Nobody goes the extra mile out of a passion for creating shareholder value.

I'll say this louder for those in the back: #WordPress "5 for the Future" **cannot** be reformed or rescued without tearing up its foundation: it exists for the wrong reasons. Stop trying to fix it--tear it down and re-evaluate completely. #wpdrama

The #wordpress ecosystem has lots of questions & potential pitfalls being pointed out for @fair.pm & @aspirepress.bsky.social but tbh, I haven't yet seen one that hasn't already been considered by those groups. Few people are even checking whether there is an answer already.

AspirePress: The Quiet Project Powering FAIR's Infrastructure Founded by developer and agency owner Sarah Savage in the weeks following WordCamp US 2024, AspirePress was born out of concern that WordPress.org had become a single point of failure for the WordPres...

Some people did a thing for the #wordpress community coming out of the #wpdrama - I'm proud of the work they did and thankful for the privilege of working with this team! www.therepository.email/aspirepress-...

Just published: Reframing the Maker-Taker Problem on Philosophy https://yawp.foo/articles/2025/reframing-the-maker-taker-problem/

Tweet reading everything happens so much

FAIR Package Manager Project FAIR Package Manager Project has 8 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

I installed the Fair Package Manager (@fairpm) on my personal site last night. I'm excited to say it worked flawlessly. A couple of plugins were updated from Fastly's servers, & a paid plugin updated from its servers as normal. I'm excited to see what else comes from this interesting development.

Matt: "Joost and Karim should go away and use open source to build a fork of WordPress with their ideals around governance."

Joost & Karim: **Build something in 6 months that match their ideas of governance**

Matt: "OMFG they built something in SECRET".

#WCEU

AspirePress is announcing availability of its distributed WordPress repository architecture. aspirepress.org/everest-1-0-... - this work formed the starting point for FAIR package management. linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-... | www.fastcompany.com/91347003/wor...

As of 2020, 54% of U.S. adults aged 16–74 read below a sixth-grade level—about 130 million people with limited literacy, impacting jobs, health, and the economy. This finding comes from a Gallup report commissioned by the Barbara Bush Foundation and cited by Forbes.

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

History always has a lesson.

Almost 10% of the entire Canadian electorate voted on the VERY FIRST DAY of advance polls because we’ve spent the last 3 months watching what happens when you elect a populist windbag who vilifies journalists and shits all over people’s fundamental rights.

Thanks America. You really did us a solid.

Today in a meeting I asked, "Are you sure that's the right document? It only says 'FINAL' once in the file name."

The worst thing that's happened to email in the last decade is not spam, it's MS Office adding emoji responses to email.

This is a new hell, sending an email with nothing but a remote image of an emoji that's blocked in the mail client anyway.

I swear Microsoft is out to completely kill email.

EDS - Cat Herders Video from Ad Age Electronic Data Centers’ “Cat Herders” is one of the best and most memorable Super Bowl ads, even if it only placed 10th in USA Today’s annual Ad Meter popularity contest. And it interested a general ...

Connecting some threads. 1975: Fred Brooks said adding more developers tends to make a late project even later. 2000: EDS Superbowl ad. 2025: it dawns on me that whoever came up with the idea for the ad must have been a project manager, as it depicts Brooks' Law. adage.com/videos/eds-c...

Are people finally waking up?

The real fight isn’t about bathrooms or drag queens—it’s about who holds power & at whose expense. Culture war is just a distraction, keeping working people too busy fighting each other rather than noticing who’s actually robbing us blind: billionaires—not each other!

Human Made publishes 'WordPress in 2025' report | WP BizDev The report highlights the 'massive enterprise opportunities' WordPress presents. It's also an example of the type of Marketing the project needs to do more of.

Not looking to pick a fight here, but is it just me or does Human Made's Enterprise #WordPress analysis feel just a little tone-deaf to #wpdrama in the ecosystem? It's beautifully designed & has some excellent trend analysis, but the room contains an unaddressed elephant. wpbiz.dev/news/human-m...

🇨🇦 Did you know? A ‘Made in Canada’ label only requires 51% Canadian content, while a ‘Product of Canada’ label means 98% of the content is Canadian. #TheMoreYouKnow

Attempt to trademark Hosted WordPress in USA derailed Objection from open source community heralded as 'great victory for the ecosystem'

Matt 0 - 1 #WordPress Community

www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/w...

...but are you "web-safe colour palette" old?

WordPress Leader Mullenweg Silences Joost De Valk Mullenweg bars Joost de Valk from speaking at WordCamp Asia, saying he feels Joost "stabbed" him when he was down.

More doublespeak from unhinged Mullenweg in a personal attack on @joost.blog
= CoC violation? #wordpress #wpdrama
Mullenweg bars Joost de Valk from speaking at WordCamp Asia, saying he feels Joost "stabbed" him when he was down. searchenginejournal.com/wordpress-le... via @sejournal.bsky.social

Trump is an evil man.

...and again in 2025?

Well, your dog seems to like you, so 🤷‍♂️

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Beaker as Renee Zellweger on the cover of Harper’s bazaar.

i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of harper’s bazaar: thread

100% would see *Deadpool: The Musical*
How about it, @vancityreynolds.bsky.social ?

GoDaddy Announces $520,000 Donation to The WP Community Collective The WP Community Collective (WPCC) has secured its largest-ever donation, with GoDaddy today announcing $520,000 to help the nonprofit fund contributions to the WordPress ecosystem.

Worth celebrating. Thanks #GoDaddy! & Congrats #WPCC www.therepository.email/godaddy-anno...