Ciantic

Ciantic, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to php

#WordPress 6.2.1 broke shortcodes in Gutenberg themes seemingly randomly. Edit, looks like it affects only templates, someone had made a ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58341

Ciantic, 8 months ago to azure

Why is #Azure depolyment step still slow? It has been like this for at least 5 years. Sometimes it lasts nearly 20 minutes! It's the part that says: "Package deployment using ZIP Deploy initiated."

I know the gun-ho method, connecting via SFTP to AppService and syncing files then restarting. But that's just an ugly way of rapid deployment during development.

#Csharp #dotnet

Ciantic, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

@bdon If I may bother you more, I noticed that this map: https://app.protomaps.com/downloads/small_map has less details, such as small paths. Screenshot 1

However, this map on the front page has more details: https://protomaps.com/ Screenshot 2

I even tried by switching to use that PMTile file on my implementation and proved to myself that when I switch to protomaps-basemap-opensource-20230408.pmtiles I get the paths.

What I'm trying to say, isn't the Create Small Map tool making as detailed map files?

Ciantic, 1 year ago to internet

I like this observation from @davew: "But as quiet as Bluesky is, it makes Mastodon look even quieter."

What makes it so odd, is that Bluesky has 50k accounts, but Mastodon has gained more than 50k accounts in past two days.

The reason #Bluesky makes itself look busier is simply algorithms. Should #Mastodon have a checkbox: "I consent to give my content to be searchable for algorithms"?

Would it be better or not? It could connect disparate communities in Mastodon.

http://scripting.com/2023/05/08.html

Ciantic, 9 months ago to mastodon

Exciting! I noticed that #Mastodon has this entry in their roadmap: "Allow connecting custom domain to account"

If I'm correct, it allows you to use your own domain, but host your content in another one for example in mastodon.social. The same thing @takahe is planning to do.

Ciantic, 10 months ago to threads

Both Google and Microsoft have joined the #Threads, when will Apple join?

Ciantic, 8 months ago to webdev

Shout out to everyone who remembers the 1x1 transparent GIF trick #HTML

https://jkorpela.fi/html/1px.html

Ciantic, 7 months ago to wordpress

When I use #WordPress Gutenberg, I feel like I'm the last person on earth who cares about which tags I emit.

Take for instance wp:post-content block, it doesn't allow to set a tag name like "<main>", it doesn't allow to set id attribute or role attribute. 🤷‍♂️

This is terrible, now I have to weigh in creating my own block or creating a wrapper.

Problems don't end there though, WP basic block "group" doesn't allow one to choose "<nav>" but it allows one to choose a bunch of others. Like why!

Ciantic, 5 months ago to threads

I must say, #Threads' way of doing tags looks a lot nicer. They are visually as links, with proper grammar, and no awkward jamming of words.

Attached screenshot is thread by @viticci demonstrating tags

(Side note, I won't be posting to there, as I have no follower herd that I need to feed, I understand that many in the know will be)

Ciantic, 23 days ago to firefox

Trying to switch to Firefox, making solid progress. I made a theme, that is pretty close to Chrome, the address bar is white, tab is white (no borders). One thing still bugs me: Why is the Firefox tab not connected to the address bar?

I really would like it to be connected. It's such a minor thing though, that it's not a dealbreaker.

#firefox #chrome

Ciantic, 8 months ago to random

#Protomaps looks cool, but they also fail to show how to use it. Their maplibre example page starts with JSON object, and no instructions where should I paste that?

https://protomaps.com/docs/frontends/maplibre

#Mapping libraries dealing with tiles are full of jargon and very few good working tutorials.

Ciantic, 10 months ago to threads

It's so funny, #Threads starts to look like old #Twitter, without Elon Musk. It already has everyone from US politics (AOC, Trump), tech (from Jeff Bezos to all publications), and entertainment (Jon Bon Jovi...). It's almost like the US elite is shadow-banning Elon.

Ciantic, 8 months ago to mastodon

I like that #Mastodon's new search feature works for old posts too, as long as user has ticked the box.

Ciantic, 6 months ago to rust

Now what fresh hell is this? I suspect something in my system is broken. But this should be debuggable. My little Tauri app now crashes after a while in use in release mode with "exit code: 0xc0000374, STATUS_HEAP_CORRUPTION", however it works fine in debug mode!

I cleaned the target, and every time it does that, only in release mode.

#Rust #Tauri

Ciantic, 4 months ago to wordpress

Dear #WordPress, how about we implement email logging and setup to the core so we don't need the damn plugins for it.

P.S., evening ruined

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-150k-wordpress-sites-at-takeover-risk-via-vulnerable-plugin/

Ciantic, 6 months ago to random

When I'm looking at a backup tool, I want to know how to restore a single file in a given date and time.

Restic and Borg both makes this problematic because you have to first choose a snapshot, and so on. That is not what I want, I want simply:

"restore 2023-09-12T15:00Z /path/to/file"

No extra crap. I don't want to choose a snapshot etc, the tool should find the right snapshot closest to that time and give an option to copy or restore the file.

#restic #borg #backup

Ciantic, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Podcast players must have started to partner somehow with advertisers. I listened to #DotnetRocks by @richcampbell and @carlfranklin and got an advertisement in Finnish.

This is the first time I encounter this. I hope all the revenue goes to the duo and not the #PocketCasts which I used as a player.

I don't mind if the advertisement is a bit more targeted, but revenue should go to creators and not podcast players.

#podcasting #podcasts

Ciantic, 11 months ago to wordpress

#WordPress, am I crazy when I'm starting to think I don't need theme files anymore? If I only had a block or plugin to add some CSS it would probably suffice.

WordPress' Gutenberg way of doing things really reduces the need for theme files.

Ciantic, 9 months ago to random

@jkottke I've noticed that some of your @kottke posts are unlisted and some public. Why is that? Mastodon is planning to implement a search, and unlisted posts will not be searchable, only public posts are.

Ciantic, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to bluesky

Testing out this #Bluesky thing.

First note, I immediately like the feeds feature, as you can pin algorithmic feeds as tabs on top of the view. I now have "Following", "Tech news" and "What's Science".

This is exactly the stuff I'd like to have in #Mastodon too, because some days I just don't want to see the Explore tabs pouring of random things, usually related to US politics. Why can't we have custom feeds too?

Ciantic, 8 months ago to wordpress

#WordPress Gutenberg is full of weird hacks regardin layout widths. Really annoys me.

First of all, why would any #CSS require important by default? Now my own code gets littered with those as well because someone decided this is a good idea by default in WP:

body .is-layout-constrained > :where(:not(.alignleft):not(.alignright):not(.alignfull)) {  
 max-width: var(--wp--style--global--content-size);  
 margin-left: auto !important;  
 margin-right: auto !important;  
}  

Ciantic, 10 months ago to random

I'm a bit dumbfounded why #SQLite WASM/JS/TS wrappers are so ad-hoc. Very few seem to support ESM out of the box.

Ciantic, 7 months ago to wordpress

Another installment of #WordPress Gutenberg's really bad #CSS choices. By default, Gutenberg injects this gem:

.wp-block-post-title{ box-sizing:border-box; word-break:break-word }

Of course, this forced hyphenation from whatever location looks really awful. Who is making these choices?

Ciantic, 29 days ago to CSS

Sometimes #CSS is funny. Display grid is easy, but adding the actual grid lines between the grid cells, well, that's nearly impossible to do well!

I wish the display grid had inherited border possibilities from tables because they have all the needed things for adding borders (e.g. border-collapse etc) so there are no duplicate borders when using colspan etc.

Ciantic, 10 months ago to react

For a company that made #React it's odd that #Threads launched without a web application. It has a rudimentary viewing ability but not a web app, you need a phone to use it.