Matt Wiebe
@mattwie.be
Overall ardent generalist. WordPress.com old guy. Dad. Winnipegger. Here to play.
I got laid off by @automattic back in April.
What's next is very different. Hint: 🍕🏖️
mattwiebe.blog/2025/11/12/t...
What's next is very different. Hint: 🍕🏖️
mattwiebe.blog/2025/11/12/t...
Thank You, Automattic
A little over a year ago I wrote a post called Why I Stayed. I stared down a six month buyout and just kept working on ActivityPub for WordPress. But I did want out, I just didn’t know what t…
mattwiebe.blog
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I got laid off by @automattic back in April.
What's next is very different. Hint: 🍕🏖️
mattwiebe.blog/2025/11/12/t...
What's next is very different. Hint: 🍕🏖️
mattwiebe.blog/2025/11/12/t...
For anybody interested in the other fediverse, I'm hosting Office Hours for #ActivityPub for #WordPress over the next hour (and all week!). Details and zoom link in the post: mattwiebe.blog/2024/11/26/a...
ActivityPub Office Hours Day 2
@pfefferle@notiz.blog and I are hosting separate ActivityPub for WordPress office hours today! Zoom link for 3pm ET / 20:00 UTC (in about 20 mins) The rest of the week Both of us: Nov 27 (Wed) 10:3…
mattwiebe.blog
November 26, 2024 at 8:10 PM
For anybody interested in the other fediverse, I'm hosting Office Hours for #ActivityPub for #WordPress over the next hour (and all week!). Details and zoom link in the post: mattwiebe.blog/2024/11/26/a...
It felt pretty late at the time 😅
September 24, 2024 at 1:58 AM
It felt pretty late at the time 😅
If I ever get some spare cycles (lol, lmao) it would be interesting to try to turn a WordPress install into a full-fledge ATProto PDS
June 14, 2024 at 2:00 PM
If I ever get some spare cycles (lol, lmao) it would be interesting to try to turn a WordPress install into a full-fledge ATProto PDS
Truly incredible how twitter fumbled the bag by losing the birdhouse home icon. which is twitter and which is bluesky??
October 18, 2023 at 4:38 PM
Truly incredible how twitter fumbled the bag by losing the birdhouse home icon. which is twitter and which is bluesky??
Haven’t been on here much since I started working on ActivityPub stuff. Good stuff happening or mostly rehashing the same old grievances?
September 13, 2023 at 6:11 PM
Haven’t been on here much since I started working on ActivityPub stuff. Good stuff happening or mostly rehashing the same old grievances?
ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress is released today! Activate and your WP blog can now be followed in the fediverse, and receive replies back as comments.
Huge props to @notiz.blog and all of our contributors!
plugin repo: wordpress.org/plugins/activi…
github: github.com/Automattic/wor
Huge props to @notiz.blog and all of our contributors!
plugin repo: wordpress.org/plugins/activi…
github: github.com/Automattic/wor
429 Too Many Requests
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activi…
September 13, 2023 at 5:59 PM
ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress is released today! Activate and your WP blog can now be followed in the fediverse, and receive replies back as comments.
Huge props to @notiz.blog and all of our contributors!
plugin repo: wordpress.org/plugins/activi…
github: github.com/Automattic/wor
Huge props to @notiz.blog and all of our contributors!
plugin repo: wordpress.org/plugins/activi…
github: github.com/Automattic/wor
Pretty sure this means that we own your skeets now, sorry, I don’t make the rules.
We raised an $8M seed round led by Neo, with participation from other seasoned allies who want to help us realize our vision of an open commons for public conversation.
With this funding, we can expand our team, manage increasing ops & infra costs, and grow the AT Protocol ecosystem & Bluesky app.
With this funding, we can expand our team, manage increasing ops & infra costs, and grow the AT Protocol ecosystem & Bluesky app.
Our Plan for a Sustainably Open Social Network
We've been exploring avenues of monetization other than traditional advertising, and have raised a seed round to support our mission and growth.
blueskyweb.xyz
July 6, 2023 at 1:42 PM
Pretty sure this means that we own your skeets now, sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Reposted by Matt Wiebe
We are so back #WordPress edition
April 29, 2023 at 9:18 PM
We are so back #WordPress edition
As someone who could be called as an expert witness in a trial about protestant guilt: YES
most online discourse is just a progressive rebrand of protestant guilt and you're extremely fine to ignore it
June 27, 2023 at 3:13 PM
As someone who could be called as an expert witness in a trial about protestant guilt: YES
Welcome to bsky, @wordpress.bsky.social (we're working on moving that handle to @wordpress.org)
June 27, 2023 at 2:48 PM
Welcome to bsky, @wordpress.bsky.social (we're working on moving that handle to @wordpress.org)
Real talk though I have my highly idiosyncratic hierarchy of syrup-bearing flatbreads.
4. French toast. Could do without it, but still enjoyable when made right. My least favoured, but my wife's favourite. All syrup-bearing breads still have something to offer.
4. French toast. Could do without it, but still enjoyable when made right. My least favoured, but my wife's favourite. All syrup-bearing breads still have something to offer.
June 26, 2023 at 2:25 AM
Real talk though I have my highly idiosyncratic hierarchy of syrup-bearing flatbreads.
4. French toast. Could do without it, but still enjoyable when made right. My least favoured, but my wife's favourite. All syrup-bearing breads still have something to offer.
4. French toast. Could do without it, but still enjoyable when made right. My least favoured, but my wife's favourite. All syrup-bearing breads still have something to offer.
It would be fun to get some followers that weren't just using the API to mass-follow, but I guess then I'd have to post huh
June 21, 2023 at 12:08 PM
It would be fun to get some followers that weren't just using the API to mass-follow, but I guess then I'd have to post huh
Jokic! At home! Congrats! #NBA #hashtagsarentathinghere
June 13, 2023 at 3:04 AM
Jokic! At home! Congrats! #NBA #hashtagsarentathinghere
Just a garbage game, and I say that affectionately #NBA
June 13, 2023 at 2:57 AM
Just a garbage game, and I say that affectionately #NBA
Butler's gonna get an offensive foul on the challenge I think
June 13, 2023 at 2:48 AM
Butler's gonna get an offensive foul on the challenge I think
Reposted by Matt Wiebe
Time to just drop User-Agents entirely.
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
🙄
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
🙄
June 7, 2023 at 3:54 PM
Time to just drop User-Agents entirely.
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
🙄
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
🙄
Reposted by Matt Wiebe
#WP20 and Audrey Scholars
WP20 & Audrey Scholars
Today is the 20th anniversary of the first release of WordPress. None of us knew what we were getting into when it started, but we had a shared conviction that the four freedoms of the GPL combined…
ma.tt
June 1, 2023 at 3:29 AM
#WP20 and Audrey Scholars
Happy 20th birthday WordPress!
I quite literally wouldn't be here without it. I accidentally became a developer because I couldn't stop hacking on my theme.
I quite literally wouldn't be here without it. I accidentally became a developer because I couldn't stop hacking on my theme.
Happy 20th Anniversary, WordPress! We Wouldn’t Be Here Without You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYhIItlPPOs&ab_channel=Automattic Above: Watch Matt Mullenweg, Mike Little, and Dries Buytaert — in conversation for the first time ever — discuss 20 years of WordPress as well as the future of open source. On May 27, 2003, co-founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little announced that WordPress was available to the public. Their vision, as you can…
wordpress.com
May 26, 2023 at 3:10 PM
Happy 20th birthday WordPress!
I quite literally wouldn't be here without it. I accidentally became a developer because I couldn't stop hacking on my theme.
I quite literally wouldn't be here without it. I accidentally became a developer because I couldn't stop hacking on my theme.
First experience with GitHub Copilot Chat today. Asked it to add PHPDoc comments for some new functions. It rewrote one of the functions at the same time. I told it not to. It did it again. I asked why it did that and it told me it didn't. Unsure if it actually saved me any time.
May 18, 2023 at 5:34 PM
First experience with GitHub Copilot Chat today. Asked it to add PHPDoc comments for some new functions. It rewrote one of the functions at the same time. I told it not to. It did it again. I asked why it did that and it told me it didn't. Unsure if it actually saved me any time.
Felt some nostalgia today for Notepad++, the first text editor I used when starting out. It's still going strong! https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad
github.com
May 17, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Felt some nostalgia today for Notepad++, the first text editor I used when starting out. It's still going strong! https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad
Try this again
WPoasted from http://wp.test/index.php/2023/try-this-again/
WPoasted from http://wp.test/index.php/2023/try-this-again/
May 6, 2023 at 9:58 PM
Try this again
WPoasted from http://wp.test/index.php/2023/try-this-again/
WPoasted from http://wp.test/index.php/2023/try-this-again/
Good thing we don't really use email at Automattic, because this is what mine often looks like.
May 6, 2023 at 1:31 PM
Good thing we don't really use email at Automattic, because this is what mine often looks like.
Today I'm grateful that I'm not in a life season where my summer is dominated by wedding after wedding.
May 6, 2023 at 1:13 PM
Today I'm grateful that I'm not in a life season where my summer is dominated by wedding after wedding.
The 2 principles of responsible chip eating:
1. Chopsticks (clean hands)
2. Bowl (check yoself, etc)
1. Chopsticks (clean hands)
2. Bowl (check yoself, etc)
May 6, 2023 at 2:24 AM
The 2 principles of responsible chip eating:
1. Chopsticks (clean hands)
2. Bowl (check yoself, etc)
1. Chopsticks (clean hands)
2. Bowl (check yoself, etc)