Matt Mullenweg

In my experience (11 years fully remote/distributed growing from 90 to 2000 employees) my first impression is it sounds like you’re doing too much synchronous. Async is so efficient.

My team’s current systems:
- Most deep discussions happen on blog posts including project status. We use (and built) https://wordpress.com/p2/. We don’t use email.
- Start of week everyone prompted to post what they did last week and what they plan to do this week. Also have a kinda fun ice breaker question that is easy (e.g avoid asking about favorites) and sometimes generates discussion. Last week was “Pick an olympic sport to represent your life.”
- Daily Slack prompt to give folks a place to report on yesterday/today. The most important thing is how people feel though. “Pick a red/yellow/green emoji for your status” and “What feels risky or a blocker?”. Create space for feelings.
- weekly team meeting is then about discussions and never about status. How do we solve X? How do we feel about Y?
- debugging and such does occur in Slack but longer discussions are on blog posts/comments and so can be long.
- I do 1-1s weekly for new folks and bi-weekly for longer term folks. Encourage sync 1-1s between the team also.

A lot of the prompts can be automated. I dont consider them mandatory, if you get them right then folks will be happy to do them because they feel the utility of them.

https://ma.tt/2020/04/five-levels-of-autonomy/ Is a good read too.

Iterating is very important though (which you…

Static websites are great of course, and the article outlines that nicely.

The problem that I've been facing personally is that most of the times, the people who are updating and maintaining content on marketing websites are not developers.

So having to use the command line for static site generators such as Jekyll or Middleman is just not a good experience. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE static site generators in general and I'm using both Middleman and Sculpin myself.

Other people has seen this problem too, and some user-friendly-ish static site generators have started to surface, but I want to chime in with a solution to that too since I believe that the best way to adopt static site generators is to use the tools that content creators and maintainers already love and are familiar with, e.g. WordPress which now has a whopping 25% marketshare[1].

I built SpudPress[2] with a friend. It is a hosted static site generator for WordPress. We automatically generate a static version of your WordPress site and host in on a super fast CDN. You don't have to worry about any of the edge cases of generating a static copy, we take care of all that automatically for you.

[1] http://ma.tt/2015/11/seventy-five-to-go/
[2] https://spudpress.com

A lot of people here are talking right past each other.

Is it good that WordPress has automatic security updates? Yes.

Is it bad that WordPress vulnerabilities are still so common? Yes.

Are Drupal, Joomla, or Magento better at this? It sounds like the answer is probably no.

Does that excuse WordPress because it is better than other frameworks with marginal track records? No.

For such a widely used framework, WordPress' security record is dismal. Automatic updates are a great feature, but they don't replace the need for the framework to be a lot more secure.

For someone hosting their personal blog on a $5/month VPS this is probably good enough. For a bank to run WordPress is borderline professional negligence at this point [1]. A lot of the comments seem to be assuming that because the update was rolled out withing a few hours, that their window of exposure was pretty small. The window of exposure to WordPress vulnerabilities isn't from the time the patch is released until you are updated, it is from when an attacker discovers the vulnerability and you are updated.

[1]: http://ma.tt/2015/04/a-bank-website-on-wordpress/.

many thanks for the compliments.

The design was done by Julien Morel,(joolz.fr), the same guy who did the previous design of Matt Mullenweg(http://ma.tt/). he has done a lot of great design for a few french sites as well. You should check his portfolio. He is a nice guy. He is now working on a costumed page for my twitter account (@exaggerated_com).

Content creation has been a nightmare to produce this far. Spotlights are easy to generate, cause they are aggregated live in our admin database and are all pre-populated.

Original content however is something really difficult to produce on a daily basis.
I had a redditor to produce the articles, I used to pay him like 800$per month. but he cashed in the money before xmas and never re-appeared... I have just found a great content provider now who is charging me 5$/article.

Definitely creating a startup has been hard as hell!

I am a private banker/ portfolio manager in Geneva Switzerland. I founded the site just for fun during my spare time.

glad you enjoy it.

I don't think anything about our update could cause the issues he describes and we've had no other reports, this is the only claim on the internet, and doesn't include enough technical details to tell if it's an actual bug or not.

If it's a bug, our bad and we'll fix ASAP. If it's a bug, it's a very rare one. There have been 225k downloads of the SCF plugin in the past 24 hours, implying a lot of updates. I would estimate at least 60% of the sites with auto-upgrade on and using .org for updates have done so already. https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/advanced/

That said, I'm happy to pay system2 whatever he thinks his time was "spent" on a Sunday is worth. Just let me know an amount and where to send. You can contact me here: https://ma.tt/contact/ .

Andy Baio posted in March 2005 about this: "Wordpress is a very popular open-source blogging software package, with a great official website maintained by Matt Mullenweg, its founding developer. I discovered last week that since early February, he's been quietly hosting at least 168,000 articles on their website. These articles are designed specifically to game the Google Adwords program, written by a third-party about high-cost advertising keywords like asbestos, mesothelioma, insurance, debt consolidation, diabetes, and mortgages."
source: http://waxy.org/2005/03/wordpress_websi/

Matt acknowledged the issue with this content (cloaked with CSS) and apologized the next month:
http://ma.tt/2005/04/a-response/