Category: Automattic
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Deploying to WordPress.com for the First Time
This past Thursday began like many other days at Automattic. I woke up a bit late in the morning and reached over to grab my phone so I could catch up on the company chatter. Beau posted a few messages to let me know that he was pushing version 1 of some experimental code we…
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Canyons Resort Property
This picture of Canyons Resort as taken on Sunday while it was lightly sprinkling
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Automattic Hot Dog Eating Competition
At the Saturday evening grand meeting flash talks, there was a very unexpected hot dog eating competition. Rose killed the competition!
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Automatticians Karting
Part of meetups for Automattic are having fun with other Automatticians. Earlier in the week I got a tattoo and played paintball, but today was all about indoor go-karting
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9 Weeks at Automattic
As of September 15th, I have been at Automatic for 9 weeks! The first three weeks were spent on support rotation and the last six weeks have been spent actually working on Team Mercury. The annual Grand Meetup is also currently happening, during my 10th week, and it’s been great to play paintball, learn some…
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My Boss is a Badass
As I flew to WordCamp NYC this weekend, I decided that I would re-read Year Without Pants and see what I took from the book now that I actually work at Automattic. First thing I took away… It’s very surreal to read about your company and/or your experiences in a published book. Second thing I…
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Becoming an Automattic Code Wrangler : Beginning to End
Looking back, I remember how anxious I was throughout the whole process of applying, interviewing, and going through trial at Automattic… I also remember that while there are many stories of the process for Happiness Engineers, there were very few for Code Wranglers. Because of this, I’d like to share my experience from applying to…
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I’m Joining the Automattic Family
I’m extremely proud to announce that I’m joining Automattic as a Code Wrangler starting on July 14th, 2014. true == is_automattician() For those that don’t know, Automattic was founded by Matt Mullenweg (a founding WordPress developer) and is the force behind WordPress.com, a hosted version of WordPress, and many other services such as: Akismet PollDaddy…