Notices by Shawn Hooper (he/him) (shawnhooper@fosstodon.org)

Found in the tech booth today.

#theatre #floppy

Automattic is forking the Advanced Custom Fields plugin, which is owned by WP Engine.

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/secure-custom-fields/

#WordPress

"The Disappearance of an Internet Domain"
or
How we could lose the .io TLD.

https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain

159 people took the offer to leave Automattic - 8.4% of the company.

Imagine being the person offer after only 2 days at the company. Walk away with $30K or 6 months.

https://ma.tt/2024/10/alignment/

Confirmed that I'm unable to access the plugin repo on a site I have hosted with WP Engine.

WTF.

#wordpress

@redcrew It's not just me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1fpeqn2/plugin_repository_inaccessible_to_wp_engine/?share_id=E8G3xTC-XQ05Yizhogncs&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

I haven't approached support yet.

@redcrew This is bad.

Matt / Automattic has just made hosting on WP Engine a security vulnerability.

Talk about anti-competitive behaviour.

#WordPress

@dustinrue Depends on the project. If it was just my own blog, I'd probably roll my own in Laravel, or just write it in HTML. It's be 90% paragraph tags.

@thomasfuchs why did I have it in my mind that Voodoo was an old Creative Labs product. Ah, how the memory forgets.

@chris @skc I’m hoping it’s going to come here.

@chris @skc aah! Unfortunately not coming to the Ottawa area but they have a Toronto date on the tour. https://www.mirvish.com/shows/back-to-the-future

I see a train trip to Toronto in my future.

@pch @chris Import the site using Local? Connect to MySQL that way?

Oh, that's a lot of thunder.

#ottawa

Just started the new season of The Bear. That first episode is art. Just beautiful.

Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.

https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code

#opensource
#WhipTheLlamasAss

This is from 5 days ago. Wheel falls off United Airlines Boeing 777 and crushes cars in San Francisco.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/wheel-falls-off-united-airlines-081552976.html

"Businesses wanting to maintain their online presence will need to rebuild their sites using an alternative platform."

https://martech.org/google-to-shut-down-business-profiles-websites/

Yet another case of "own your domain, own your content" so you don't get stuck when yet another service shuts down.

Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of the Pascal programming language, author of "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs", and more, passed away on January 1.

Wirth's law, named after him, is an adage which states that software gets slower more rapidly than hardware gets faster.

#programming #computerscience

Seen on FB in reference to somewhere in England. Perfectly fitting for #Ottawa, though.

If you're into web accessibility, the #a11yTO or #a11yTOConf hashtags should be full of great content for the next two days.

Toronto has a great accessibility community, and I know they'll have a very educational few days together.