Gutenberg in Portland Oregon and Podcasts
I’ve had the opportunity to talk about Gutenberg at two great venues recently. The first was at WordCamp Portland which graciously allowed me to join for a Q&A at the end of the event. The...
View ArticleInterview on Gutenberg and Future of WordPress
Yesterday I was able to have a great conversation with Adam from WP Crafter, a popular Youtube channel with over five million views. Adam said it was his first interview but you can’t tell, we had an...
View ArticleState of the Word 2018
Over the weekend I was in Nashville with over a thousand other WordPress enthusiasts. I met a ton of people, learned a lot, and was able to share the annual State of the Word address with the...
View ArticlePowering Your House
I enjoyed this fun video from xkcd’s Randall Munroe on different ways you could power your home, illustrated. Check out his book How To for more in the same vein.
View ArticleFollow-up Questions from WCEU
Matias and I just finished up the discussion and Q&A for the online WordCamp Europe that is going on right now, which was originally happening in Porto. There were more good questions than we had...
View ArticleState of the Word 2020
This tumultuous year, two things really helped me get through it: my colleagues at Automattic and the community of WordPress. At the end of the year I usually deliver a speech to the WP community we...
View ArticleIceland Film
I wanted to share with you all a short film I made with the help of Stephen Bollinger, with videos I made a few years ago on a photography trip to Iceland with Om and Mark. I hope it provides five...
View ArticleWCEU Open Thread
I just wrapped up a fun session with Matías and Brian, and though we covered a lot of ground we weren’t able to get to all the questions from the audience. Starting at 2:58: So this is an open thread,...
View ArticleOpen Insulin
One of my big themes is that open source will transform every industry, with key examples being WordPress in web publishing, WooCommerce in online commerce, Wikipedia in reference, and...
View ArticleState of the Word… in person!
Update: Here’s the recording! I’m very excited that we’ll be broadcasting the State of the Word “live from New York City” this coming Tuesday, December 14th! There will be a very small “studio...
View ArticleThis Week in Google
I joined episode 681 of This Week in Google and it was fun with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt:
View ArticleState of the Word
A few weeks ago, but what feels like a lifetime ago, I was in New York City with a few dozen extra special people from around the WordPress world. Alongside Josepha and the community we presented this...
View ArticleWith Mike Little and Dries Buytaert
Last week I had the honor of being on stage at the Royal Society of Arts in London with Mike Little, the co-founder of WordPress, and Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, which is one of the open...
View ArticleWordPress & AI
I did an interview with Jamie Marsland where we talked a fair amount about AI.
View ArticleWordCamp Europe Keynote
I had a great time at WordCamp Europe in Athens this year, here’s the keynote “Variations on a Theme” with presentations from Josepha Haden Chomphosy and Matías Ventura, and Q&A from all three of...
View ArticleTechcrunch with Gutenberg
Jamie Marsland has this great YouTube video where he rebuilds TechCrunch.com just using core blocks in WordPress 6.3 in 30 minutes. Worth checking out!
View ArticleNasdaq Chat
When I was at Silicon Slopes Summit in Salt Lake City I got a chance to talk to folks from Nasdaq about my latest thoughts on the WordPress project, open source, and distributed work.
View ArticleFred Again Tiny Desk
You think you’ve seen Tiny Desk performances, but you haven’t seen this.
View ArticleSaaStr Interview
I was interviewed by Jason Lemkin of SaaStr, who is one of the most insightful people in the SaaS space and runs great events. Check out our conversation.
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