Software Engineer at Automattic | WooCommerce. Building and sharing what I learn.

Open Source

• 🏢 woocommerce/woocommerce-ios
• 🤝 woocommerce/woocommerce-android
• 🌍 woocommerce/woocommerce
• 🔩 Automattic/woocommerce-payments

Personal Tinkering

• 🚀 staskus/Pomafocus
• 📱 staskus/dreamspaces
• 🔬 staskus/iosforge
• ⚡ staskus/QuickBaby
• 🧩 staskus/AgentsHub
• 🎯 staskus/homebrew-tap

This week, I focused on making several impactful contributions to WooCommerce's open source repositories. I shipped a feature to the iOS app that enriches mobile announcements by adding a "Learn more" CTA, giving users the option to dig deeper into what's new. On the POS front, I opened a pull request to improve the cash payment workflow, ensuring the cash view launches instantly without UI delays or conflicts. I also worked on enhancing card reader reliability by supporting auto-reconnection for Bluetooth devices, inspired by similar improvements on Android, which helps keep the app and hardware in sync during unexpected disconnects. Finally, I started making the template_id optional in WooCommerce’s email sending action to streamline server-side processing. This week was all about polishing the user experience and building more resilient cross-platform flows.

View past weeks

1. Pushed 0 commits to task/phone-pos in woocommerce/woocommerce-ios
2. Pushed 0 commits to trunk in woocommerce/woocommerce
3. Opened PR #16830 in woocommerce/woocommerce-ios
4. Created branch task/phone-pos in woocommerce/woocommerce-ios
5. Pushed 0 commits to woomob-2403-pos-bookings-emails-send-a-correct-email-if-booking-was-paid in woocommerce/woocommerce

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