Category: Automattic
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Four Thousand, Five Hundred and Forty-Eight Days
Nearly 15 years ago, I emailed the 20-something-year-old founder of a little tech startup with a weird name. As I recall, there were maybe 20 or so people doing WordPress-y things there at the time. I started doing a bit of contract work (the hiring process wasn’t as organised back then as it is today!)…
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The Mission: Democratise Publishing
It’s exciting to see the Drupal Gutenberg project getting under way, it makes me proud of the work we’ve done ensuring the flexibility of the underlying Gutenberg architecture. One of the primary philosophies of Gutenberg’s technical architecture is platform agnosticism, and we can see the practical effects of this practice coming to fruition across a…
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General Ann Dunwoody is Joining Automattic! 🤩
I’m excited that General Dunwoody is joining the Automattic board: not just for the new perspective to help bring different ideas, but also for how important diversity is to her. Personally, I’ve found that my work is only improved when I’m working with a diverse group of people, who don’t think, or act, or look…
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Indoor Skydiving
Dear Diary, Today I went skydiving, whilst barely leaving the ground. It was a bunch of fun. <3, Gary.
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An Automattic Adventure
Today I officially begin my role as a TransCoder (This title is a terrible geeky pun. Blame Matt.) at Automattic. As a TransCoder, I’ll be doing new and exciting things with VideoPress, our video hosting service. For the last 4 years or so, I’ve been working at MySQL (which was swallowed by Sun, which in…