I'm open sourcing my personal non-profit donations for the past 12 years: 2011: $295,044.60 2012: $401,121.00 2013: $2,088,890.88 2014: $98,648.00 2015: $101,947.00 2016: $42,300.00 2017: $51,562.50 2018: $606,957.68 2019: $620,802.65 2020: $607,452.48 2021: $2,151,602.26 2022:

Karissa Skirmont Dave Amirault Matt Mullenweg WP Engine So WP Engine generates almost half a billion dollars per year and gives back $75,000? What will WordPress do with this windfall? Pay for 1/2 of a developer to support WP_engine? WP_Engine is a core core contributor? 7 people at wpengine each made 5 contributions within a year.

WPE & Trademarks ma.tt/2024/09/wordpr… via Matt Mullenweg

WP Engine I think it’s very unfortunate that your leadership is putting your already obscene profits ahead of its customers and ahead of WordPress. When you make the amount that WP Engine does off of WordPress it’s only fair that they pay back into Core. It’s always better for an

Offering a reprieve to WP Engine customers who are impacted and don't want to migrate to a host that isn't blocked (aka, any other WP host in the world): wordpress.org/news/2024/09/w…

I don’t love WordPress because I work for Automattic, I work for Automattic because I love WordPress. If I thought that Automattic was harming the WordPress project, I’d resign. It’s as simple as that.

.Slack should introduce the concept of breakout or child channels. So you can have a main channel for a project, and then breakout channels that can be more specific topic wise, with a subset of users from the main channel. Then you can mark some posts or threads to update the

The fact that Matt Mullenweg is doing so much press and telling his story vs WP Engine is a very telling situation. I do t know all the details, but I always love transparency. I feel for all customers of WP Engine but damn. This is wild

On Thursday a prominent developer YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and journalist Theo - t3.gg posted a video titled "This might be the end of WordPress." It was very harsh.

When did Starbucks wifi get so bad?

Don't tell a lie on me I won’t tell the truth 'bout you — Kendrick Lamar sampling James Brown

It’s not left v. Right or D v. R anymore. It’s America v. MAGA. And MAGA is off the map into cookoo land.

Lovely endeavor from David. Do check it out.

Check out David Perell's new project: writingexamples.com An absolutely stunning deconstruction of writing examples. Simple does not mean easy, you can see that David poured his blood, sweat and tears into making this delightfully simple and wonderful.

#istayed Day in and day out, Automattic has been the most meaningful work I've done in my career. I've been here, working with Matt Mullenweg and an amazing team for over a decade and I'm just getting started.

We’re proud to announce that Mary Hubbard has resigned as the Head of TikTok US, Governance and Experience, and will be starting our next Executive Director on October 21st! Mary previously worked at Automattic from 2020 to 2023, and was the Chief Product Officer for

Wow, what a good start to the day. Had a great conversation with Jesse Friedman about partnering with WP Cloud for some of my hosting offerings. Then the client who received the brand-new half broken site that I showed off yesterday had sent me this email.