chris

chris, 2 months ago to random

Finally got our last tax forms and trying to work out our own taxes. Oye.

chris, 2 months ago to random

At my dad’s place for what I hope will be a quiet and relaxing weekend.

freemo, 2 months ago to random

Woot, my #Freemason initiation ritual is in a little over a week!

chris, 2 months ago to random

I really need to mute any post with a rawstory link as they occasionally catch me but they don't work at all if you enough self-respect to use an ad blocker.

alda, 2 months ago to wordpress

Things that are built into WordPress but receive little-to-no use:

1. Hello.php and an upsell of Akismet
2. Blog posts
3. Comments
4. Dependency on an external service for profile pictures

Things that aren't built into WordPress but should be:

1. Multiple authors per post
2. A form builder for wp-admin
3. An ORM that prevents n+1 queries
4. Modularity via composer packages
5. Bucket storage support

#WordPress #PHP

chris, 2 months ago to random

I'm really ready for this week to be over

chris, 2 months ago to random

If Cynde Lauper was to record "Time After Time" today I think it would do much better as "[Zoom] Call After [Zoom] Call."

chris, 2 months ago to random

This is still the best version of Toto's Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9FyLsfDzw

chris, 2 months ago to random

I registered for @pluralistic 's book signing in Chicago on 17 Apr. It's pretty cool being in a city where I can do this. I have another signed hard cover of his last book but I had to do that one through the mail.

Of course I already bought the e-book for his latest so at least I'll be ready for it.

chris, 2 months ago to random

Now Chicago is talking about building not 1, but 2 new stadiums for the Bears and the White Sox at over $1 billion each. The Bears current stadium was refurbished not long ago so a new one isn't needed and the White Sox's current stadium is from the 90s but the owner wants an entertainment district around it he can personally profit from so he's demanding the tax payers build him a new one.

What a joke.

chris, 2 months ago to random

Focus has been incredibly hard to find this week

chris, 2 months ago to random

Ah.... some meetings for this week (of the 43 OG meetings) are starting to cancel or reschedule and it's glorious.

chris, 2 months ago to random

It is amazing to me how the modern web claimed to be a tech to bring the world together and, in the end, it is doing the most damage to foster hate and division.

jnv, 2 months ago to random French

Been awhile since I went through a McDonald’s drive thru. Picked up breakfast and my food was handed to me without a bag. I looked back puzzled and asked for a bag.

“Oh you didn’t pay for a bag.”

But I was never asked if I wanted a bag and when did this become a thing? I can’t imagine ordering a huge family dinner and then passing me my food one by one. 🤦‍♂️

#Enshittification in the real world.

chris, 2 months ago to random

This afternoon I'm listening to a group called Rura and it has to be some of the most relaxing music I've heard in a while. Bonus in that it has some bagpipes.

chris, 2 months ago to random

Last month the media said EVs were dead. This month they're crediting EVs and hybrids for a large sales jump at Ford. Hmmm....

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/04/ford-february-sales-hybrids-evs.html

chris, 2 months ago to random

Is it Friday yet?

ericmann, 2 months ago to random

Was thinking today back on my early adventures in the cloud. Our VPS kept dying (as in the rack had literally caught fire) so we migrated to Azure. Like v1 Azure.

Website was up. Database was up. Sales contact forms ... failed. No SMTP support. So I installed an SMTP client and used a (weak) password in request headers to protect it.

Came to work the next day to learn our domain had been blacklisted for spam. Because I had no idea what I was doing and was running an open relay.

Fun times ...