Category Archives: Automattic

To Reveal, Apokalyptik

Demitrious Kelly (apokalyptik) has joined us at Automattic, and Matt immediately points out Demitrious needs to blog more.
Even only after the short time that I have been working with Demitrious, it is clear he fits right in:

Cheesy,  quick wit.
Speaks the same language as Barry, and I don’t understand a word of it as they push [...]

I assume it’s your bag of code

says Mark.

You-omattic? Automattic is Hiring

We are hiring for two work from anywhere, full-time jobs: a “code wrangler” and “systems wrangler.”
Automattic is the most fantastic company!
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One bug at a time

Talk is cheap. Like most people I love to consider interesting problems and chat about them, but my success currently at work is defined by interpreting, isolating and reproducing bugs.
My work since joining Automattic would not make good conversation pieces.
I am learning a lot. It has been hard work and will continue to be.
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Ladder of Knowledge

As promised in The WordPress Podcast episode 13: “An interview with Matt Mullenweg (Part 2)”, Matt today made public 99% of our internal aggregate stats at WordPress.com to the world. This is very exciting to me!
Not because it shows how we we are doing (and will show when we screw up), because of the opportunities [...]

500,000 WordPress.com blogs

Wow. Fantastic celebratory graphic on WordPress.com’s home page!
Some of the blogs that I remember finding “interesting”:

Consistently I really enjoy the content at //engtech about computing and computer culture
Two very different Mark Kay communities: Mary Kay Voices and Pink Truth
Mark [Jaquith] on WordPress blog
The Disembodied Head of Dick Devos is about American politics I don’t understand, [...]

Ryan Boren is a father!

My co-worker, Automattic’s WordPress development lead Ryan Boren and his girlfriend Inna baby boy Ronan Izrail Boren has arrived. Baby and mother are well.
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So many bugs, so little time

My first priority as a member of the Automattic team is wading into WordPress bug reports. This is my new bug garden.
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Feeling Automattic

Today is my first day of every day being an Automattic day!
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