Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
It’s finally getting a bit chilly overnight here in Charlottesville. Yesterday morning we managed to drop down to 39 degrees (Fahrenheit) overnight. It was 41 when I got up with the pups this morning.
Coffee is made, first cup poured, time to put together some links and horrible commentary! 😂
If you log into Dave Winer’s blog, Scripting News, you’ll find a constantly updated note telling you how many years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds the blog has been running. Sometime tomorrow morning the year field will switch to 30. Which will mean that every single day for three decades Dave’s blog will have been stirring things up.
Congratulations, Dave! As I mentioned earlier in the week, Dave was one of my inspirations for blogging.
It’s hard to believe he’s been doing it for 30 years.
Shut it down. ByteDance has until January to divest the app and I have no sympathy for a delay. It needs new leadership.
These are strong words coming from Manton. He’s a proponent of the open web and to see him this upset is saying something.
EMILIE BLACK & CODY HAMMAN • JoBlo
The Goriest, Bloodiest Films Ever Made: some of our favorites
I’ve wanted to watch the Terrifier series for quite a while now and the recent release of Terrifier 3 I really want to see them.
The only film on that list I’ve seen is Evil Dead, and that was a remake.
The best of the original trilogy was Army of Darkness. It was super campy and Bruce Campbell was amazing. So many quotable one liners from that film.
If you haven’t seen Army of Darkness it’s worth a watch.
“WordPress.org just belongs to me personally,” Mullenweg said during an interview with The Verge. WordPress.org exists outside the commercial realm of Automattic, as a standalone publishing platform that offers free access to its open-source code that people can use to create their own websites. But it’s not a neutral, independent arbiter of the ecosystem. “In my role as owning WordPress.org, I don’t want to promote a company, which is A: legally threatening me and B: using the WordPress trademark. That’s part of why we cut off access from the servers.”
A lot of details have emerged about the ownership of various parts and pieces of WordPress the open source software vs. WordPress the hosting company vs. Automattic. Matt is, basically, all three.
We’re very proud to announce that Vinny Green, a former WordPress community member, has started his fork, FreeWP. We strongly encourage anyone who disagrees with the direction WordPress is headed in to join up with Vinny and create an amazing fork of WordPress. Viva FreeWP!
With all the kerfuffle between WordPress and WP Engine Matt is still a staunch advocate for open source projects and is fine with folks forking WordPress. It is, after all, the way of open source.
It seems Matt’s biggest complaint is WP Engine taking and never giving back. If they’d fork WordPress into something new I’d imagine that would go a long way toward solving some of Matt’s issues with them.
Let WP Engine maintain their own copy and do with it what they will, even if that means doing nothing to improve it.
Alexander Martin • therecord.media
Meta fined $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
Remember kids: Friends don’t let friends use Facebook. Meta is a horrible company run by a sociopath.
Eugen Rochko • Join Mastodon Blog
Mastodon 4.3 just landed! If you’re a mastodon.social user, you might have already seen some of this in action as we’ve been gradually rolling out these updates over the course of the last 11 months in nightly releases, but we’re finally making a new stable release available to the community.
I haven’t noticed any of the major changes because I’m shielded by using a native iOS and Mac client application for all my Mastodon needs.
Congratulations to Eugen and the entire Mastodon development team! 🥳
I had an old Motorola G5 Cedric gathering dust, so I decided to do something with it – it is now running a Puma web server with a simple Sinatra webapp.
I’ve wanted to do this in the past with my old Handspring Visor. These days it would be fun to do it with an iPhone.
I recall someone talking about doing that within the last year or so using Iconfactory’s WorlWideWeb for iPhone, if memory serves.
If you’re a fan of slow-burn police procedurals that suddenly transform into a possession flick with stylish, ambitious choices, “Fallen” is worth checking out.
I saw Fallen in theaters with Kim and we both liked it. It is certainly a slow burn detective movie with a super natural twist of an ancient evil.
Worth checking out.
With that said, I’m excited to announce that after 3.5 wonderful years at WP Engine, I’ve accepted an offer with Automattic to continue my work on WPGraphQL as it transitions into becoming a canonical community plugin on WordPress.org.
With the community in tatters it’s nice to see someone share some good news. Although it may not be seen as good from the WP Engine side of the equation.
Happy 7th Birthday MLTSHP!
This tiny service came into being as MLKSHK many years back when Twitter didn’t have its own photo sharing. I’m sure you could find many an old Tweet in my archive using MLKSHK for photo posting.
I’m still a subscriber. Long live MLTSHP and a very happy birthday! 🎂
The Internet Archive got hacked. It takes a special kind of asshole to do something like this. While the world is currently full of assholes with too much time on their hands, this particular breach just rankles, and it makes you wonder: is anything sacred?
The short answer is, no. Nothing is sacred. Especially on the internet. 🤬
Her Etsy store brought in $220,300 last year, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.
This is the kind of “side hustle” I’d like to have. 😂
That would allow me to become an indie developer and realize my dreams for Stream and its yet untitled sister app.
For almost as long as he’s been CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk has been bullshitting us about self-driving cars.
Folks are finally talking about Musk the way they should. He’s a bullshit artist. That’s his genius.
He’s managed to bullshit his way into Tesla. No, he’s not a founder. He’s not a Twitter founder.
Yes, he founded SpaceX and the Boring Company, but he doesn’t seem too involved with those. Choosing to let intelligent folks to run those was a good idea.
He’s a lying, white supremacist, homophobe, antisemitic, conspiracy theorist, bully with a lot of money.
Clearly I don’t think much of him. He’s a terrible human being.
All I think of when I see that picture is Igor saying “Master.”
Of course he was shaking Trump’s hand. Or should I say, master’s hand? 🤔
