photomatt

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by photomatt 6d ago
If you win (like Jobs against Flash/Adobe) you're a hero, if you lose people trash your name. A lot of stupid people are swayed by the bots paid by the dark PR firms that PE engages to astroturf things and two-brain-cell "tec
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by photomatt 3mo ago
I really encourage people to go through his writing, there's a lot of wisdom in there.
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by photomatt 7mo ago
The viral memetics of different terms are so fascinating to watch, and I love that this might give trademark lawyers conniptions in the future. In the WordPress ecosystem, there was a lot of variation around "press."
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by photomatt 11mo ago
Arguable that I started WordPress and both personally funded or through Automattic contributed more to it than any other entity in the world? Others of course can say they're WordPress makers, but you can't deny Automattic from be
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by photomatt 1y ago
This is a pretty huge win for all iOS developers around the world.
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by photomatt 1y ago
It's actually the beauty of open source that we can align on a few primitives that are reusable in several different contexts to build radically different product experiences and world views. If you think of the phylogenetic tree of so
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by photomatt 1y ago
That might be a bug, thank you for purchasing back in 2016, we acquired it in 2018 and open sourced it in 2022. Send me your account info and I'll get it tagged properly.
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by photomatt 1y ago
The product has had several different owners over the years. I can't speak for all of them, but we're trying to do right by people now. If you send me your account info, I'm happy to upgrade it.
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by photomatt 1y ago
BTW, for builders, I think having some of these "golden ticket" accounts of your earliest adopters and promoters is a good strategy. The best marketing is word of mouth and seeing people love and use a product. We have some across
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by photomatt 1y ago
I'm a big fan of Marco! We link to Overcast in our web feeds and such.
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by photomatt 1y ago
We don't disclose Pocket Casts revenue directly, but we invest $millions a year in its development and hosting. It gets very broad usage and has over ten million of listening hours a week. There are clients maintained and new features
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by photomatt 1y ago
Anyone who paid shouldn't see ads.
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by photomatt 1y ago
Howdy! There might be a misunderstanding: Anyone who has ever paid for Pocket Casts, even before Automattic acquired it, should not see ads. If you did, that's a bug and we'll fix it. Longer context: At Automattic, we take very se
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by photomatt 1y ago
Some people choose to attend other camps because they are concerned about the US border issues. If you zoom out, we're also trying to spend time on various events, such as Campus Connect, which don't show up in those numbers. Howe
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by photomatt 1y ago
I’d describe my personality as curious, open-minded, and calm under pressure — I like exploring ideas deeply and listening before I speak. But I do get worked up when fighting for open source principles.
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by photomatt 1y ago
We do! Would like to activate it more.
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by photomatt 1y ago
This data is all transparent. I think what you're looking for is this, which shows about 1,2000 ticktets: https://central.wordcamp.org/reports/ticket-revenue-report/?... You can look at reviews of the event,
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by photomatt 1y ago
Today I learned!
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by photomatt 1y ago
As the lead of the software I do have an opinion about which functionality is core to the user experience and which isn't. The WP.com paid plans offered a ton, including unlimited traffic, 24/7 support, stats, multi-datacenter rep
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by photomatt 1y ago
Please tell me where you can run arbitrary PHP code in the cloud for free, I'm curious to see how they manage that and what limits they put before they start charging. We've invested a ton in products like WordPress Studio, which
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by photomatt 1y ago
The problem we have isn't that they have some amazing code they aren't sharing with the rest of the world.
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by photomatt 1y ago
It depends on your goals, your customer needs. All technology is just a means to an end. Languages and frameworks are easy to switch between once you understand programming fundamentals. We run production Erlang code at Automattic. Use the
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by photomatt 1y ago
I'm maintaining and developing two other CMS systems, in Tumblr and Day One, and I hope one day there can just be one.
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by photomatt 1y ago
I suspect WordPress will be GPL forever; it's a lovely license, and I enjoy publishing work under it.
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by photomatt 1y ago
Static site generators? Not sure what you mean. A static site is appropriate in some situations. I love sites that are alive, dynamic, reactive.
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by photomatt 1y ago
Differently.
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by photomatt 1y ago
There was an excellent magistrate judge and a settlement proceeding, which I showed up to in good faith, but the other CEO did not.
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by photomatt 1y ago
It was pretty different in a way that brought millions of people into WordPress, but it has evolved in a way that makes a lot of sense to people, clarifying what WordPress is, what the host is, and what the application layers on top of it a
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by photomatt 1y ago
Thank you!
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by photomatt 1y ago
I wrote a blog post about this: https://ma.tt/2025/09/externalities/

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