Category: Musings

  • Governance in WordPress – and Open Source Software

    Governance in WordPress – and Open Source Software

    WordPress has had a hell of a week. The roller-coaster high of WordCampUS 2024 ended with Matt Mullenweg’s bizarre and seemingly out-of-left-field rant against WPEngine – which finally culminated in legal actions. The weekend’s activity has left the WordPress ecosystem with seemingly more questions unanswered than answered. A quick search of Twitter or other similar…

  • Twenty-Twenty

    But for real, though… who’s still blogging in 2020? Me. At least, I should be, and so here we are. I’d love to be one of those people who say that “2019 was a year of <insert whatever amazing things happened here>” but, really, that’s not what it was for me. It was growing, but…

  • Totality

    There are really no words to describe the feeling I had seeing the Eclipse today.  I could try to throw out words with empty meaning like “fantastic”, or “magical”, but they seem to fall flat when I think back and recall how I actually felt. Holly and I had decided early on that we wanted…

  • The Road Ahead

    Hibernation. I’ve been trying to come up with a good word that explains my life for the past year or so.  Hibernation, I think, fits the bill quite nicely. The last few months have been a transition period.  A new job (at Vanderbilt University). A new baby (who’s three months old now). A myriad of other things…