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There’s something about the version number 1.0 that feels significant. It’s just a version number, a label, a tag in a git repository. But it carries weight. It says: this is ready. This is stable. This is something you can rely on. For years, I avoided it. Mozart has been running in production environments since […]
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Every software project is built on layers of other people’s work. Libraries, packages, tools — most of them invisible, all of them essential. There’s a good chance your project depends on code written by someone you’ve never heard of. Someone who doesn’t work for a big company. Someone who maintains their project in the evenings, […]
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It’s no surprise that I do not necessarily agree with everything going on in the WordPress ecosystem. I’ve been vocal about a lot of the crap going on around the whole debate with WP Engine. But at the end of the day, I still work with WordPress for a large amount of my working hours […]
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Well, shit. I didn’t expect the events unfolding last week, that ultimately were mainly hurting the end users of the WordPress software, would be the end of it all. But this whole dispute between Automattic and WP Engine has been cranked up a notch over the last couple days. And that is the biggest understatement […]
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A lot has been said and written on the whole dispute between the WordPress project and WP Engine. In this post, I am not going to describe the issue, as there are far more reputable sources available, for example: “Automattic Responds to WP Engine’s Cease and Desist with Legal Action” over on WP Tavern. What […]