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 is petty.
Contributing to free culture and open source takes the edge off, and helps me feel grounded. The other half, the greater half, is my Julia, family and friends (including all of my Automattic colleagues, local friends, and fellow contributors). I am very fortunate.
“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 . Not only is he the best support person, I have ever worked with, he is an excellent at ad-hoc testing and problem isolation — no surprise, these contribute to his maven status.
“No business development back and forth, no contracts, no friction. They just implemented it and contacted us a couple of days ago to give us a heads up.”
Toni on Lightning. Toni includes a well titled link of self-serve business development to his post “Open Source vs. Open APIs”.
The Automattic family had a recent addition of Donncha’s baby boy Adam O Caoimh.
Julia and I greatly look forward to meeting Adam in person some day.
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:
Barry and Demitrious probably think that people with lots of hardware don’t need to blog.
We are hiring for two work from anywhere, full-time jobs: a “code wrangler” and “systems wrangler.”
Automattic is the most fantastic company!
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.
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 for others to use this knowledge and to collaborate.
Wow. Fantastic celebratory graphic on WordPress.com’s home page!
Some of the blogs that I remember finding “interesting”: