One last time before I leave Toronto.
Category: High Fives
My Twitter account got a follow earlier tonight from an account I vaguely recognized. Turns out it was the two behind this Kickstarter. (Which I fully support, just not monetarily.)
I figured why not reply to the follow and have fun with it. Here’s what happened:
Matt and Viviana, whoever you are, well played, and I hope to visit the completed museum the next time I am in New York.
My colleague Steph just posted our year in review post for the WordPress.com VIPÂ team at Automattic, and it’s a cool read if you want to see the kinds of things I work with on a daily basis:
2014 has been a big year at WordPress.com VIP. So far, we’ve served more than 28 billion pageviews (or, 28,250,403,658 the last time we checked). We’ve also added 350 new sites to the VIP network and 13 new members to our team (including an acquisition)!
As the leading WordPress solution for enterprises, we pride ourselves on working with your team to ensure that your code is optimized, secure, and fast. This year our customers have deployed changes 31,000 times, comprising more than one million lines of code—and we’ve reviewed every line. (And in case you were wondering, 4pm ET on Thursdays is the busiest hour in our deploy queue).
2014 is the first full year I’ve been on the WordPress.com VIP team, and I couldn’t be happier with the challenges we attack, the problems we solve, and the clients we serve every day. And to boot, I get to do this from wherever I want to be, working alongside some insanely intelligent and thoughtful people.
It was a good year, and more is yet to come. :)
Nick Denton, in a memo to Gawker staff:
[…]I want to resume the activity that brings the best out of me: blogging.
As a company, we are getting back to blogging. It’s the only truly new media in the age of the web. It is ours. Blogging is the essential act of journalism in an interactive and conversational age. Our bloggers surface buried information, whether it’s in an orphaned paragraph in a newspaper article, or in the government archives. And we can give the story further energy by tapping readers for information, for the next instalment of the story, and the next round of debate.
The natural form of online media is the exchange, not the blast.
The blog is dead. Long live the blog.
Saturday morning was Mario Kart 8 time for the kids with the release of the first DLC pack. The courses are pretty good, but even if they hadn’t been I’m sure they still would have had some good fun.
It’s rare they want to spend that much time together without getting into a fight or three.
Bandai Namco makes about two-thirds of the gaming friends I have giddy with joy:
We are very excited to announce that next month it will be possible for players to migrate their Dark Souls: Prepare to Die games, saves and achievements from the Games for Windows Live platform to Steam.
I have regrettably never played through Dark Souls, but I think shifting it away from GFWL will push it onto the list of things I’ll end up streaming later this year. (If I can ever get my streaming act together other than the yearly marathons.)
There is nothing about this ad design I don’t like.
The Stars have the best PA/scoreboard crew in the game.
Dear Scottrade Center:
I am available as a consultant for all your meme-related needs.