My life at Automattic
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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Positions such as yours take [away] even the slightest incentive for plugin creators to create great plugins for free
This was feedback given to me in the WordPress.org forums after I left poor feedback for a plugin. I’ll write about the specifics of this separately, but essentially a plugin was doing some particularly nasty advertising practices which, I believe, are against the guidelines. It’s also been reported to the Plugin Review team so I’ll leave it up to them to be the final arbiter.
But, yes, the developer didn’t take the review well.
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After a 4 year hiatus I’m back performing musicals. As part of them, I sing, dance (badly) and act. But it’s not just when I’m on stage that I’m acting in front of groups of people. As much as I seem to appear outgoing and extroverted, I’m actually not. It’s an act. And social interactions are actually really hard for me.
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Use of AI is the big thing right now, and that includes using it within customer support.
And although many are convinced that this is something we should be adopting with urgency, I’m more cautious.
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