Slava Abakumov

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Let’s go deeper on some topics about development, management, and everything else.

  • Dependabot Example PR

    Exclude directory from Dependabot checks

    Dependabot is an awesome automatic tool by GitHub to check your dependencies for new versions and vulnerabilities. But how do you exclude certain directories within your monorepo from being monitored at all?

  • Wall made of bricks

    Block Editor Pattern: Stripes

    Recently I started working much more closely with the Block Editor – creating new blocks and patterns. And that led me to the idea to start experimenting with the Block Editor functionality. Last week I shared on Twitter (or X) one of such creations, where I re-created a screenshot as a page inside the editor.…

  • An old-style telephone switchboard which would have been used to connect to telephones on a circuit. A thick cord in the photo was used to connect the calls.

    Communicating through meetings in remote teams

    Chat and calls are an integral part of any modern business today and are used as means of communication in remote teams. In this post I share my thoughts abot pre-meeting agenda and post-meeting summaries for calls.

  • CommentsWP Banner on WP.org

    Working on CommentsWP

    WordPress comments haven’t changed a lot – same interface, same functionality – for years. At some point, I decided to improve this important component and started working on the CommentsWP plugin. This post is a brief history of the CommentsWP plugin creation: how and when I came up with the idea, my general process, and…