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Matt Mullenweg shared a fascinating story about how a comment on a blog led to a mathematical breakthrough. 👩🏫
Matt commented, “I’ve always said that comments are the best part of blogging, but this is a particularly cool example.” 💬
Since its arrival in 2019, Automattic’s Newspack hasn’t attracted much attention within the WordPress community, despite a decent amount of coverage by WP Tavern and some from Post Status. It’s been largely unreported on beyond its role as a flashpoint in the recent Twitter drama between Matt Mullenweg and GoDaddy. Even after Matt’s explanation in…
Matt Mullenweg just completed the 2016 State of the Word, which highlights the accomplishments of the past year, and sets the direction for the year ahead for WordPress.
Matt Mullenweg says there are five levels of autonomy that define how distributed companies evolve: 0 – a job that cannot be done unless you’re physically there. 1 – no deliberate effort to make things remote-friendly. 2 – they’ve accepted that work is going to happen at home for a while, but they recreate what…
Some Tumblr news this week: Ilya Kaminsky has been brought on board with Automattic to work on Tumblr as Director of Engineering, Ads. Automattic credits a new partnership with Hunt Club for the hire, no doubt one of several sources for talent in a competitive hiring market. In addition, Tumblr announced Post+ which allows creators…
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.
Recently, Dave Clements finished a trial at Automattic. In this summary, he describes the experience in detail, from his initial interview and test to his four week trial. There were a few things in the post I didn’t already know fully. The most interesting is that Matt Mullenweg still interviews nearly every candidate at the…
