There are YT courses available to support the book. Or rather, the book exists to support the courses:
Don’t mind the ages of these series - I watched them in full, and they’re generally still relevant. I say generally because I’m not sure if I’ll ever use a Tango Tree, but who knows!
PS: If you’re not sure if you don’t know the required Math, I created a graph of all MIT courses with YT videos here. The courses on the left are dependencies for those to the right.
ThePrimeagen invited Matt to explain what’s going on.
TL;DW Matt’s claim is that he tried to get WP Engine to pay for a Trademark license (or whatever it’s called - I’m recalling from watching yesterday), over several months, and they tried to legally block him in every way. Their self-claimed contributions to Wordpress were (as he tells it) that they held conferences where they promoted their own stuff only - code contributions have been minimal.
So the combination of not willing to pay for the trademark + not contributing back (not in code, not in helping the community) is Matt’s reasoning for blocking them from using Wordpress’ resources.
He also mentioned that he has good relations with other Wordpress hosts, so it’s not like he’s trying to block anyone else from hosting, but they were all willing to pay for the use of the Trademark (and/or contribute back).