Tag: Automattic

  • Praying Dublin 🙏

    Praying Dublin 🙏

    Ireland is known as the motherland for a very sizable of the Catholic migration to America. The Catholic Church in Ireland is going through a time of transition, and rightfully so. Between actual abuses and difficulty remaining relevant in the day-to-day lives of the Irish, Catholicism is often only a cultural practice, not including a truly religious…

  • Eating Dublin 🍴

    Eating Dublin 🍴

    While I did plenty of walking in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪, I also ate and drank plenty. The city, as any urban hub does, had a variety of options, including more than a couple Tex-Mex/Mexican restaurants. I could not bring myself to try any Tex-Mex from Ireland though. On Sunday morning, I was alone, just finished…

  • Walking Dublin 🏃

    Walking Dublin 🏃

    Last week, I was in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 for a meetup with the teams that support a variety of our plugins and services for self-hosted WordPress sites, like Jetpack, Akismet, VaultPress, Sensei, Gravatar, etc etc. Usually, on meetups, I wake up extremely early, since I do at home, geek out doing random PRs or whatever,…

  • Belize 🇧🇿

    In February, I traveled to Belize to meet up with members of the Jetpack development team at Automattic. We worked on various things—outlining the next few versions, building out some enhanced debug/support tools—but also able to enjoy the beautiful Belizean coast. Next up, recap of our Dublin meetup last week. P.S. We’re hiring.

  • Code is Poetry… and Warm!

    The WordPress swag store added a couple of products yesterday. A Wapuu Christmas ornament and, my personal favorite, the “WordPress Ugly Holiday Sweatshirt“, which I don’t think is ugly at all. I’ve been eager to see this in production since Nick Hamze first teased it on his site in October and it is finally available…

  • The Power of WordPress.com

    The Power of WordPress.com

    I’m guessing they just wanted a quick and easy way to make a functional and beautiful website, which is kind of the whole idea of WordPress. Source: Amazon Silk on WP.com | Matt Mullenweg Via Twitter, I stumbled upon this 2011 post from Matt sharing that the Amazon Silk Browser’s blog is hosted, for free or…