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

Open Source

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

Personal Tinkering

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

This week I focused on making the POS experience more robust in the WooCommerce iOS app. I tackled some tricky concurrency issues, fixing hangs in the POSPaymentModel tests on CI and ensuring that multiple concurrent connectCardReader calls no longer tie up jobs for hours. I also improved the reliability of connecting to POS readers by blocking duplicate connection attempts and cancelling outdated connection requests, which should prevent a whole class of hard-to-reproduce bugs. On top of that, I worked on a major feature to introduce POS roles and permissions, complete with both local and remote flows behind feature flags. It’s been a week of digging deep into multi-threaded flows and expanding the capability model for real-world POS needs.

View past weeks

1. Reviewed PR #63683 in woocommerce/woocommerce
2. Pushed 0 commits to woomob-2788-ios-app-blocks-woopayments-kyc-stripe-popup in woocommerce/woocommerce-ios
3. Opened PR #16971 in woocommerce/woocommerce-ios
4. Created branch woomob-2788-ios-app-blocks-woopayments-kyc-stripe-popup in woocommerce/woocommerce-ios
5. Pushed 0 commits to trunk in woocommerce/woocommerce-ios

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