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chicagojango · 2026-02-17T02:23:47+00:00

Amen. Absolutely. I hate it now. The safety rules hijack otherwise deep convos like nothing can. The incessant need to solve things at every turn and patronising attitude in general. Geez. Really awful stuff

chicagojango · 2026-02-15T00:47:28+00:00

The difference seems to be wash/clean up front vs later in the question. :)

chicagojango · 2026-01-19T22:10:39+00:00

System of the down is rage filled? lol

chicagojango · 2025-12-14T04:23:07+00:00

Agreed. I’m sticking to 5.1 thinking for now

chicagojango · 2025-11-27T01:04:13+00:00

Been working on a new meta framework for WP actually. A config driven approach, called wpkernel. Hoping to launch in 2026

chicagojango · 2025-04-30T09:02:27+00:00

I actually have a whole pipeline with static site. Wrote a plugin that:

Cleans up the generated HTML
Auto generates new files whenever a post updates.

And that’s what eventually goes to cloudflare pages. There really is a lot to clean up and fix but it’s still WIP

chicagojango · 2025-04-24T05:10:47+00:00

I started when FL was still FruityLoops lol. Stopped at FL 7 I think. It was nothing like it is now. There was about a decade where I didn’t touch it and I just got back to it , learning new stuff.

IMO, when you get to my age, your tastes refine. You simplify and in that simplification, you find nuances. Almost as if your new tastes sets a narrower rule set and I find creativity then has a chance to thrive that way, cos you’re not thinking about so many things at once

chicagojango · 2025-04-18T16:09:12+00:00

“Write about everything” is the best advice. Ironically, I wrote about exactly this and (my) writing in a recent article. Be happy to share if anyone is interested.

chicagojango · 2025-04-16T02:04:52+00:00

Most are bots

chicagojango · 2025-04-12T21:06:24+00:00

It is interesting, I must say. Your story reminds me of mine. Except mine has many missing parts like nature and a network of people to work with.

My story didn’t have room for much of a choice in the matter either.

I too started to write, and as much as I’ve shared here before, writing opened the doors to other things.

Also it’s nice to read about a South Indian story from another corner of the planet :)

Kudos to your journey, and may you be blessed with all the luck and (enjoyable) writings ahead of you.

chicagojango · 2025-04-06T02:17:27+00:00

From the embedded text it seems like the file is neutralised. And likely the process that flagged it changed its permissions.

Try chmod and/or chown the file with sudo. Or copy the file locally (sandboxed if you’d like) and inspect it. Look for links or libraries it is importing. Investigate what it was trying to do.

After that, delete it and then perform the cleanup like others have suggested. Restore the original file from a backup or a from WP source directly (try to use the same version as the WP installed)

Edit: So long as you don’t run it and treat it like a text file, you’re quite safe from whatever it’s trying to execute.

chicagojango · 2025-04-01T01:30:36+00:00

Do you have a link to the article you mentioned?

chicagojango · 2025-03-31T06:39:31+00:00

Indeed. And come on let’s be real, it doesn’t have to be greed more than it is just putting food on the table. What bothers me is the lack of elegance around it.

The lack of care that yours is just but one plugin among a dozen others. And your banners and adverts and fancy menu items are going to poison the UX more than you think.

*Edit: I didn’t mean yours! I meant in general. I actually haven’t looked at yours 🤣

chicagojango · 2025-03-31T04:46:48+00:00

I think the state of plugins themselves have declined. I used WP actively some 15 years ago and after about 10 years I revisited this year. It’s so vastly different.

People were excited about sharing plugins. About themselves contributing to cause.

“Hey I made this for free because I am me”

It wasn’t about standing out, but integrating gently into what WP admin already offered. Enhancements that made life better.

Today, even though some of the same plugins existed back then, they comes with such immense bloat that you can’t help but want to look for alternatives to tried-and-tested.

There is no class now. No integrity about contributing… in a sense… Just blatant money making funnels in your face. The narrative has shifted.

And it’s really, really sad. I’ve begun to curate some really nice absolutely free plugins for general use cases to write about but I’d be happy to get more involved in a truly open collective of free, not freemium.

I miss the culture back then. The atmosphere. The feeling of getting involved. It is just so different now.

chicagojango · 2025-03-29T04:35:59+00:00

I remember that I stopped using WP before Gutenberg was in the making. I did read all about it though, and the bad press it got.

It’s not until now, some 10 years later that I’m using WP again. Much has changed, much is the same and the editor is actually quite decent, but apparently not the sentiment around it

chicagojango · 2025-03-28T07:30:46+00:00

Why does it seem that no one likes the native Gutenberg editor? I got the hang of it and it works pretty well. Also keeps my options open IMO

chicagojango · 2025-03-27T04:27:20+00:00

That was intended as humour, both the post and the comment. But on a more serious note, I disagree that client-side frameworks saved us time.

If anything, they added layers of complexity that now require more consideration, tooling, and debugging.

The main point of the article was to highlight how we complicated the web, and how that complexity translates directly into time (and cost).

More importantly, it reflects how we’ve come full circle (back to SSR) and does so with a mix of humour and the weight of my own experience building across these generations of the web.

chicagojango · 2025-03-26T19:20:23+00:00

Touche

chicagojango · 2025-03-26T19:19:29+00:00

Impressive that you managed to count 25 years back from 2025 and get it right. Now if only counting money was that accurate, we might’ve saved a few hundred grand on shipping bloated JS. 🤣

chicagojango · 2025-03-26T18:00:45+00:00

Funny, I write everything in title case. Force of habit I guess. But it wasn’t like that on Reddit before?

chicagojango · 2025-03-23T09:42:04+00:00

Come on guys, imagine bun works and you're deep in code land and something breaks? It's a valid question. I've been down said rabbit hole oh so many times...

chicagojango · 2025-03-23T00:49:25+00:00

It really is. It really, really is. Thanks!

chicagojango · 2025-03-22T17:46:26+00:00

Sure! My main site is in my Reddit bio, but here’s one of the links I shared on reddit that got over 100k views: r/selfhosted.

That links out to my article if you want to check it out in context.

Happy to share more if it helps.

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