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Nginx now supports HTTP/2

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

After an alpha release, Nginx now supports HTTP/2 in version 1.9.5. Importantly, with the support of HTTP/2, sites that support it must also use SSL/TLS, and SPDY is no longer supported in Nginx. Please note that this release removes support…

Successful open source

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2015

Jeffrey McGuire -- of Acquia, the Drupal version of Automattic -- has a great post and accompanying podcast on, "idealism and what successful open source looks like." It does a great job expressing common ideals. My favorite bit: I want…

A Day of REST — a conference devoted to the WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

September 2, 2015

DesignPlanet

A Day of REST is an event devoted to the WordPress REST API. It'll happen on January 28th 2016, with a follow-on hack day on the 29th, in London. It's an exciting opportunity for developers to learn how to interact with the new WordPress REST API, and Post Status will be an official partner.

Twenty Sixteen gives me a bit of a sour taste

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

Design

Of course we all expected a new default theme soon enough, as the naming scheme demands; I had my money that it would be part of 4.5 early next year. It was announced yesterday with a design proposal complete, and will likely go into…

Automattic’s Mesh photo app is now ready for iPhone and web

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

Automattic has been working on Mesh for a while. I first posted about it in March, around when they rolled out an early alpha for employees and created the landing page. Now it's on the iPhone and available as a web…

WooCommerce 2.4 released with new onboarding wizard

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2015

WooCommerce 2.4 has been released, and its signature user-facing feature is a new onboarding wizard that makes new store creation a smoother, more intuitive process. The wizard makes common settings easier to configure, enables simpler Paypal setup, and uses geolocation…

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2015

BusinessDesign

Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.

Grudge match over thesis.com

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2015

Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson do not get along. I'll refer to Siobhan McKeown's chapter in the WordPress history book on Thesis for those that want to learn the specifics. Last year, Automattic bought thesis.com from a third party. The issue…

Giving it a go, Barry Kooij forgoes a job at Automattic to focus on products

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2015

As readers know, Automattic acquired WooCommerce, and Automattic has a strict no paid side projects policy, as I mentioned in the post about Mike Jolley selling WP Job Manager. Barry Kooij has been selling plugins for a while now. He…

O2 is finally out, but no longer a focus for Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

June 15, 2015

For so long, people wanted to get their hands on O2, the long promised successor to P2. Alas, O2 ran out of oxygen at Automattic, and is no longer a focus for the company. As noted by Sarah Gooding at…

Twitter and WordPress — going beyond 140 characters

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2015

Chris Sacca is one of Twitter's largest shareholders. He's a billionaire that's gotten really lucky, is really smart, or both. He also owns stock in Medium and Automattic (ugh, in the post he just says "WordPress"). Anyway, he has opinions…

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Brian Krogsgard

June 2, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Mike Jolley has agreed to terms to sell WP Job Manager to Automattic. Mike is already joining Automattic after the WooThemes acquisition -- under his role as WooCommerce lead developer -- and the sale of WP Job Manager is in part due to Automattic's rules for employee side projects.

Post-acquisition interview with WooThemes co-founder Mark Forrester

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2015

Mark Forrester did his first post-acquisition interview with the South African startup blog, VentureBurn. It's a good interview that has some nice background information as well as a couple of new details on the acquisition. While the figures behind the…

A couple more notes on the WooThemes acquisition

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

Business

Thank you to all members for your patience on the newsletter, as I spent a great deal of time on the WooThemes acquisition post. I have a couple of thoughts I thought I'd leave specifically for you. New space in…

An Automattic affiliate program?

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

In the comments of Matt Mullenweg's announcement for the WooThemes acquisition, someone asked if he could bring back WooThemes' affiliate program. I was pretty surprised by his answer: I think it didn’t work for them well the last time around,…

New committers for WordPress 4.3

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

With the WordPress 4.3 release cycle, three new people are getting guest commit access, two are continuing their guest commit access from 4.2, and three have been announced to have permanent commit access. New guest committers for WordPress 4.3: Ella…

Nginx now supports HTTP/2

Successful open source

A Day of REST — a conference devoted to the WordPress REST API

Twenty Sixteen gives me a bit of a sour taste

Automattic’s Mesh photo app is now ready for iPhone and web

WooCommerce 2.4 released with new onboarding wizard

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Grudge match over thesis.com

Giving it a go, Barry Kooij forgoes a job at Automattic to focus on products

O2 is finally out, but no longer a focus for Automattic

Twitter and WordPress — going beyond 140 characters

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Post-acquisition interview with WooThemes co-founder Mark Forrester

A couple more notes on the WooThemes acquisition

An Automattic affiliate program?

New committers for WordPress 4.3

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