Notices by Steve Grunwell (stevegrunwell@phpc.social)

I had the wacky idea to eat at #BurgerKing tonight for the first time in at least a decade.

Who is this for? The food is worse than McDonald's or Wendy's while also somehow being more expensive. Do they just stay open as a cautionary tale for people who need to make positive changes in their lives?

RE: https://brunty.social/@brunty/116602661927492889

I love #Plex, but holy shit. I think I got my lifetime pass on sale for like $120 a couple years ago.

Figure 1: A Venn diagram illustrating the overlap of cohort A ("People I respect") and cohort B ("People who insist that #AI is a net-good for tech, society, and/or the planet")

@chris @topher1kenobe Seems like interesting work, but here's the sticking point:

> Additionally, because Fingerprint is an all-remote company and people can join our workforce from almost any country, we do not sponsor visas.

Womp womp.

Putting this out in the universe:

While I'm fortunate to be gainfully employed, things in the US are getting worse with each passing day. If anyone knows of an EU and/or UK-based company hiring a Senior+ engineer and willing to sponsor an American, I'd be open to the discussion.

* 17+ years writing software, primarily in PHP + JS
* Focused on quality, testing, & docs
* Laravel, Symfony, & WordPress (among others)
* Tech speaker with 100+ talks to my name

https://stevegrunwell.com

#GetFediHired

I don't know what marketer needs to hear this, but every time you promote a new "#AI" feature it drives me *away* from your product.

A tool I haven't used? Hard pass.

A tool I've used and loved for years? Perhaps it's time to reevaluate our relationship.

Sure, I'm one person, but I'm certainly not alone.

@davidnjoku better than showing ads for the sex comedy while watching Peppa Pig? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Some important context as this news breaks:

#WordPress is an open-source project, available at WordPress.org.

One of its co-founders, Matt Mullenweg, is CEO of #Automattic, which runs WordPress.com and owns #Tumblr.

They can’t sell what they don’t have, so “WordPress” here refers to WordPress.com, *not* self-hosted WordPress instances.

BUT many self-hosted instances use the Jetpack plugin, which does send data to WordPress.com, so that might be sold 🤬

https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/112004850884204466

Unsolicited career advice for staff+ engineers:

If someone compliments your team, take the time to call out particular members by name.

You’re staff+, and should be visible enough (especially my fellow cishet white dudes). Instead, make it impossible for management to ignore the team members who actually get shit done while you’re in meetings about how we can get shit done faster.

Regular reminder: if your site or app doesn’t work in Firefox, it’s broken.

I lived through the “this site requires and/or is best in IE” era, and I’d rather burn it all down than return to that.

Pro-tip: Firefox does most things better anyway. Give it a spin and enjoy a less-tracked web.