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As Matt Mullenweg and David Heinemeier Hansson feud over FOSS, community worries about the fallout

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Now, more than 150 employees have left WordPress’s parent company Automattic (nearly 10% of the workforce) after Mullenweg offered buyouts to anyone who disagreed with his approach with WP Engine.

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Matt Mullenweg’s actions over the past few weeks raises a fundamental question: What does success look like for an open-source project? Luke and Jonathan discuss the weekends’ events, ask more questions than they answer, and work through the stages of grief.

I keep having a conversation with people around the tech world about how the industry’s current state of change — especially the potential disruption of incumbents — feels like nothing so much as a cyclical repeat of what we saw in 2004. A generation ago, those of us in tech...

This summer, at a small recruiting station in Toms River, New Jersey, Sgt. 1st Class Dane Beaston met with a team of Army recruiters to offer some encouragement. “Let's change the places we're looking,” Beaston told his colleagues. “Let's change our messaging. Let's cha...

Working with the Stripe API this morning, trying to make things a little better. It hurts to look at the dashboard and see all the failed payments. MRR is so much higher than actual revenue. 💔

Jim Small, editor in chief of The Arizona Mirror, an independent, nonprofit news organization, talks about the issues animating voters in the swing state of Arizona, and what the polls show about the chances that Trump and Harris have of winning the state.

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Astrophysicist and science educator at the American Museum of Natural History, Jackie Faherty, talks about comets, planets and constellations visible this season, plus the aurora borealis that made a rare appearance in the NYC sky.

 

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I’ll just remind everyone at the start that this a respectful debate, and DHH and I tried to get on a call but couldn’t because we were both traveling. However, “Automattic is doing open source dirty” is an abomination of a headline, and David’s second post Open source royalty and mad kings, is just sloppy. … Continue reading Response to DHH →

As our centennial series continues, Irene Kearns, digital program manager for Native Knowledge 360° at the National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian Institution, talks about how indigenous people's history and stories have been taught and how that's changed.

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Jeremy Keith built a static archive of his site The Session:

I wanted to reduce the dependencies on each page to as close to zero as I could. All the CSS is embedded in the the page. Likewise with most of the JavaScript (you’ll still need an internet connection to get audio playback and dynamic maps). This keeps the individual pages nice and self-contained. That means they can be shared around (as an email attachment, for example).

Not everyone can code something like this, so more web platforms should have this as a built-in feature. Micro.blog has multiple exports with just plain HTML.

Greg David, contributor covering fiscal and economic issues for THE CITY and director of the business and economics reporting program and Ravitch Fiscal Reporting Program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, talks about the latest numbers on wage growth, plus the business community's response to the legal problems at City Hall.

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Highly recommend today's Olbermann podcast. I've seen video of a recent press interview where Trump said he's use the military to arrest and in some cases kill Americans, starting with but not limited to Hispanics. This is not being reported in the major news orgs. We can't wait for them to fix it, we have to create new channels for news flow that have credibility and work, and we need it before the election. People need at least have a chance of understanding what they are voting for.

After the assassination attempt on former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pa., Congress held hearings on the failures of the Secret Service, and its director, Kimberly Cheatle, stepped down. Weeks later, another man attempted to shoot the former president, increasing co...

SERIES 3 EPISODE 48: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN Three times this weekend Trump announced he will invoke "The Alien Enemies Act" which gives him the personal, arbitrary power to send to a concentration camp, or to deport, anybody in this country based on their race. Make ...

Om Malik:

Pure blogging is “blogging” because you have something to say. To me, that is a pure blogger. Any other explanation of blogging “is just the traditional idea of media,” meant for an audience and for reach.

WordPress's latest move of hijacking the ACF plugin firmly solidified that it can't be trusted, regardless of the reasoning behind it.