In a tweet, of all places:
Come to @tumblr. We’ll add activitypub for interconnect. Don’t stress.
This is exactly the kind of adoption necessary for the Fediverse to really take off. its_happening.gif?
Matt Mullenweg:
The two main theses of my professional career have been that distributed is the future of work, and that open source is the future of technology and innovation.
On the distributed front, the future of work has been arriving quickly. This week, a wave of companies representing over $800B in market capitalization announced they’re embracing distributed work beyond what’s required by the pandemic…
Change happens slowly, then all at once.
There are few people on Earth that have been thinking about this longer (and more deeply) than Matt.
Matt Mullenweg, on the potential industry-changing affect that Coronavirus is having:
This is not how I envisioned the distributed work revolution taking hold.
For those asking for tips, my Distributed Podcast has a wealth of advice and stories about how we operate. But here are four good ones to start with
TLDR: Minimize real-time meetings, invest in audio/video quality (yes!), your blog is your new office, and chat tools like Slack and Matrix are a must-have.
Want to hear two of the top leaders in open source talk about their differing philosophies on open source and the modern web?
The other week I ended up going back and forth in tweets with David Heinemeier Hansson, it wasn’t going anywhere but he graciously invited me to their podcast and we were able to expand the discussion in a way I found really refreshing and mind-opening. DHH and I have philosophies around work and open source that I believe overlap 95% or more, so…
Here’s the Twitter conversation that started this debate on the Rework podcast.
Kudos to Verizon (words I never expected to type) for how they handled the process. I couldn’t think of better hands to receive the once-vibrant social network and shepherd it into the next era:
Automattic is still a startup — I’m sure there are deep-pocketed private equity firms that could have outbid us, but the most likely outcome then would have been an “asset” getting chopped up and sold for parts. (This is a caricature and there are PE firms I like, but it’s not a terrible stretch of the imagination.) Instead, Tumblr has a new chance to redefine itself in 2019 and beyond. Its community is joining with WordPress’ 16-year commitment to open source and the open web.
Matt Mullenweg:
On Saturday I delivered the State of the Word presentation alongside Mel, Weston, and Matías. There’s always a post-event buzz but I definitely noticed a change in tenor of people’s thoughts on Gutenberg after the presentation and demo.
We still need to line up that Gutenberg show…
Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic, joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of WordPress. We talked about the role of JavaScript for WordPress, their new REST API, Calypso, and more.
