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  • I think the value of Wordpress is its ecosystem of tens of thousand of plugins. They cannot rewrite it without breaking many of them

    The other value of Wordpress is its low entry barrier for writing plugins. One does not need to code well to write a plugin, and often plugins are abandoned-ware, or close. Many of these badly written abandoned plugins are vital to thousands of sites, or more.

    Broke plugins stay broken .

    By definition wp must never change too much, ever




  • No, regular intelligence is all I needed. I made over a dozen plugins ( private not sold ) . I no longer have to maintain most.

    One can pick up patterns, and the hooks get intuitive.

    It’s not a bad framework, for the 1990s. It lacks many things, and God help anyone who wants to put a lot of data in it, or have multiple instances. It can be done , but omg.

    And don’t get me started on the bad and lazy work seen in many of the popular plugins .

    This is what a lot of the world depends on for day to day existence



  • As a dev who is in the middle of making a project myself, this is nightmarish for me to read.

    Yes, I know this is not the topic, or how you meant it, but it profoundly affected me in my own way.

    Like absolutely blows my mind. It reminds me that any solo projects I do are probably doomed to fail later due to them not being useful at all, or unknown. Or if they are used, then I will get overwhelmed probably, and quit. The only things that seem safe is a teamwork collaboration… and I suck at that.

    Right, I am off to learn a new trade, carpentry… perhaps



  • I am all for propping up news agencies that are worth something to me.

    But I think the faster these dinosaurs die, the better off the next generation of news distribution, and faster to arrive also.

    Routers, AP, and many other mainstream news sites are directly opposing the progress I want to see by their two dimension, very selective and filtered reporting. If they did this and not many people read them, I would be fine with that. But these oldsters still help maintain a lot of the ignorance, and sometimes even the toxicity, I see in my location. They don’t have to do much to help the reactionary and static forces here. Only just do not report, or ignore many things when they do.

    People still rely on these sources too much for their worldviews, and the replacements are not yet ready. One of the reasons the better news sources are not ready is these giants still take up too much reading room


  • Jetbrains has been irritating me by breaking a lot of tools I use because of their race for AI goodness.

    I eventually rolled back the phpstorm I use to last year’s release, to get functionality again, and there are dozens of tickets for the issues.

    They broke stuff that worked over years. For instance, copy and paste broke when doing larger code base and wanting to copy a file.

    Either they enshitified, or the war really crippled them and now in trouble, maybe both. I know they lost some real talent







  • I think anyone arguing that would eventually fall back to not so defined standards to make their point.

    Ultimately, from my point of view, I am a developer who makes software that others will take advantage of to make their own profits. I have not made any ground breaking projects yet, but I am working on one the past year, and hope to have it widely used. Maybe it will, maybe not

    But, my viewpoint is that users are greedy, they want everything for nothing. I also need users to want to use my stuff. Its a delicate balancing act.

    I think ultimately, the op source code did it wrong in the beginning, if they had layered their work more, some of it open source, some closed source, they would not have the backlash now.

    Maybe one day my own stuff will have similar controversy, or not! Either way, if people call my own stuff not open source enough, and I am looking at my bank account, I do not care