16 replies

1. cthos 🐱 3 min later

   @zachleat Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

   (Also, sidebar, he...he's the one that did the pineapple on pizza thing)

   1. Paul Hebert 24 min later

      @cthos @zachleat I did not get that at all… what’s with the pizza?

      1. cthos 🐱 28 min later

         @paulhebert
         So. During the first flare up where he picked a fight with WP Engine, he updated the login page to the WP Plugins backend to include a checkbox that said "I affirm I do not work for or am acting on behalf of WP Engine".

         WP Engine said "wtf" and got a judge to tell Matt he wasn't allowed to do that. So he changed the checkbox to say "I affirm that pinapple does not belong on pizza" or something to that effect.

         @zachleat

         1. Paul Hebert 35 min later

            @cthos @zachleat oh yeah that does ring a bell actually. It’s been a while.

            Thanks!

2. Dave 🧱 3 min later

   @zachleat jeeeez, that colleague reference

3. Max Fenton 7 min later

   @zachleat “Waaaa”

4. Gryphon Myers 11 min later

   @zachleat 🍿

5. Bastian Allgeier 13 min later

   @zachleat what did I just read? He really seems not ok mentally at all.

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @bastianallgeier yeah, really difficult to see someone going through it like that — I hope someone close is able to help

      1. kevin ⁂ (he/him) 6 hr later

         @zachleat @bastianallgeier I fear if somebody was able to help they’d have helped until now. It has been a very hard downward spiral for a few years now.
         
         I wish he’d discard any computer and get some distance to WP and the mess he created, this is all very unhealthy for him and the project.

6. .. 17 min later

   @zachleat Did he just put the white flag?

   OOTL, but seems like WPEngine won the attrition war.

7. Cris. 28 min later

   @zachleat IDK what I just read

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9. 𝙳𝚢𝚕𝚊𝚗 1 hr later

   @zachleat "No supply chain attacks" says the guy who literally hijacked the supply chain to steal and open-source one of the most well known plugins used by WordPress developers everywhere.

10. Lea de Groot TZ+10 4 hr later

    @zachleat that… started off so ordinary and then turned the corner and took off running… #weird

11. Taylor “Tigt” Hunt 5 hr later

    @zachleat Honestly the biggest difference on this compared to previous mullenwegging is he stopped using an LLM and picked up a thesaurus??? what is going on