Alex Kirk

Variation: QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders -1 beers. Orders a hi你好. Orders ';DROP TABLE beer;--

From veteran WordPress developers to beginner supporters ready to dive into the world of WordPress-- Contributor Day is a great chance to connect and learn with a variety of teams across the entire WordPress project. #WCEU

@AlecMuffett @donncha @simonw Alive and kicking! Thanks for reporting the issues, I've started investigating! Sorry for the delay, I've just been busy with work things (launching Matrix to the WordPress community).

@donncha @simonw Offtopic: would you know if Alex Kirk is okay? The friends plugin community seems to be a little quiet...

Mastodon seems to be a lot more fragile than USENET; the whole PubSub thing seems to assume better connectivity than old-style distribution permits alecmuffett.com/article/108216

As WP continues through the decades, we have to deal with all parts of life, including death. As a community, we now have a memorial place we can remember and honor those who contributed to @WordPress but are no longer part of this world. wordpress.org/remembers/

Learn about the challenges of translating #WordPress and how you can get involved. Dive into the world of multilingual possibilities with @JosephaHaden & @akirk and expand your understanding of how language connects us within and beyond the WP platform. ow.ly/UhX350P3vZ1

I just released #WordPress Friends Plugin 2.6 wordpress.org/plugins/friend… Biggest change: no local user will be created for following someone. Other improvements include a better status view, share posts from your /friends/ and more. For more screenshots see github.com/akirk/friends/…

Check out the WordPress Translation Playground here: make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2023… #WCEU #WCEUKeynote

We’ve got Live translations on translate.wordpress.org. @akirk demos the feature live at #WCEU contributor day and I’m on the floor ready to sob. After years of hoping & frustrations we finally have a flow for translating #WordPress in context. Thank you Alex, this is huge!

Wir - @AnnaMasoner @IrmiWutscher - waren auf der @republica in #berlin und heute gibts ein ganzes @oe1 #matrix - zur Frage ob es noch #bargeld braucht, warum sich #tech Mobilitäts Versprechen um das Auto drehen und wie man in #kuba an Internet kommt #rp23 heute ab 19:05!

@IzzetEmreErkan The "Local branch" (github.com/GlotPress/Glot…) has not yet made it into a GlotPress release but when it is it will be translatable at translate.wordpress.org/projects/glotp…

@akirk sooo, how do we translate the introduction tool? 😅

I'm back from inner space. I wrote about adding my personal blog as an entity within the fediverse via ActivityPub. It's pretty neat. hammyhavoc.com/setting-up-my-… Send me a friend request, fellow geeks, nerds and phreaks! Big thanks to @aaronpk and @akirk. You're both great.

New WordPress Developer Blog post on how to build custom Query Loop variations: developer.wordpress.org/news/2022/12/2… This tutorial takes you step by step through the process of building a grid of book reviews and how to use custom post meta in your variations.

I like the idea of @akirk's Friends plugin for #WordPress: Part feed reader, part private social network, part indieauth. wpfriends.at

@SarahKriesche Womöglich werden eh alle Accounts derer gesperrt, die mit Yes gestimmt haben.

Ihr wissts aber schon, dass es ziemlich Wurscht ist, was ihr voted, weil Elon genug Möglichkeiten hat, die so oder so ausgehen zu lassen, ja?

@bagder @d3w01f @WordPress There is also a WordPress plugin that can then fix the database collation for you but I’d recommend to first understand if it really is the problem. Then you’d need to back up your database before attempting to change the collation.

@akirk @d3w01f @WordPress Maybe, but this is out of my league. How would I check?

@akirk : a great "IDN is crazy" article daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/12/1… where as aside he mentions some Unicode (mis-)handling by @WordPress . An astute commenter suspects it is a mysql charset issue... but I'm long out of the know. Any ideas who would know & pass on info to @bagder ?

@bagder @d3w01f @WordPress If you have access to a phpMyAdmin, you could open the database and display the structure of the wp_posts or wp_comments table and compare it with my screenshot

@bagder @d3w01f @WordPress You’re right, these are unlikely culprits. There is one more thing about collations which is that columns can have their own collation, independent of the table. When I change the post_content column to latin1 I see that conversion to question marks. Do you have a way to check?

@akirk @d3w01f @WordPress I only have three plugins: akismet, a captcha and "user spam remover". I guess they *can* interfere with content, but if they do they do so without advertising that.

@bagder @d3w01f @WordPress Oh well, then the next guess is on a plugin. It also converted my → in the comment to a ?. Interestingly in your post the word räksmörgås (which contains chars like U+00E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE) worked. Could something be doing a conversion to latin1 and back?

@akirk @d3w01f @WordPress Right: Database charsetutf8mb4 Database collationutf8mb4_unicode_520_ci

@bagder @d3w01f @WordPress Database collation, too? resp. something like utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci ?

@akirk @d3w01f @WordPress my health status says "Database charset: utf8mb4"

@mkalina @WordPress @allfacebook The fix landed in WordPress 6.1: #comment:36" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55117#c…. allfacebook.de: <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 6.0.3" />

This [OBJ] at the end of titles in @WordPress - you can easily see it in Firefox - and the URL ending with %EF%BF%BC is wrecking my nerves, esp. on Chrome and Safari. Here is a sample on @allfacebook. The ticket is already there, the solution not so much. core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55117.