People.

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@nyquildotorg And on top of that he has the nerve to talk about all the process the WordPress project has around what goes into a release, when 90% of the dissatisfaction with him in this whole crisis has come from him demonstrating that he personally can sidestep all that process whenever he feels like it.

The NERVE

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@jalefkowit every sentence was a full journey into the Batshit Dimension, I can barely even parse this. What the hell

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@jalefkowit I have not even had time to absorb the off-the-wall flex of “15 godchildren” yet

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

And let me point out two other details that make this missive classic Photography Matthew:

1) He drops this absolute banger on a FRIDAY NIGHT

2) Somehow, for some reason, it is dated as having been published tomorrow

[vertigo@hackers.town]

@tsturm @jalefkowit He definitely sounds just like the author of Temple OS. Almost exactly.

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@glyph Bragging about how many godchildren you have feels like stolen valor

[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/