Tag: automattic
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Seven years
Seven is my favourite number. I wouldn’t say lucky since I can’t tie any luck to it but it is a number I’m fond of. Looking back on my blog posts, as someone who is often fond of anniversaries or milestones, I only found my one and two year anniversary posts of joining Automattic, and…
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Planning to do nothing
Today marks four months until my sabbatical starts and 25 days until I hit the qualifying point for that “perk” – 5 years at Automattic. I got the final date in March and got those dates locked down using our home built scheduling tool (Your team can use this same thing – https://happy.tools – we…
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Office Today
Since Automattic is a distributed company, this means employees can work from wherever they have internet access. This spawned the often updated blog Office Today. I’ve posted once before, about two weeks after I started full time at Brew Dog one afternoon: (Source) While a lot of my colleagues post from beaches, boats, office buildings,…
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Annual GM badge & swag photo
Third time for the “I can’t believe this is my job” post. We have a ton of inclusion type pin badges this year, I went simple with the basics. Yes, that is a branded hotel room key…and I’m happy the data was pulled early for badges since my JPOP rotation ended at the start of…
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A change of course
Today marks two years since I started at Automattic and on Monday, I’ll be doing something new.
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WooCommerce Halo
The WooCommerce mobile team at Automattic have been hard at work building a brand new Android app and a complete rewrite of the iOS app for WooCommerce stores. TL;DR you can sign up for Alpha/Beta testing on the WooCommerce Halo testing site. I’ve long had a history of testing mobile apps and seeking out teams…
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Net Neutrality
The FCC wants to repeal Net Neutrality. Without Net Neutrality, big cable and telecom companies can divide the internet into fast and slow lanes. What would the Internet look like without net neutrality? Find out by enabling this banner on your site: it shows your support for real net neutrality rules by displaying a message…
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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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