{"id":4182,"date":"2025-06-25T11:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T15:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/hello-i-am-dave-winer-and-welcome-to-wordland\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T22:30:16","slug":"hello-i-am-dave-winer-and-welcome-to-wordland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/hello-i-am-dave-winer-and-welcome-to-wordland\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to WordLand! :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, thanks to the organizers of WordCamp Canada for inviting me to speak at this year’s conference and for allowing me to post to this blog.<\/p>\n

I like to start these things really early and encourage a conversation that starts way before the conference and extends beyond. That way we can get more done when we meet face to face. And that’s really why I do this — to meet other people who want to do the same kind of stuff I do.<\/p>\n

I did a podcast<\/a> a few days ago entitled WordPress and Me. I’ve been involved in blogging since inception in one way or another, and over the life of WordPress I have used it, but never dived into it as a developer. I assumed that meant working in PHP, which has never been one of the environments I’ve mastered. These days I do all my server coding in Node.js.<\/p>\n

But then one day I discovered that there was a comprehensive API for WordPress<\/a> that ran in Node. So I tried doing some stuff with it, and it worked! I read through the docs and it made complete sense, in fact it reminded me of the API we built for Manila, in the late 90s, a precursor to WordPress. I discovered that WordPress had met me where I worked. So I continued experimenting and saw quickly that you could make a very nice editor with this API, so I went for it, and the result is WordLand<\/a>, which is the primary thing I want to talk about and demo in October in Ottawa.<\/p>\n

A few more notes from the conversation on Slack a yesterday.<\/p>\n