• @bitofhope
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    371 month ago

    So the guy running WordPress.com (business model: Uber for LAMP stack, not to be confused with WordPress.org, winner of Drupal’s Drag Race) is angry that WP Engine (business model: Lyft for LAMP stack, not to be confused with MediaWiki, the engine of WP) offers hosting for the same GPL licensed CMS as they do, am I understanding this correctly?

    • @bitofhope
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      311 month ago

      Also, I just now realized that Automattic (business model: Uber for not posting female-presenting nipples) is a pun on this guy’s name.

      • flere-imsaho
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        111 month ago

        and perhaps a little bow to lem’s “cyberiad” (automateusz, translated as automatthew, from the story automatthew’s friend)

        • @gerikson
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          111 month ago

          I really really doubt it. It’s a pun on his name.

        • @froztbyte
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          61 month ago

          yeah this guy doesn’t seem bright enough for that

      • @selfA
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        51 month ago

        my brain keeps telling me his social media username photomatt must be a pun for matte photo paper or matting your photos for an exhibit, but something tells me Matt thinks matting your own photos is for poor people (because it’s a lot of frustrating labor) and I doubt anyone’s demanding prints of his “rich boy with an expensive Nikon” photos

          • @selfA
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            41 month ago

            you’re right! now I’m trying to think back to which kiosk chain was active in my area growing up. I do know they’d take my dad’s awfully shot film and make even worse prints, and that feels weirdly appropriate for Matt

        • David GerardMA
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          61 month ago

          matt spends his money on Leica kit, so that’s the one good thing i’ve ever heard about him