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Early in 2022, I finally achieved one of my long-time professional goals. I was promoted to a VP role at Vacasa. I was leading various teams across infrastructure, IT, and information security. The role was well-paid, had a lot of influence, and was...

There have been a few times in the past where I’ve asked help from the community to raise funds. Once was to start a podcast.1 Another time was to fund a cryptography project. Yet another to start a business.
The community has been amazing and I’m appreciative of everything you’ve done for me. I give back as much as I can because I want to be as supportive of those who’ve supported me....

In the wake of the ongoing legal battles with WP Engine, another company has published a cease-and-desist letter against Automattic and WordPress.com1 for the alleged unauthorized use of their trademarks.
The frustrating thing here is that it’s not WordPress.com directly advertising or attempting to create any confusion about the use of the WP Fusion brand. Like any other WordPress host, WordPress.com is availing free plugins delivered on the WordPress...

Over the weekend, the WordPress.org team officially forked the popular Advanced Custom Fields plugin. Anyone with the plugin installed will get the new Secure Custom Fields plugin maintained by the WordPress.org team instead.
This is the latest change in the ongoing battle between WP Engine (the maintainers of Advanced Custom Fields, aka ACF1) and Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of the WordPress project, leader of the project, and CEO of Automattic). It wasn’t the most popular...