The future of WordPress and Calypso (Changelog Interviews #197)

Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic, joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of WordPress. We talked about the role of JavaScript for WordPress, their new REST API, Calypso, and more.

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Featuring:

• Matt Mullenweg – Website, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Dance to Calypso
• Introducing the New WordPress.com
• Automattic
• The Story Behind the New WordPress.com
• State of the Word 2015
• Simplenote
• The Year Without Pants by Scott Berkun
• Beautiful Code
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Steve Krug - Advanced Common Sense
• Dave Winer - Scripting News
• Joel Spolsky on Software
• Scott Berkun
• George Orwell - Politics and the English Language (1946)

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