taxes.
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May 16
1. Make something bad and share it with others—the game I arrived at is nothing like my first idea. If I had spent weeks perfecting every aesthetic detail before testing robustly with friends I would have had to completely start over or (more likely) just given up.
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May 16
2. The player’s (or user’s) intuition is almost always correct—if your functionality doesn’t match it, whatever you’re making would probably be better if it did.
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May 15
Hyped! 🍞🍞🍞 (<—my bread ready for some jam)
May 15
It's okay if you want to call it a comeback.
ALT Screenshot from the Plugin Jam website that reads "Next event starts on May 22" next to a button to "Save the date"
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The primary reason I decided to learn Next.js for my personal site was to play with the seamless page transitions you can see here when I click my blogpost. Curious if there’s a good solution for this in WordPress yet, I haven’t really been able to find anything
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Feb 19
I have to come up with a Business Name to publish my WooCommerce plugins under. Welcoming any advice! Seems like vague yet evocative is the way to go? What do you think of “Platonic”
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My dilemma w/ AI tools is I enjoy problem-solving, learning, losing myself in a flow state. It’s how I freely choose to spend much of my time. Offering to take these pleasures of my plate feels a little like offering to go to my friends’ houses and beat them at board games for me
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I made a tool that helps you increase your typing speed while also bettering your soul! Track your average wpm and accuracy as you absorb one of the most important books of all time in digestible, daily chunks. Check it out here: tarekzaher.com/experiences/a…
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I really just wanted something I could do each morning to warm my fingers up and improve my typing that was also productive/meaningful. Nicomachean Ethics has natural section breaks built-in and is severely underrated imo so it felt like the perfect choice!
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Will also make for a great UI playground (current UI is trash but proudly hand-made!) For instance, experimenting here with color-coded heartbeat monitor style mini-graph to display current wpm instead of the actual live numbers which I found too distracting. Fun to play with!
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Jan 25
Preview of what I've been working on this weekend for @PluginJam_WP's "Grow" blockathon! A collaborative WordPress flower garden where visitors can plant messages that grow into beautiful flowers. Could be cool for memorial/wedding sites or a more fun comment section on blogs.
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Jan 25
Also need to revamp the way the flowers spawn and about a dozen other things, but it's my weekend and I get to do what I want!
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Jan 23
It’s a small win but was so happy to have my silly cloud p5.js sketch chosen for one of the @thecodingtrain showcases! Been obsessed with this textbook/course recently, Daniel couldn’t be a better or more inspiring teacher. editor.p5js.org/Tarek-Zaher/…
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