Matt Mullenweg

2024-11-22 05:27:30

As announced by Automattic and covered by TechCrunch, I want to take a moment to welcome Elijah Potter and Harper to join Automattic. Harper is a super-fast (way faster than LanguageTool and Grammarly), local English grammar checker. The technology is nascent, but I’m very excited to embed this throughout all of Automattic’s products, and then expanding it to other languages, all in an open source way that can be embedded everywhere. I’m a huge fan of Grammarly and use it every day, but I think we’re doing too much in the cloud right now and there is so much compute and potential at the edge, and I’m excited to drive that forward with projects like Harper, Gutenberg, and Playground.

2024-11-19 02:56:06

Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly writes for the Observer, WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg Is ‘More Energized’ Than Ever Amid WP Engine Battle.

2024-11-12 13:57:23

Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is amazing. I feel so lucky to have met him in 2012 when I was much earlier in my career, and he didn’t have any reason to give me time, but he treated everyone as if they were important. We talked a lot about his Count Basie and Frank Sinatra days. If you’re unfamiliar with him, the Quincy documentary on Netflix is a good start. His musical fingerprints are everywhere, including the super-catchy theme songs for Sanford and Sons and Austin Powers.

He passed away last week, on November 3^rd. As a tribute, here are ten albums he was involved in from the jazz side that have been big parts of my life. I’ll link to Spotify, but find them wherever you can:

1. Sinatra at the Sands, Quincy arranges and directs the Count Basie band. This live album is great to listen to, you also get Frank doing stand-up comedy.
2. It Might As Well Be Swing, Frank Sinatra.
3. Julian “Cannonball” Adderley.
4. Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones.
5. Ella and Basie.
6. The Genius of Ray Charles.
7. For Those in Love, Dinah Washington.
8. Dizzy and Strings, Dizzy Gillespie.
9. Quincy Here We Come, Benny Bailey. (The track Meet Benny Bailey has an excellent tribute on Manhattan Transfer’s Vocalese.)
10. Social Call, Betty Carter.

I put all ten into one Spotify playlist if you want to check them all out.

2024-11-06 07:04:55

It was a huge pain in the butt, because my mail-in ballot didn’t register properly, but I found a last-minute flight to Houston and this morning walked over to Congregation Emanu El and voted. It is our most sacred duty as a citizen. I encourage every American to vote.

2024-11-04 04:19:53

I’ve been obsessed with Jacob Collier since I first saw his Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing cover on YouTube, and one of my favorite genres of videos is genius musicians breaking down the incredible musical stuff Jacob is doing. (He even has his own instrument now.) This reaction and breakdown from Michael Palmisano, who is an incredible musician, go through Jacob’s amazing Little Blue video is amazing.