Anyway. Monoculture is bad. Diversify your skills. Your preferred CMS or tech stack is not a belief system. Perhaps a single deranged former wunderkind should not be the single point of failure of the way you make a living.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 12:45:00 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 -
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 12:44:57 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @navi I think what matters here is that whatever your work is about, it doesn't stand and fall with some demented techbro going rouge or not, so I think you're doing good.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 12:44:56 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @navi Like, Linus Torvalds throwing tantrums at NVidia will usually not cause your whole industry to have a meltdown.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 08:10:31 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @chris @skc @ramsey And I must ask, where is the joy or reward in contributing to this codebase?
Many of us need to argue for contributing to open source being a part of our nine-to-five. Even during my time at Automattic, fixing blocking bugs in the WP core was considered extracurricular or "not a good use of your time".
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 00:49:54 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @chris @skc @ramsey Since I came back from the Rubyverse to WordPress, I have had the hunch that the WordPress project itself, its monolithic structure and its multiple appendices is deliberately designed to prevent a successful fork from ever seeing the light of day.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 22:41:51 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @chris yeah I've even been refusing on-site gigs things within the EEA for years by now, but I do understand having to fly in on a regular basis.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 22:37:12 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @chris well then.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 22:29:14 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 This just in: Angry and confused man grasps at straws, as he abuses a non-profit's online presence to make a personal announcement. More at 11.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 22:27:08 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @chris 1984 has a US based LLC if that helps.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 08:52:55 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 I'm not a huge fan of my 10th anniversary of moving to Beirut for my year with UNRWA and the SG's office having been spent holding my tears down as I'm watching the neighborhood across the street from my old office being bombed on cable news.
Also not a huge fan of Matt Mullenweg being allowed to keep being the be-all, end-all emperor-god of the most important web development framework (and CMS) in the world.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 08:52:54 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 Anyway. Fuck this week. Fuck this month.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 08:52:53 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 But still. It kinda funny to see the two of my circles of friends and acquainteces — WordPress people on one hand and diplomats and political scientists on the other — analysing a speech by a tired man that seems to be losing the hold he has on his followers as he uses religious rhetoric and us-versus-them mentality as he promises to seek vengeance.
One is Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress guy and the other is Nasrallah, the Hezbollah guy.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 08:51:52 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 Anyone got a Laravel gig for me?
I'm really, really tired of being the WordPress person.
I also wish that 220 of my former coworkers hadn't been specifically targeted and murdered by the Israeli military in the past year, which is a war crime.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:55:43 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @nixCraft There are shareholders and hundreds of employees but the founder-and-CEO owns things like trademarks, domains names and even encryption keys.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:55:32 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @nixCraft The company is owned by a large well-established group of companies. The website says "we may be owned by Arbeitsfabrik AG but we're like a startup in spirit".
Turns out it is an LLC that is being sold off soon and none of the employees have access to the benefits provided by the parent company.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:55:07 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @nixCraft The workplace claims to be inclusive to those with different backgrounds than computer science but the recruitment process involves:
1. Calculating Big-O without specifying the operations that are available or other CS concepts and terminology.
2. A low-paid or unpaid trial process that ranges from 1-12 months, resulting in a financial or mental health breakdown and then love bombing at the end of the process (read any books about how cults actually work)
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:54:46 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @nixCraft 4. The company is originally US-based and claims to offer several benefits to its employees which turn out to be the legal minimum in your own country.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:54:40 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @nixCraft 1. "Unlimited Paid Time Off", which is not unlimited in practice and means that you get far less during severance. Peer pressure means that you may actually take less time off or put in work during those days.
2. There is a strong ideological foundation and a perhaps even a "creed".
3. The founder-and-CEO was considered a wunderkind 20 years ago and still thinks he can program or have opinions on deep technical aspects.
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 20:15:08 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 "AI winters, like their seasonal counterparts, come around regularly. The mechanism is as clear as climate change: Some technology is declared to be AI in egg form, just needing the warm fluffy hen's bottom of massive investment to hatch as a miraculous giant robo-god. The egg is never what it's cracked up to be, and the resultant stench makes AI deeply unfashionable for a decade or two until people forget".
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Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 21:26:38 JST Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸 @chris and the sad part is that many of those who do pay peanuts for this line of work end up having to pay the emergency rates of someone like me at some point or fail a due diligence audit when they want to sell out.