• Monday August 2nd, I put in my notice to quit my corporate job
• August 9th bought our first house in Dayton
• August 16th I went full time, work from home, self-employed with HartzlerDM.com
• Launched Your Website Engineer in Nov of 2010 and first podcast was on Dec 3, 2010.
• WordPress Version 3.0.2 was out when I launched
  • Default theme – TwentyTen
  • Menus can be managed in the dashboard!
  • The Help menu in the upper right corner
  • Support for Shortlinks
  • Old dashboard
• I built websites for clients from Dec 2010 – Dec 2013
• Joined Automattic on Dec 2, 2013 on WordPress.com support
• Later moved to WooCommerce Support
• Favorite Features in WordPress in recent years
  • Upload a plugin or theme update without having to uninstall the previous version
  • Custom post types
  • Gutenburg
  • User Switching plugin
  • Valet+ Local Development setup
• Things that are exciting for 2021
  • Building better themes
  • REST API
  • Javascript, and getting better at it
• Nearly 2 million downloads

Upcoming Plans

• New shows coming in January
• Building out an office space
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• Patreon account
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