Duane Storey

Looks great.

Spent the last few weeks in Poland. What a cool country. Food is great, people are lovely. Summer reminds me more of Canada than Spain, which is a nice change.

Apparently that didn't work!

I love vue!

I'm going to try and ramp up my blue sky activity, it's getting pretty dismal over there on X!

Some patsy cline came to my Spotify the other day and it was great. So much talent lost early back in those days.

My wifi is the grey havens. Guest is the green dragon.

Maybe time to rename the pacific, Atlantic, and arctic oceans to be more Canadian? We do have the longest coastline.

Seems about as nonsensical to me as renaming the gulf.

My sister works at save on foods, and she said people all day were coming in and wanting to only buy Canadian products.

Afternoon walk.

It’s end of days for the USA. They basically have no credibility left. They just elected a convicted felon who is threatening to physical take over several nato members using Putin’s playbook.

There was an old paella guy on TV in Valencia. And someone asked him his secret for why his paella was so good. His answer:

“Practice”

Yah, people just have to try and iterate!

Waiting for the coffee to cross my blood brain barrier.

If you’re a guy in your 20s, buy avocado toast. And a flat white.

Go into debt if you have to.

Yes that’s right. So one person I know now has like 50 repositories being managed on their own site using the Author plugin. It generates an api the repo uses to update, and updaters can use it too.

I almost have it working. It doesn’t depend on the repo at all. It’s done on the authors service for the generation and on the client side for the verification.

They can already submit it. JuniperAuthor becomes the update server for it and extracts all the information form GitHub and the plugin and theme header files.

It prevents someone hacking into GitHub (or using the author credentials) and changing the zips. They would need access to the private key too for the signing, which they don’t have.

Juniper: An Update On A New Repository For WordPress - The Duane Storey I set out last week to try and build a bare-bones repository of WordPress plugins and themes and an associated management

I just posted an official update about the experimental repository system I created for #WordPress last week.

duanestorey.com/posts/repo-f...

Thank you! Appreciate the support.

It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.

Matt looking down at the #WordPress community on Reddit this Christmas eve, wondering why the we are all still singing and enjoying ourselves without our wordpress.org toys.

After WordPress Today, the head of the WordPress Open Source Project Matt Mullenweg unilaterally locked the gates to wordpress.org, the central service powering the community that for the past 20 years has been prese...

ICYMI here's my piece from yesterday about governance, accountability, and what I see as the only viable future for the #WordPress community:

After WordPress
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Someone has got to do it! Great post yesterday btw. You nailed it.

I've seen people raise concerns about the WPE injunction similar to this in a few different places, including Hacker News and Twitter. (In other words, not trying to drag brinavan - this is a Bluesky example of a common, and not unreasonable, concern.)

Here's why I don't share that concern:

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I think Apple needs to start patrolling their eco system a bit more. Banning apps that abuse notifications.

I'm getting tired of advertising on my iPhone. So many apps are starting to badger me for commercial things, like hey, pizza is on sale tonight. I don't want any of that garbage.

I did some gorilla math based on the WPE tracker website - if 27,000 sites have left WPE based on interference, at $400 USD/mo (WPE's middle tier), that amounts to $130,000,000 in lost revenue per year. Automattic might end up paying a lot of money to basically destroy their own trust and goodwill.

Yah, Matt weaponized the entire community in this battle, with horrible consequences. It's like that line in Hunt for Red October: it's a war with no victors, only causalities.