Arley McBlain 🇨🇦

I enjoy writing HTML and CSS more than most people enjoy their hobbies.

@jesseleite85 I like how the paper calendar is just there to be mocked while you program a REAL calendar

@jackmcdade Yuppp... And I even JUST bought an office chair, but since using this one, my back pain has mostly went away.

I got rid of my expensive, ergonomic office chair & now use this basic kitchen chair I bought off Marketplace. It's firm & doesn't encourage me to slouch give into crappy posture. When my butt is tired, I get up and walk around. It's the perfect desk chair. Rage against comfort.

This is such a killer idea - I remember one year where I felt like I wasted an opportunity to do something special with a team - this is the rallying cry we needed.

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@levisan 2009! Great eye!

@ArleyM So many fun little things to spot… the Windows box, the way Gmail looks (pre-2011?), the MacBook model (2008-2011 Unibody?), the Linksys router… oh and the King James Reference Bible (after 1611 😜)

I'm _this old_ - can you guess the year by the workstation setup?

@schutzsmith @AndrewKepson @thekevingeary LiveCanvas ships with a sass compiler (for Bootstrap), and the customizer has a setting to ignore BS. The trick would be doing the PostCSS

@AndrewKepson @thekevingeary I’ve been trying to find a good way to use tailwind with WordPress but it looks like a lot of projects haven’t been maintained. Do you have a starter theme you work with now?

As a builder of custom WP blocks who uses Tailwind, the way the rich text block applies styles never sat right with me. I was inspired by @thekevingeary approach with Etch to replace core blocks with custom blocks, and today I prototyped a custom Paragraph block that applies Tailwind classes instead. I'm still using the core Rich Text Editor, but overriding as needed. I decided to update the toolbar icons while I was in there.

@mattmedeiros LiveCanvas - it lets me build pages / blocks with HTML. Removes the need for most plugins, makes it possible to build any language, add ARIA, schema etc.

What’s your favorite WordPress page builder?

@carsoncantcode OBS: free, and a bajillion features. Fun fact, if you record in mkv the file will work even if something cuts off the recording. I keep a bash text expansion to convert any mkv to mp4 for easier editing and sharing.

Recorded a loom for the first time in 6 months. Can't download, nothing works anymore. Cancelling, whats the best alternative to Loom because I don't want to give these dumb fucks $15 a month anymore

Do I know any experienced Squarespace site builders!?

I just lost a battle with the Squarespace page builder. I am coming to grips with the idea that I'm too much of a control freak for the no-code world.

@DuaneStorey @jeffr0 I started that playlist. Skimming through this gives a good impression of the workflow for devs or non-nerd content editor people. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

@ArleyM @jeffr0 Yah I have heard good things about it.

@DuaneStorey @jeffr0 I am making videos for a dev colleague this week, AMA and I will try to demo it. Last week I made one for a non-technical client; they wanted to see the editing experience was on par with WP dashboard, I think it's cleaner: youtube.com/watch?v=UsWZZz…

@jeffr0 @DuaneStorey A year ago I made a shortlist of around 6, and have since committed to Statamic. It's built on Laravel which opens options. I looked into the business models of these things not wanting to get burned by the VC pressure again. Statamic isn't free, but they don't owe anybody.

@DuaneStorey Pivoting to what though? Webflow? Drupal? Joomla? Where would you go?

@DuaneStorey Agreed. At this point it doesn't matter if MM is the good guy or bad guy, he's proven himself to be impulsive, quick-tempered, unpredictable, unprofessional, and has carefully curated an echo chamber of people who agree with him. It's been frustrating.

The other side of the Whiny-Coin is how great the camera is. Maybe the pain is from that vast gulf between the awesomeness and awfulness.

The Sony Creator's app is so painful to me. I use it just infrequently enough that a login is guaranteed, and the 2FA email never sends the first time. Are all camera apps this painful?!

@levisan Have you ever listened to really old Kris Kristopherson Sunday Morning, Or Johnny Cash's Live at Folsom prison? I think the old stuff is interesting, close to indie folk.

I don't hate country music. I find it hard to hate an entire broad genre label. I just strongly dislike nearly every single country song I hear.

@DuaneStorey Best case scenario on first line "pineapple truly is a relevant and acceptable option on pizza, if you really stop to think about it."

Has anyone else read all these redactions in the updated filings by WPE against WordPress and Automattic? Some of them, if you read between the lines, seem pretty scary. I hope some of these are unsealed (my understanding is the public can even request this - given how important WordPress is globally, I think the public interest may outweigh any corporate interests) at some point, as I worry internally these show contempt for the entire WordPress ecosystem and the community itself by the main actors within the community. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

I used web inspector on the modal just to make the contextually funny title readable. I think this cookie banner stuff is going away, and I want this tweet to be a reminder about what half of websites are like in 2025.

My son and I went on an adventure for the chance to try a 1964 Precision bass. I've never seen a pre-CBS Fender before. We agree it's a 11/10 recommendation.