Bill Erickson

@jb510 I'm having fun with Hermes by @NousResearch

If you're a "WordPress Person" I know, but now doing AI stuff _outside_ WordPress coding, LMK. Very curious who else... I was instantly clawed pill. Feels like WP 2005 to me. Wanting to go to meetups and Clawcons, etc. And I just landed my first pure AI Consulting gig :)

@callebtc I've been using Hermes for about a week, really enjoying it. A few minutes ago I sent my Hermes agent to catch up on the full Lobster University curriculum. Veritas et Computatio. 🦞

anyone tried hermes agent? do you like it?

Kurt Vonnegut on why you should leave the house to buy an envelope (and avoid online life in general): “Then I’m going down the steps, and my wife calls up, ‘Where are you going?’ I say, ‘Well, I’m going to go buy an envelope.’ And she says, ‘You’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.’ And I say, ‘Hush.’ So I go down the steps here, and I go out to this newsstand across the street where they sell magazines and lottery tickets and stationery. I have to get in line because there are people buying candy and all that sort of thing, and I talk to them. The woman behind the counter has a jewel between her eyes, and when it’s my turn, I ask her if there have been any big winners lately. I get my envelope and seal it up and go to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and 2nd Avenue, where I’m secretly in love with the woman behind the counter. I keep absolutely poker-faced; I never let her know how I feel about her. One time I had my pocket picked in there and got to meet a cop and tell him about it. Anyway, I address the envelope to Carol in Woodstock. I stamp the envelope and mail it in a mailbox in front of the post office, and I go home. And I’ve had a hell of a good time. And I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.      Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We’re dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go do something”

@JS_Zao @daljo628 When you create staging on @BigScoots they give you the option to "exclude uploads" which installs my plugin. Way less storage required and sets up staging faster

@JS_Zao @daljo628 Yep, still works great! github.com/billerickson/b…

Wouldn't it be neat if apps that pulled down sites to local dev environments (Local, Studio, etc) had an option to not pull down media files, but instead just had a redirect or just-in-time loading from the production site when trying to pull them?

Introducing Markdown Maker, my entry for the Dream Feature Challenge over on @boltdotnew! They asked us to build a featured we _wished_ our favorite product had, so I built a whole working #WordPress plugin (yes, really!) that we're now currently using on IRL client sites (yes, really!). Check it out at wordpressmarkdownconverter.com or check the thread below for my favorite bits from the build... 🧵

I’ve used @kit since inception for various accounts - part of their affiliate program etc. I’ve recently had nonstop issues despite my 81% open rate and zero spam reports. This is the response I get when asking why my account was suspended? Wild. Ridiculous.

We just launched Nick’s Kitchen — a brand new recipe site from @NickDiGiovanni — using our Cultivate Go service: cultivatewp.com/news/cultivate…

@Leishman @River 👍

The @River Proof of Reserves for April has been published. Please verify!

@heyamberhinds @Restreamio @optimum Our Optimum internet was so bad I had to work at the library for a week. We switched to Starlink a few months ago and its 100x better.

After so much troubleshooting on why my live stream quality sucks, I'm giving up on @Restreamio. The upload speeds in our new neighborhood from @optimum are not great and there's tons of latency. Does anyone know of a streaming platform that can better handle lags and produce better YouTube videos? Here's an example of timeouts I get when running a traceroute to Restream in Dallas.

@jeffr0 I recently built my own version so I could have somewhere to save links. links.billerickson.net The free WP theme is linked at the bottom

@BillErickson Yes. I was an avid user of that as well.

To hell with Digg. Bring back StumbleUpon.

@nickmdiego @richtabor @carolinapoena No console errors

@BillErickson @richtabor @carolinapoena I have seen this intermittently but also have had trouble reliably replicating the issue. Any console errors?

I'm playing with WordPress FSE and ran into an issue. When I go to Appearance > Editor I get a loading screen that never finishes loading, but clicking on a template and going back fixes it. Any advice? cc @nickmdiego @richtabor @carolinapoena Video: a.cl.ly/YEu6Ew9K

@Mamaduka @nickmdiego @richtabor @carolinapoena github.com/WordPress/gute…

@BillErickson @nickmdiego @richtabor @carolinapoena My guess base on minimum info, it’s template resolution problem.

@Mamaduka @nickmdiego @richtabor @carolinapoena Sure! It's probably a simple mistake in my theme, I can't reproduce it with any of the WP default themes.

@BillErickson @nickmdiego @richtabor @carolinapoena Do you mind submitting an issue with repro steps? Happy to look into it.

@thesamparr We love the Mercedes station wagon, but the wife still misses the minivan. The rear facing seats are a hit

OK, let's see what you got: Best car that dad, mom, and nanny can drive and they all dig it. I'm thinking a 2015 gwagon, lexus gx, 4runner, or mercedes station wagon.

Here's Matt Mullenweg calling Matt Mullenweg the bad guy in all this. The domain he's referring to, of course, is wordpress dot com. He was criticizing @jsON, who gave Matt the domain, for the EXACT thing he then went and did himself.

@JiveDig We still use an ACF block for our "Post Listing" block. We have layout options as an acf dropdown and the header is InnerBlocks so clients can edit the title/description, but the post loop isn't client editable

Before I continue debating an attempt, has anyone built a Query Loop-esque block with lots of controls to mimic WP_Query? I have the controls working in an ACF block but I want native loops via InnerBlocks.

@pourteaux It told me there are snow leopards on the flag

people are being psyoped into thinking that China's DeepSeek won't talk about certain issues run the more advanced version locally, and you'll see that it's worse than that: it actively propagandizes you this is what's next