Notices by Brandon Kraft ❤️‍🔥🧡 (kraft@religious.social), page 2

It's silly that it is easier for me to watch a German soccer team play than to watch the Texas Rangers. MLB hates fans.

Abba Agathon said, ‘A person is like a tree, bodily asceticism is the foliage, interior vigilance the fruit. According to that which is written (Matt. 3.10), it is clear that all our care should be directed towards the fruit, that is to say, guard of the spirit; but it needs the protection and the embellishment of the foliage, which is bodily asceticism.’

From the Trappist Daily Reflection https://www.trappists.org/2023/08/14/daily-reflection-for-august-14-2023/

@fathermaurer @BackwardsFeet @annyr

I got it.

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/22f80e93829fe74c8ebace466f081d0b19e54b75/wp-includes/blocks/footnotes.php#L29-L39

We're checking if there are footnotes. If we think there are, we continue (great!). Then we decode them and count them. But, if the decode fails, there's nothing to count and... starting in newer versions of PHP... that's a fatal situation (vs just a warning, and it'd assume 0 count).

I'll open a ticket and push a patch this week to be more defensive, but would be good to know how un-decodeable content got there.

@fathermaurer @BackwardsFeet @annyr

my pleasure -- if downgrading resolves it, please send me a copy of the content in the page that was breaking. I can see if I can duplicate and confirm resolution and all that.

@BackwardsFeet @fathermaurer @annyr

try downgrading and see if that helps. If it does, since it looks like a core block (wp-includes/blocks/footnotes.php), I'll see where the Core ticket is on this one.

I thought we were to the point where 8.2 with Core shouldn't fatal or anything, but something is up with this one.

@BackwardsFeet @fathermaurer howdy Padre!

Happy to help. Is the error the "this block has encountered a critical error" type of error or the total white screen or death error page? I concur to check the server error log and the browser error console.

My guess is if it is the first error type, the server log will be clean but the browser console might reflect something.

Also happy to help setup a staging site and debug with you. Please let me know how I can help!

Over in #WordPress news, we shipped in Jetpack our Social Sharing feature for Mastodon.

This will allow site owners to link to their Mastodon profile and automatically (or schedule) shares of their blog posts to their fediverse followers.

Automattic is both doing this and working on ActivityPub support for WordPress as two side of the coin. Whether or want your site to natively be on the fediverse or share to other profiles, we want you to do both.

https://jetpack.com/blog/jetpack-12-2/

@RitchieTorres @tchambers Thoughts on Sen. Sanders call to repeal the deregulation a few years back that reduced the oversight of SVB?

I'm bullish on ActivityPub/Mastodon/etc because we do need a way to have communication channels not subject to a single entity/person.

Government should run their own communication infrastructure. ActivityPub, RSS, etc are good things here.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-13/despite-chaos-cities-are-sticking-with-twitter