I mean, it's basically what I wrote above. You used the exact same title as the McKinley's article, the same Maslow's pyramid visualization as their presentation, and went through their basic points in the same order.

This meant there was a major feeling of deja vu, it didn't feel like a particularly original take on the subject. Maybe the feeling would not have been there if it had been more obvious. I.e. titled something like "My take on 'Choose Boring Technology'", the link moved to the opening paragraph, and explicitly stating that you were reframing that original article in terms of your own experience.

(But to to repeat, I'm not claiming that anything untoward happened here).