We posted a new episode of Core Intuition, this time talking all about the controversy in the WordPress community over WP Engine. Still very fascinated by this story and following as much of the news as I can, including a new interview with Matt Mullenweg over the weekend.
I posted this to @news a week ago. Quoting it here as a reminder:
An early heads-up: we are planning a major server upgrade for October 1st, 10pm central time / 3pm GMT. While we hope to limit downtime, Micro.blog will be unavailable for a little while during the upgrade. Your blogs hosted on Micro.blog will remain online.
While we’ve had sporadic downtime this year, I don’t think we’ve had planned downtime in several years, and I don’t take it lightly. It’s a database upgrade and worth the time to do it right.
If I were Mark Zuckerberg, I'd add Markdown support to Threads so writers could use the basic communication tool of the web.
If I were benevolent dictator of BlueSky, I'd add Markdown support there too. Btw, can you really claim to be part of the social web when you don't support the web's most basic feature -- linking??
If I were benevolent dictator of Mastodon, I'd add Markdown support everywhere so we'd have links and simple styling.
The Daily
• The New York Times
At a rally in Wisconsin over the weekend, Donald Trump really cranked up the rage and hate speech about immigrants, and viciously savaged Kamala Harris as “mentally impaired.” But this deserves special attention: Trump also attacked Fox News for the mere act of carrying a recent Harris speech about immigration on the network, seething that Fox shouldn’t be “allowed” to do that. We talked to Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte, a skillful interpreter of Trump’s violent threats, about the clear signals that this and other recent Trump utterances are sending about his intention to suppress dissent and persecute MAGA’s enemies during a second term.
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If you want to help the open web, when you write something you’re proud of on a social web site like Bluesky or Mastodon, also post it to your blog. Not a huge deal but every little bit helps.
DELETE /subscribers/{id_or_email} removes the subscriber instead of unsubscribing them
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Matt Mullenweg’s unquestioned access to infrastructure and resources across the WordPress project, the WordPress Foundation and Automattic inc, which owns and operates the infrastructure the project depends on — in addition to the actions he has taken in the past week and earlier this year — is something that I would consider to be a grave security concern and the largest existential threat to the WordPress project itself.
Built on Shards of Silicon: Robert Alexander's Tech Blog
• Robert Alexander
Running a bunch of mail servers to audit email security
I think the new “finished” pane turned out well. This has been a much-needed improvement to Micro.blog. Because we fire off publishing and Hugo-ing in the background, it was irritating to keep an eye on the status and find the new blog post link.
House shopping during election season is great. There are so many political yard signs, you can tell a lot about what your future neighbors are like.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
On Thursday a prominent developer YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and journalist posted a video titled This might be the end of WordPress. It was very harsh. In that video you’ll hear him say about me, “he’s a chronic hater” (7:55), “seems like he’s been a pretty petty bastard for a long time now” (10:22), “I hate … Continue reading On with Theo / T3.gg →
Last night’s SNL was great. Maya Rudolph, Andy Samberg, Dana Carvey, Jean Smart… That’s the way to start the 50th season. 📺
