Duane Storey
@duanestorey.com
Canadian Engineer (Electrical + Computer) living in Spain. Part time poet, musician (guitar), and speaker builder. Previously WordPress plugin company, sold to a VC firm in 2016. Helped build the media engine used in Yahoo! Messenger.
@questauthority.bsky.social Did you see this? Literally two hours before the WPE vs WordPress hearing to resolve some of this stuff, Matt does this post on WordPress dot org, pushing it to all the admin panels? wordpress.org/news/2026/05...
WP23 – WordPress News
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Resurrected my blog.. Started writing about some of the AI experiments I've been doing. duanestorey.com/posts/my-fir...
My First Week Making Hot Dogs With Claude Code Max 20 - The Duane Storey
I was a bit late to the Claude Code party, and started about six months after most of my friends. I openly admit I was
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Spent the last few weeks in Poland. What a cool country. Food is great, people are lovely. Summer reminds me more of Canada than Spain, which is a nice change.
I'm going to try and ramp up my blue sky activity, it's getting pretty dismal over there on X!
Maybe time to rename the pacific, Atlantic, and arctic oceans to be more Canadian? We do have the longest coastline. Seems about as nonsensical to me as renaming the gulf.
If you’re a guy in your 20s, buy avocado toast. And a flat white. Go into debt if you have to.
I just posted an official update about the experimental repository system I created for #WordPress last week. duanestorey.com/posts/repo-f...
Juniper: An Update On A New Repository For WordPress - The Duane Storey
I set out last week to try and build a bare-bones repository of WordPress plugins and themes and an associated management
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Matt looking down at the #WordPress community on Reddit this Christmas eve, wondering why the we are all still singing and enjoying ourselves without our wordpress.org toys.
ICYMI here's my piece from yesterday about governance, accountability, and what I see as the only viable future for the #WordPress community: After WordPress www.linkedin.com/pulse/after-...
After WordPress
Today, the head of the WordPress Open Source Project Matt Mullenweg unilaterally locked the gates to wordpress.org, the central service powering the community that for the past 20 years has been prese...
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I've seen people raise concerns about the WPE injunction similar to this in a few different places, including Hacker News and Twitter. (In other words, not trying to drag brinavan - this is a Bluesky example of a common, and not unreasonable, concern.) Here's why I don't share that concern:
🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇@brianvan.bsky.social · 2y agoOn what basis did the judge rule that Matt improperly triggered an interruption of voluntarily giving WPEngine a distro server? Did he rule that Matt surrendered rights of propriety by advertising it as public? Or did he inexplicably rule that Matt is entitled to support WPE's business indefinitely?
I did some gorilla math based on the WPE tracker website - if 27,000 sites have left WPE based on interference, at $400 USD/mo (WPE's middle tier), that amounts to $130,000,000 in lost revenue per year. Automattic might end up paying a lot of money to basically destroy their own trust and goodwill.
Just walked by a pharmacy here in Spain and they were blasting the Bublé Christmas album in English. I just can’t escape it.
This is actually how I feel. I feel somewhat shameful I supported this platform for 15 years, given the recent actions by Matt and Automattic. That's why I feel compelled to continue to speak out.
imath@imathi.eu · 2y ago#WordPress #BlackOut I stopped contributing 20 days ago. Today I realized I cannot use a tool having a leader acting with so few ethics anymore. It's unforgivable. I never thought I'd feel so ashamed I contributed/used WordPress for more than 14 years. 🤢
Working on my homemade custom hifi amplifier. It’s pretty weird debugging an amp in real time when it’s literally playing the audio for the movie you’re watching.
The WPE vs Automattic/Matt injunction hearing is tomorrow at 10:30am PST. Who is listening in? www.cand.uscourts.gov/judges/marti...
Araceli Martínez-Olguín [AMO] | United States District Court, Northern District of California
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@questauthority.bsky.social hey Mike, for the WPE vs Wordpress injunction hearing on the 26th - do they make a determination that same day, or will it play out over days or weeks as well? Thanks for your continued coverage!
Revolut now supports buying eSIMs right through the app. Super convenient. Just bought a 1GB European one to hold me over until I can reactive my Spanish sim.
130,000 people went out to protest in Valencia the other day. I’m debating heading back on Friday. Been a while since I’ve been there and seen my friends and my apartment.
Hey, n00bs. I wrote this easy to follow guide on getting things hopping here on Bluesky. With no algorithms, you gotta follow lotsa people or you’ll be crazy bored (or annoying to the 22 people you follow and ONLY engage with).
Bluesky for Beginners
Very Basic Tips on Getting Going
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My sister brought me a Mickey Mouse stuffy from her recent trip to Disneyland.
Lots of plugins migrating off dot org to GitHub. Official account is trying to make it sound like anything other than dot org won’t be secure. This is mostly nonsense. Also in the official responses to WPE’s lawsuit, Automattic’s lawyers suggested they download it from GitHub. Just gaslighting here
