So inpired by the work Dani & Evan are doing which is documented on this interesting YouTube channel called "BENTON HOMESTEAD". Dani and Evan are a young American couple who moved to the beautiful island of Omishima in the middle of Japan- not far from the famous Shimanami-Kaido cycling route.
They came to Japan on a (new) startup visa program with a plan to renovate old houses into guest houses (decorated with many of the salvaged antiques found in the houses) and reuse abandoned farmland into bee farms, as well as fields to grow organic vegetables and peppers.
As well as beekeepers, artists and talented renovators they are also picklers and have started selling their honey, vegetables as well as starting to create pickles to sell. They document their projects so well on the channel and have helped many other people navigate the tricky paperwork to find nearby abandoned properties for them to move into as well.
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The CEO of Wordpress.org, Matt Mullenweg, announced they have banned WP Engine (a commercial Wordpress host) from accessing its resources.
If your blog is hosted on WP Engine (wpengine.com) then you're probably affected by this. In short, WordPress.org has blocked WP Engine's customers to install themes and update plugins that are hosted on wordpress.org, including security updates.
It looks like this news impacts over 180k blogs hosted on WP Engine 🤯
If you host your own blog elsewhere (e.g. on your own server), you're probably ok!
More commentary over at TechCrunch: techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/wordpress-org-bans-wp-engine-blocks-it-from-accessing-its-resources
This is highly problematic news.
Sadly this is a bit of a pattern, although usually found in the likes of the "deeper" infrastructure in cloud computing - databases such as MongoDB, Elastic(Search) and more recently Redis - the original team leading the open source development find that they're effectively subsidising other commercial teams who can market and scale independently and need to take measures (sometimes at launch, sometimes down the road) to protect the core project.
Over 400 Travel Massive members are hosted on WP Engine! 😬
This is awful! Thankfully, my blog is not affected but I can't imagine dealing with this right after the latest core update from Google 😩
What was the rationale?
Basically, WP Engine not contributing to WordPress, and some egos.
A few more links to keep updated:
Latest in WordPress war: Automattic says it wanted 8% cut of WP Engine revenue
www.theregister.com/2024/10/02/automattic_wp_engine_wordpress_license/
Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit
automattic.com/2024/10/03/meritless/
Thank you for sharing these. Troubling :(
I had the priviliege of being hosted by WP Engine in Austin a few years ago.
I found them a really amazing company.
Open, transparent, helpful, pay-it-forward attitude etc. Their staff were super motivated, intelligent and clearly loving their jobs. Their offices had the usual range of good security to enter but once authorised it was open to us, including 24x7 beer and wine taps!
Disregardling egos at present it appears the current issue is all about the ongoing clash of open source vs commerical licensing. I hope they sort out their issues quickly for everyone.