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launch 2026-04-12

Cloudflare Just Launched the WordPress Killer. Matt Mullenweg Handed Them the Keys.

EmDash targets the next 43% of the web, not the existing one. Mullenweg broke the social moat before Cloudflare wrote a line of code.

governance 2026-04-12

France is Kicking Windows Off 2.5 Million Government Desktops

Munich voted to switch in 2003, began migration in 2006, and reversed course in 2017. France is betting it can do what Munich couldn't, at 178 times the scale.

drama 2026-04-12

A Maintainer Said 'OK.' and Killed the Plugin 13,500 Developers Depended On.

One comment on GitHub Discussion #8627 ended five years of work. The user complained. The maintainer archived. No handover.

culture 2026-04-12

OpenAI Just Bought the CI Pipeline for Half the Python Ecosystem

Cirrus CI shuts down June 1. scipy and PostgreSQL have 51 days to find an alternative. OpenAI gets the engineers.