Weston Ruter (@westonruter) – WordPress user profile

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Working on making WordPress fast!

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Google sponsors Weston Ruter to contribute 30 hours per week to the following teams: Core and Core Performance.

Member Since: May 16th, 2007
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Website: weston.ruter.net
GitHub: westonruter
Job Title: Developer Programs Engineer
Employer: Google
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Submitted pull request #7730 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Follow up to #62269: WP_HTML_Processor::next_token() cannot be extended in subclasses to keep...
5 hours ago
Submitted pull request #66772 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Delay block hydration to allow interactive block stores to initialize
6 hours ago
Merged pull request #1631 into WordPress/performance:
Bump @wordpress/scripts from 30.3.0 to 30.4.0
9 hours ago
Merged pull request #1632 into WordPress/performance:
Bump @wordpress/env from 10.10.0 to 10.11.0
9 hours ago
Merged pull request #1630 into WordPress/performance:
Bump @wordpress/prettier-config from 4.10.0 to 4.11.0
9 hours ago
Posted a reply to Issue on MS Edge Browser, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's possible, but I doubt it's something we'd prioritize.
9 hours ago
Merged pull request #1627 into WordPress/performance:
Fix phpstan errors
24 hours ago
Posted a reply to AVIF not supporting Transparent PNG, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! I believe you are reporting what is currently being tracked here: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1576
24 hours ago
Created issue #1634 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Unit tests for Modern Image Formats are failing on WP trunk
24 hours ago
Created issue #1633 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Consider alternative to using object-cache drop-in to implement early Server-Timing
1 day ago
Posted a reply to incompatible with cache plugins, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The object-cache.php installation is designed to be compatible with any existing caching layer. In particular,…
1 day ago
Posted a reply to Issue on MS Edge Browser, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
To give an update on this. The issue has been fixed in the canary version…
1 day ago
Created issue #1626 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Embeds can be more secure and potentially more performant if wrapped in...
2 weeks ago
Created ticket #62290 on Core Trac:
Unable to seek to any bookmark in HTML Processor
2 weeks ago
Reopened ticket #62269 on Core Trac:
WP_HTML_Processor::next_token() cannot be extended in subclasses to ...
2 weeks ago
Closed pull request #7607 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Fix extensibility of WP_HTML_Processor::next_token()
2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #62269 on Core Trac:
WP_HTML_Processor::next_token() cannot be extended in subclasses to ...
2 weeks ago
Committed [59285] to Core SVN:
HTML API: Fix extensibility of `WP_HTML_Processor::next_token()`. ...
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Updates to the HTML API in 6.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Headings to a Custom HTML block wouldn't be detected, no. But that isn't common, right?…
2 weeks ago
Created issue #1624 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Update readmes for Image Prioritizer and Embed Optimizer with the new features...
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Updates to the HTML API in 6.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Would HTML parsing be needed here given that the heading structure should already be identifiable…
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #1618 into WordPress/performance:
Bump phpstan/phpstan from 1.12.6 to 1.12.7
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #1619 into WordPress/performance:
Bump phpstan/php-8-stubs from 0.4.2 to 0.4.3
2 weeks ago
Created ticket #62270 on Core Trac:
Unable to set bookmark on </body> in WP_HTML_Processor
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #7607 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Fix extensibility of WP_HTML_Processor::next_token()
2 weeks ago
Created ticket #62269 on Core Trac:
WP_HTML_Processor::next_token() cannot be extended in subclasses to ...
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #1614 into WordPress/performance:
Post 3.5.1 release merge
2 weeks ago
Created issue #1617 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Disregard transient cache in perflab_query_plugin_info() when a plugin is absent
2 weeks ago
Created issue #1616 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Automatically discover plugin dependencies when obtaining Performance feature plugins from WordPress.org
2 weeks ago
Created issue #1615 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Automatically install and activate Optimization Detective when activating Embed Optimizer
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #1614 to WordPress/performance:
Post 3.5.1 release merge
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #1613 into WordPress/performance:
Account for plugin dependencies when storing relevant plugin info
2 weeks ago
Closed issue #1608 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Prepare PL 3.5.0 release
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #1613 to WordPress/performance:
Account for plugin dependencies when storing relevant plugin info
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #1611 to WordPress/performance:
Post 3.5.0 release merge
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #1609 into WordPress/performance:
Prepare 3.5.0 release
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #1610 into WordPress/performance:
Doc: Add `Web Worker Offloading` in readme files
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #1609 to WordPress/performance:
Prepare 3.5.0 release
2 weeks ago
Created issue #1608 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Prepare PL 3.5.0 release
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #1607 into WordPress/performance:
Add ReturnTypeWillChange attribute for offsetGet to suppress notice
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #1607 to WordPress/performance:
Add ReturnTypeWillChange attribute for offsetGet to suppress notice
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #1585 into WordPress/performance:
Introduce OD_Element class and improve PHP API
3 weeks ago
Closed issue #1309 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Occluded initial-viewport images should get fetchpriority=low
3 weeks ago
Merged pull request #1482 into WordPress/performance:
Add fetchpriority=low to occluded initial-viewport images
3 weeks ago
Merged pull request #1604 into WordPress/performance:
Avoid lazy-loading images and embeds unless there are URL Metrics for both...
3 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #1604 to WordPress/performance:
Avoid lazy-loading images and embeds unless there are URL Metrics for both...
3 weeks ago
Closed issue #1600 on the WordPress/performance repository:
JavaScript module code inlined in PHP should be loaded from external JS...
3 weeks ago
Merged pull request #1601 into WordPress/performance:
Moves embed-optimizer-lazy-load script to js file
3 weeks ago
Merged pull request #1602 into WordPress/performance:
Add group collection helper methods to get the first/last groups
3 weeks ago
Created issue #1603 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Running npm run format-js formats more files than expected
3 weeks ago

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