Back when I started writing WordPress plugins, the Open Source communities were small and specific. The programming world hadn’t fully evolved from posting zip files on forums to collaborating on GitHub. In fact Git was still in very early adoption and code under version control was almost always using SVN. At first I was just […]
My Story (in progress)
My name is Mat Lipe, and this is my story.
You don't have to worry. I'm not gonna tell you a pack of lies to make me look good. I'm just gonna tell you what happened.
The first 30 or so years of my life are unimportant. A range of childhood experiences and learning to adult that I'm sure you experienced similar to. Instead of boring you with all that, for now I'm going to start at the origin of where this current version of Mat Lipe began.
Chapter 1: Introduction Into Tech
My original career Before I became the Mat Lipe of legend, I was in commercial cleaning. I know what you’re thinking, “janitor” right. Well basically yes with the difference being scale. A janitor has a large range of duties covering a small building of complex, while I commercial cleaner has the specific duty of cleaning […]
Chapter 2: The company that saved me
I was defeated. I was out of money, out of unemployment benefits and had nowhere to go. There was one company left who has offered me a second interview. I was so defeated by this point that I would bet if you asked them, they would say I seemed like a different person in my […]