My life at Automattic
For some reason I didn’t do one of these last year, despite me taking some time to give my home office a bit of an overhaul. So, time to share my current home office set-up to the world. Whether it’s of use to anyone I don’t know, but it may give someone some inspiration.
And, yes, I’ve gone for a moody night shot, but only to demonstrate the lighting that I have in place.
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Over a number of years I’ve made various changes to WordPress to make it a little less exclusive with the language it’s used. Most of the time it’s been in the code comments but, sometimes, that also includes things that most people are more likely to see – the best example was the change in the Settings screen from a “black list” to a “block list”.
And, after some time away from it, I’ve returned and submitted more language changes once more.
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On 11th January, it’s Matt Mullenweg’s 40th birthday. He’s the co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, the company I work for.
It’s nearly 13 years since I hit 40 and, despite a lot of content on this blog, you’ll find no mention of it. The reason? It was pretty uneventful. We had an open party at my house, with people coming and going throughout the day but it’s not as if I felt any different.
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My “What’s in my bag” posts were inspired, many years ago, by similar posts written by my CEO, Matt Mullenweg. His were more aspirational, I felt, in terms of the quality and cost of some of the items that he used but, also, we’re all pretty different and so sharing my own, alternative, list was, I thought, a way to broaden the conversation.
Matt last wrote such a post in 2018 but, recently, dropped a brand new one. Once again it’s inspired me.
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When WatchOS 10.1 was released last week, I started having massive issues with the battery and charging of my Apple Watch Series 8. Bad enough that it made the watch next to unusable.
However, the fix turned out to be something simple, despite even Apple Support missing it.
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