Been developing with cursor ai editor a lot in the last couple of weeks and have thoughts - the tool is amazing, they’ve done an excellent job. cursor is good. ai is, fine? the ai pit of death is all too real. the plateau of death also very real. ai seems best suited to me for rubber ducking

Choose one camera.

Choose one lens.

Choose one software.

Choose one subject.

Explore within the boundaries of limitation

It’s a trance pants kinda day

Discovering mix tapes, dj mixes, promos, is difficult for some reason, so I am reaching way back in the bag for some oldies and classics

I don’t normally use this word, but this track is fire. On rotation since it was released. JID might have the best verse, which is rare on Eminem features. Regardless, both killed it.

Darktable is a sharp knife.

Gotta learn how to not cut yourself :D

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

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One of the key shifts in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy is moving from a doing mode to a being mode. Or to say it another way; moving from trying to fix or control everything to accepting things as they are in the moment.

If there is any lesson to take from this program it is that.

“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

DHH was right (again) -> world.hey.com/dhh/autom…

Super timely Marcus Aurelius quote popped up in the discover feed:

Thanks to gregmorris.co.uk/2024/10/0… for sharing

you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Cant stop thinking about building something with NextJS so I guess i just have to do that. Feeling a bit of a hyperfocus brewing on this as a new shiny toy and dopamine source so just gonna lean into that and learn this shit 🤓

wow…

wpengine.com/wp-conten…

Matt Mullenweg needs to step down. What a disgrace

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switowski.com/blog/i-li…

I too also like Makefiles. Love that consistent tooling and dev interface on projects :)

The creator of WordPress throwing shade at other companies because they are not contributing back enough is a bad look.

To make his point, Mullenweg compared the Five For the Future contributions from Automattic and WP Engine, a competitor of similar size. Automattic contributes 3,786 hours per week, while WP Engine contributes just 47.

40 hours a week contributing back to an open source project seems pretty good. I mean, wtf is this comparison in the first place, Automattic is the governing company for WordPress. WPEngine is a webhost that specializes in hosting WordPress.

This is not the first time Mullenweg has discussed this point. “Those who care about the future of WordPress should spend their dollars with less parasitic companies,” he said in 2022.

Pantheon, another host that specializes in WordPress, pledges even less than WPEngine. Are they also parasitic?

Anyways, I think that Automattic would prefer you used their VIP services and spent your enterprise hosting dollars with them rather than WPE or even Pantheon.

Automattic profits from all of the open source contributions and has commercial interest in exploiting those contributors and their efforts. I think, ideally, WordPress would be independent and under the stewardship of a community governing body, and not by a company with commercial interest in the project.

I wonder if the next thing we hear about is a license change similar to what Hashicorp, Redis, Elastic, recently(ish) went through.

update

wow, cringe ass post by creator of WordPress -> wordpress.org/news/2024… I’m not really following the logic. WordPress offers a PHP constant to disable revisions so it’s not like WPEngine is mangling things..

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 0);

In my experience WP revisions are often a cause of performance issues, so it makes sense to me disable them. Is it weird they do that? Maybe, but its likely due to infrastructure limitations. If you need them use a 3rd party that handles revisions better.

This man hates WPEngine 😂

p.s.

Automattic themselves, via Wordpress.com, offers “something that they’ve chopped up, hacked, butchered to look like WordPress, but actually they’re giving you a cheap knock-off and charging you more for it.” so the hypocrisy is something.

morning jogging music 🎧

I am working with WordPress a lot more. And so that has me thinking about WordPress a lot more. One thing I cannot shake is how messy the platform feels. And how poor of a developer experience that WordPress provides. It could be better.

I watched this video from Pantheon Developer Advocate, and thought it was interesting. I can feel the frustration - Is more Gutenberg the future of WordPress?

This article also nicely illustrates the state of WordPress developer experience - Modern WordPress - Yikes! Yikes indeed. It’s rough.

Wrapping WordPress with your own tooling helps quite a bit!

Anyways, just generally disappointed with WordPress, Gutenberg, “Full Site Editing”, and all things related to modern WordPress. I like React, and think they could do something really interesting with block based development in WordPress, but the current state is just, meh.

My boring regular-ass take about Linux adoption is this: it aint for everyone and that’s totally fine.

Why don’t more people use it? Let’s be honest, Linux asks way more of you than MacOS or Windows does. That’s a tall barrier to entry for many people.

I use MacOS, because I don’t want to think about my OS any more than I have to. But I run Linux on every server I touch, because I don’t want to have to think about my servers any more than I have to :P

I dunno, maybe next year will be the year of Linux on the Desktop

Huh, saw a comment that said the USPS should provide email service and allocate citizens email addresses. It just makes a lot of sense to me. So many services require an email address and it is super weird that we offload that critical responsibility entirely to companies like Google.

AWS has historically been pretty good for me as a hosting solution… but there are so many landmines and gotchas to navigate that I am starting to look elsewhere

Hmm I am writing some Go code but I have no idea if it is idiomatic Go code or even okay Go code. Gonna need to introduce myself to some GoLang folk at the next local dev meeting

My executive function is shot today 🤪 🚨

TIL that you can configure apple notes to just be a body with no title. Its a small thing, but it is really nice for my second brain. less to think about just type note and be done with it

Dont make things harder than they need to be. Make a choice. You can always make changes later. Like, get the first draft out thats the hard part.

Anyways i just went with Google workspace because i didnt want to think about email that much. It works 😂 and if it doesnt ill change it later

Trying to setup a google workspace account this morning, and it keeps funneling me into a plan I do not want with no option to change it during sign up. Allegedly the steps are to just accept the much higher plan and then downgrade, but like, why this user hostile approach? I specifically chose to start with a smaller plan and it still herds me into a much higher priced plan. So yeah looking for an alternative.

how can we stop nagging users to subscribe to a newsletter when they have already subscribed? I don’t want to annoy folk. I think we can design better experiences here

Today I learned that Affinity Designer has a QR Code drawing tool. What a time saver!