Notices by Danny van Kooten (dvk@toot.re)

@chris @m2m I went back last year and have been very happy with it.

Wrote a bit about my C++ setup with it last year: https://www.dannyvankooten.com/blog/2024/cpp-development-setup/

@chris Sublime Text 4 is very much alive and still kicking. They have LSP support now so you can just install a bunch of language servers and be on your way.

@m2m @chris It's the only editor that can keep up. 😜 (It's so fast!)

Can anyone give me a good summary of what the hell is supposedly going on with Firefox?

Was conveniently ignoring it but stuff like this (link below) makes me wonder if I should worry?

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847L65

Somehow my Mastodon feed has turned very political again... Which is not doing me any good since I just get severely depressed.

I remember getting off Twitter around 2016 since being on there just made me angry. I missed some stuff, but life in general was calmer and less black and white...

Hopefully I can maintain a Mastodon presence just for sharing some web and open-source related shit.

@chris Wow. But this is the first winter I am not struggling as in earlier years. Still looking forward to summer though!

Question for everyone.

I'm currently only selling licenses for Koko Analytics Pro in EUR because of simplicity (code, tax, pricing). Do you think that scares off potential non-EU based customers?

I know EU people are very used to paying for "internet stuff" in USD, but the other way around is probably a lot less common. Problem? Or not?

Contemplating building a standalone version of Koko Analytics where WordPress is only (optionally) used for installing and then never again. Maybe a plugin that ties a thing or two together.

Still in PHP so it can co-exist next to WordPress.

ACF Pro now forked by A8C and available on the WP.org plugin repository, apparently bypassing the plugin review team...

https://www.therepository.email/wordpress-org-forks-acf-pro-in-unprecedented-move-against-wp-engine

Koko Analytics version 1.4.5 was just launched into orbit. 🚀

Expected landing on your sites is whenever you get a chance. Landing should be a safe and standard procedure. Carry on crew!

https://github.com/ibericode/koko-analytics/releases/tag/1.4.5

Got fed up with all the easy-to-detect comment spam on my WordPress site...

Don't want to run Akismet, but this here already stops 99% of comment spam in just a few lines of code:

https://paste.sr.ht/~dvko/60b96b2227f1c2bc634f066ea1524cd2bc89cd5b

New checkbox item when trying to log into WordPress.org. Okay...

Block ChatGPT from scraping your website by blocking its IP ranges (not asking via robots.txt).

https://sizeof.cat/post/block-chatgpt-scraping/

Can confirm that it works. 🙂

You're not missing much if you already follow me here, but I just sent out a newsletter for Koko Analytics describing some of the recent changes and what's next on our roadmap.

If you'd like to be updated by email (a couple of times per year), you can subscribe here: https://buttondown.email/kokoanalytics

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@buttondown My favorite part of Buttondown has to be this page, where it credits all open-source software it relies on: https://buttondown.email/open-source

@buttondown Least favorite? That it's impossible to read the Buttondown website itself as soon as you have an account and are/were logged in. (cc @jmduke)

@jmduke @buttondown 🙌🎉 That'd make at least 1 person happy!

Also while I have you, but maybe you're aware of this already, while writing a new newsletter I can't seem to paste in any of the editing modes except for the Markdown editor. Can provide more details if you wish.

@jmduke @buttondown Firefox ESR, only two active browser extensions are uBlock Origin and Bitwarden.

@kev Must be your Mastodon friends 😉 I've seen loads of Buttondown love this last 24 hours. So much that it would normally annoy me, if I wouldn't love it myself.

My favorite parts: https://buttondown.email/open-source & https://buttondown.email/climate ❤️

Blog post in the makings. I keep re-running the numbers since they keep blowing my mind. 🤯