Category Archives: Automattic
A 20-minute Snooze in the Office
In “The Way I Work, annotated” my boss Matt Mullenweg shares additional insights and linkifies his Inc. Magazine’s “The Way I Work” column (July issue). Both versions are excellent reads, but the post at ma.tt benefits from Matt answering a … Continue reading
WordPress.com’s Job System – Cron for PHP in Distributed Environment
Colleague Demitrious Kelly (meech, Apokalyptik) earlier this month open sourced the (Unix process) jobs system he (primarily) has been developing for WordPress.com. Not that I really understand it, but “jobs” is described as
A fast, distributed, horizontally scalable system built upon … Continue reading
“photomatt: who’s eagleclaw?”
I had a great big smile yesterday when eagleclaw entered our chat channel. Eagleclaw is Hailin Wu, a new member of the Automattic family.
WordPress.com Happiness Engineer For Hire
Matt linked to our Happiness Engineer job posting:
Our software and services are far from perfect, and when things go wrong people aren’t shy about contacting us asking for help. We consider the support side of the user experience to be … Continue reading
A Day Away Is Work That Still Needs Doing
When you work for a small company, a day away is work that still needs doing.
Word
Julia and I are in the San Francisco bay area for WordCamp which is WordPress annual (2nd year) real-world main event. I can’t wait!
The speakers are amazing, and the people coming to participate are just as amazing! I … Continue reading
Petty
I have been tripping out lately about the problems of the world, many influenced by our American cousins. I am fragile and this “stuff” affects me. I can’t help, but feel that most of what I am most passionate about … Continue reading
Isolate a Problem
“Person has [environment] A. There is a problem X. Trying to troubleshoot X will be difficult until I can start to change the situation to see what happens to the problem.”
Writes WordPress Support Maven Mark in Please try Firefox . … Continue reading