alda

alda, 6 months ago to random

Move slow and mend things.

alda, 3 months ago to wordpress

Keep criticising Matt Mullenweg. But please don't throw those of us who have worked for him and on the #WordPress project in various capacities under the bus.

Many of us not only dislike the guy, but have been hurt by him in one way or another.

But for some of us, WP is our livelihood.

Self-host your website outside of WordPress.com. There's plenty of hosting providers out there who support the open source WordPress ecosystem without involving MM or Automattic Inc.

#tumblr #WordPress

alda, 1 month ago to random

Good rule of thumb: If Joanne Rowling, Elon Musk and that human trafficker twat that got arrested in Romania are against a new law or policy, them I'm all for that same law or policy.

alda, 1 month ago to opensource

I'm looking for resources, experiences, conversations, books and papers on revenue models for open source software, as I'm releasing a product that needs to be under GPLv3.

I'm specifically looking into monthly and annual donations and "sponsor a feature" sort of deals on top of service contracts.

There's already interest, so it's more about defining the methods rather than this being possible or not.

CC: @janl

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

alda, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

As someone who has actually read Adam Smith, I find it amazing that he is considered to be the father of libertarianism and celebrated by modern-day greedy capitalists.

The Wealth of Nations is basically him observing vehicles of corruption and trying to find means to improve equality.

I'm not even sure if the editors of the Uni. Chicago Press edition have even read the whole thing themselves.

What this does symbolise is how a certain class of people are bullshitters through-and-through.

alda, 5 months ago to random

Can anyone explain to me why so many Americans identify as their great grandmother's nationality and also dislike immigrants at the same time?

What's so special about being 12.5% "Irish" or whatever anyway?

alda, 2 months ago to random

Non-American Programmers Stop Calling Postal Codes Zip Codes Challenge 2024.

(I'm literally going to make a t-shirt for this.)

alda, 3 months ago to random

#Journalists: Please. WordPress.com and the company behind it are what IBM is to Linux. It's not the same thing.

alda, 1 year ago to random

Hi. My name is Alda. I am looking for new jobs and consultancies.

My Github profile is at https://github.com/aldavigdis and my own website is at https://aldavigdis.is/

I am primarily looking for Ruby on Rails roles, but I am also highly skilled when it comes to WordPress (in particular on the backend and infrastructure side), DevOps and general Linux/Unix system operations.

I have worked in sectors ranging from digital agencies to intl. diplomacy.

A printable resume is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a5FjXfFhlkDNqrWZ8xBMH9ZzGlBzxHVD_6klUG-_FRE/edit?usp=sharing

alda, 4 months ago to random

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as WordPress, is in fact, LAMP/WordPress, or as I've recently taken to calling it, LAMP plus WordPress. WordPress is not a software stack unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning LAMP system made useful by the other LAMP components, the web server and vital system components comprising a full CMS such as the underlying database.

alda, 1 year ago to programming

My newest blog post on my .dev site. This one is titled "Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses and location data" and is recycled from an old Github gist of mine on top of some feedback from my Mastodon followers

https://aldavigdis.dev/2023/03/25/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses-and-location-data/

#programming #developers #falsehoods #addresses #locationdata

alda, 7 months ago to devops

My take on #DevOps these days is that there are no clever and elegant solutions out there for small scale infrastructure needs, even if those are the majority of the backend systems out there.

So many things are invented for large-scale and high demand services and then supposedly tickle down to smaller systems.

The thing is that I don't need a real-time job scheduler for my Rails app image processing pipeline. I really just need a cron job that runs every 10 minutes or so during office hours.

alda, 4 months ago to random

Observations of the user side after creating several data entry forms in my career:

1. There's always the assumption that there's someone on the other end who will clean up your data.

2. Validation is both too restrictive and unrestrictive at the same time.

3. Emoji. Emoji everywhere.

4. People generally don't know how forms work.

5. People just want to tick the "done" box for a task and clock out.

6. It's somehow the same people who will destroy the clutch in their car every 3 months.

alda, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to wordpress

So I just got a development release up for my WP-Tests-Strapon Composer package up on Github. (Not on Packagist yet as it's still under initial development.)

It is a replacement for the install-wp-tests.sh shell script that comes with some scaffolded WordPress plugins and should be easier to use and keep working.

It also does not depend on outdated things such as Subversion/SVN and uses PHP for most of its actions.

https://github.com/aldavigdis/wp-tests-strapon

#WordPress #PHP #UnitTests

alda, 5 months ago to random

Transvestigators are basically the same kind of people as the ones who were posting about Britney Spears' breast size changes back in the early 2000's, while also having no idea about how push-up bras work.

alda, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to webdev

My favourite HTML tag these days is <template>.

It's really helpful when you want to stick with vanilla JS (funnelled through Babel and Webpack or not) for doing things like dynamically adding form components.

Legacy libraries such as cocoon achieve the same thing using data attributes, which is clunky at best.

I may just end up making my own form builder helper out of this, but I need a good name for it.

#webdev #html #javascript

alda, 4 months ago to random

Change your non-payments into intellectual property theft with this one easy trick by adding this clause to your standard contract:

After final payment, the client receives the right to the intellectual property and other products that are created by the contractor under the scope of this contract.

#Freelancing

alda, 5 months ago to random

So the eruption in Iceland just started. It's right next to the Blue Lagoon and the nearby power plant. Possibly the worst possible location.

alda, 3 months ago to php

Setting up a WordPress development environment with a Laravel/Drupal developer:

"Uhm, wait, where's the WordPress composer package?"

"You're telling me there's a script that downloads WordPress into the temp directory using SVN of all things and uses that as a a development dependency?"

"How would anyone want to develop anything for this?"

"I don't think I'll be writing any tests if things are like this."

"It's PHP allright, but it's so far removed from it!"

#PHP #WordPress

alda, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to php

Just showing off my little side project that should make PHPUnit testing for WordPress plugins less of a pain.

#PHP #WordPress #PHPUnit

alda, 5 months ago to random

It's been a little more than a decade by now and I think server side JavaScript is still wrong and should be destroyed.

alda, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

One thing I've learned from running meetups and volunteering for civil societies is if underrepresented groups are not attending your events or applying to speak at your conference, they are probably not going to respond to a passive "open call" — and organisers may be the last ones to hear about any complaints if you don't specifically reach out to them.

Furthermore, diversity and inclusion are not box ticking exercises and quality and diversity are also not mutually exclusive in any way.

alda, 1 month ago to random

You're not a bad programmer. Everything is just so badly documented and convoluted that no single person is able to handle it all.

alda, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to random

The people who designed Amazon's Kinde-to-Print self-publishing process don't know much about print, do they?

Here I am attempting to read a book that I just got in the mail and the margins on the spine side are so tiny that the first character in a line is barely visible and the margins on the outer side are good 2.5-3 cm.

I'm not sure if they've even seen a book before.