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mattl

@mattlee New England/Cyberspace joined Apr 2008

mat.tl github.com/mattl Slack: @mattl
    Teams Accessibility Hosting Openverse

    Bio

    Public figure/idiot. He/him. Fediverse co-creator. New American/middle aged British. Deaf, web standards/accessibility specialist

    Interests

    indieweb, open source, free software, web standards, accessibility

    WordPress Origin Story

    In 2004, I was already working for the British government doing some open source stuff, while also volunteering full time at the Free Software Foundation. I read Mark Pilgrim’s blog posts about Movable Type and Bytemark Hosting and decided to spin up a Bytemark server and install WordPress myself.

    A few years later, I lucked my way into working full time on free software stuff, and I made a short film with Stephen Fry to promote the upcoming 25th anniversary of the GNU Project. Matt agreed to help mirror it.

    Twenty years later I’m still doing free software/open source stuff. Still using WordPress.

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

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    Last 90 days
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    Last 12 months
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    Team focus

    Across 3 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 22 Fri · 03:09
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #487 to WordPress/Advanced-administration-handbook:
    Update wp-config.md
    February 2021
    Feb 16 Tue · 21:05
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Reminder: Forked Premium Plugins Are Not Permitted, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
    Taking someone’s pay-for code and re-releasing it as free-of-charge is considered to be piracy This…
    May 2018
    May 17 Thu · 03:46
    Core med
    Created ticket #44120 on Core Trac:
    Dashboard shows events that are not local to user
    October 2015
    Oct 01 Thu · 16:37
    Core med
    Created ticket #34118 on Core Trac:
    Allow permalinks to spell out when certain symbols are used