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Thoughts on the recent migration from X to Bluesky

October 21, 2024

A flood of users left X and moved to Bluesky over the weekend. I’ve written a bunch of times in the past about Bluesky, and have gone from grumpy frustration to general acceptance of the service. I’m happy that people are moving away from X, and I think Bluesky is a reasonable replacement. That said, I think new users should understand a bit how the Bluesky system works. Some of reasons that people are leaving X also exist on Bluesky.

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WordPress, drama, leadership, and the web

October 18, 2024

The WordPress saga continues. Theo Browne has a great video overview of things up to October 14. Since I last wrote about this there was more back-and-forth between David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) and Matt Mullenweg. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a fan of DHH, but I agree with his takes on this situation. On October 13, DHH commented on the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) hijacking. Mullenweg then responded but deleted the post. Mullenweg put a new post up at the same URL which offered a modicum of contrition, but was still doubling down on his actions. DHH then responded with a thoughtful rebuke that didn’t mention Mullenweg at all.

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ACF has been hijacked

October 13, 2024

It’s super late at night on Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. I shouldn’t be thinking about weird internet drama, but here we are.

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HTML for People

October 11, 2024

I came across HTML for People this morning, and it put a goofy smile on my face. It’s a fun and thoughtful introduction to web development that focuses on HTML and CSS first. Through it, you’ll learn to build a site, understand the basics of local development, and get pointers about what to learn next.

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