Tag: WordPress.com
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5 years at Automattic!
On August, 24th, 2009, I posted the following on this very site:
Today is the most beautiful of days. I’m not talking about the weather, but about a feeling that is currently impregnating every single fiber of my professional being. See, today marks the beginning of my trial phase (contractor) as Automattic‘s newest full-time systems wrangler.
I became employee #40-something (of now 259) as of September 21st that year, and in that span, I was part of the following teams (listing employees still with us today):
- Systems, with Barry, Demitrious & Pyry.
- Short stint as the “special projects” guy, before we started being big enough to have teams.
- NUX (WordPress.com signup, new users experience, domains, etc), with Nikolay.
- Janitorial (internal tools), with Andy, Matt, MT, Nick & Rose.
- Triton (WordPress.com UX), with Andy (again), Bob, Greg & Payton.
- Team I/O (APIs & partnerships), with Kat, Kelly, Joey & Justin.
- DotOrg (WordPress core development), with Alex, Andrea, Andrew, Cami, Ian, Jen, Jerry, Konstantin, Mark & Ryan.
There is nothing I would change about the last 5 years. I’ve met incredible people, worked on amazing projects, traveled to fabulous locations, all while trying to democratize publishing, change the way people work, and be the best dad/person I can be.
So thanks to my Automattic family, and here’s to five more years. 🙂
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Join us on the bright side! “We want you: Automattic is hiring in 2013”
As Krista so eloquently wrote it:
We expect to hire 60 new Automatticians in 2013. We’re a distributed company: Automatticians work from home, their local coffee shop, co-working spaces — the location in the world where they’re most comfortable and productive. Our hiring pool is planet Earth.
Via We want you: Automattic is hiring in 2013 — Blog — WordPress.com.
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Matt Mullenweg & Om Malik – LeWeb Paris 2012
If you weren’t sure why I work at Automattic, here’s why. And if you weren’t sure why you should be using WordPress, here’s why too. Two birds, one stone thrown. 🙂 -
Quoting “Ode to the Blogosphere”
Social media? Yes, but not like Facebook and not like Twitter.
Blogging is people taking the time to write or photograph or paint their lives, their loves, their passions. -
WordPress.com Metro app for Windows 8
Microsoft just released Windows 8 Consumer Preview at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Guess what’s already running on it? Announcing the WordPress.com Metro app.
I was lucky enough to be on the Automattic team who developed the app, and got to interact with the internal Windows 8 team at Microsoft while doing so. Needless to say, it was both challenging and motivating, to say the least. Win 8 is pretty darn spiffy, which is saying a lot coming from a hardcore Mac and Linux user. 🙂
Oh, and yes, good habits die hard: the app is indeed open sourced, and released under the GPLv2. I wonder how many more OSS apps got featured not once, but twice by MS in their live worldwide demo? 🙂
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BOOM! 1000th post
This GitHub/CoderDojo announcement was my 1000th post on tekArtist. 🙂
It’s been a wild ride since my first post under that name online in 2006, originally on Blogger, but promptly followed by a move to WordPress in 2007. It ultimately led to me getting the best job of my life at Automattic, wrangling up the most-awesomest-est WordPress.com code everyday, just for you. Turns out happiness is a
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Custom CSS tweaks for Twenty Eleven on WordPress.com
I wanted to have my images and videos displayed much wider than by default in the Twenty Eleven theme, but only when viewing single entries (where there is no sidebar). Here are the few simple tweaks I’ve implemented using the WordPress.com Custom CSS upgrade. They’re not foolproof when it come to embeds, but they work well enough for my current needs.
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Critter or Shmacebook
We don’t change feature names to be fashionable or to emulate other services that might rhyme with “critter” or “shmacebook”.
As read in More traffic for your blog with the follow button.
I lol’d, but it’s so true.