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Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic and WordPress.com and friend of Laughing Squid, captured absolutely gorgeous 4K drone footage over some of Iceland’s most iconic sights while on a trip in 2018. The sights include the incredible multi-colored waterfalls, the otherworldly terrain, and a free run of unique Icelandic horses…

Automattic is has announced the release of their new TLD (top-level domain) .blog. Interested parties can apply for .blog domain names through get.blog. The extension will officially be added on November 21, 2016, and potential buyers have until November 9, 2016 to apply to claim their domain early. WordPress founder…

Poler Stuff has created The Napsack, a wearable sleeping bag that you can open up and stick your legs and arms out of. Perfect for camping in the woods or for lounging around the house in the winter. The Napsack is available to purchase in various style from the Poler…

WordPress.com has launched a rebuilt open-source version of their popular blogging platform as well as a new WordPress.com desktop app that will allow users to write, read, and comment on posts. The new project is codenamed Calypso, and is available now to download for Mac with Windows and Linux version due out…

WordPress.com and parent company Automattic are celebrating their 10th birthday this year, they were both founded by Matt Mullenweg in 2005. Matt was behind the launch of the WordPress open source project in 2003 and the “matt” in Automattic is a tribute to his name. Here’s Matt’s post about “Ten…

During a trip to San Francisco in March I visited the beautifully designed headquarters of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com. The “matt” in “Automattic” is in honor of founder Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of the WordPress open source blogging platform. Here’s my full set of photos of the Automattic headquarters….

The School of Life offers incredibly good advice with an animation adapted from Roman Krznaric‘s book “How to Find Fulfilling Work” that focuses on how to find career satisfaction with step-by-step pointers that help narrow in on what will ultimately make a person feel fulfilled. One such step is finding…

WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg took an opportunity to walk up to the first tower of the Bay Bridge on a cable with the people from the Bay Lights project. He says on his blog, “You walk right up the cable/pipe to the top, it actually wasn’t that hard. Once on…