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Eric Binnion explains what he does as a “Code Wrangler” at Automattic. This involves more than many would probably guess. If you wanted to know more about Automattic teams, then add Eric’s post to your reading list.
You should remember from earlier this year that Automattic acquired Simperium, maker of Simplenote. Simplenote is a great app by the way. John Paul Titlow, of FastCompany, interviews Matt Mullenweg and writes about the technology behind Simperium and how their team could help Automattic make blogging better for WordPress.com.
WordPress co-founder and Jetpack enthusiast Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress is to be bundled in future versions of Jetpack as a module, to fulfill Matt’s mission to power 50% of the web.
The Automattic engineering team has a fun quiz to test your i18n (internationalization) knowledge. I’m curious how everyone else does, but the point is to learn. Take it!
The Daily Post on WordPress.com has a post explaining more about the WordAds system on WordPress.com. WordAds is a managed ads system Automattic created for the platform, so bloggers can monetize their blogs. It’s relevant, as traditional advertisers like Google Ads are not allowed.
Matt Mullenweg talked to Tim Ferriss on Tim’s podcast for over two hours. It’s got a lot of good information, and I listened to it all for you. Why should you care? Well, Tim Ferriss is a WordPress advocate, member of Automattic’s board, and friend of Matt’s — so this podcast was able to be…
After the Foundation / new WordCamp organization article last week, I had some followup with Matt Mullenweg regarding several details. For one, the new organization will indeed be a subsidiary of the WordPress Foundation, and it will be a public benefit corporation. Matt said the point of the structure was, “make the foundation’s finances much…
