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I really encourage people to go through his writing, there's a lot of wisdom in there.

The viral memetics of different terms are so fascinating to watch, and I love that this might give trademark lawyers conniptions in the future. In the WordPress ecosystem, there wa…

Arguable that I started WordPress and both personally funded or through Automattic contributed more to it than any other entity in the world? Others of course can say they're WordP…

This is a pretty huge win for all iOS developers around the world.

It's actually the beauty of open source that we can align on a few primitives that are reusable in several different contexts to build radically different product experiences and w…

That might be a bug, thank you for purchasing back in 2016, we acquired it in 2018 and open sourced it in 2022. Send me your account info and I'll get it tagged properly.

The product has had several different owners over the years. I can't speak for all of them, but we're trying to do right by people now. If you send me your account info, I'm happy …

BTW, for builders, I think having some of these "golden ticket" accounts of your earliest adopters and promoters is a good strategy. The best marketing is word of mouth and seeing …

I'm a big fan of Marco! We link to Overcast in our web feeds and such.

We don't disclose Pocket Casts revenue directly, but we invest $millions a year in its development and hosting. It gets very broad usage and has over ten million of listening hours…

Anyone who paid shouldn't see ads.

Howdy! There might be a misunderstanding: Anyone who has ever paid for Pocket Casts, even before Automattic acquired it, should not see ads. If you did, that's a bug and we'll fix …

Some people choose to attend other camps because they are concerned about the US border issues. If you zoom out, we're also trying to spend time on various events, such as Campus C…

I’d describe my personality as curious, open-minded, and calm under pressure — I like exploring ideas deeply and listening before I speak. But I do get worked up when fighting for …

We do! Would like to activate it more.

This data is all transparent. I think what you're looking for is this, which shows about 1,2000 ticktets: https://central.wordcamp.org/reports/ticket-revenue-report/?... You can lo…

Today I learned!

As the lead of the software I do have an opinion about which functionality is core to the user experience and which isn't. The WP.com paid plans offered a ton, including unlimited …

Please tell me where you can run arbitrary PHP code in the cloud for free, I'm curious to see how they manage that and what limits they put before they start charging. We've invest…

The problem we have isn't that they have some amazing code they aren't sharing with the rest of the world.

It depends on your goals, your customer needs. All technology is just a means to an end. Languages and frameworks are easy to switch between once you understand programming fundame…

I'm maintaining and developing two other CMS systems, in Tumblr and Day One, and I hope one day there can just be one.

I suspect WordPress will be GPL forever; it's a lovely license, and I enjoy publishing work under it.

Static site generators? Not sure what you mean. A static site is appropriate in some situations. I love sites that are alive, dynamic, reactive.

Differently.