Category: General
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New Logo and Fonts
I usually refresh the design around here by the end of year, and this one comes with some big news, and a little tweak. So, the big news, for the first time in over 10 years, MacManX.com has a logo! Sure, I had a favicon ever since this site started, but it was really just […]
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Happy New Year! the 2014 edition
2014 is here, or 2013s if you’re an iPhone, so it’s a great time to make sure that your browser is up-to-date and change your passwords. Get out there and experience new things this year. Maybe you want to visit places you never have before, learn something new (like Markdown, which is now supported here […]
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MacManX.com in 2013
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 24,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many […]
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Separating Work from Home
Automattic is a globally distributed company, which means that most of us work from home all over the world. Often times, folks ask me how I can separate my work life from my home life as if it were some sort of monumental task. Fortunately, that is not the case, and while not every trick […]
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Revenue, Ads, and Team Switching
Three years ago, I became a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, focussing on WordPress.com. I had a lot of fun with my colleagues, helping folks learn to use the greatest free blogging platform ever. Fun fact, WordPress.com is both free and a business, we have bills to pay, and businesses need money to operate. A few […]