Notices by photomatt@mastodon.social, page 2

On ThePrimeagen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6F0PgMcKWM https://ma.tt/2024/09/on-theprimeagen/

WPE & Trademarks

I've been writing and talking about WP Engine a lot in the last week, but I want to be crystal clear about the core issue at play. In short, WP Engine is violating WordPress' trademarks. Moreover, they have been doing so for years. We at Automattic have been attempting to make a licensing deal with them for a very long time, and all they have done has string us along.

https://ma.tt/2024/09/wordpress-engine/

Charitable Contributions

I knew going to war with Silver Lake, a $102B private equity firm, they would pull out every dirty trick to try to smear my name, do oppo research, imply I'm a mafia boss trying to extort them, etc. I have kept my personal philanthropy private until now. I would like to offer up one piece of evidence for the public to consider, which is the IRS accounting of my 501c3 charitable donations.

https://ma.tt/2024/09/charitable-contributions/

On WP Engine

I wrote a bit more on Lee Wittlinger / Silver Like and WP Engine over on WordPress.org: WP Engine is not WordPress.

https://ma.tt/2024/09/on-wp-engine/

Are Investors Bad?

Some people have been interpreting my comments around private equity and investors as saying they're all bad and you should never accept investment or trust a company that does... I don't agree with that at all. Investors are amazing, they're the fuel of entrepreneurship and capitalism and responsible for most of what we enjoy today. I can look in the eye of another founder and wholeheartedly recommend Automattic's investors—True Ventures, Addition,…

https://ma.tt/2024/09/are-investors-bad/

WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking

Contributor day just wrapped up for Portland for WordCamp US. If you ever have a chance to visit a WordCamp, I recommend it. It's an amazing group of people brought together by this crazy idea that by working together regardless of our differences or where we came from or what school we went to we can be united by a simple yet groundbreaking idea: that software can give you more Freedom.

https://ma.tt/2024/09/ecosystem-thinking/

It’s a tough pick, but I think Inside Out 2 might be my favorite Pixar movie. Just everything about it was just so well done. How they incorporated the different aesthetics, neuralinguistic concepts, everything. Chef’s kiss.

https://ma.tt/2024/09/inside-out-2/

Timex Datalink http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCHHzw4s5W4 https://ma.tt/2024/09/timex-datalink/

Happy Birthday Stephen!

I love a good birthday blog post, and Stephan Wolfram has delivered the most epic for his 65th birthday. I'm so honored that WordPress is one of the tools in his toolkit.

https://ma.tt/2024/08/happy-birthday-stephen/

Burning Man So Far

This is my 9th Burning Man, I started coming in 2013. It's incredible how much it has changed and evolved in that time. I love seeing all the technology and engineering advances every year. In my time it has gone from more fire and flashlights to LEDs with rainbow and color everywhere. I drove in on Sunday, my first time driving in.

https://ma.tt/2024/08/burning-man-so-far/

People Wanted

There's an apocryphal story about Ernest Shackleton putting an ad in the newspaper that read: Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. If you've read the book Endurance by Alfred Lansing, you know how that went. Pretty legendary. One of my most treasured possessions is actually a copy of…

https://ma.tt/2024/08/people-wanted/

Best Cities

When we had some calm seas while I was on the Drumfire, with my schedule unusually clear, I found myself writing Python with Claude to export and analyze all of my Swarm check-in activity. I have 14,021 check-ins. So now on my about page it lists the ~70 countries I've been to and the top 200 cities I've spent time in.

https://ma.tt/2024/08/best-cities/

Anbernic, Sol, and Daylight

I'm always trying out new things. First, something fun: my friend Jesse gifted me a very cool Gameboy-like device called the Anbernic RG35XX, at ~$46. It has almost every game you remember, like if you got all the cartridges at Toys R Us or checked them out at Blockbuster. Having something without Wi-Fi, notifications, etc., is nice to relax. Very fun.

https://ma.tt/2024/08/anbernic-sol-and-daylight/

Jeff Jarvis

We no longer need companies, institutions, or government to organize us. We now have the tools to organize ourselves. We can find each other and coalesce around political causes or bad companies or talent or business or ideas. We can share and sort our knowledge and behavior. We can communicate and come together in an instant. We also have new ethics and attitudes that spring from this new organization and change society in ways we cannot yet see, with…

https://ma.tt/2024/08/jeff-jarvis/

Happy Birthday, Charleen

I've had many blessings in my life, but the very first was the family I was born into. Today, I'd like to tell you about my only sibling, favorite sister, and best beloved, Charleen Mullenweg. With a gap of nine and a half years between us, we could have easily been distant from each other, but it was almost like I had a third parent, one who was just the coolest person I could imagine in the universe.

https://ma.tt/2024/07/happy-birthday-charleen/

Jim Simons RIP

As I wrote the other day, don’t constrain your mentors by their availability. Today, I’d like to highlight someone I consider a mentor, who I’ve never met, and now that he’s passed away, I never will, Jim Simons. I’m mildly obsessed with the culture and results of Renaissance Technologies, Jane Street, Jump Trading, and Two Sigma…

https://ma.tt/2024/07/jim-simons-rip/

WordCamp Europe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELW4Jdvujbc https://ma.tt/2024/06/wordcamp-europe/

A nice new WordPress 6.6 is out, our 50th release, on the same day people are getting hit with huge bills from Webflow. I really enjoy working in Open Source. There is no more customer-centric license. There’s some really fun stuff cooking, too, I can’t wait to show y’all.

50 releases… wow. No matter what happens in the world, we’re just going to keep cranking. Three times a year. Relentlessly. A little better each time. Don’t believe me, just watch.

https://ma.tt/2024/07/6-6/

Apple Intelligence

It was so cool to see WordPress highlighted (although with a lowercase P in in the closed captioning) on the Apple keynote today.  I recommend watching the entire keynote, but especially the Apple Intelligence section starting at 1:04 not because we're mentioned but because it shows the future of computing, which is the future of society. Apple is an exciting company because they push so much compute and capability to the edge with their devices, it…

https://ma.tt/2024/06/apple-intelligence/

Gravatar, which has been humming along quietly serving hundreds of billions of avatars into every app you love like Slack, Github, ChatGPT, Atlassian, Coinbase… has a new API which allows people to bring in not just the avatar but more profile data. Check it out. Gravatar continues to be a useful Schelling point for the internet to allow to choose what they want to share and liberate their data from a single platform.

https://ma.tt/2024/06/gravatar-is-back/