Kris Watson

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24 Followers
296 Following
229 Posts

Ruby developer & Cloud Infrastructure Enthusiast.

Personal account: @kris

Githubhttps://github.com/kwatson
Websitehttps://kriswatson.com
Kris WatsonJan 20

The CloudPress 2025 Year In Review blog post is now live! It was a busy year spent listening to our customers and shipping new features. As we move into 2026, we have exciting plans to support agencies and service providers even more. We’ll share the full details in a future update.

https://cloudpress.com/blog/cloudpress-2025-year-in-review/

#wordpress

CloudPress 2025 Year in Review - CloudPress

2025 has been a busy year for the team at CloudPress. We focused heavily on building tools to help our agency and service provider customers deliver the best possible WordPress hosting experience, and sharpened our focus on what we want CloudPress to be. Here is a look back at what shipped, and some of the […]

CloudPress
Kris WatsonSep 28, 2025
Damn Thats InterestingSep 27, 2025
Christian Vieler is a German photographer who accidentally discovered his style in 2013 while testing a portable flash with his Labrador, Lotte. Tossing treats coaxed movement, and he captured hilarious mid-air expressions, launching his viral “Dogs Catching Treats” series. 😎 interesting ✅ Source: Frosty_Jeweler911
Kris WatsonApr 30, 2025
postmarketOS (old account)Apr 30, 2025

@osuosl has been around for 22 years. They kindly host our gitlab for 6 months now, and provide important services for more than 150 other free and open source software communities such as @alpinelinux, @chimera , @debian, @fdroidorg, @gentoo, @gnome, @LineageOS, #ReplicantOS, @torproject. Now their future is in jeopardy 😢

We usually don't ask this, but please boost for reach, this is important infrastructure for so many FLOSS projects!  

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

#osuosl

Data Center Migration Update and Fundraising Campaign | OSU Open Source Lab

A nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.

Kris WatsonJan 13, 2025
Mt. Hood
Kris WatsonOct 8, 2024
TechCrunchOct 8, 2024
X rival Mastodon rolls out revamped notifications, a refreshed look and more https://tcrn.ch/3YhKNPn
X rival Mastodon rolls out revamped notifications, a refreshed look, and more | TechCrunch

Mastodon, the decentralized alternative to X, is rolling out refreshed notifications, new discovery tools and an updated look.

TechCrunch
Kris WatsonOct 8, 2024
openSUSE LinuxOct 8, 2024
#LeapMicro 6.0 is here! Lightweight, secure, and #perfect for containerized environments. Ready to dive in? Get started today at https://get.opensuse.org/leapmicro/ 🦎📦 #openSUSE #Linux #Containers #DevOps
openSUSE Leap Micro

Learn about the openSUSE distributions and download them for free

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Kris WatsonOct 7, 2024

WPGraphQL is joining Automattic, and becomes a canonical plugin: https://www.wpgraphql.com/2024/10/07/wpgraphql-becomes-a-canonical-plugin-my-move-to-automattic

#wordpress

Kris WatsonOct 5, 2024

How am I just now finding out about @simplex chat. So many things to like about their approach.

https://simplex.chat

SimpleX Chat - Contact

Kris WatsonSep 28, 2024
CloudflareSep 24, 2024
Today, we are taking some big steps forward in our mission to help build a better Internet, by giving everyone free access to 10+ different website and network security products and features. https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-safer-internet-with-cloudflare/ #BirthdayWeek
A safer Internet with Cloudflare: free threat intelligence, analytics, and new threat detections

Today, we are taking some big steps forward in our mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare is giving everyone free access to 10+ different website and network security products and features.

The Cloudflare Blog
Kris WatsonSep 12, 2024
Mastodon EngineeringSep 12, 2024

We are excited to launch a new project that will help small and medium-sized fediverse servers and their users have better access to search and discovery through the use of pluggable Fediverse Discovery Providers, supported by a grant from @EC_NGI. See our new dedicated website for details:

https://fediscovery.org/

Fediverse Discovery Providers

A project exploring better search and discovery on the Fediverse as an optional, decentralized and pluggable service.

Fediverse Discovery Providers