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I'm sorry. I will never get married with this demeanour.

I love it when a non-lawyer mansplains contract law to me. Do you want my number too? Do you think I'm fucking stupid?

Matt didn't "make" WordPress. He started the project, which was based on another piece of software, with his friend Mike and now thousands of people have contributed to it in one w…

Author here. The US/CA statues of limitations are also extremely short compared to what I am used to, so I was too late for to perform any legal action over this stateside after I …

I think you still need the sync to happen to use any of the modular plugins.

100%! I made the journey myself after finally getting an honest feedback of a coding challenge I did for a job application, but I do think that my own background in other languages…

I would argue that his recent behaviour warrants Automattic (and WordPress, as its dependence) being classed as a Designated Gatekeeper by the EU Commission under the Digital Marke…

Yeah. The Irish one is called Aut O'Mattic from the top of my head. Very Professional.

I would go as far as saying that PHP has developed into a very good OOP programming language in the past years (from C with dollar signs to something more Java like). Frameworks li…

Then there's Audrey Capital LLC, WordPress Community Services (which is a B corp owned by the foundation), an array of Automattic subsidiaries around the world.

His management style (which I'd go as far as calling it a belief system) simply does not scale, just like the BDFL model. It must have been great to work there when the staff count…

Hi Bullenweg. If you reach out, then I'll tell you one or two things on how the sausage is made.

I've been advocating for the removal of the Posts feature, or a configuration flag to disable it because I currently work for a different hosting company now and I have never seen …

I still find it confusing that you can both claim to be GDPR compliant and also that only US law apply to your operations. Automattic was also claiming compliance via the EU-US Pri…

Author here. To clarify, the trademark rights were transferred to the WordPress Foundation 14 years ago and then licenced to Automattic to use for WordPress.com. (The internal verb…

Author here. I know how the sausage is made. The thing is that when you set up Jetpack and authenticate, you sync your self-hosted site with a clone that resides on the WordPress.c…