He did all of this during the last day of a conference.

So rather than inspiring the WordPress community to push forward and do good things, he spent an hour just antagonizing and shaming companies that literally sponsored the conference.

Convenience.

Imagine buying a iPhone and not having access to the App Store.

Sure there are ways around it. But the average iPhone user would have a melt down.

If this was just a battle about a big company going after open-source branding, it’s pretty easy to see the sides. But this is a guy who ripped into a competitor (which btw, has sponsored MANY WordPress conferences and provided tooling/fund for things outside of WordPress core) and fractured the community significantly.

Honestly I don’t GAF about WPengine. But Matt makes money off of WordPress too. And his actions led to 1/10 of his company quitting.

I’m pissed that as a open-source developer, Matt has pulled the non-profit open-source project into this mess, when he owns a FOR-PROFIT company that would benefit from WPEngine failing.

Matt needs to step down. WordPress as a open-source project needs to be in the hands of people who want to drive the mission forward in a non-sleazy way.

Matt has muddled the waters on open-source.

He owns a for-profit company, and has a lot of power on the non-profit open-source version. And he’s making decisions that affect both.

Open-source contributors who only want to help the nonprofit are now being forced to opting in/agreeing to be part of the lawsuit. Everything in the WP slack where volunteers participate is now part of legal evidence.

All of this only benefits Matt.

1/10th of his company resigned. Volunteers are pulled in and having to decide if contributing to open-source is worth all of this.

The comparison with Android and Google, I’d argue it’s worse on android.

You can absolutely host your own open-source WordPress, and get plugins and core features using a mirrored server. It’s a bit harder, but if you’re anti-Matt, then you’re technically competent already to do this. And the experience is pretty straightforward.

For Android development, many features that are really nice-to-haves require Google services. Yes, there are workarounds. But it’s reinventing the wheel, creating your own systems, and can be a inconsistent experience for users.

Btw, I’m on the “Fuck Matt” train, because as a open-source contributors, he’s making devs lives harder with his meltdown. But I also giving double middle fingers to WP Engine.

FART YOU

This is a shared experience.

Every single person in my circle gave the biggest wtf to it and when they finally got it, talk about how they rarely use their gaming PC.

I don’t think so. It’s been making the tech waves for the past year. As a multinational, my company went department by department, ensuring we clean up and remove anything potentially connected to Russia. I’m guessing it’s never been newsworthy enough for the average person.

My favorite thing is Ubisoft blaming something and then gaming companies going, “Uh no? That’s just you.”

In the past decade, game companies have been releasing devs after a game is finished. I have a few friends in the gaming industry, and it’s brutal as a software engineer.

This was in 2016. But there was a indie game from a small dev in a European country that allowed backers to name NPCs, and there were some racist names. I called that out in my review, and the Dev went, “It’s not racist here in my country.”

That led to a back and forth on the Steam forum which I got banned. Then I shared it on Reddit, but was stupid to use the same steam name as my twitter name and got a lot of toxic shit.

I changed my steam name and tossed my twitter account, so no idea what happened, nor do I remember the game.

Lol I was just going to bring that up

I had a conversation with a woman who strongly believed God put the dinosaur bones there to test our faith.

No one answered it in the comments but is this saying the dog is 45? Like in human years?

I went to McDonald’s two years ago because I was craving fries. The “value meal” was $12. Or I could pay that much for regular food that doesn’t give me diarrhea.

Last time I shared this, some McFanboy recommended the app for the real savings and I just… No.

Sweet! This is really cool and inspired me to try something.

That just happened to me!

I was looking to solve a Linux issue and the Internet said

It’s simple. just use “sudo ̪͊̽͊̀̎̇̄̆̾̅̊̕͝͝p̶̗̝̬̾̃̈́́̿͜ͅa̵̹̜̅s̴̠͉̩̖̣̹̞͇̰̻̦͛͂̽̈̅̒͗̉͋͘͝ṡ̵̺̮̫̲̙̙̹̻̹͉͎̣͌͆̔̐̓̊̽́̌̂̓̚̚̚ͅw̸̮̠̪̤̏̍͛̔̚o̶̡̫̟͖͎̣̫̹̰͕̰̝̻͎̽͛͛̃͒͂̆̋̂͜͠r̵͖̯̭̮͗͒̍̅̆͊̕͜͜͝͝d̷̛̛͖̮͍͉̣̙̀̐͂͌͊͌̃̌͂͑́̚͠ ̵̛̱̲̳̫̳̫̟͉͙̎̽̑̈́͌̎̑̀̒̕ͅ1̸̯͍͓̝̦̦̖͖͉͎̪̬̹̝̏͛́͋͗̒̓̇̾̄̍͠1̵̱̭̰̥̹̟̰̲̙͗̽̆́̀̐2̴̹̯̼̲͎̯͈̈́͠͠2̷̰̤̖͓̫͈̅̑́̂͋̈́̎̀̿͐̿̑͠3̴̫̩̫̻̕7̷͎̫̖̦̰̫̳̭͉͎̍͆̔̈̒͑̈́̈̚͝”

How silly of me not to know that.

It’s just us and our 399 partners.

What if you’re already gay?

I didn’t know that. I thought it was because America.

Not shitting on it, but like if some fancy person was like, “I’ll use my Great Britain Royalty card!” I’d roll my eyes too.