Ryan McCue

Latest Articles

I write articles sometimes, often on projects I’m working on. Here’s the latest stuff I’ve published.

• Building a Stronger Ecosystem The events in the WordPress community since September have shown how fragile the ecosystem can be. In A Stronger Foundation for the Ecosystem, I laid out my core ideas of how we could move forward with the WordPress Foundation to build a better community together. The key ideas were: Pay for infrastructure through a diverse […]
• On Contribution Every day, I open my computer in to Slack. The first thing I see, every day, is the WordPress Slack icon reporting a problem. Every day, I click the icon and log in through WordPress.org, to be told that my Slack account is still disabled. Although I can no longer access Slack, I am still […]
• A Stronger Foundation for the Ecosystem The feud between Automattic and WP Engine has continued, with WordPress.org blocking access by WP Engine’s servers. In WP Engine Must Win, I wrote about my thoughts on the legal argument on this battle, and why it is important that WP Engine win the trademark case in order to protect the ecosystem. I also touched on the moral argument: The case […]
• WP Engine Must Win On stage at WordCamp US last week, Matt Mullenweg gave a keynote presentation which made a wide range of points about contribution, the ethics of open source, and the commitments various companies make to contributing. In particular, he called out WP Engine in what was a fairly clear direction to the community to stop using […]
• Seamless webviews in Electron Electron has a few different ways to embed web content safely into an existing window. The standard technique is to use a regular iframe, but this doesn’t give you all the power you might need over user content; notably, you don’t get full control over the will-navigate event for user navigation. The documentation notes that […]