Andrey Savchenko

I'm of negative military value, but I can make money, so sending them to Ukrainian army & Come Back Alive fund. 💸💸💸💸💸 I've never taken donations for my WP&OSS work, if you ever offered - send it to Ukrainian army now, like my life depends on it. 🙏 twitter.com/Ukraine/status…

"So Bright the Vision" (1956) by Simak - a story about writers of future reduced to operators of writing machines, a desperate struggling (cheap machine) writer breaks into office of successful one to use his superb customized machine... to find it broken and unused. pertinent.

Death Stranding 2 releasing on Steam ON the day of spring sale at full price... sony did give up, we really are never getting Ghost of Yotei now

AI is making CEOs delusional

We've built over 10 different free tools at DebugBear! Added some screenshots and tidied up our listing page recently: debugbear.com/tools

In WordPress, you can go from valued community member to persona non grata overnight. Not for sabotage. For suggesting the project should be led differently. I wrote about what that does to an ecosystem: coenjacobs.com/blog/fear-voic…

✨ We built WP Composer — an independent, open source Composer repository for WordPress plugins and themes, with 17x faster cold resolves than WPackagist wp-composer.com

@ZenoPopovici you mix up transitioning core to Composer (which no one even bothers to suggest) with adding Composer support to infrastructure (which is exactly what WPackagist in question does). one doesn't get to lock down and ignore infrastructure needs, then complain others don't.

It’s not that simple. I’ve worked on that the entire system is stuck in time (early 2000s) it’s using svn and it would be nontrivial to rewrite it all. Also versioning is not implemented in many plugins themselves (even if we have it in SVN). It’s a huge undertaking. I will also most likely break old plugins as the whole loading of plugins would have to be replaced. Half measures could be done but it wouldn’t be better.

well, YOU certainly did fuck all to meaningfully support sane Composer workflows (can't let that repos lock-in slip away, right? what would one extort people over!), so that was left for others to pick up and carry, sure.

@ZenoPopovici Composer repository format is open and trivial to implement, it can't be owned. WP infrastructure (aka Matt's private site) ignoring it was a choice and had zero to do with backwards compat. I wouldn't be surprised if repos urgently get Composer compat just to spite WPE now.

Nope. It was a design philosophy intended to keep backwards compatibility for all times. If you would develop a plugin now it should work forever. You might disagree with this but it wasn’t malicious. Maybe this should change now. But that’s another story. Also others have picked up this and composer flows can work seamlessly. But now the packaging system used by composer will be privately owned and that sucks.

@ihorvorotnov not accepting job for any reason that's important for you is fine, making uppity remarks about a company over (by far) most used desktop operating system is a clown behavior

Interesting situation. Thought for a moment - and yes, I think if I was offered a Windows laptop without alternative to get a top tier MacBook or just use my own I would do the same. You’ll spend 8h per day using it, comfort is important. What about you?

WPackagist has been acquired by @wpengine. For over a decade, Outlandish built and maintained this service. Now WP Engine is carrying it forward - with the same commitment to the developer community in the WordPress ecosystem.

"...they needed to install Node.js, npm, Git, Docker Desktop, understand the command line, configure a local WordPress environment, install VS Code extensions, set up a plugin from scratch..." how did _WordPress_, of all, came to this DX I'll never understand (or rather accept)

I am weirded out by a concerted "hallucinations are a solved problem!" from AI shills. uh, no, just use it, as bad as ever.

@SRHDesign maybe they just friction spin it in, no idea if that's a thing industrially... or it's defective screw and assembly process got it in inadvertently

@Rarst Magnet?

my notebook extruded a screw that has no recess in the head and I have questions. two questions: "how in the first place!?" and "now what?.."

at times I wonder why are devs infamous to be poor at marketing and then they say things like "nobody wants Windows support" and, like, ah.

@jonoalderson I've read about people running private lighthouse instances on public traded companies and shorting stock whenever perf goes down

Your website is slow because your organisation doesn’t understand the web. Not because performance is hard. Not because browsers are limited. But because you've lost control of your systems, culture, and vision. jonoalderson.com/performance/sp…

@markjaquith yes, yes they do. more of older generations thing for remotes, but still here and there... phone screen protectors? yes, please, let's take that gorgeous pinnacle of material engineering ultra-hard glass and glue shit on top of it!

@Rarst Fascinating. They click it through the bag?! America has its own weird version of that with the stickers that come on hats 🧢 Yeah dude, good thing you kept the sticker on it. I wouldn’t want to think you had a bootleg version of a $25 hat.

Dell did a "look at our sexy new laptops" TV commercial, but even the CGI renders are required to show the dumb Intel sticker 💀

@markjaquith in my culture it's consumers that won't remove them. also in my culture consumers won't unpack tv remote from plastic to "keep it protected", so... 😬

@Rarst It does seem like it’s maybe a kink. I don’t think consumers care that much anymore, so it’s just Intel paying computer companies to debase themselves for lulz. “And use really permanent glue. Yeah. You like that, don’t you?”