Gutting the Forest service — a new oh shit moment from those hoping we can avoid a huge loss of public lands and forests

https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263

I plead the 25th

This is looking like it’s going to be a wild architecture week with all the bridge work. Hoping we come back from the brink..

MJ biopic? Read the room!

Gmail spam Google Calendar invites suck

I finally finished it after initially starting this recording a few years ago.

Going to a Town (Rufus Wainwright Cover)

https://soundcloud.com/soft-charisma/going-to-a-town-rufus-wainwright-cover?in=soft-charisma/sets/covers

This is a major challenge with the AI connectors in core, there is no trust and opt-in. Plugins will just start tapping into your AI access and it’s all or nothing.

https://thewp.world/wordpress-ai-connectors-need-more-friction-not-less/

THEY SURE ARE MOVING QUICKLY TO DENOUNCE THE NON WHITE PERSON ACCUSED OF SEX CRIMES AND RENAME STUFF.

…….

#EpsteinTrumpFiles

RE: https://mastodon.world/@WordPress/116246768521912549

Absolutely wild that HTTP polling sync is happening like this :|

RE: https://mastodon.social/@therepository/116243694556696241

Add the numbers up, HTTP polling is going to cost everyone more money, resources used, energy needed, storage needed (logs etc), etc — this feature is highly problematic on any host that doesn’t invest in a custom polling solution ASAP.

This was rushed and unfortunately not well thought out in terms of impact to the web on an IRL environmental and shared server level.

#WordPress

You can do anything at Zombo com but you were more welcome at the original than the new relaunch. Proof:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-3Xxy0tU65Y

I keep seeing various Bibimbap dishes appear in the K Dramas I’ve been watching. I’m a picky eater but I’m curious enough to be tempted to try it at some point.

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 😎