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Cake day: September 9th, 2024

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  • They are a mindless organization, not one or a few using logic. Everyone working there can figure out the general issues, on their own, for sure. But it’s an out of control huge organization. Even the top leadership is along for the ride at this point.

    Every department is headed by competent and intelligent people, I assume. But they each only control a small slice of the environment, and even in each division there are many things the middle management cannot control directly. Too big

    It’s not like a car manufacturer, there is an exponential difference in the number of parts to control and the complexity.

    When the sales, and other parts are woven in, I doubt there is a dozen people alive who can explain how all the company structure works together






  • 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



  • If my own project is anything to go by, or the little I know of all my thousands of sisters and bothers who are also coding making and doing their own small projects .

    I think wondrous new ways of interacting online, sharing and verifying things, is always around the corner. I can’t even image the next three years.

    What we think about news propagation today will seem quaint to all of us later