Happy birthday, WordPress! What does that even mean, though? WordPress is the community of people who have built it and contributed to it over the last two decades, and before that, when it was a little known blogging package called b2. So, thank you so much to everyone who has […]
Ireland
Some Good News
I have to say, Some Good News with John Krasinski is a breath of fresh air in this time of quarantine and isolation. John picks up on good news stories from around the world and you’ll have to have a heart of stone not to laugh or cry or both […]
Ireland
Social distancing in Blarney
Everything is local, but everything is also global now. The world feels a lot smaller. There’s one topic of conversation everywhere now and that’s the coronavirus (WB), SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) which causes the COVID-19 disease. It feels like Europe and North America sleep walked into this, […]
Photos
The Automattic Photo, 2017 Edition
Last September almost 600 employees of Automattic travelled to Whistler in Canada for our annual Grand Meetup. As is now a company tradition a photograph was taken of everyone who attended. It’s a challenge taking a photograph of that many people. Remember how hard it was taking that family photo? […]
Automattic
12 years at Automattic
Wow. 12 years ago I started out on this adventure with Automattic and Matt. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long. If you want to discover why I’m still here, take a look at the work with us page. We’re hiring!
Photos
Automattic in 2016
This is (most of) Automattic. We’re in the town of Whistler, Canada for the annual Grand Meetup. The company is growing every year, from tiny origins when a small group of us hacked away on a couple of servers to almost 500 now! In the old days the company portrait […]
Automattic
Off travelling again, 2016 edition
The Automattic Grand Meetup starts tomorrow so I’m in Cork Airport waiting for my flight to London. The weird thing about timezones means I leave here in the morning and get to Vancouver in the morning. And it’s still the same day. That also means I need to stay awake […]
General
This is odd… dot blog
I’ve had some sort of online presence for twenty years, and that presence has been this blog for most of that time. When I started posting stuff online, PHP was still a toddler and I used a simple Perl script to merge html files with a content file before it […]
Automattic
Ten Years at Automattic
I still remember the day in 2005 when Matt asked me to come work for him. I still remember the exact spot I was standing where I took that call. It was only a couple of metres from where I sit typing this now. Ten years, time has flown. I […]
Photography
Food for eating
Polldaddy is in Marrakesh for a week, staying in a riad in the medina. We had a delicious lunch today, probably the nicest we’ve had here in the riad and that’s saying something as they’ve all been exceptional.