Matt Mullenweg

many thanks for the compliments. The design was done by Julien Morel,(joolz.fr), the same guy who did the previous design of Matt Mullenweg(http://ma.tt/). he has done a lot of great design for a few french sites as well. You should check his portfolio. He is a nice guy. He is now working on a costumed page for my twitter account (@exaggerated_com). Content creation has been a nightmare to produce this far. Spotlights are easy to generate, cause they are aggregated live in our admin database and are all pre-populated. Original content however is something really difficult to produce on a daily basis. I had a redditor to produce the articles, I used to pay him like 800$per month. but he cashed in the money before xmas and never re-appeared... I have just found a great content provider now who is charging me 5$/article. Definitely creating a startup has been hard as hell! I am a private banker/ portfolio manager in Geneva Switzerland. I founded the site just for fun during my spare time. glad you enjoy it.

I can’t help but read this under the lens of my own experiences. For me open source is really about capturing less than I create, much like it’s written in the article. Heck, I’m a founder and we haven’t open sourced our product because we don’t want to do a “pretend” open source like others do, where it’s really just a marketing tool for enterprise. It does help that I’ve always been able to make ends meet, so that keeps my idealistic vision of open source alive. In any case, this was an excellent response to https://ma.tt/2024/10/on-dhh/

I don't think anything about our update could cause the issues he describes and we've had no other reports, this is the only claim on the internet, and doesn't include enough technical details to tell if it's an actual bug or not. If it's a bug, our bad and we'll fix ASAP. If it's a bug, it's a very rare one. There have been 225k downloads of the SCF plugin in the past 24 hours, implying a lot of updates. I would estimate at least 60% of the sites with auto-upgrade on and using .org for updates have done so already. https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/advanced/ That said, I'm happy to pay system2 whatever he thinks his time was "spent" on a Sunday is worth. Just let me know an amount and where to send. You can contact me here: https://ma.tt/contact/ .

From Mullenwegs personal website (https://ma.tt) > Afterward, I also privately shared with [ThePrimeagen] the cell phone for Heather Brunner, the WP Engine CEO, so she can hop on or debate these points. As far as I’ve heard she hasn’t responded. Why is WP Engine scared of talking to journalists live? this is not normal.

A couple of my favorite blogs - http://antirez.com/ - https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing - https://ma.tt/ - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ - https://jvns.ca/ - https://www.johndcook.com/blog - http://feross.org/ - https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/ - https://blog.andrewcantino.com/ - https://nickcraver.com/blog/ - https://blog.acolyer.org - https://blog.codinghorror.com I have been also building a developer blog aggregator called https://diff.blog to make it super easy to disover and follow dev blogs. Would love if you folks can give it a try :)

https://ma.tt I wonder how much that domain costs. 2-letter domains are always sold at a premium regardless of TLD.

Yikes. At first when reading this, I wanted to give Wix the benefit of the doubt. However, I can only imagine they hoped people would never see the original events that transpired around this. See the post it’s responding to: https://ma.tt/2021/04/wix-dirty-tricks/ And even worse, this article about their off-putting ad campaign that they brush off so quickly: https://wptavern.com/wix-takes-a-jab-at-wordpress-with-bewildering-new… Simply put, this post doesn’t need a follow-up. It needs to be taken down. Period. Should Wix see this thread and think it’s a good idea to say, jump in here and try to defend yourself... it’s not. This is not a good look.

This is similar to WordPress's Five for the Future[1], which is one of my favorite open-source-support initiatives. It intuitively makes a lot of sense if you are building on top of a platform to dedicate some resources towards the continued well-being of the platform. With SAAS, the resources are the money you pay each month, but with open source you can donate either money or time! [1] https://ma.tt/2014/09/five-for-the-future/

Seams like Automattic went the right way with using WordPress and their P2 Theme for internal use. [0] Departments, groups, or people can have their own "boards". Within that you can write posts or comment, mention people. The P2 theme is great for one liners to walls of text and pictures. Plenty of plugins to expand as need desire... [0] https://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/

I'm also reminded in those years my boss at the time Matt Mullenweg wrote, "Google Adsense, which has been declining in quality and is no longer a great choice for bloggers". https://ma.tt/2011/10/federated-media-deal/ What are the popular advertising networks for small, independent bloggers now?

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal" More seriously, he hasn't actually shown any stolen code, just that the app feels "surprisingly familiar" https://ma.tt/2016/10/wix-and-the-gpl/ Edit: I just checked the Android app and having a package named "org.wordpress.android.editor" matching the stuff in https://github.com/wix/WordPress-Editor-Android/tree/9f0e776c74ba9021c… is pretty convincing.

Ohh, great to hear. Thanks for the correction. I was right about ownership, but not about what they plan to do with it. https://ma.tt/2016/05/blog/

WordPress recently added 'Tiled' galleries via their JetPack plugin. It seems like a similar approach. You can see an example gallery here: http://ma.tt/2013/07/jay-z-picasso/ Additional info: http://jetpack.me/support/tiled-galleries/ Code: https://github.com/crowdfavorite-mirrors/wp-jetpack/tree/master/module…

Andy Baio posted in March 2005 about this: "Wordpress is a very popular open-source blogging software package, with a great official website maintained by Matt Mullenweg, its founding developer. I discovered last week that since early February, he's been quietly hosting at least 168,000 articles on their website. These articles are designed specifically to game the Google Adwords program, written by a third-party about high-cost advertising keywords like asbestos, mesothelioma, insurance, debt consolidation, diabetes, and mortgages." source: http://waxy.org/2005/03/wordpress_websi/ Matt acknowledged the issue with this content (cloaked with CSS) and apologized the next month: http://ma.tt/2005/04/a-response/

These are some beautiful concepts by John. However, I think it's also worth noting that just about everyone that works with WordPress wants to see the interface itself be simplified, even if most of us want to retain its flexibility as a CMS. Here are some related notes from Matt Mullenweg on a "radically simplified WordPress" http://ma.tt/2012/05/simpler/ I'd like to see something like Ghost as a step two of Matt's thoughts, rather than a fork or separate project.

Well said. Reminds me of the "1.0 Is the Loneliest Number" [1] post by Matt Mullenweg. A balanced mix of compromise, iteration, and vision is a healthy thing to strive for. By the way, we use and love Redis. :) 1. http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/

The P2 theme is Wordpress's best answer to Twitter. It's pretty cool: http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/ Brad Fitzpatrick (LiveJournal founder) is at Google working on PubSubHubbub, which is a distributed push system for RSS. The Google Reader team is already experimenting with it (as a provider currently, not a consumer): http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/08/pubsubhubbub-support-for-read…

In my experience (11 years fully remote/distributed growing from 90 to 2000 employees) my first impression is it sounds like you’re doing too much synchronous. Async is so efficient. My team’s current systems: - Most deep discussions happen on blog posts including project status. We use (and built) https://wordpress.com/p2/. We don’t use email. - Start of week everyone prompted to post what they did last week and what they plan to do this week. Also have a kinda fun ice breaker question that is easy (e.g avoid asking about favorites) and sometimes generates discussion. Last week was “Pick an olympic sport to represent your life.” - Daily Slack prompt to give folks a place to report on yesterday/today. The most important thing is how people feel though. “Pick a red/yellow/green emoji for your status” and “What feels risky or a blocker?”. Create space for feelings. - weekly team meeting is then about discussions and never about status. How do we solve X? How do we feel about Y? - debugging and such does occur in Slack but longer discussions are on blog posts/comments and so can be long. - I do 1-1s weekly for new folks and bi-weekly for longer term folks. Encourage sync 1-1s between the team also. A lot of the prompts can be automated. I dont consider them mandatory, if you get them right then folks will be happy to do them because they feel the utility of them. https://ma.tt/2020/04/five-levels-of-autonomy/ Is a good read too. Iterating is very important though (which you…

photomatt co-founded automattic. https://ma.tt/

Static websites are great of course, and the article outlines that nicely. The problem that I've been facing personally is that most of the times, the people who are updating and maintaining content on marketing websites are not developers. So having to use the command line for static site generators such as Jekyll or Middleman is just not a good experience. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE static site generators in general and I'm using both Middleman and Sculpin myself. Other people has seen this problem too, and some user-friendly-ish static site generators have started to surface, but I want to chime in with a solution to that too since I believe that the best way to adopt static site generators is to use the tools that content creators and maintainers already love and are familiar with, e.g. WordPress which now has a whopping 25% marketshare[1]. I built SpudPress[2] with a friend. It is a hosted static site generator for WordPress. We automatically generate a static version of your WordPress site and host in on a super fast CDN. You don't have to worry about any of the edge cases of generating a static copy, we take care of all that automatically for you. [1] http://ma.tt/2015/11/seventy-five-to-go/ [2] https://spudpress.com

A lot of people here are talking right past each other. Is it good that WordPress has automatic security updates? Yes. Is it bad that WordPress vulnerabilities are still so common? Yes. Are Drupal, Joomla, or Magento better at this? It sounds like the answer is probably no. Does that excuse WordPress because it is better than other frameworks with marginal track records? No. For such a widely used framework, WordPress' security record is dismal. Automatic updates are a great feature, but they don't replace the need for the framework to be a lot more secure. For someone hosting their personal blog on a $5/month VPS this is probably good enough. For a bank to run WordPress is borderline professional negligence at this point [1]. A lot of the comments seem to be assuming that because the update was rolled out withing a few hours, that their window of exposure was pretty small. The window of exposure to WordPress vulnerabilities isn't from the time the patch is released until you are updated, it is from when an attacker discovers the vulnerability and you are updated. [1]: http://ma.tt/2015/04/a-bank-website-on-wordpress/.

IIRC: guy made a CMS, built a successful company and organization and trademarks around it, decided last year that another company was using it unfairly, created lots of drama, lost his marbles One of his first posts on the topic: https://ma.tt/2024/09/wordpress-engine/ A collection of crazy quotes and events, biased towards the other perspective: https://mullenweg.wtf/ Edit: and HN commentary: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=false…

It's not clear to me that he's in the wrong. https://ma.tt/2024/09/wordpress-engine/

> It's a private company and the investors were given non-voting shares. My understanding is that the investors signed proxy voting rights over to Matt. They are mostly ordinary shares, and may be revocable. [1] [1] https://ma.tt/2021/08/funding-buyback-hiring/

There is nobody left to disagree with him, he made sure of that. Disagreeing with him at this point means he's gonna come after you [1], your job [2] or your reputation [3]. 1. https://ma.tt/2024/10/on-dhh/ 2. https://kindness.is/examples/2010/mullenweg-the-coward/ 3. https://ma.tt/2024/12/inc-hit-piece/

- https://ma.tt/2024/10/on-dhh/ - https://x.com/dhh/status/1845887043748221421 awful

This is pretty on the nose considering Matt's latest blog post[1]. I feel for Matt in some regard, and I do think the lawsuit sets a precedent that OSS developers are required to provide software with warranty. However, I say that with not fully understanding the seperation of actions between Automattic the company and Matt in his own personal capacity. [1] https://ma.tt/2024/12/drupalcon-singapore/

https://ma.tt/2024/10/first-amendment/ The lawyer thing was hilarious. Someone actually claiming to be his lawyer was on the HN threads and anytime he was asked a question the response was a version of "Oh, I hadn't heard about this. I can't answer that."

It is, of course, a malware writer's first amendment right to publish those plugins... https://ma.tt/2024/10/first-amendment/

The thing about listening to a song as you read the post is a jab at Mullenweg's "This post should be read while listening to Wish by Joshua Redman. The writing is synchronized to the music reading speed." on https://ma.tt/2024/09/ecosystem-thinking/