#197: The Future of WordPress and Calypso with Matt Mullenweg

This week we’re joined by Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic. We discussed 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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Show notes and links

• 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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