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Mornings with Bam Bam
Bam Bam is a nickname for my 2 years old son, he is just like his namesake. (We’re hanging up clothes washing) “They’re dry clothes, these are wet so we hang them up” “Wet” “Yes, wet clothes” he wanders off comes back with dishtowel “Wet wet wet” he says as he DRIES HIS WET TSHIRT…
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9 years later
I missed the date with the rush of last week. Then Sunday was my birthday. I am just over 5 months into working at Automattic, and never when 23 year old Doug signed up on that afternoon of December 2nd 2007, did he think “Aye, I’ll be working with people who support that”. And now I am. Maybe…
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.blog Domains Are Now Available to Everyone!
Originally posted on WordPress.com News: Today’s the day! Now you can search for the .blog domain of your choice and associate it with your WordPress.com site. As we announced in May, the launch of .blog, a new top-level domain extension, means there are millions of easy-to-remember addresses now available for your website. Pricing for .blog…
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Applications Now Open for Early ‘Landrush’ .blog Domains
Originally posted on WordPress.com News: If you’ve ever had a great idea for a name for your blog or website, now’s your chance to snap it up: today marks the start of the “Landrush” phase for the all-new .blog domain names. That means you can apply now to get early access to a .blog web…
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Remote distributed teams in a nutshell
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Working Not Working reveals the top 50 companies creatives would kill to work for
Working Not Working reveals the top 50 companies creatives would kill to work for
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Automattic, in 2016, in Whistler
Originally posted on Matt on Not-WordPress, mostly photos: Thanks to Donncha for the photo!
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Jeremey DuVall on “How All Hands Support Works Automattic”
The superb Jeremey DuVall explains how we bring everyone through Support at Automattic. This is timely as I’ve just started buddying my second (!!) initial Support Rotation. He’ll end up in another team doing JavaScript, but right now he is very eager to learn about our Customers and the contact we receive. For the initial three…
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It’s Time: Apply For Early Access to Your Own .blog Domain Name
Originally posted on WordPress.com News: If you’ve been looking for the perfect address for your blog, it’s about to get even easier. Millions of new .blog domain names (like yourname.blog) will be available this November — and starting today, you can apply to secure your own domain name. Just go to get.blog and apply to…
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First six weeks at Automattic
So today is pretty cool I've joined @automattic! https://t.co/48a5bCIRR7 — Doug (@dougaitken) June 29, 2016 Six weeks ago today I let the news fly. I’d spent over three hours a few nights before, on Slack with Matt, at the end of which, he offered me a full time position. How is the job? V v cool. Today:Helped…
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