Justin Sainton

@JS_Zao

Zao. Adores the heck out of @MelissaSainton. Cold takes and warm optimism. Former member of the WordPress Plugin Review Team.

Portland, OR

Joined March 2009

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Justin Sainton
@JS_Zao
Aug 27, 2025
20 years in WordPress + eCommerce has taught me one thing: the premium plugin ecosystem is broken. So we built something new. ✨ Simple. ✨ Honest. ✨ Anxiety-free. Meet Simpull → simpull.co
Justin Sainton
@JS_Zao
Jul 17, 2025
Planning for a launch at @WordCampUS 🤩. Let's just say that we're gonna keep it simple, and that's a good thing.
Justin Sainton
@JS_Zao
Jun 15
Strong WordPress vibes 😍
nunomaduro
@enunomaduro
Jun 15
i will never understand why we stopped using underscores in php
Justin Sainton
@JS_Zao
May 22
Between @ollie_wp and @bymilesai - i don't actually know that I'll ever get another WordPress theme.
Justin Sainton
@JS_Zao
May 21
I cannot imagine a product I would want less than this.
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Justin Sainton
@JS_Zao
Apr 18
"...engineers can fly now. One engineer in 2026 has the output of a 100 person team in 2013, working the same hours, at the same day job, with the same brain. The code-generation cost curve collapsed by two orders of magnitude." This is why agencies must transform or die.
Garry Tan
@garrytan
Apr 18
Article
On the LOC controversy
Or: What happened when I mentioned how many lines of code I've been shipping, and what the numbers actually say. The critique is right. LOC is a garbage metric. Every senior engineer knows it....