I won't spoil this for you by giving any context. Trust me, just go watch this talk by the co-founder of Panic and enjoy watching it unfold. So very, very good.

Update: Matt has since taken down his original post and apologised for it. To be fair, I thought that everything he wrote was fair (if not a little mean), but I understand that it was not a good example of how he would like to treat people.

I've only been broadly been keeping abreast of the WordPress / WP Engine / Silver Lake saga, and remain fairly ambivalent about it, but this latest development with DHH wading in with his extreme opinions (does he have any other type?) is painful.

Mullenweg starts by insisting that the post / discourse is respectful, but his frustration is palpable, and he's finding it hard to rise above it all.

To be clear, I'm no fan of DHH - I stopped following / subscribing to him a while ago (facts that would not concern him, nor should they).

Everyone seems to be getting confused over the issue, thinking it is a case of an open source project trying to shake down a large profitable VC-backed business. It's not - it's a trademark dispute. The fact that 'giving back to the open source project' is an option for restitution is very charitable in my opinion.

I’ve been going back and forth over what I want my online presence (i.e. this website) to be.

First, it was a blog, with regularly posted content with no real consistent theme. Then I wanted to break out of the constraints of having to post linearly by creating a digital garden, at which point I missed having the ability to surface content temporally (i.e. it was relevant at a specific point in time).

I'm still not 100% there, and suspect I'm going to end up with a hybrid of both, but for now I'm back to a simple blog.

For a short while I experimented with using Obsidian and Obsidian Publish to create a digital garden - I found it to be a pretty effective publishing flow and will certainly circle back to that once I have a better idea of the shape of that content.

Inspired by sites like Daring Fireball, and the personal websites of Freek Van der Herten and Matt Birchler, I also want to be able to easily share interesting links, especially when they are the jumping-off point for something I want to say.

So for now I'm back to using Jigsaw and Netlify to create and host a simple static site. I've decided to simply archive all of my previous content - some of it may find its way into the digital garden, but for now this is a clean start.