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Carl Alexander

carlalexander
Montreal, Canada

Heya! 👋

I'm Carl. You might know me because of my more handsome CardBoard double. I've been doing open source work for the WordPress and PHP community for close to a decade. I'm especially passionate about software design and server administration.

I'm mainly known for all the articles I've written on object-oriented programming on my personal site. I have a small security plugin that I maintain to showcase a lot of what I teach. It's also pretty useful 😉

Until recently, I maintained debops-wordpress. It's an Ansible project to give anyone in the WordPress community access to a fast and secure WordPress server. It was a catalyst for some current WordPress server management products. 🚀

Since 2019, I've been working on making WordPress work on AWS Lambda as a serverless application. The two core components are open source. They are the:

I've tried to support my open source work sustainably through my company Ymir. That said, it's not able to support me yet. (You can see where I'm at on my public dashboard.) I don't want to take any sort of funding as these two projects would have to become closed source since they're Ymir's most important intellectual property and I want to keep them open source.

Your sponsorship helps keep my open source work sustainable until Ymir can do so.

Thanks! 💖

@carlalexander

🏠 Hitting this goal would allow me to pay my rent with GitHub sponsors

Current sponsors 8

@goaround
@DevinWalker
@jdebuchy
@Vernal
@afragen
@kingkool68
@austinginder
@Codeinwp

Past sponsors 11

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@dknauss
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Featured work

  1. ymirapp/php-runtime

    Ymir PHP runtime

    PHP 13
  2. ymirapp/wordpress-plugin

    Ymir WordPress plugin

    PHP 31
  3. carlalexander/passwords-evolved

    WordPress password authentication for the modern era

    PHP 98
  4. carlalexander/debops-wordpress

    Your superpowered WordPress server in three commands.

    Jinja 440

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