Category: Automattic
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New product gallery merged in to core for 2.7
I’m looking forward to trying these new product galleries when WooCommerce 2.7 drops. Followers of this blog will know that weve been talking about the possibility of revamping our product gallery display on single product pages. This post is simply to document that this has Source: New product gallery merged in to core for 2.7 Develop…
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Dan Walmsley skipping a rock off of Bowen Island
This past September, Automattic had it’s Grand Meetup in Vancouver, Canada. Team Poseidon got together a few days early on Bowen Island to hang out. While there, I got this video of Dan skipping rocks.
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With the US Election, a Landmark Week for WordPress.com VIP
The WordPress.com VIP recently posted about hosting FiveThirtyEight.com over election day (and the day after). While I has hoping for more numbers, it’s still interesting to see that FiveThirtyEight.com was putting up the same numbers in a single day that some of the highest traffic sites we host put up over the period of a…
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Why Automattic Said No to Silicon Valley
Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of my company, was recently interviewed by Fortune about why our company is distributed instead of headquartered in Silicon Valley. I spend tons of time in New York and San Francisco, but it’s also nice to be outside of it and view everything going on from a little bit outside the…
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Automattic Grand Meetup Flash Talk 2016
Every year, at the Grand Meetup, each Automattician is required to give a presentation that is a maximum of 4 minutes long and the topic can be over anything. This year, I decided to give a short presentation over our family trip to Niagara Falls. But, since I only had 4 minutes, I was only…
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Tattoos at Whistler
Yesterday and Today, a group of Automatticians went to Whistler Tattoo Company for the annual Automattic Grand Meetup tattoo trip. Here are a few of the pictures that I took. Pictures
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Mountains at Whistler
I’m not quite sure which mountain this actually is, Whistler or Blackcomb, since they’re right beside each other. I got this picture yesterday from outside Whistler Tattoo Company.
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Pictures from Project Days at Automattic Grand Meetup
As we head into activity days, and I go off to get my tattoo, I thought this was a good time to share pictures that I’ve taken the past two days during our project days. The pictures were taken at different times. Some during the WordPress.com townhall, some during some VR play, and some during…
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Pictures from Team Day and Town Hall
The second day of Grand Meetup this year was “team day”, where we were given time to work with our team/division. In the evening, we had a town hall. And as the town hall went on, the crowd started to thin out. I held in until the second break (about 5 hours), and called it…
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Heading to Whistler
The third day of the trip was our travel day from Bowen Island to Whistler Village. We spent the morning doing a bit of work, then took the ferry to meet up with some Automatticians from Seattle on their way to Whistler. One of the most interesting parts of the day, besides the obvious catching…