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| | anderegg.ca
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| | Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker - a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that moved away from WP Engine. I think this is a bit gauche, but it seems like fair marketing given everything that's going on. It should be noted that many sites are leaving for Pressable - owned by Mullenweg's company, Automattic -because of a sweetheart deal.
| | yawp.foo
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| | [AI summary] The article argues that the WordPress community needs to break its current governance status quo involving founder Matt Mullenweg due to risks to the supply chain and a shift away from open-source ideals, suggesting the project may need to be forked or reshuffled under a new structure like the Linux Foundation.
| | scottarc.blog
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| | Previously, I wrote about how code-signing and threshold signatures could allow the WordPress community (whether they continue to support WordPress or decide to hard-fork the project onto something else) to mitigate the risk of another Mullenweg tantrum (which are in surplus this season) leading to another successful violation of community trust. One reason why the...
| | uxdworld.com
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| This article explores how to find the right balance between form and function. Uncover the secrets of visually appealing and highly functional design.