Notices by photomatt@mastodon.social

Boom & Deepseek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qisIViAHwI https://ma.tt/2025/01/boom-deepseek/

What’s in My Bag, 2025

It's another year, I have ordered all the things and tested all the cables, there's a little bit about tech and a little bit about life. Here's what made the cut, now I'm going to be factoring in weight of everything as well. The flat-lay this year was taken at my sister Charleen's house, where she hosted Christmas for our family for the very first time.

https://ma.tt/2025/01/2025-bag/

Matt 4.1

Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn't feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big eclipse thing that ended up amazing, this year I'm replicating what I did a few years ago and celebrating in New York, Houston, and San Francisco. My birthday today has already been lovely. Saw the amazing Broadway show Maybe Happy Ending…

https://ma.tt/2025/01/forty-one/

I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect time as Automattic is re-focusing its work while the legal stuff is going on.

https://ma.tt/2025/01/status-quo/

@skc It started because WP Engine was abusing the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks in a way that was confusing to customers around the world.

If you ignore that, you're missing the entire point.

Studio Sync

WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz. Studio is our free and open source app for local WordPress development, enabling you to spin up unlimited WordPress sites on your personal computer. Through its newest feature, Studio Sync, you have complete freedom to: Connect your Studio site to and from a 

https://ma.tt/2025/01/studio-sync/

Inc Hit Piece

When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn't a magazine I have read much since I was a teenager, David seemed like a legit journalist who usually writes for better publications like The Atlantic. I opened up to David with a number of vulnerable stories, and allowed the photo shoot in my home in Houston.

https://ma.tt/2024/12/inc-hit-piece/

The talented Felix Arntz has given an incredible Christmas gift to the WordPress community with his fast, light, and accessible Snow Fall plugin, which is live on this site and you can install on yours. I hope everyone is having a happy holidays! Search for “snow fall” in your plugin dashboard and install his version, make your site cozy for the holidays.

https://ma.tt/2024/12/falling-snow/

State of the Word Tokyo

It's a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We're going to be in an amazing venue that looks over the city. Most of WordPress and Automattic's senior leadership is here, and we'll also have several hundred folks from the local community and press. We've gotten so much inspiration over the years from Japanese culture, we wanted to make this event really "of the space" so we're doing a few extra things this year.

https://ma.tt/2024/12/state-of-the-word-tokyo/

UH Magazine, Revisting My Alma Mater

My father attended University of Houston, and it's where I went to college to study political science, I started WordPress when there, and then dropped out after two years to move to San Franisco. It was fun seeing UH Magazine feature an article about my journey from a University of Houston student to co-founding WordPress and leading Automattic. I was surprised they put me on the cover of the physical edition!

https://ma.tt/2024/12/uh-cover/

DrupalCon Singapore

This week, DrupalCon Singapore is bringing together an incredible community of Drupal platform creators, developers, and supporters. Last year, I had the chance to share the stage with Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, and the conversation stuck with me. It highlighted the profound impact we can have when communities like ours come together to push the boundaries of Open Source and shape the future of the web.

https://ma.tt/2024/12/drupalcon-singapore/

Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic.

https://ma.tt/2024/12/wpai/

Bezos at Dealbook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s71nJQqzYRQ https://ma.tt/2024/12/bezos-at-dealbook/

Age-gating

I'm not opposed to age-gating at all, I think it's appropriate in many situations and useful, and democratic societies can decide their own rules there. But it should be handled and authenticated as low-level as possible, at the operating system layer. See also: Australia's Senate bans social media for kids under 16. But there are lots of other less controversial examples, like adult websites, or ordering alcohol online or through an app.

https://ma.tt/2024/11/age-gating/

Carmack & Rogan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8 https://ma.tt/2024/11/carmack-rogan/

Welcoming Harper

As announced by Automattic and covered by TechCrunch, I want to take a moment to welcome Elijah Potter and Harper to join Automattic. Harper is a super-fast (way faster than LanguageTool and Grammerly), local English grammar checker. The technology is nascent, but I'm very excited to embed this throughout all of Automattic's products, and then expanding it to other languages, all in an open source way that can be embedded everywhere.

https://ma.tt/2024/11/welcoming-harper/

Observer Article

Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly writes for the Observer, WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg Is ‘More Energized’ Than Ever Amid WP Engine Battle.

https://ma.tt/2024/11/observer-article/

RIP Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it's impossible to summarize. His discography is amazing. I feel so lucky to have met him in 2012 when I was much earlier in my career, and he didn't have any reason to give me time, but he treated everyone as if they were important. We talked a lot about his Count Basie and Frank Sinatra days.

https://ma.tt/2024/11/rip-quincy-jones/

I Voted!

It was a huge pain in the butt, because my mail-in ballot didn't register properly, but I found a last-minute flight to Houston and this morning walked over to Congregation Emanu El and voted. It is our most sacred duty as a citizen. I encourage every American to vote.

https://ma.tt/2024/11/i-voted/

Michael Palmisano on Collier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08YtK1BRfTU https://ma.tt/2024/11/michael-palmisano-on-collier/