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November, 2015

Why WordPress's new Calypso interface is genius

Matt Mullenweg just introduced a new management interface for WordPress: Today we’re announcing something brand new, a new approach to WordPress, and open sourcing the code behind it. The project, codenamed Calypso, is the culmination of more than 20 months of work by dozens of the most talented engineers and designers ...
November 23, 2015

Let in the refugees. How we respond to them is a reflection of who we are.

George Packer in the New Yorker this week: A lot of people in this country are disgracing themselves this week. They include politicians of both parties—though many more Republicans than Democrats—and all regions. Their motives vary: deep-seated bigotry, unreasoning fear, spinelessness, opportunism, or some unholy mix of them all. They say you ...
November 22, 2015

Open issues: lessons learned building an open source business

Prologue: The first time I ever visited South Park, the tiny patch of grass in downtown San Francisco that the Matter garage would later back onto, Biz Stone bought me a coffee. We circled the park and talked about Elgg, our open source social networking product, and Twitter, the startup he was working on ...
November 7, 2015