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I'm now forty, and now have published my 22nd birthday post:
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People seem to be redefining Web 2.0 as Facebook, etc, that own data, but Web 2.0 at the time was platforms like WordPress, Odeo, Six Apart, Flickr, Technorati, and that had open data and interoperated.
3. I agree there is an overall move toward using platforms. But there is a big difference between using a platform that also owns all the data also (web2) and a platform that is merely a proxy to decentralized data (web3).
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I am very grateful that folks at Apple re-reviewed
@WordPressiOS
and have let us know we do not need to implement in-app purchases to be able to continue to update the app. Bad news travels faster than good, usually, so please consider sharing that they reversed course.
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Twitter does some things so darn well, like how their embeds work, the web app, the related tweets, how the app works when you don't have a good connection... if you're an engineer that worked on that stuff and want to do it again, HMU
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Today on
@WordPress
we are announcing you're not allowed to link to... oh wait, it's your site. You can link to whatever you want. It's the web. That's how it works.
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That’s a new one: United pilot says he’s not comfortable flying this aircraft based on its maintenance profile. Flight canceled, they’re hoping to find another plane.
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Heads up on why
@WordPressiOS
updates have been absent... we were locked by App Store. To be able to ship updates and bug fixes again we had to commit to support in-app purchases for .com plans. I know why this is problematic, open to suggestions. Allow others IAP? New name?
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This is an unfortunately good summary of why running a social network is so hard, as I’ve learned with
@tumblr
. I am wishing Twitter the best and also hope this doesn’t slow down Tesla or SpaceX, which I think are critical to the future.
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A checkmark isn't cool, you know what's cool? Two checkmarks.
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@levelsio
@automattic
In particular I'd say people leaving
@twitter
we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge
@tumblr
. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together.
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RIP Tony Hsieh, 1973 - 2020
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Why I just paid for Twitter Blue:
1. I think Twitter is great and want to see it succeed. I learn a ton on here.
2. I want to see subscription models work for social networks, we're also attempting this on
@tumblr
.
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So many of these people with newsletters should really be blogging.
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This is so bad I can't believe it's real. Follow me here:
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Sometimes I really wonder if companies are having a remote / distributed work problem, or a too-many-meetings problem.
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Twenty years ago:
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My life's mission, and the purpose of WordPress, is to increase the freedom of the internet. I hope in addition to native apps people continue to create websites and web apps that provide accessibility, autonomy, and freedom to the widest audience. Future generations deserve it.
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For anyone worried, landed safely in Houston, though after 3 AM! I watched and got confused by the Flash movie.
I talked to the pilot a bit and he said they had flown the same plane the night before and it had a fuel line issue, based on the maintenance logs he didn't feel it…
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For
@Tumblr
: Over the past 7 days, iOS downloads are up 58% with 30% more impressions in the App Store. Android downloads are up 57% with 50% more impressions in the Play Store.
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Want to take your following list from Twitter to
@Tumblr
? We want to help you do that! Unfortunately,
@TwitterAPI
is returning an empty list for every user we check with our token using their API. 😕 It's your data, they're locking it up!
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I've been a bit overwhelmed with messages, apologies if I've missed any, but we set up a dedicated hiring page for folks coming over from Twitter:
#twexit
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Some news from
@automattic
this morning, we've raised a new round of funding from
@salesforce
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We have to stop saying work remotely, it's about working in a distributed fashion. "Remote" implies there is a central. But this poll should definitely give people food for thought. 😄
Let's say you're looking for a new job. What's most important to you? 🤔
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I suppose this is a good opportunity to let people know that I'll be running
@Tumblr
personally for a while, and it will be my top priority within
@automattic
. There is a ton of opportunity for improvements the community has asked for and deserves, and I'm excited to work on it.
Tumblr, at 15 years old, has just lost its CEO. Yet these half-deserted ruins of a social platform have defined the internet as we know it,
@kait_tiffany
writes.
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If you didn't know, I'm taking a three-month sabbatical from being Automattic's CEO starting today:
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iMessage on MacOS is the worst software Apple currently ships. Better search in iMessage would have a really positive impact on my life. Sometimes I still resort to SQLite queries on chat.db.
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Thank you, Marco! Will do our best to make you proud about this next chapter for
@tumblr
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Distributed work happened slowly, then all at once:
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Can we all agree that giant per-post image headers look terrible on most blogs? It’s been a curse of default WP themes past few years, too. We need it to be easier to have posts without image headers and even without titles.
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Don't get mad at OnlyFans (or Tumblr); get mad at Visa, Mastercard, Amex, banks, Apple, Google...
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On NASDAQ Tower in Times Square for the Cloud 100, I know this is cheesy and just up for a few seconds while they take a picture but it still makes me smile.
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The Future of Work is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
We’ve decided that Stripe’s fifth engineering hub will be Remote:
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"The Silicon Valley investors who viewed remote work and the distributed company as a net negative, and penalized companies that didn’t have a physical presence in their backyard, are now “work from home” gurus."
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OMG can anyone get me on an under 40 list in the next 24 hours?!
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As WP continues through the decades, we have to deal with all parts of life, including death. As a community, we now have a memorial place we can remember and honor those who contributed to
@WordPress
but are no longer part of this world.
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I’m having a moment.
Good question. What ARE blogs in 2020?
#whatareblogs
Thanks for featuring us on tonight's episode,
@Jeopardy
!
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Had a great conversation with Sam Harris on the Making Sense podcast, and he's put the entire thing up without the normal paywall. We covered some new territory with regards to the philosophy of distributed work, I hope you can give it a listen.
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The world lost a special person today. His impact on WordPress, Automattic, and the many friends he had through both will be remembered.
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Happy sweet seventeen to WordPress! 🎉
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The Wix Mobile App, a WordPress Joint
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Another fun fact from the eclipse is that
@automattic
handled more than 1 billion requests for in a 4.5 hour span, with the large majority of those served in under 400ms.
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Me and
@TEDTalks
on the future of work and what companies can do to prepare for the distributed future:
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Over 50% of the WordPressses in the world are now on 6.3. 🎉
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I don't disagree with anything else in
@brianarmstrong
's thread, it's just a trend that retcons web2 to be regressive when the same goals (interoperability, openness, decentralization) were there. To be fair, Web2 probably did the same thing to Web1 in 2005.
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Recipe for avoiding loneliness while working from home: take the time you would have spent commuting, and be present with friends and loved ones. (Truly present.)
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It's hard to overstate how important this is to other corporations and the other big tech companies. Others that don't do this will lose talent to Microsoft (and smaller distributed companies).
scoop: Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently. Details here:
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I am so thankful for those fighting for freedom in software and making the web more open source, especially those in the
@WordPress
community. This work will echo for generations.
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I am feeling for all the people who've been hurt by these really strict Return-to-Hub policies companies like Amazon are implementing.
At
@automattic
we have 18-year track record of doing internet-defining work in a distributed fashion, and want to increase our talent density.
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So great to meet some of the
@WordPress
community in Tokyo and celebrate WordPress turning 20 next month. ☺️
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FWIW,
@automattic
's boosted post feature on
@tumblr
(called Blaze), which is in spirit like Facebook's, was rejected until we implemented it as IAP and gave the 30% cut.
SCOOP: In the years before iOS 14.5, Apple and Facebook held several meetings discussing possible arrangements that would have earned the iPhone maker a slice of the social media company’s revenue, including an ad-free, subscription version of Facebook
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33 days since we called off WordCamp Asia. A lot has happened since then.
I hope all WordPressers and their loved ones are staying safe and well. I'm really proud of WP companies stepping up to support their communities.
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I’m here! In the box at the 15 yard line on the side by the SF logo.
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There was a wedding on my
@VirginAmerica
flight to New York! The captain flew briefly over Canadian airspace so two gentleman could marry.
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State of the Word in Madrid this year is definitely the most beautiful venue yet. Thank you so much to the WordPress community here.
#sotw
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Anyway the most interesting conversation to me is how to make all the new stuff as user-friendly as possible without recreating the same centralized bottlenecks and gatekeepers.
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It's a wrap! Was great being on stage with
@JosephaHaden
at
#WCUS
. Photo credit: Zach Stepek.
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We (
@automattic
) joined 96 other companies in filing an amicus brief around immigration executive order:
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@jdp23
@addyosmani
We are mostly dealing with the waves of new users right now and keeping everything scaling but interop and activitypub are ASAP.
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Time to sit back and watch the download counter...
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For people working on Passkey flows, which I think is the future of security on the web, check out what Coinbase is doing and copy. They have amazing product managers and have achieved the Platonic ideal of this interaction. 🤠 Hat tip:
@brian_armstrong
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It's finally out! What's in my bag, 2023 edition.
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New name: The app has always done a ton of work to support WordPresses hosted anywhere, using the XML-RPC API included in core WP since WP 2.6 was released in 2008. That's why we called it "WordPress" and not "" or "Jetpack."
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I want to thank $WORK /
@SlackHQ
and
@stewart
and
@iamcal
for the support they've given the
@WordPress
community over the years. It sounds quaint, but upgrading IRC to Slack in 2014 has allowed our community to build the open web faster and better together. 29k people on it now!
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I took a different approach for the pandemic edition of "What's in My Bag", lots of links and items I wouldn't normally mention or include:
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I got an updated count for Democratic presidential candidate websites (there are a few new ones): 21 out of 24 candidates are on
@WordPress
. Even more than I thought. Will work on the other three. 😁
#WCEU
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Huge honor to be be on the
@HowIBuiltThis
podcast with
@guyraz
, here's a link to listen on
@pocketcasts
😄 We spoke for 4 hours! Awesome how they edited it down.
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Thirty-five, feeling alive:
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Huge thanks to
@nivi
and
@naval
and
@ceceyu
for donating their awesome theme design, it's now available to all. The Spearhead Theme: A Minimal Design and Clean Slate for All Content Creators via
@wordpressdotcom
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@zebulgar
Hopefully someday I’ll be serious! But seriously, I do recommend periodic meetups and that was part of Automattic’s culture since 2005. 3–4 weeks a year seems to get you much of the benefits of full time collocation.
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We will continue to be responsive and do our best to be within both the spirit and letter of the app store rules, including closing any webview loopholes that pop up. This also made me appreciate the freedom of the open and independent web.
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Wonder what's in that heavy backpack I carry around all the time? This is the latest and greatest 2018 version of What's in My Bag:
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The inimitable Seth Godin is now on WordPress!
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It seems like a good time to thank
@SiteGround
for the awesome Bose headphones they sent me for my birthday in January! Awesome company, no weird ads, doesn’t impersonate competitors... sounds good to me.
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The future of work is holding laptops in the middle of gardens. 😂
This CEO has let his employees work whenever they want—from wherever they want—for years. Here's how he makes that work.
From The Future of Everything | Work edition
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Details matter. Details matter! Take some time today to look around your spheres of influence — your team, your time, your work, your desk — and do something to raise the quality bar. Hold yourself accountable to make it a daily habit. The impact will ripple and compound.
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A lot of people have been asking me about my streaming setup, here's the latest:
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All I want for my birthday is for you to blog. 🤠
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