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Lukas Dürrenberger
Personal blog · duerrenberger.dev/blog · on HN as eXpl0it3rprogrammingwriting
Lukas Dürrenberger writes DevLog, a personal blog at duerrenberger.dev about programming and writing. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “FOSS and Funding”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is a dated timeline of events in the WordPress and WP Engine dispute from October 2024, cited in a thread on WordPress's Secure Custom Fields plugin.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
duerrenberger.dev is the personal website of Lukas Dürrenberger
Most-linked posts?
- FOSS and Funding2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-09-24
- Timeline of the WordPress Drama2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-11
What Hacker News says?
Your timeline is rearranging some things around[1]. WP Engine was banned before the security issue. [1] https://duerrenberger.dev/blog/2024/10/08/timeline-of-the-wo...
Comment linking /blog/2024/10/08/timeline-of-the-wordpress-drama/
on “Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org”Submitted Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C# as a story · 59 points
HN discussionI’ve tried to document the most relevant happenings and writings: https://duerrenberger.dev/blog/2024/10/08/timeline-of-the-wo... > tl;dr After Matt Mullenweg, BDFL of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, has dragged WP Engine publicly through the mud for not paying a ludicrous amount of money or contributing (enough) to the open source project, WP Engine is suing Automattic and Matt Mullenweg, while Automattic claims m…
Comment linking /blog/2024/10/08/timeline-of-the-wordpress-drama/
on “Ask HN: Where After WordPress?”Submitted Timeline of the WordPress Drama as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSometimes it's that devs still like the project, but more often it's probably just the fame/exposure that they don't want to lose. If you have no compassion for a project and the demand is high, it's still your decision to invest your time for no money exchange. You can just ignore the demands, if you can accept that your project might eventually fold. This is additionally supported by the point that only few mainta…
Comment linking /blog/2023/09/23/foss-funding/
on “The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable”Submitted Material for MkDocs Is No More Long Live Zensical as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://duerrenberger.dev/blog/ Writing a lot about SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library) development-wise and projects made with it. Additionally, I cover topics on software engineering, or anything else that I come across and had some thoughts on.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Should I Develop a Game or an Engine? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Long Paths on Windows as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted FOSS and Funding as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted FOSS and Funding as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Black Holes of Information as a story · 1 points
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