ByBrian Krogsgard
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General Ann Dunwoody has joined Automattic’s Board, the first addition in 13 years. Matt Mullenweg has an interview of General Dunwoody on his blog. This seems like a great fit for both parties.
“What is code?” Paul Ford answers the question, with a 38,000 word masterpiece in Bloomberg. This is the first article I’d tell an aspiring programmer to read, and the one that anyone working in technology should have in their permanent collection.
Matt Mullenweg posted a summary of his thoughts on Gutenberg on his personal blog. He says, “Gutenberg moves every part of the WordPress ecosystem forward,” and goes on to touch on various ways developers, agencies, plugin developers, theme developers, web hosts, and users will be positively impacted. The post is largely a collection of his…
Matt Mullenweg has written a rare bit of in-depth insight to decision making at Automattic. The framework for his post is for balancing advice from advisors with the goals of the company, and how those things aren’t always on the same page. But it’s the internal memo he shares as an example that has the…
I had a call with Matt Mullenweg to discuss some things regarding the upcoming Gutenberg release, the critiques around accessibility, and thoughts I’ve had around the way this release and other releases are scheduled. I’ll keep this note to the accessibility components. There have been ample critiques of Gutenberg, with a great deal of heat…
WordPress 5.8 “Tatum” was released as planned this past Tuesday. Matt Mullenweg was the lead on this release. There were 530 volunteers along with 320+ tickets on Trac and over 1,500 pull requests on GitHub. Courtney Robertson has a good summary of the features in WordPress 5.8 from the perspective of those who have client…
The New York Times did a brief interview with Matt Mullenweg that’s focused on his plans for Tumblr. Matt said bringing RSS feeds back to Tumblr is “high on [his] list” of priorities.
