1. Ellie K said:

    Hello Beau! I hope this finds you well, and enjoying your standing desk much like Thomas Wolfe (“Look Homeward, Angel” not “Bonfire of the Vanities”) did in the 1930’s. I visited because I noticed today’s xkcd 1329 comic, and it reminded me of you.

    In fact, there was a secondary motive. A question for you, please? I thought you were the original developer of Gravatar. That is how I first discovered you, WordPress and the rest of Web 2.0. I love Gravatar! Several weeks ago, I was surprised to read that Tom Preston, he is MoJimbo or MoJombo on Github, was the creator of Gravatar. Is that correct? I am doubtful, as I know that Gravatar was, and is an Automattic project/ service. Might you be able to clarify for me?

    P.S. The electrical sub-station attack is disturbing, but there is a reason it hasn’t received much attention. I can explain in another comment, as this may be too lengthy for Akismet!

    • Beau Lebens said:

      Hi Ellie — Actually indeed Tom is the original creator of Gravatar. Automattic acquired it in 2007, and then rewrote it in PHP, and integrated it with a lot of the WordPress.com infrastructure. I was one of the main engineers involved with one of the significant overhauls that has happened since then though.

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