I’m not generally into winter or holidays. Rather ‘bah, humbug,’ I am. But I really do like the Snow setting on my WordPress.com blog. I will let it fall without end. Enjoy now until the beginning of January, the 4th I believe.
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Category: WordPress
As a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, I live and breathe WordPress nearly everyday.
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Launching the New WordPress.com
It’s been really fun at Automattic as we built the new WordPress.com. It’s cool to manage a WordPress site so quickly and beautifully. On top of that, it made building the WordPress.com for Mac app a reality. I’ve been beta-testing the app for a month or so now and have been really pleased with it. If nothing else, […]
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Not Much Longer
This will be day number 236 in a row that I’ve published a blog post. One hell of a streak. There aren’t many other things that I’ve done every single day, without fail, during that time. It’s a habit I’m happy to have formed. It keeps me in touch with the product I support everyday. […]
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End of the Meetup
I was wrapping up my trial during last year’s grand meetup. When everyone got back I had a chat with my trial lead, Beckett. Reading the archive of that conversation, I now fully ‘get it.’ The week is exhausting: there’s a lot of building, bonding and learning to be done. But inevitably the automatticians leave fired […]
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Automattic 10th Anniversary Party
(Left to right: Trevor, Tish, Jason, myself, Chad)
With a walkthrough from scruffian, today I got to deploy code to WordPress.com for the first time. That’s a cool/terrifying/exhilirating experience! I also got this bonus good-feels around breakfast:
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Elements of Air
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One Year at Automattic
It’s my Automa-versary! One year ago I officially became a full-time Happiness Engineer. We can pick our own titles, but I really like this one so I never felt the need to change it. My day-to-day has switched around some over that year, but doing my best to make people happy has always been at […]
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Meetamattician
Last night I had dinner with Matt Mullenweg, Alex Kirk, Dean Royal, Trevor Montgomery, and Sarah Semark. Matt at some point asked if any of us had met each other previously. While a few had met earlier in the Grand Meetup, none of us had met each other before this week. “Good! The script is working,” […]
Apparently these are the board games I feel comfortable taking to the Grand Meetup. They’re all fairly small (good for travel) and easy-to-not-lose components (good for sharing with groups.)
Alex Gustafson 