This is going to kill trans kids and it’s extremely scary. This is not hyperbole or me blowing this out of proportion.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-ag-paxton-declares-therapists

There’s a new FAIR announcement available now here: https://fair.pm/blog/2026/02/26/second-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@shawnhooper/116138603315445757

Its clear that the reason no host would be first to join the board is because of the culture of fear that Matt has perpetuated since WCUS 2024.

We know from legal proceedings that he’s put pressure on hosts and has an adversarial approach towards them.

But if Matt is upset about hosts not contributing enough back to the WP ecosystem, why did he push so hard in public and private to actively prevent hosts from providing the support that FAIR needs?

No not that way?

https://journal.rmccue.io/492/the-next-era-of-fair/

Excited to share that I made a new API for the Plugin Check (PCP) reviews of plugins. Right now it's launched only for use by the spreadsheet plugins here: https://comparewp.org/cck/

It runs once a week, checks the latest version of the plugin for errors+warnings (full suite) and stores that for the API to consume. The API exposes just the total error + warning numbers at the moment.

Examples:
https://comparewp.org/plugin-check-api/pods/
https://comparewp.org/plugin-check-api/advanced-custom-fields/

The sheet above has a row that now shows those counts.

Approaching a milestone birthday and having multi day back pain seemingly out of no where is too ironic

I can write code in many languages but damn if I can’t feel like the most powerful wizard when coding PHP + JS + HTML.

Turns out Diablo 2 doesn’t run because of Rosetta 2 and some others have OpenGL 4.6 issues :(

CrossOver seems to have been the right choice. It works with Battle.net too which seems to mean I could play all the PC games I’ve been meaning to. I need to finish up my Diablo 2 replay before I continue with Diablo 3. I need to finish Diablo 3 before I play Diablo 4.

And I want to go replay some Warcraft 1-3.

GOG works well and Pharaoh has been fun to decompress with low stress high-money cheat playing in my downtime 😎

I really liked the idea of server boosts, essentially sponsored servers that give it more features. I hate the idea of Slack plans you pay for user count when you are an open source community.

The Discord abilities were more flexible for creators too IMO. It looks nice and Slack is too much of a work thing dragging you back into the grind.

I really liked the promise and flexibility of Discord. I was willing to migrate everything from a community Slack to Discord. And now I just left a bunch of Discord servers in my first cull.

Next I need to find something that has a low bar for entry and is more open for my project(s) to use.

I remember Gitter being cool back in the day but it has now migrated to Matrix, and I don’t know if Matrix is right either.

I’m going to keep digging around as many of us are looking at the same time.

Face scans and age verification risks embodied with full irony, super shiny!

The thing that sucks is even when you write good summaries or detailed notes or easy to read docs — people are starting to assume you used AI for it and the thoughtfulness and time spent is devalued :(

Parallels was a bust, I don’t want to pay for Parallels and a Windows license. Not for this especially!

CrossOver seems to work. And I was able to run ‘Pharaoh the new era’ on it fine. Haven’t tried the older game yet but I might give the remake a go first

I guess I could try parallels or something on the Mac.

I want to play a remastered Pharaoh + Cleopatra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh_(video_game)

I want to just dig in and just get deep and forget about the messy real world

I guess I might play the GoG version if I can get a Windows box up at my desk. Maybe I need a Windows laptop or something, the other Windows computers in my house aren’t at my desk :(

The Kansas house and senate passed this atrocious trans bill, it’s the worst and most dangerous in the country.

Really scary times out there :(

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3mdj5fa6ukc2y

I feel like someone smart like @ross or @alex@www.alexstandiford.com or maybe someone else had a library that let you run a long running process with progress indicators.

I'm trying to find something like https://github.com/deliciousbrains/wp-background-processing or https://github.com/woocommerce/action-scheduler/ but kicked off by a UI (via AJAX request) with a UI showing progress and/or when it's done.

Use-case: Trigger a one-time action and poll / show progress until it's complete. Like run an upgrade script for a plugin or process a batch of data.

#WordPress

If you are putting pepper spray directly into a car air intake you are immediately in the wrong. But also so much other wrongs here!

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/arrested-for-observing-ice-minnesota-lesson.html

ICE is that van going doing the road offering candy to kids, trying to kidnap them and their families