People.

[linuxfiend@vmst.io]

@jalefkowit He is such a douchebag.

[shiitaketoast@beige.party]

@jalefkowit this is a stereotypical style of writing that always warns me that the author is going to be a problem at some point.

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@ShiitakeToast When the smart companies reach a certain size, they have someone sit the white guy CEO down and say to him "I know you think sarcasm and wit are the same thing, but the share price depends on you understanding that they aren't"

[symtrkl@anarres.family]

@glyph I thought you were overselling it until motherfucker said

the SEO space, an industry known for making the web better

with a straight face.
@jalefkowit

[shiitaketoast@beige.party]

@jalefkowit The really smart ones have PR and the general counsel sit him down and tell him not to talk without prior approval

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@SymTrkl @glyph No, I think that's him sarcastically taking a shot at Joost. "Why would you follow this guy, he comes from SEO, yuck."

(Admittedly it's hard to tell, because ironically for someone whose blog proudly announces he's been blogging since 2002 Matt is a really bad writer)

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@SymTrkl @glyph Note that the next line is him shitting on Crowd Favorite, a company that was founded to bet on WordPress in 2007, long before anyone else was betting on it, as "a small agency"

History

As an original contributor to the WordPress Project, our founder, Alex King set the tone for Crowd Favorite's commitment to Open Source Solutions.

Crowd Favorite (crowdfavorite.com)

[helical@plasmatrap.com]

@[email protected]

my official thoughts on the article:

tf did I just read

no seriously

the fuck

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@helical Almost haiku!

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@jalefkowit @SymTrkl I suspect he is in fact sober but I have not really seen someone projecting this level of kinda-serious kinda-joking manic Posting Energy without truly monstrous amounts of stimulant abuse.

I mean scratch that I have _never_ seen energy like this before, that’s just the closest analogue I can think of

[helical@plasmatrap.com]

@[email protected]

what the fuck is this

I would keep my godchildren

far from this shitshow

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@glyph @SymTrkl The fact that these bombs keep dropping on weekends would chime with that. You can imagine a scenario where during the week he's surrounded by underlings who keep him busy attending to things. But then it's Friday night and there's nobody around to keep the chocks in place

[rgegriff@hackers.town]

@vertigo @tsturm @jalefkowit fewer slurs and rants about the CIA tho

[iam_sysop@cyberplace.social]

@jalefkowit

There's this bit too:

https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-sponsored-contributions-to-wordpress/

[be@floss.social]

@rgegriff @vertigo @tsturm @jalefkowit ... so far

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@be @rgegriff @vertigo @tsturm I was gonna say. Matt's still pretty young, he has time

[ryansingel@writing.exchange]

@jalefkowit
His 55 godchildren get to keep their .org accounts

For now.

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

This post is deleted!

[be@floss.social]

@iam_sysop @jalefkowit
So everyone else is organizing to fork, so Automattic is stopping maintenance of Wordpress core to spite them, fork continues to develop, Wordpress stagnates......... Automattic benefits, how?????

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@be @iam_sysop We're way past rational strategic thinking now. This ship is on impulse power