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New comment by gibletsingravy in "The X-Files Has Made Me Nostalgic for a Time I Never Experienced"

gibletsingravy — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:39:28 +0000

Can’t remember where I first heard it (message board? Kumail’s podcast?), but I read/heard a really strong case that the core theme of the X-Files is informational enclosure/the dawn of the modern cyber panopticon, and how for good or bad all the little weird, secret corners of the world get catalogued and dissected as technology encircles all.

New comment by gibletsingravy in "I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX"

gibletsingravy — Tue, 24 May 2022 20:47:27 +0000

Which LaTeX package are you using for old school D&D?

New comment by gibletsingravy in "WordPress’ market share is shrinking"

gibletsingravy — Thu, 12 May 2022 03:28:31 +0000

For the non-dev user, Gutenberg takes longer and is more fiddly to do what the old editor used to do, breaks a lot of old themes/plugins, and makes it harder and harder to use the old editor/themes/and similar.

For the developer, WordPress used to be really easy to make add-ons for and customize. Now you need to know React to get the most of of WordPress, and if you're going to go through the trouble to get good with React, what are you going to do, use it to maintain WordPress sites or go get paid more to do React development?

Gutenberg and the changes associated with it do make a better site — but people didn't want a better site, they wanted a better WordPress.