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Kellie Peterson @kellie

Hate it here, find me literally anywhere else: https://t.co/hgUINH89Mo Retired. Formerly https://t.co/OJBE0QBxEG, Automattic, https://t.co/LYkoqeqnSl, Endurance (Newfold) names.net Mexico Joined February 2007
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Kellie Peterson @kellie

4 weeks ago

if WP Engine gets access to that exchange, and it shows the campaign was premeditated and strategically coordinated rather than principled improvisation, Matt and Automattic's entire narrative defense collapses. Trying to keep up the David vs. Goliath narrative is all he has now.

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

4 weeks ago

and trademarks and marked privileged. Ex-Automatticians know this is exactly how things are done at Automattic. Very little is done spontaneously, even it it's done on short notice there's a lot of coordination. And often it is still done haphazardly. BUT...

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

4 weeks ago

Finally had the time to peruse the latest court documents in WP Engine v Automattic. No wonder Matt put that post out. Automattic is fighting to uphold its clawback of a Slack exchange from July 24, 2024. That's roughly two months before the keynote address at WordCamp US.

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

2 months ago

@DuaneStorey Aged like milk.

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

2 months ago

He's been ranting about the sad state of WordPress.com too and "led" that right into the ground too. He does not have "product vision" in the slightest. He has "product envy" and there is no little blue pill to fix that.

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sé reed 💙💛 @sereedmedia

2 months ago

@DuaneStorey @CoenJacobs @KatieKeithBarn2 He has been _every release lead_ since WordPress 5.0 with a few exceptions who were his direct employees. He also has his employees in all key positions. Including marketing and design. He wants the community to “let” him lead? What exactly has he been doing this whole time?

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

3 months ago

Instead of cutting head count, maybe you should take a page from Jensen Huang. Get better ideas. "For companies with imagination, you will do more with more. For companies where the leadership is just out of ideas, they have nothing else to do. #wordpress #automattic #ai #layoff

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

3 months ago

Then he's planning to spin up agents to do the tasks that haven't been done. As someone who regularly pushed back against his asks because they would breach contracts I have to scoff. Maybe your ideas just aren't that good. You know, like the 100 year plan??

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

3 months ago

According to sources @photomatt is a day late celebrating the one year anniversary of laying off 16% of his staff by threatening to layoff 85% of the staff because they haven't done what he told them to do. He's using AI to scour meeting notes, transcripts, even public speeches.

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

3 months ago

@photomatt @reckless @wpengine @heatherjbrunner @verge You are insufferable.

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

3 months ago

@photomatt @EricLagunas @bgardner As someone who has (allegedly) had to be escorted off a stage due to (alleged) intoxication in front of hundreds of his employees I would not be throwing stones.

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

a year ago

@WebDevLaw What is he doing now?

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

a year ago

I've been thinking quite a lot about why @photomatt's actions in and around Wordpress and @automattic have bothered me so and it all came together this past week. I was writing about it and then the news of FAIR broke - and bam. #wpdrama #wordpress #wpterrorism medium.com/@kelliepeterso…

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

a year ago

fastcompany.com/91347003/wordp… #mullenwegwho?

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

a year ago

Read up on the FAIR project and package manager for #wordpress: therepository.email/fair-to-decent… delta.blog/why-i-joined-f… Podcast if you prefer: kraut.press/podcast/fair/

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

a year ago

Many have called for Mullenweg to step down or be removed from the project. That's not going to happen. In what may be the longest con in open source history we've all learned he controls it all. Making him *irrelevant* to the project is the next best thing. #wpdrama #wpterrorism

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

a year ago

Bombshell news out of the @altctrlorg event alongside #WCEU: FAIR (Federated and Independent Repositories) introduces a #wordpress package manager in an aim to fully decentralize & futureproof WP by insulating the ecosystem from the anti-competitive whims of @photomatt Backed by the @linuxfoundation and hundreds of contributors the project was coordinated by @jdevalk and @karimmarucchi and has an all-star technical steering committee of @Ipstenu @cdils and @rmccue. This is a huge step in a great direction #wpdrama #WCEU2025

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

a year ago

And how many of the ~280 employees that were laid off have different feelings about what they said in that survey? I know a few. #wpdrama #wordpressterrorism #isitacult @Newsweek really needs to have higher standards.

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

a year ago

It's truly astonishing how far @photomatt will go to paint himself as the victim and claim the moral high ground. Using the death of #PopeFrancis seems a weird flex. linkedin.com/posts/kelliepe… #wpdrama #wordpressterrorism

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Kellie Peterson @kellie

a year ago

@photomatt @bgardner Hmmm.

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