The WordPress Situation Is Wild

"whinging" is pronounced "winjing" and means complaining in a petty way in English English

When I was a high schooler in the early 2010s I started my programming career building wordpress sites for a local startup. I didn't want to do that forever, so I got a CS degree so I could start doing some real programming and make good money. Now 9 years after getting my degree, 14 years into my career, I'm building wordpress sites for an _established_ local company.

1:37 — Prime accidentally calls the company “WORDPRESS Engine” which will get counted by Matt Mullenweg towards the 15% confusion rate he said he needs to prove 😂

WordPress is still very popular, and under active development. The new block stuff is a massive step in the right direction, in my humble opinion.

I just checked the Wayback Machine archives. The trademark policy was changed September 25th, 2024. The day prior, the original policy was still there and had been unchanged since September 2010. Edit: it was actually changed halfway through September 24th.

Prime, WordPress is powering almost a billion websites. Yes, it's still active 😂

Mullenweg's argument in his post is "private companies are not allowed to change the default settings of an open source application" - this is utter insanity.

Giving a worse experience with lower costs sounds like the most normal business practice

"stunningly" was determined in the pre-meeting, to the pre-meeting, to the first review meeting

The pronunciation of the name Gergely killed me :D