Episode 156 – A Chat With Tammie Lister

Tammie Lister is a web designer at XWP and a WordPress core contributor.

Show Notes

Tammie’s Blog: https://tammielister.com/

Twitter | @karmatosed

Episode Transcript

Topher: Hey everyone! My name is Topher.

Cate: And I’m Cate.

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All right, our guest today is Tammie Lister. Welcome.

Cate: Hi Tammie.

Tammie: Hi.

Topher: Thanks for being here.

Tammie: Thank you for inviting me.

Topher: We know who you are because you’re a cool friend. But we can’t assume that everybody else does. Tell us a little about yourself. Where do you live?

Tammie: So if you are trying to come in the middle of England, you’ll probably find me. I currently live in a village that has no road names. That’s where I live. So I live super rural, but I really enjoy doing that. So that is where I live.

Cate: That’s really wonderful.

Topher: I know you moved recently. Were you super rural before as well? Have you been there very long?

Tammie: I was. I’ve been pretty rural for a number of years now. Before that, I was living down south, but I have lived kind of in Midlands, pretty rural, for a number of years now.

Topher: Do you have things like chickens, etc.?

Tammie: I do not. But I have a new puppy. So I have a-

Cate: Not so many eggs but lots of snuggles.

Tammie: Lots of snuggles, lots of nips because it’s a working colleague, the puppy. So he is just 19, 20 weeks now.

Cate: Wow. Nice.

Topher: Is he going to be big?

Tammie: I don’t know. He’s got big paws. Everyone keeps telling me yes, but I’m hoping no. So that’s always a bad sign if you don’t want him to grow.

Cate: Right.

Topher: Yeah. Well, you can’t stop it.

Tammie: You can’t. You just gotta go with it. He’s very strong and very bouncy.

Cate: Well, that’s good for exercise.

Tammie: Yeah, he likes to bounce.

Cate: So I hear he’s part Tigger. This is what you’re saying?

Tammie: He is basically part Tigger. He really is. He does the backflips and bounces. He keeps me on my toes. But you have to live in the countryside with a dog like that.

Cate: Oh, yeah. Topher and I grew up in the middle of nowhere too. So we have a good understanding of what that’s like.

Topher: My sister used to say it’s not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.

Tammie: I think the end of the world might be a couple of fields from where I live now.

Topher: So what do you do with WordPress?

Tammie: So I’m a designer with WordPress. I’ve had a bit of a journey, but I’m currently working at XWP as a senior product designer.

Cate: Oh, that’s really cool. So tell us a little bit about your journey, or as much as you want to.

Tammie: Thank you. I do think it’s been quite long. I started out basically torturing my own CMS back in the day. Back in the day it was like this thing of like everybody has to know their own CMS. It was like a badge of honor. And it was back in the day when you thought you had to know programming. And there was thing I’ve been able to do on the web design. I was just hurting the CMS, like I said.