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Writer, editor, speaker, creator of the RSVPMaker WordPress events and email marketing plugin and the Toastmost website hosting service. Find and tell stories based on Similarweb data. Posts are my own.
Github's AI also heled me figure out how to make updates to one #WordPress block trigger changes in another. Example: When I change number of speakers in Toastmasters role block, the script automatically changes the count and timing for evaluator role block.
Not ready to offload all #Wordpress plugin and block development to AI, but Github CoPilot did help me solve React and block editor mysteries I probably would have given up on otherwise. Like figuring out the relative position of agenda blocks to calc elapsed time based on atts of each
A cartoon of Pete Kefsbreath shouts at American flag-draped coffins: “STOP TRYING TO EMBARASS THE PRESIDENT!”
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Just finished (I think) updating 30+ custom #WordPress blocks in preparation for WordPress 7.0 and the i-framed Gutenberg editor, which threatened to break some things. Welcome oppty to improve things along the way. Calendar and agenda tools in #rsvpmaker and #toastmasters extension
Tet is a great example. A military disaster for the North. The VC basically ceased to exist after Tet and had to be filled with northern returnees and NVA. But a huge psychological victory, since no longer had any real idea why we were staying.
Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.
I think the bigger problem is that there are probably millions of people in this country that don't know we've gone to war, or don't care, as long as the WiFi is on and there's something good on TV.
To the surprise of some officials in Kyiv, no one from the U.S. bothered to ask Ukraine to share its expertise in how to defend against drones before starting the offensive in Iran, Simon Shuster and Nancy A. Youssef report. theatln.tc/AFPCstm6
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”
Screaming
I can’t decide if his behavior is more like a gamer in his mom’s basement talking to his bros or someone who has just been involuntarily committed to facility after going off his meds and self-medicating on meth. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.
Mediaite: Jamie Raskin hammered Kristi Noem for five solid minutes over the killings of unarmed Americans by Trump deportation force agents: "Your ICE agents shot them in the face!"
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans
Vaguely recall that a paroled inmate committing a terrible crime was enough of a scandal to undercut the Dukakis campaign. This is objectively worse in term of Trump's responsibility, but will get a fraction of the attention.
@lauracmorel.bsky.social reports from inside the weekly vigils that refuse to let Florida’s most notorious detention camp and the immigrants detained there be forgotten.
One of my favorite additions in WordPress 7.0 is PHP-only blocks. I put together a quick tutorial to show how they work.
👉 ryanwelcher.com/2026/03/04/...
Click Around and Find Out: WordPress 7.0 on March 5, 2026
Tomorrow after WordPress 7.0 beta 3 ships, I'll start a livestream to test the new features coming. Join me by watching my accounts for the time. I am estimating 10am EST.
Trump not doing much to discredit my "vanity war" thesis here
newrepublic.com/article/2072...
Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."
⚠️ The Guardian obtained missing FBI reports from interviews with a woman who alleges Trump abused her as a child:
“She claimed that when they were alone, Trump ‘mentioned something to the effect of: “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,”’ before attempting to sexually assault her.”
I come not to praise Claude or whatever but giving unaccountable robot decisionmaking to thundering dipshits who just shot down their own drone with a laser does seem like wrong side of history business
I regret to inform you that the Secretary of Defense is an idiot
if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying
In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel
Neil Sedaka was so talented, and he inspired me to follow my dream of being a songwriter.
With love and gratitude and condolences to his family.
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Bad enough to kick a reporter out. Worse to lie about it. Worse still to smear the reporter involved by a) accusing her of fabulism — a career-ending accusation — and b) falsely claiming she’s been sued for defamation
Not dramatic enough? There’s audio:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
People keep comparing MAGA/ICE/CBP/MAHA to 1930s Germany.
It's also more and more like late 1960s China, during Cultural Revolution. Or mid 1970s Cambodia, during "Year Zero."
A war against knowledge itself.
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Academics who risk everything by speaking out against the Regime, under the very real threat of being defunded or fired for speaking out against them, are way more patriotic than these corrupt authoritarians who wrap themselves in the flag while robbing our freedom and future.
@raskin.house.gov “The cardinal, original sin of Trump was to decide that he was going to use the presidency as a profit-making enterprise in his first term, and I would say that Congress should have impeached him for receiving millions and millions of dollars from foreign governments.”
Since WordPress 6.7, plugins can extend the editor’s Preview dropdown. Want to add your own custom preview experience? Learn how to use PluginPreviewMenuItem to build a Social Card Preview that reflects unsaved edits in real time.
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