Building relationships can help build page views

In an effort to empathize with our customers, we at Automattic attempt to tackle real world problems that our customers face in their journey toward success. The problem I'm looking at today is how to get more page views on an existing blog post with a budget of $20? It's pretty much a problem that …

This post is the result of connecting a mobile app, Pioupiou, to this site. It involved basic knowledge of OAuth and Android. #innovation

Scrappiness is Happiness

Recently a design colleague suggested to "Fall in love with the problem, not the solution" and I've been thinking about it ever since. Falling in love with the solution is easy because we had everything to do with it — it came from us. But when this happens, it's difficult to see anything else. Our solution …

WordPress as a Classic Diesel Engine

In 2015 I set out to buy a 2006 Dodge Ram 2500 with a Cummins diesel engine. I could probably get a used 2014 or 2013 model for a great deal, so why would I want something so… old? I did a lot of research, and a diesel engine of that particular year proved to …

The Process of Processing with WordPress

I get excited about the little things people build on top of WordPress. All those things like websites, blogs, and ecommerce stores are really cool, but those pieces of software that extend WordPress into realms few of us think about... those are stinking amazing. I especially get excited about data visualization experiments that can reside …