Full stack web developer currently working mostly with #PHP / #Laravel, Vanilla #Javascript and #SCSS. Love learning more about (almost) anything, but particularly #MySQL and #InfoSec. Currently learning Arabic. Husband, father of two boys, Christian.
One of the hardest parts of being married is when the OH wakes you up in the middle of the night because she ‘heard something downstairs’ and is now convinced there’s someone in the house.
The worst part though is that after you have checked the house, and inevitably found that there is of course no intruder (I’m genuinely not sure what I’d do if there ever was one, by the way. I’m no American, so there are no weapons in the house 🤷♂️) your body involuntarily goes on high alert, and for the next half hour every tiny sounds sends the adrenaline rushing, preventing me from falling asleep again, despite knowing full well that there is still no intruder 🙄🙄🙄
Question here: I've got to build a #WordPress theme. Our in house designer designed it. I already have a multi-site wordpress install that I would like to add this new blog to.
Whilst budget is of course a factor, quality is more imporant to us, as we hope to maintain this in-house going forwards. (We have php devs in house, but noone with real wordpress experience.)
What's the best way of finding a WordPress dev for this sort of one-off project?
Between setting up DigitalOcean Spaces [1] for uploaded media and enabling @michael's FediFetcher [2], my experience on a one-person self-hosted Mastodon instance has been greatly improved.
@gunchleoc i love the idea and principle behind substitoot! Unfortunately, because I use mastodon almost exclusively through an app, it is not an option for me.
I wish mastodon would do what substitoot does natively!
@stefan@gunchleoc unfortunately I don’t think this will happen. Last time it was brought up on GitHub it was roundly rejected, and there is no sign of them reconsidering it.
(Although to be fair they have reconsidered things they were vehemently against in the past, so I wouldn’t rule it out. But it doesn’t appear likely. At least not any time soon)
@Jbasoo Yeah, thankfully we are so far OK with FTTC, so I have been able to avoid Virgin so far ...
But over the next 1-5 years I imagine the kids will be starting to be stream and/or game a lot more, and that's where I think we'll need extra capacity …
The more I’m trying to learn Arabic the more I’m becoming convinced that whoever came up with that script, did so with the express intention to mock learners.
How else can you explain that ج ح and خ all make very different sounds, whilst the sounds for ث and ط are essentially indistinguishable 🙄
@loke oh, don’t worry. They do plenty of that in Arabic too! Whilst each letter has their nominal sound, once you add them to a word all bets are off. Especially because they tend to omit most vowels in writing it’s literally a matter of guessing how a word is pronounced … @skribe
@skribe yeah, in Arabic these are literally different languages, with completely different vocabulary. So effectively I’m learning two languages in parallel at the moment 😬@loke
@skribe for written Arabic: whatever Duolingo is offering. Sadly they don’t specify. For spoken I’m learning Egyptian Arabic, as my wife is Egyptian. @loke
@skribe It is worth saying though, that as far as I understand (and I'm far from a linguist) the different variants of Arabic are much more than just dialects, and most people considere these actually different languages. My wife for example, would actually struggle having a proper conversation with someone from Syria, or Morocco (to pick just two of the dozen or so other Arabic languages), as they'd use different vocabulary and grammar. It's a mine field, and part of the reason why I've put off learning it for so very long. @loke
@skribe Many different written systems as well. For example in Egypt you have at least the following:
Religious/old Arabic as used in both mosque and Church settings (I don't even know whether these are both using the same language, but I doubt it)
Formal Arabic as used in the news, courts, etc.
Informal Arabic as used in every day settings (and which of course has lots of different dialects - Egypt is large country [though maybe not so large when compared to Australia 😆]).
Each of these have their own grammar and vocabulary. And there'll definitely be people in Egypt who’ll only be able to understand 1 or 2 of these (especially because illeteracy is actually still quite common, so lots of Egyptians really only know informal Arabic).
I’ve been restarting my sidekiq on a daily basis pretty much since day 1 anyway, because there used to be a memory leak somewhere (I have no idea whether that’s still the case, but never bothered to retest), and yet appear to have been affected by this.
However it has to my knowledge only happened once to me, during a period of network connectivity problems, so maybe that’s related? Very hard to tell, of course
