{"id":3622,"date":"2017-09-26T13:09:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T17:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.annarbor.wordcamp.org\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2017-09-26T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T17:09:40","slug":"mary-baum-master-of-css-and-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annarbor.wordcamp.org\/2017\/mary-baum-master-of-css-and-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Baum, Master of CSS and Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"

What drives you to speak at WordCamps?<\/h2>\n
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  1. My husband, if it’s more than six hours or so in the car. Oh, wait. That’s a who, not a what.<\/li>\n
  2. I’m pretty sure CSS jokes don’t go over too well at Open Mic Night. So WordCamp is my comedy store.<\/li>\n
  3. I really think it’s possible to render in CSS almost any design we can conceive of, subject to browser support and its limitations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    AND I think it’s possible for any designer to learn to render their vision in CSS and template PHP, irrespective of age, temperament, education or professional background.<\/p>\n

    What would you like to see change about the WordPress platform in the next 5-10 years?<\/h2>\n

    The Media Library. I’d like to be able to upload media files with FTP or push them from version control, with their meta data intact.<\/p>\n

    I love that Core automagically makes images responsive (shout-out to fellow STL peep Joe McGill on that!)<\/h2>\n

    And happy as I am with the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin, which keeps going and going and going, shouldn’t that functionality be part of Core at some point?<\/p>\n

    Who do you think is under represented in the WordPress community?<\/h2>\n

    Fat Jewish tennis ladies over 55, of course! Tennis pros and other athletes …<\/p>\n

    In my experience of the STEM space, the two most welcoming communities for white women and people of color are probably WordPress and aerospace (or at least Boeing fighter programs).<\/p>\n

    Now, my real experience is of WordPress. My perception of aerospace is skewed by who shows up at Taco Tuesday here in the high desert of Aerospace USA in California.<\/p>\n

    So I don’t have much standing to say either way, and we can always do better.<\/p>\n

    What was the most challenging WordPress project you\u2019ve worked on?<\/h2>\n

    The most fun I’ve had recently was building a Genesis child theme that uses Flexbox every which way from Sunday. It’s called GardenFlex, because I used some shots of flowers and leaves as the featured images.<\/p>\n

    What\u2019s a problem you recently solved creatively using WordPress?<\/h2>\n

    I’m still working on it at stltennishall.org<\/a> – in the Inductees category, I want each archive to show only its immediate subcategory archive (there’s a plugin letting me add featured images to the categories, so I can make pretty layouts on the archive pages).<\/p>\n

    Right now, I’m hiding things I don’t want with hacky CSS. I need to write a better function, with better array arguments, to control those archive pages properly.<\/p>\n

    Where can people find more about you?<\/h2>\n

    racquetpress.com<\/a> is the product\/service site I’ve been soft-launching for two years now \ud83d\ude1c ; marginhancers.com has endorsements and some non-tennis case studies.<\/p>\n

    I live on Twitter<\/a>, basically, unless I’m on the court or doing something halfway productive. There’s my somewhat pathetic Github account<\/a> – my Genesis child themes live there. I’m marybaum both places and on wordpress.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    And if you’re in the mood for lame comedy mixed into somewhat more solid CSS and templating how-tos, check out my speaker page at wordpress.tv\/speakers\/mary-baum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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