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Dan Q

I'm off for a week of full-time volunteering with Three Rings at 3Camp, our annual volunteer hack week: bringing together our distributed team for some intensive in-person time, working to make life better for charities around the world.

And if there's one good thing to come out of me being suddenly and unexpectedly laid-off two days ago, it's that I've got a shiny new laptop to do my voluntary work on (Automattic have said that I can keep it).

#note #threeRings #volunteering #laptop #computers #work #automattic #employment #devcamp #hackathon

Via: 🔗 danq.me/2025/04/04/3camp-2025/

Black Macbook Pro whose screen shows a locally-hosted copy of the Three Rings web application, overlaid with a terminal running lazygit.
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Calishat

#WordPress #Automattic #layoffs

'Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layoffs will impact 16% of staff across divisions, an Automattic blog post published Wednesday reveals.'

techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/word

TechCrunch · WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff | TechCrunch
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Dan Q

Apparently Automattic are laying off around one in six of their workforce. And I'm one of the unlucky ones.

Anybody remote hiring for a UK-based full-stack web developer (in a world that doesn't seem to believe that full-stack developers exist anymore) with 25+ years professional experience, specialising in PHP, Ruby, JS, HTML, CSS, devops, and about 50% of CMSes you've ever heard of (and probably some you haven't)... with a flair for security, accessibility, standards-compliance, performance, and DexEx?

CV at: danq.me/cv/index.html

#note #work #automattic #job #memorable #employment

Via: 🔗 danq.me/2025/04/02/redundant/

danq.meDan Q | CV
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Darnell Clayton :verified:

If this is true then only @wordpressdotcom would receive updates while the rest of the #WordPress community withers.

👉🏾 @photomatt Considers Delaying WordPress Releases Through 2027 searchenginejournal.com/mullen

I am not a lawyer or time traveler, but from Matt’s odd statements, it appears that #WPEngine may actually win their lawsuit against #Automattic.

Matt on the other hand is “cutting off his nose to spite his face” with these measures, which is baffling honestly.

Search Engine Journal · Mullenweg Considers Delaying WordPress Releases Through 2027Leaked Slack chat shows Matt Mullenweg considering delaying WordPress releases until late 2027, citing reduced corporate contributions
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Tim Zee

@ricmac Interestingly, Tumblr seems headed to the fediverse.
That may make it more attractive.
After Tumblr's disastrous experience with Yahoo and Verizon, it has done a bit better under Automattic.

techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/tumb

TechCrunch · Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes | TechCrunch
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#Tumblr#Fediverse#Automattic
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Ecologia Digital

"#Automattic confirmed to TechCrunch that when the migration is complete, every #Tumblr user will be able to federate their blog via #ActivityPub…the migration could also allow for other #openweb integrations, like giving Tumblr users a way to run other custom plug-ins or themes.
Automattic declined to share a time frame as to when the #migration would be complete, given its scale, but a rep for the company called the progress so far “exciting.”
techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/tumb

TechCrunch · Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes | TechCrunch
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Henrik Schönemann

Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob die Tragweite dessen verstanden wird.
Durch Glück wurde der Inhalt von dei.gov/waste.gov #DOGE sichtbar, der sollte noch gar öffentlich sein:

- 'Beweise' für wasteful spending
- was alles Ziel ist (z.B. Förderung von LGBT weltweit; Indigenes Wissen)
- Regierungsseiten bei einer privaten Firma gehosted #automattic #wordpress

fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/1139986

Zum selber schauen:
archive.org/details/changedete

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FeDiHumHenrik Schönemann (@lavaeolus@fedihum.org)Attached: 4 images #WhitehouseWash My change-detection just caught something big: dei.gov got registered around one week ago - for some days it was empty. Than a long list appeared, which quickly got password-protected; see screenshots. Hosted by #Automattic (of #Wordpress-fame) #DEI #US #USA
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Henrik Schönemann

This needs to be shared widely:

#WhitehouseWash
My change-detection just caught something big:
dei.gov got registered around one week ago - for some days it was empty.
Than a long list appeared, which quickly got password-protected; see screenshots.

It lists short bullet-points about 'wasteful' governmental spending, looks like a list to justify their actions (and what may be to come)

See for yourself:
archive.org/details/changedete

Hosted by #Automattic (of #Wordpress-fame)

A long list of new deleted sentences, too many for this alttext. Some examples: * $78,000 to Palestinian activist group whose chairman was photographed attending an anniversary event celebrating the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Palestine terrorist group * $1 Million for foreign DEI programs, including ‘indigenous language technology’ in Guatemala, per non-public funding docs reviewed by WFB * $5 million for effort to treat eating disorders by “affirming” LGBTQIA+ patients’ sexual orientation and gender claims * Up to $3 million to defund the police advocacy group to pursue “climate justice” for convicts * $500,000 for research on “indigenous knowledge” – “a pseudoscience that posits native Indians possess unique insights into the workings of the universe” * Funded performances of play “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” in which God is bisexual and communists are good, in North Macedonia * Disbursed $15,000 to “queer” Muslim writers in India * Shelled out tens of thousands to create army of 2,500 LGBTQI+ allies
* Up to $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals went to al Qaeda-linked terrorist group the Nusra Front * $500,000 to group that “empowers women” in attempt to solve sectarian violence in Israel just ten days before Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks * $4.67 million to EcoHealth Alliance – one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at Wuhan Institute of Virology — in late 2021. Later refused to answer key questions about the funding. * $7.9 million to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid “binary-gendered language” * $1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers * $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities” * $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship…in developing Latin American countries.” * Education Week: “Biden Administration Cites 1619 Project as Inspiration in History Grant Proposal” * VA took at least a dozen actions aimed at bolstering DEI during the Biden-Harris administration while the number of homeless veterans increased and the amount of claims in the VA’s backlog grew from ~211,000 to ~378,000 * NASA has allocated roughly $10 million to grants advancing DEI and “environmental justice” since 2020 * Following President Trump’s executive order on DEI at federal agencies, the ATF “quietly changing the job title of its former diversity officer… to ‘senior executive’ with the ATF.
* The Department of Labor requested additional funding in 2023 for “The Chief Evaluation Office for a new rigorous interagency evaluation of actions aimed at improving Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility across the federal workforce,” more than $6.5 million “to restore employee benefits programs that will advance equity by specifically addressing how opportunities can be expanded for underserved communities and vulnerable populations,” and $5 million “to evaluate actions aimed at improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) within the federal workforce.” * Fox Business: “FOX Business’ ‘Trouble in the Skies,’ a six month investigation of the FAA’s new hiring practices, uncovered changes that may put the nation’s flying public at risk as well as allegations that the newest air traffic control recruits had access to answers on a key test that helped them gain jobs with the FAA…Also uncovered was an FAA effort to promote diversity that discarded 3000 qualified college graduates with degrees in air traffic control despite their following FAA procedure and obtaining FAA accredited degrees.” --- the only new content: This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password:
host dei.gov dei.gov has address 192.0.66.36 whois 192.0.66.26 NetRange: 192.0.64.0 - 192.0.127.255 CIDR: 192.0.64.0/18 NetName: AUTOMATTIC NetHandle: NET-192-0-64-0-1 Parent: NET192 (NET-192-0-0-0-0) NetType: Direct Allocation OriginAS: AS2635 Organization: Automattic, Inc (AUTOM-93) RegDate: 2012-11-20 Updated: 2024-05-21 Comment: Geofeed https://as2635.network/geofeed.csv Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/192.0.64.0 OrgName: Automattic, Inc OrgId: AUTOM-93 Address: 60 29th Street #343 City: San Francisco StateProv: CA PostalCode: 94110 Country: US RegDate: 2011-10-05
#DEI#US#USA
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