William McKinnerney

constantly online. he/him/his. 🏳️‍🌈 (posts are mine and may not reflect employers’ views)

[Francisco Cunha - ✈️ Aviation et al @OnDisasters]

#OTD in 1980: Trans American Flight 209, a B-707, lands safely in Chicago (US) after crew was incapacitated by food poisoning. An ex-fighter pilot traveling as a passenger, along with a flight attendant, took control, supported by an ATC specialist and a former USAF captain.

[Jason Cohen @asmartbear]

.@heatherjbrunner is by far the best CEO I have ever worked with.

The last eleven years of working side by side at WP Engine has been the most rewarding, gratifying, and proud decade of my life. She synthesizes what is best for every individual with what is best for the company and for customers, being genuinely interested in seeing all three grow together.

Heather is the quintessential example of the “late-joining co-founder.” I wouldn't want to have built WP Engine or any other company with anyone else. I was one of the rare founder/CEOs who not only handed the reins over to someone else, but then stayed for another decade to build everything as one team.

It was the highlight of my career and always will be.

[WP Engine @wpengine]

We appreciate @jdevalk and @karimmarucchi thoughtful call for constructive conversation, change and evolved leadership within the WordPress community. Moments of disruption challenge all of us to reflect and to act.

WordPress’s success as the most widely used CMS is not the achievement of any one person, or a single piece of open-source code. It is the result of a global community - thousands of developers, agencies, businesses, and others – who have invested their time, talent, trust and resources in advocating for, supporting and building the global WordPress ecosystem and technology.

It is the community that has given WordPress its strength and where its future lies. For the entirety of our existence, our mission has been clear: to deliver a reliable, secure and scalable platform, supporting wider adoption and growth of WordPress. That’s a mission we take seriously.

We are committed to working with Joost, Karim, and other respected voices in the community to ensure WordPress’s future is stronger than ever. This requires collaboration, transparency, and action—and we stand ready to offer ideas, technology and support as we move forward together.

[Jason Cohen @asmartbear]

@jameswlepage And @wpengine leading the way in those websites, almost an order of magnitude larger than the next-largest WordPress platform, and larger than every platform except AWS:

https://t.co/i58x53k5XL

[WP Engine @wpengine]

We are grateful that the court has granted our motion for a preliminary injunction that restores access to and functionality of wordpressdotorg for WP Engine, its customers and its users.
This ruling provides much-needed stability for the WordPress ecosystem. We deeply appreciate our customers for their continued trust and support. We remain committed to serving them and their sites with the performance, availability and integrity they deserve while collaborating to ensure a vigorous, thriving and stable WordPress community.
You can view the Court’s order in full, here https://t.co/8TkfAXqEue

[morgan sung @morgan_sung]

my favorite picture of all time is from last christmas: my brother's demon cat, caught mid-jump, fiending for the costco ham while my aunt desperately tries to protect her cheese board. we had to take shifts to guard the ham

[Advanced Custom Fields @wp_acf]

We have been made aware that the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress dot org.

A plugin under active development has never been unilaterally and forcibly taken away from its creator without consent in the 21 year history of WordPress.

[William McKinnerney @thewilliammck]

RT @wpengine: Matt Mullenweg and Automattic’s self-proclaimed scorched earth campaign against WP Engine has harmed not just our company, bu…

[William McKinnerney @thewilliammck]

It's times like these when I realize how amazing everyone I work with is. ❤️

[WP Engine @wpengine]

We are pleased to report that our solution has been fully deployed and regular workflow practices have been restored to our customers around the globe. We thank all our customers for their patience and support over the past week. Like so many of you, we love WordPress, and are committed to the stability and longevity of the community.

[Brian Gardner @bgardner]

Hell yeah, #WordPress. 🚀

[WP Engine @wpengine]

We are pleased to report that our solution has been fully deployed and regular workflow practices have been restored to our customers around the globe. We thank all our customers for their patience and support over the past week. Like so many of you, we love WordPress, and are committed to the stability and longevity of the community.

[Brian Gardner @bgardner]

It should go without saying, but I want to take a moment and send a canyon-deep THANK YOU to everyone in the #WordPress community who has expressed their support this past week. 🙏

[WP Engine @wpengine]

Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, has misused his control of WordPress to interfere with WP Engine customers’ access to https://t.co/VBY7VYgqzY, asserting that he did so because WP Engine filed litigation against https://t.co/Boiq7UES2h. This simply is not true. Our Cease & Desist letter was a letter – not a lawsuit – and was directed at Automattic for Matt’s pattern of serious and repeated misconduct – behavior that must stop for the health and stability of the entire community.

Matt Mullenweg’s unprecedented and unwarranted action interferes with the normal operation of the entire WordPress ecosystem, impacting not just WP Engine and our customers, but all WordPress plugin developers and open-source users who depend on WP Engine tools like ACF. We are taking immediate steps to remediate the impact of this action. We remain steadfastly committed to supporting WP Engine customers, users, and the entire WordPress community.

[Troy Hunt @troyhunt]

Another cool little @Cloudflare thing that snuck out recently is this very simple security.txt creator:

[Jason Cohen @asmartbear]

This is the entire cease and desist letter sent to Matt Mullenweg and the board of Automattic (but not the foundation, as Matt erroneously claimed earlier today).

Very sad for the community that we have to screenshot and share the truth, but the misinformation has to stop.

[WP Engine @wpengine]

Today WP Engine sent what is called a “cease and desist” letter to Automattic demanding that Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg stop making and retract false, harmful and disparaging statements against WP Engine. In response to misinformation he has disseminated about the letter, its purpose, and who it is directed at, we are making the full letter available here: https://t.co/Z0j5PDk659

[WP Engine @wpengine]

Since our founding in 2010, WP Engine has been dedicated to advancing the use and adoption of WordPress through innovation, investment, and active community involvement. We are proud of our extensive contributions to the WordPress ecosystem which has grown far beyond the core open-source project. The recent attacks against us are unfair and untrue and clearly designed to harm our business. Our employees, customers and the WordPress community deserve better. While these developments are unfortunate, they will not slow us down. We remain focused on serving our customers, supporting our team members and our agency partners, and fulfilling our mission which puts the growth and success of the WordPress ecosystem at the heart of everything we do.

[WP Engine @wpengine]

Since 2010, WP Engine has been deeply dedicated to advancing the use and adoption of WordPress through innovation, investment, and active community involvement. Today, we’re sharing how we continue to invest and support the WordPress ecosystem.
https://t.co/ZPVaW9aSKj

[porter robinson @porterrobinson]

tomorrow i’m going to share the “lost” 13th song from Worlds, an interlude called “Hollowheart”.

[porter robinson @porterrobinson]

🦊
We’re just trying to look good,
trying not to feel bad.