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New comment by georgestephanis in "Non-code contributions to open source"

georgestephanis — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:15:47 +0000

Honestly, public forums, stackexchange, etc also have a huge benefit over something like discord/gitter/slack, in that previously asked questions are indexed by Google -- which is often the first recourse of someone trying to figure something out. If the discussion is sequestered behind an authentication gate, it can't help other folks out down the road.

New comment by georgestephanis in "Non-code contributions to open source"

georgestephanis — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:10:00 +0000

As someone who has been active with the WordPress community for about fifteen years now, the early documentation and Codex's robust documentation and easy on-ramp for new developers always struck me as one of the main reasons for WordPress's growth over the years. In the early days of the late-aughts, when Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress were all pretty similar in terms of install base, WordPress was just simpler to start with and become familiar due to its abundant documentation.

New comment by georgestephanis in "Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order: FTC"

georgestephanis — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:58:19 +0000

that's kinda the point of a spokesperson, to speak on behalf of an organization

New comment by georgestephanis in "Autistic people challenge preconceived ideas about rationality"

georgestephanis — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 22:49:56 +0000

What information do you feel can be communicated and understood with that moniker that is not served by Autism Spectrum? And why do you feel those distinctions (if any) merit a wholly distinct diagnosis?

New comment by georgestephanis in "Autistic people challenge preconceived ideas about rationality"

georgestephanis — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 22:18:33 +0000

Yes hi, "aspergers" is an unfortunate nomenclature and many autistic folks (myself included) strongly resent it. It was named after a Nazi doctor (Hans Asperger) and used to classify autistic folks into "useful" and "non-useful" people -- as Nazis and Eugenicists are known to do. When you think of it, if you could refer to folks on the spectrum as such, without referencing the outdated nomenclature (the DSM-5 replaced it for diagnostics, now everything falls under the Autism Spectrum, rather than viewing the "higher functioning" folks as having a distinct diagnosis)

Thanks!

New comment by georgestephanis in "Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac"

georgestephanis — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:28:31 +0000

Literally just came here to link to asciiflow. It's great!

New comment by georgestephanis in "Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1"

georgestephanis — Mon, 24 May 2021 15:01:44 +0000

Best excerpt of the post:

> We really didn't expect this to work or we probably would have tried it sooner.

New comment by georgestephanis in "A fringe Japanese religion built a pro-Trump social media empire"

georgestephanis — Thu, 06 May 2021 15:11:55 +0000

See I thought this was gonna be about the Church of the Walls from Attack on Titan.

https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Church_of_the_Walls

New comment by georgestephanis in "The VT-69 portable data terminal"

georgestephanis — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 15:58:47 +0000

shut up and take my money

New comment by georgestephanis in "P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free"

georgestephanis — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 20:35:32 +0000

Further context from a friend: https://wptavern.com/automattic-relaunches-p2-self-hosted-ve...

New comment by georgestephanis in "P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free"

georgestephanis — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 20:33:39 +0000

For context, a8c started using a prior version of p2 like eleven or twelve years ago, when we were positively dozens of people. We have smaller p2s for teams of three to four people.

tl;dr: nah, doesn't need thousands of people to be useful.

New comment by georgestephanis in "U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation"

georgestephanis — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:46:24 +0000

You're using the same word -- Justice -- to mean two things.

The court means justice as a violation of the law.

You mean it as a violation of your opinion of what is right and wrong.

Whether your like it or not, Roe v Wade, and Doe v Bolton are the settled court cases, and legal justice is what flows from that. Calling what is legal "unjust" because you disagree with it further reinforces the need for this decision.

New comment by georgestephanis in "Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain"

georgestephanis — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 16:20:37 +0000

I mean, clarifying that it's in-progress is important.

After all, Rome wasn't built in a day.

New comment by georgestephanis in "Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic"

georgestephanis — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 01:42:53 +0000

I have no idea precisely what we're going to do or how, but if I were spitballing, I'd think something like ...

Currently I think Tumblr stores all posts across all sites in one big table? WP.com does different tables per site.

I also think Tumblr's post ids are often above php's int max for 32-bit systems ( 2,147,483,647 ) -- I know I've seen some issues trying to parse tumblr's post ids to integers rather than strings on some old servers years ago.

For an overview of how our systems are run here's Barry, our head sysadmin, talking about six years ago on how the wpcom infastructure is structured:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57EJ8KDDBH0

It's changed somewhat, but not much conceptually. It's a really fascinating talk and I'd encourage anyone curious on massive scale data to give it a look, and see precisely what can be managed with determination and mysql and coffee.

New comment by georgestephanis in "Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic"

georgestephanis — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 21:32:49 +0000

Oh hey I guess I did. Totally forgot about that.

You'll note:

* He says something factually wrong (`It does not run the open source codebase at all.`)

* I point out that he's factually wrong, and back it up.

* He dodges and insists he's right regardless.

Yup. True to form.

New comment by georgestephanis in "Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic"

georgestephanis — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 21:15:00 +0000

John is a pompous jerk who likes to misinterpret half-truths, scream persecution, and then block people when called out rather than admit fault. And if ever called on it he silently deletes his tweets instead of acknowledging his actions or faults.

source: he blocked me years ago for precisely this. also, coincidentally, when he was screaming persecution once prior.

https://twitter.com/JohnONolan/status/605728714840797184 https://twitter.com/daljo628/status/606057031288647680 https://twitter.com/jcasabona/status/605946936659558402

Further examples of another tweet thread of his that he silently deleted after getting called out:

https://twitter.com/helenhousandi/status/286930024232267777 https://twitter.com/helenhousandi/status/286929096846499840 https://twitter.com/helenhousandi/status/286862020412858369

In short, pretty much anything that comes out of John's mouth is trolling, and should be given about as much credence.

New comment by georgestephanis in "Empress trees absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per acre"

georgestephanis — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 18:18:42 +0000

Yup. Looks like they're often classified "invasive" --

http://www.ecosystemgardening.com/paulownia-princess-tree-on...

New comment by georgestephanis in "Converse 4 released"

georgestephanis — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 13:23:19 +0000

:( Was hoping for new sneakers.

New comment by georgestephanis in "What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M"

georgestephanis — Wed, 16 May 2018 21:29:06 +0000

Hi. I've worked for WordPress.com for the past five years. It does run the open source WordPress codebase, and we sync changes from the open source project to WordPress.com regularly.

:vanishes in a puff of php:

New comment by georgestephanis in "How a PR Agency Stole Our Kickstarter Money"

georgestephanis — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 22:03:59 +0000

It was the perfect pun!