It's a bit of Automattic history, but despite founding the company in June 2005, CNET asked me to hold on for a few more months to tie up some projects, which I did. Our HR systems note me as the second employee, after Donncha O Caoimh (still with the company!) So today marks my 20^th anniversary at Automattic!

Often, the fight for open source and freedom can get down to quite mundane yet practical terms. However, the victories that emerge from this battle can be beneficial for all. For instance: With Beeper, we needed a memory boost for displaying notifications, as we have end-to-end encryption support for networks like Signal; however, Apple's default allocation was only 15 megabytes — barely sufficient for any substantial procedure.