Nicol WistreichFeb 25

How many people know that #WordPress was co-founded by a black man, Mike Little?

Or that he's from the north of England? A self-taught coder from #Stockport, just south of #Manchester? Or that he never received so much as a share, cent or job offer from the $7bn+ valued Automattic after spending five months working exclusively with Matt Mullenweg on the B2 fork?

After @bevangelist told me about @mikelittle I interviewed him for a documentary I never got round to making. Back then I was left with two certainties: he's Wozniak to Mullenweg's Jobs. Among other things he added the one-click upgrade that's been central to WP's bonkers 45%-of-the-web-success. And he's one of the nicest people I've ever interviewed, which is also bonkers given that he not only didn't share in WP's financial success, but that he's barely known.

But he should be - so, better late than never - please meet #MikeLittle, perhaps the most-influential-least-known person in #foss… https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

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If anyone's struggling with the video embeds on the WordPress site (I am on my phone), there's direct links for both the videos on #PeerTube. If that goes down (and I’ve no reason to think it should) I have got Vimeo links - but 🤞

- Mike Little, Part 1: co-founding WordPress and watching it grow (from afar): https://open.movie/w/hzQjFV6xJF9agsn5ERz4Kz
- Mike Little, Part 2: his life in code: https://open.movie/w/rdot9DoygXTXzLM4ZnJjTf

Mike Little, Part 1: co-founding WordPress and watching it grow (from afar)

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Show threadcandide.xyzFeb 25
@nicol I had some trouble streaming it from Peertube, so I tried to download the file to my device, and ran into issues there too... It looks like my phone's media player has trouble determining the duration.
Show threadNicol WistreichFeb 25
@candide thanks for the report.. @ozoned - would federating help with this?
Show threadozonedFeb 26

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​i can watch the videos without issue.

I'd always suggest federating your Peertube, for instance my TubeFree.org asked to follow yours, but I don't think it it would solve this issue.

I'm guessing a client side issue or ISP block. Maybe try a VPN or switching to cellular or WiFi.

Nicol Wistreich (@[email protected])

835 Posts, 1.27K Following, 830 Followers · Digital governance, community/civic tech, CSS, indie-media and the funding/tools/etc that supports it. Co-founded Netribution.co.uk in 1999, co-wrote 3 editions of a long book on indie film finance. UI designer for CiviCRM behind the new River theme framework. Dad, sleep-deprived, lapsed filmmaker, wannabe vegan, take the train whenever I can.

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Show threadcandide.xyzFeb 26
@ozoned @nicol It's working now! I turned off the sharing system, and that seemed to help.
Show threadozonedFeb 26

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​"turned off the sharing system" do you mean the P2P? I had that on mine by default, and while I love the idea, as well as others being able to replicate videos through Peertube, we found that it causes too many issues. You can't count on the quality of connection of anyone else and then folks pulling from flakey connections only see issues and think it's the video.

Also I was wrong about the follow. I hadn't followed open.movie on my tubefree.org. I do now though! 😄

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Show threadcandide.xyzFeb 26
@ozoned @nicol Yes, P2P, but the platform's settings calls it "sharing system": https://open.movie/w/rdot9DoygXTXzLM4ZnJjTf?modal=quick-settings
Show threadozonedFeb 26
@[email protected] @[email protected] No. That's not what I'm thinking of. I'm thinking of Video Redundancies. Do you have that enabled​ and another Peertube is serving the content instead of fetching from yours?
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870 Posts, 236 Following, 308 Followers · ✨ Creative Technologist. ✨ Passionate about accessible media production and storytelling using open source tools. My creative practice explores memory, identity, and virtually-mediated human connections between people of #African descent. https://justmytoots.com/@[email protected] #searchable

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