Notices by Alda Vigdís 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 (alda@topspicy.social), page 3

@goatsarah Like when Star Trek is doing distances in meters that could be done in kilometres or AU...

Matt Mullenweg's reactions and retaliations over the whole #Tumblr thing (while he's supposed to be on a 3-month sabbatical) have moved the whole ordeal to a point where any original justification of banning someone and throwing a hissy fit over it have stopped being relevant.

This is now a GDPR violation (and the woman being harassed lives in the EU) and is probably going to put the whole company into the limelight on those terms.

Keep criticising Matt Mullenweg. But please don't throw those of us who have worked for him and on the #WordPress project in various capacities under the bus.

Many of us not only dislike the guy, but have been hurt by him in one way or another.

But for some of us, WP is our livelihood.

Self-host your website outside of WordPress.com. There's plenty of hosting providers out there who support the open source WordPress ecosystem without involving MM or Automattic Inc.

#tumblr #WordPress

@thomasfuchs He's saying as if there's an advantage to have a conservative spouse.

@goatsarah One thing that can be said about this is this is what happens when sales and marketing takes over an engineering organisation.

Observations of the user side after creating several data entry forms in my career:

1. There's always the assumption that there's someone on the other end who will clean up your data.

2. Validation is both too restrictive and unrestrictive at the same time.

3. Emoji. Emoji everywhere.

4. People generally don't know how forms work.

5. People just want to tick the "done" box for a task and clock out.

6. It's somehow the same people who will destroy the clutch in their car every 3 months.

Serious question: Do we *really* need to minify our JS and CSS files?

Does it matter at all if we're gzipping the HTTP streams anyway?

Edit: Just to be perfectly clear, by wondering if it matters, I'm not asking how many kb I may or may not be saving per request, but if it affects the user experience in a meaningful way like LCF due to large images with undefined dimensions does.

Move slow and mend things.

@goatsarah @zoe Lesson of the day: Always carry a knife, I guess.

@pettter happens with every single local change I've done. There are regions where this doesn't happen as much but it sent a pretty clear message that I could be doing something else.

@pettter and then a bot overwrites your work within the next 12 hours or so. Very rewarding.

@goatsarah I honestly think most of them didn't even know the difference between the CoE and EU 5 years ago.

I'm getting the word that British conservatives want to "leave the European Court of Human rights", which effectively means leaving the Council of Europe and everything it entails, including collaboration against torture, racism and intolerance, human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children — in addition to the possibility of ever re-entering the EU.

In other words, anyone who supports leaving the CoE supports the use of torture, racism and child rape as a political means to an end.

@thomasfuchs @ActionRetro Nowadays, you'd just call them ✨ web components ✨ and they'd be all the rage.

@thomasfuchs @janl Honestly, this one could have used a CW. :|

@thomasfuchs @maarteuh Furthermore, was there any minix source code ported over to the Linux kernel back in the 90's?

@thomasfuchs @maarteuh oh he thinks MacOS is?

That's funny.

@thomasfuchs Ah yes, the Neurotypicals.

@thomasfuchs Also, a surprisingly large group of people (who are actually not that stupid) think macOS is some form of Linux.

Accessibility tip: You don't need to write your alt text as if it was a whole-ass PhD thesis. A brief description or a replacement text is almost always sufficient.