At Automattic, we have a lot of data from WordPress.com, our flagship product. We have over 90 million users, and 100 million blogs. Our data team is constantly analyzing our data to discover how we can better serve our users. In 2015, one of our big focuses has been to improve the new user experience. As part of this we have been doing funnel analyses for our signup process. That is, for every person who starts our signup process, what […] (Read more)

According to my city’s website to pay my water bill, I am both a verified and an unverified user. Not sure how that it is possible

Today is my first official day at Automattic. I am excited!

Xargs is an extremely powerful complement to the awesome find command. One downside is that you usually need to have a single pipeline. By default you can’t put together a bunch of commands which are not piped. However, it is possible to call a shell with xargs. In this way, you can execute multiple commands in this shell, but from xargs point of view, it is calling a single command – the shell interpreter. More details here: bash – xargs […] (Read more)

Here is a handy little query to show the size of all the databases on a particular postgres server: SELECT pg_database.datname, pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(pg_database.datname)) AS size FROM pg_database; datname | size --------------+--------- template1 | 6369 kB template0 | 6361 kB postgres | 6589 kB foo | 55 MB bar | 5129 MB foobar | 85 GB (6 rows)