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Ryan McCue
Personal blog · journal.rmccue.ioprogrammingweb
Ryan McCue writes Pre-Thought Listen, a personal blog at journal.rmccue.io about programming and web. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Contribution”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link posts on contributing to WordPress and the WP Engine lawsuit, such as "On contribution". The one comment cites it while describing being deactivated on Slack and banned from the WordPress issue tracker.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Contribution2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-21
What Hacker News says?
I’ve been deactivated on Slack since very early in this dispute, and later banned from the issue tracker: https://journal.rmccue.io/468/on-contribution/ The only potential cause of this were some posts discussing the arguments behind the original lawsuit - they’re written in my personal capacity, and I’m not a partner of WP Engine. Matt is simply banning anyone who speaks out at all, even when they agree with points…
Comment linking /468/on-contribution/
on “Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork”Submitted WP Engine Must Win as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contribution as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progressive Enhancement with the WordPress REST API as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pull Requests Are for Humans as a story · 2 points
HN discussion