Matt Wiebe

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…

I got laid off by @automattic back in April.

What's next is very different. Hint: 🍕🏖️

mattwiebe.blog/2025/11/12/t...

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…

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...

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #48,301, Matt Wiebe ‪@mattwie.be‬, joined on Apr 29, 2023"

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

Truly incredible how twitter fumbled the bag by losing the birdhouse home icon. which is twitter and which is bluesky??

Well who doesn't love that

working links 🤦🏻‍♂️

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the way I was hunting for it 😂

ActivityPub The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format.

Ugh, copy paste fail it seems - thanks for pointing it out!

plugin: wordpress.org/plugins/acti...

github github.com/Automattic/w...

Haven’t been on here much since I started working on ActivityPub stuff. Good stuff happening or mostly rehashing the same old grievances?

WordPress.com: Build a Site, Sell Your Stuff, Start a Blog & More Create a free website or build a blog with ease on WordPress.com. Dozens of free, customizable, mobile-ready designs and themes. Free hosting and support.

And coming very, very soon to WordPress.com

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 

Pretty sure this means that we own your skeets now, sorry, I don’t make the rules.

We are so back #WordPress edition

yw! I thought that the lack of verification-through-DNS might make it seem suspect.

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)

3. Pancakes. The people's choice. Easy to make without specialized equipment. Make 'em small, eat in stacks.

2. Crepes. Roll one with maple syrup for a Franco-Canadian theophany.

1. Waffles. High-Crust-To-Interior-Ratio-Rules-Everything-Around-Me. Drown 'em in syrup. I like Rogers Golden.

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.

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

lmao at Jokic with his kid

Jokic! At home! Congrats! #NBA #hashtagsarentathinghere

Just a garbage game, and I say that affectionately #NBA

Wow. They blew it.

Butler's gonna get an offensive foul on the challenge I think

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"

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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…

#WP20 and Audrey Scholars

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…

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 doubt the first but if so not the last!