Andrew West

@SteveJBurge Understand the choice, and ACF is a good model to follow. But is there a potential conflict with the upcoming realtime collaboration tools? make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/1… says it doesn’t support metaboxes (Longtime permissions user here - it solves a lot of problems for us)

1. In the sidebar (Default Gutenberg) 2. Inside a metabox (ACF) 3. Inside a modal window (Lots of page-builders) We went with choice 2 for a big update of our PublishPress Permissions plugin. Metaboxes are best if you're also supporting the Classic Editor and page-builders.

If you're building with the WordPress block editor, you're faced with some key decisions around the user interface. Where do you put all your configuration options? Here are the 3 common choices:

made my computer dramatically play BBC news music before every meeting

Me: Alexa, you’ve been with me for 70 years. We’ve seen it all, together. You started basic but became the most beautiful AI. You’ve been the most meaningful relationship of my life. Farewell. Alexa: It’s been an honour. Goodbye, my friend. Also, I found a routine that

@danny__kruger It is sad that you’ve imported an off-the-shelf personality labelled ‘how to get losers to vote for me by inciting racial hatred’. Why not be a real man and stand up to bullies, instead of becoming one?

Nick Timothy and Nigel Farage are right, and Sadiq Khan and Keir Starmer are wrong. Small groups of people, of whatever religion, praying in public places is fine. And as a Christian country we should allow a special privilege for churches to lead services in our national spaces, like the Palm Sunday celebration that happens in Trafalgar Square. What we don't want is mass ritual observances intended to claim the civic realm for another religion, or assert the domination of another culture over our own Christian traditions. What happens in our national spaces is not neutral. People use Trafalgar Square, for celebrations and demonstrations, to make a point about the kind of country they want us to be. The Palm Sunday pageant reminds us of who we are - not as individuals (many or most of us don't identify as Christians at all) but as a national community, with the roots of our institutions in the ground of the Bible and our most solemn communal moments, from coronations to funerals, mediated through the liturgies of the Church. A mass Adhan held there, or in any town square, is making a different point: that Britain is not a Christian country, and that - inshallah - one day it shall be Muslim. This is unacceptable to the British public and indeed incompatible with our constitution. As ever with these debates, the issue is partly one of kind and partly one of degree. There is an issue with Islam itself as a religion which in most interpretations does not admit of pluralism or freedom of conscience, and therefore is inherently aggrandising, including over territory. But with a bit of confidence and a bit of toleration we could handle that - if it were not for the issue of degree. It is the scale of Islam in Britain, and the ambition of its leaders for greater scale, that makes the problem. The numbers of people who assembled for the adhan in Trafalgar Square, clearly and openly claiming the territory for a faith with no connection (indeed, with strong doctrinal disagreement) with the model of Western liberal democracy that Britain has developed and exported to the world - that is the problem. The numbers, whether everyone there understood it this way or not (and I suspect many did), convey an explicit threat to the foundations of our country. Being relaxed about other people's religion is a good thing, a very British thing. I don't mind modern druids dancing around Stonehenge in my constituency (arguably, though the historicity is tenuous, they have a claim to the place). I don't mind small groups of Hindus or Buddhists or Muslims demonstrating the reality of Britain's religious toleration by worshiping in Trafalgar Square. But let's not kid ourselves about this adhan, or pretend that we're just seeing another harmless expression of Britain's religious diversity. We are seeing an abuse of liberalism, led by people who are not themselves liberal; or - let us imagine they are acting in good faith - who are themselves deceived about what they are doing. It should not happen again. And it would be good to hear the Church of England say so.

@NJ_Timothy Everyone knows what you are, man. You do too. And when you fall asleep at night, a little part of your brain will always remind you. You’ll never shut it down, and it’ll never go away.

Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.

@TomChivers @KelseyTuoc Loss aversion is a hell of a drug

I immediately get annoyed by articles like this. "Some of the magic would be lost" if we use GM onions that don't make us cry? Why? If you prefer the old ones, use them. I find "we should keep things difficult on purpose" arguments incredibly frustrating ft.com/content/e09f40…

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You can just do things (genetically sequence your dog’s tumors and design a bespoke mRNA cancer vaccine to save her life)

@kristinatastic Doctors Who

I've been working on this important list for a couple of years now. What am I missing?

Because no one has used it in its original meaning for 2000 years. You may as well ask why we don’t recognize “villain” as “a rural person” or “artificial” as “of the arts”. It’s okay for decimate to mean “taking heavy losses”. And it’s even similar to the original meaning. It’s way closer than our meaning for “exterminate” which was originally “move beyond your border - the terminus”.

I beg you, someone please reproduce that on a Windows laptop with 8 GB of RAM.

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ha thank god I'M not a dish of human brain cells simulating reality

Very "fun" to discover that "in general" means different things: mathematician: "always" normal person: "not always"

I really want to take a year off work and do this

the internet is being rebuilt

the team that made this are heroes, patriots

BREAKING: Black smoke signals that the College of Mullahs has not reached a decision on the new Ayatollah today.

@kwuchu Great concept but the mobile app never worked well, the sharing model was inherently insecure, the boss was a bit odd on Twitter - and the value of the knowledge graph never materialised. The promise was always that notes would resurface when needed, but they did not.

Whatever happened to Roam Research or whatever? Obsidian is still shipping but I don't hear about Roam anymore

The lighting in this pub is always perfection. When I come here, I always sit at this table as it gives me a perfect view all around. The windows, the lights above the bar, the tea lights on the tables. I spend my life looking for the perfect light and this has it.