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Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps what he talked about at this week's event. This week's topics include how he's fighting the perception of crime in subways, whether city workers will receive exemptions from congestion pricing, the possibility of new criminal charges against the mayor, and more.

 

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Podcast: How I view WordPress.

WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz. Studio is our free and open source app for local WordPress development, enabling you to spin up unlimited WordPress sites on your personal computer. Through its newest feature, Studio Sync, you have complete freedom to: Studio is an excellent tool to have in your … Continue reading Studio Sync →

I had my first confrontation about what's stirring in the WordPress world. I've tried to record this podcast a few times before, but today it became clear that I could get embroiled in the emotions flowing around WordPress now. There's a strong community there, and the angs...

Just found an exponential memory leak at the database level in Bingeworthy. I have never seen one of these in all my years of programming. A data structure that saves a copy of itself in itself. So every time it saved it became exponentially bigger. Until it made the SQL server crash because the JSON object it was storying was over the limit of JSON objects. Crashed the freaking server. Fixed. Feels good.

I just got a big ol’ stack of USPS Priority Mail®️ marked as RETURN TO SENDER. It’s… malicious spam. Physical spam, I suppose. I didn’t send these, of course. But the return address is CodePen Headquarters, so it seems it was just a free way to get spam into our door. The evil schmucks drop […]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that its social media platforms—Facebook, Instagram and Threads—will stop using third-party fact-checkers and rely solely on its users to flag misinformation. Mike Isaac, New York Times reporter covering tech companies and Silicon ...

As part of the conversion of BingeWorthy, I started the database from scratch, but before I did that, I exported all the data and put it in a GitHub repo. This included a JSON file of ratings for each user. For example, this is my file. Remember we used Twitter identity then, davewiner is my Twitter username, just replace my name with yours to see your file, if you were a Bingeworthy user in the past.

New Micro.blog coffee mugs! T-shirts too if you haven’t seen them, courtesy of @jimmitchell who has my blessing to run with this merchandise.

I wrote this post in 2023 as Threads was coming online. Now that Zuckerberg has thrown us under the bus, again, it's worth remembering their rollout strategy was to get us to overlook their past betrayals of users. They said "We ❤️Fediverse." That did it. It was at a moment ...

In this episode I talk with accessibility consultant Elena Brescacin from Italy. We discuss the Block Editor's benefits, and areas for improvement, such as better search block functionality and template duplication for multilingual sites. Elena emphasises WordPress' backend accessibility and suggests more consistent focus for testing websites. We explore Elena's experiences with internet accessibility, challenges in real-world events, and her active participation in the WordPress community. Despite technical frustrations, Elena remains an advocate for accessibility, emphasising the importance of educating others and raising awareness. If you’re curious about web accessibility, particularly how WordPress is used to create content, this episode is for you.

2023: "If they really want to prove their love for the open web, if they aren't just trying to lull us to sleep while they steal yet another market from the open web, they should do something that helps the web more than it helps them."

Liberals should support truly open technology that doesn't have a Zuckerberg who can sell us all out. Get involved.

Join Guy Kawasaki for an enlightening conversation with Keith Ferrazzi, pioneering thought leader and bestselling author. In this episode of Remarkable People, they explore the groundbreaking concept of "teamship" and why traditional leadership models need to evolve. Ferrazz...

This week, Justin Trudeau said he would step down as prime minister of Canada — a stunning downfall for a man who was once seen as a global icon of progressive politics. Matina Stevis-Gridneff, the Canada bureau chief for The New York Times, explains the forces that led to T...

At a press conference on Tuesday, Donald Trump signaled that things are about to get very, very ugly. He wouldn’t rule out using military force to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal. He celebrated the idea that his threats to jail Mark Zuckerberg might have caused Zuckerberg to surrender to him. And Trump vowed to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. We talked to Jennifer Mercieca, a professor of rhetoric who writes about fascist tropes. She explains how Trump is attempting to acclimate Americans to expansionist nationalism and naked threats to jail people without cause to force them into line, and why that bodes so badly about what’s coming. Listen to this episode here.
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Trying to pay some old fee from a car lease that I returned 7 years ago, stuck on the phone, dropped calls, terrible finance websites, and generally just a complete waste of time… But this typo on their website maybe hurts me the most:

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The country’s top doctor is calling for cancer risk warning labels on alcohol. On “Post Reports,” why, and what that could mean for you. Read more: Last week, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said in an advisory that studies suggest alcohol is the third leading preventabl...

The audio narration works for very short posts too. Me reading this post about Mark Zuckerberg earlier today gives the post a whole new “I’m so tired of this” feeling.