Can I just say this week has been a long year?
The FAIR project is nowhere near over.
halfelf.org/2026/fair-su...
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Can I just say this week has been a long year?
The FAIR project is nowhere near over.
halfelf.org/2026/fair-su...
Onwards, to the next era of the @fair.pm project: journal.rmccue.io/492/the-next...
For slightly over a year, Joost de Valk and I have been trying to get FAIR "off the ground" for the WordPress ecosystem. We have now come to the conclusion that funding this effort is not going to happen. But... there's a silver lining!
Read it all: marucchi.com/fair-wordpre...
so i’m one of the best WordPress developers in the US. period. one of y’all has to know someone (or be that someone) who wants to pay me to do that.
Homebrew is great. Take a look at something I did a few years ago.
https://github.com/afragen/mac-clean-install
I remember in middle school using Pee Chee folders that had a multiplication table on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee-Chee_folder
Gotcha beat. Exorcist
Free UpTime by Automagically Watching the Watchers
A look between multiple different (mostly) self hosted ways to monitor the uptime of services and websites and more.
halfelf.org/2025/free-up...
FAIR and Patchstack Build Security MVP at CloudFest USA Hackathon
We have release @fair.pm 1.1.0!
fair.pm/blog/2025/11...
Lots of work going on, and we would love to have anyone passionate about distributing code!
Happy Birthday 🎉
https://www.bugasalt.com/
New FAIR 1.0 Release Brings Decentralized Package Management to WordPress
🐓 Startup (Early Bird) tickets for PressConf end Sept. 30th!
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What did you use before?
#WCUS2025 in monochrome.
https://thefragens.com/wcus-2025-in-pictures/
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Searching the plugin repository isn’t perfect. It’s done via an ElasticSearch and sometimes even searching the exact plugin name doesn’t show the results you would expect.
Can you paste the query?
Just ask the question. Maybe we can find you and answer.
I've published a new WordPress security plugin: Strict CSP. It helps mitigate cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities on the frontend and login screen (but not yet in the WP admin):
Do you like instant navigations on the WordPress frontend? Speculation rules! What if speculative loading was also in WP Admin? Check out this new experimental plugin that adds prerendering with moderate eagerness for links in the Admin Menu and Admin Bar:
Take a look at https://github.com/afragen/translations-updater and https://github.com/afragen/language-pack-maker
Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit.
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Feel free to take a look at some of my REST routes.
https://github.com/afragen/git-updater/blob/develop/src/Git_Updater/REST/REST_API.php
We added built-in CI/CD that is GitHub actions compatible so you can use the same workflows and steps as you would over there too, to make the transition easier.
https://thefragens.com/wcus-2024-in-pictures/
Thanks Brian
@briangardner.com I’m seeing this in debug logs. Powder 1.5
PHP Notice Function get_block_patterns was called incorrectly. Could not register file "…themes/powder/patterns/testimonials/testimonials-single-quaternary..php" as a block pattern (invalid slug "powder/testimonials-single-quaternary.")
