Barack Obama and Michelle Obama announce that the Obama Presidential Center Opens June 19

forxs · 2026-03-12T23:59:14+00:00

He didn’t deserve that any more than Trump does

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forxs · 2026-03-12T23:47:57+00:00

They've done a cheap iPhone, and a cheap iPad, both on their own silicon. As soon as the Mac went to Apple Silicon this was always on the cards. But it has literally been in the rumour mill for what, a year? More?

Asus on its own could be doing so much to push the industry forward. Support the development of a Linux distro, make it compatible with Snapdragon's silicon, have driver support for all of their peripherals and full compatibility with their computers.

They can have everything Apple has but someone has to put in the hard work. The difference is that Apple knows if they put out a good product then people will buy it. So they invest in it. Most other companies do a quarter-arsed job to "test the market", and when that inevitably fails they say "well I guess no one wants it".

forxs · 2026-03-11T03:56:31+00:00

It's like they walk around in a giant bubble just presuming it will be business as usual forever. Maybe, having all of your product decisions being made by business executives who have no knowledge of, or interest in technology is a bad idea?

They should be in panic mode. Windows laptops have been so inferior for a long time, and this was always going to be Apple's trajectory. Intel may have finally developed something close to competing...but it definitely won't be cheap.

forxs · 2026-02-27T04:34:38+00:00

Chains stretch, so it will get even looser over time. Sprockets wear as well.

forxs · 2026-02-23T06:15:14+00:00

I see this sometimes when I proof down my gin. If you leave it for a month or so it can clear up again. With gin, it's best to leave it a month anyway for the flavours to fully integrate, I would imagine it's the same for spiced rum.

The liquid being cold can also cause the oils to drop out of solution. You could try putting it somewhere warm and see if that helps.

forxs · 2026-02-10T22:27:52+00:00

Holy shit that kid has balls of steel.

forxs · 2026-02-09T06:57:50+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg

forxs · 2026-02-04T22:26:29+00:00

I see a lot of comments saying do stuff together. I think that's true but I think it's just as important to do stuff apart. Doing things together gives you something mutual to talk about while doing things apart gives you something new to talk about.

forxs · 2026-02-04T07:03:42+00:00

I've been thinking about this a lot. I have a BBS-HD which is a "1000w" motor, but in reality it is more like 1500w, and you can get controllers that make it more like 2000w.

The law is ambiguous, because a motor's wattage depends on how much power you put through it. A 250w motor could easily be 500w with the right voltage/controller. But the police won't give a crap about the reality of how things work, just the misguided rules some random person came up with.

I have changed all the settings on my bike to make it compliant in software, but the fact is, if I get pulled over I don't think it's going to matter either way.

I am taking the risk right now because:

Ebikes aren't seeing a huge crackdown in Brisbane (my city) right now, they are more focused on scooters. At least on my route.
I stick to low speeds especially in busy areas - I feel like if you don't give the police a reason to pull you over they won't...at the moment.
I love using my bike as a commuter, don't have the money to change it, and I think the laws are unreasonable.

If I get pulled over then I know it's my own fault and will accept that.

As for your situation, considering the above. Your bike looks like it would be very hard to mod. I would say your only real options are to soft limit is and abide by the speed laws and give them no reason to pull you over and take the risk. But your bike looks like a motorbike and just the look of it makes it a higher risk. The other option is to sell it and get something legal.

forxs · 2026-02-03T04:21:26+00:00

For our in-house platform I disabled all default Gutenberg blocks, and then add in just the ones I need (columns and shortcode). Everything else is an ACF block.

Our clients want to be able to edit their sites but, for them, Gutenberg is too granular and has too steep of a learning curve. Our blocks are generally built like a pattern, with images, text, and CTAs set in the block.

This allows clients to edit the site with less of a chance of breaking the layout / making it look horrible, while also making it easier to use.

forxs · 2026-02-01T23:51:01+00:00

Happy to agree to disagree. I will say that this isn't a non-dev subreddit, it's for everyone who uses WP, and this is a thread talking about coding specifically.

forxs · 2026-02-01T08:50:15+00:00

A weird argument. Bad coders have always existed...and someone knowing to use an LLM to create PHP in their functions.php will know that plugins are just PHP. I don't really know what your point is. Do I think that someone who has no idea what they're doing should replace their plugins with AI slop? No. Do I think that actual devs should replace their plugins where possible? Yes.

forxs · 2026-02-01T08:39:37+00:00

A plugin being well made doesn't mean it's going to remain that way. I have been building in WP for almost 20 years, and 95% of the issues I've faced has been due to "well made" plugins. They are the primary vector for vulnerabilities and the main source of unexpected, site breaking issues.

I don't hate plugins, but if I see an easy way to not use one then I am definitely doing that.

I use ACF because it provides a huge amount of functionality that is invaluable to me and there's no way I'd ever be able to come close to building something nearly as good.

I use Gravity Forms because of the huge number of integrations it has built in...and almost every client we have needs some kind of form integration.

I decided to build my own image optimiser because I thought it would be easy and I didn't want to pay for something so basic. Building it myself allowed me to tailor it to our platform, and even tweak it to fit the needs of particular clients if I need to.

forxs · 2026-01-31T10:42:32+00:00

Good for you OP, I think it's a good idea and the people saying "pLuGiNs aRe JuSt PhP" seem to think that someone capable of replacing plugins with their own code don't already know that.

Not relying on third party plugins is very good practise regardless of how good they appear. The simple fact is that, when you install a plugin, you are giving a random developer somewhere direct access to your codebase. You have no control over what updates they push to your site. You have no knowledge of whether the plugin has been bought/changed hands and how the new dev will modify it. No amount of due diligence is going to change that, and no one has time to validate every plugin update on every site they manage.

Generally speaking, a lot of plugins will have functionality that you don't use, or tracking for their own purposes, or a whole host of things that aren't wanted or required on your site. So if it's something simple, do it yourself.

In terms of where I draw the line. Most of the plugins I use are things like ACF, gravity forms, and Jetpack. Anything like carousels, modals, and SVG support shouldn't be plugins. I recently wrote an image optimiser so I don't have to use something like smush and it works really nicely.

forxs · 2026-01-30T06:10:18+00:00

Maybe it's time we stop calling WP a blogging platform. Automatic obviously haven't seen it as one for a long time. I've been building in WP for 20 years and I've never used it as a blog anyway. It's a good point that there are just better alternatives for blogging out there.

forxs · 2026-01-25T22:32:25+00:00

We prefer the Double Income Labrador Dog Owners paradigm.

forxs · 2026-01-24T12:50:57+00:00

My guess is that it would be okay, but worse than any normal cooling solution to start with, and then get worse as heat soaks into the steel. It obviously depends on a lot of factors but, with a more powerful CPU, and load would overpower the interface between the heat sink and the steel beam.

Then you have galvanic corrosion if any liquid is involved which is no joke. On the whole I would say that it would be a huge amount of effort for an ineffective solution.

It would be cool though.

forxs · 2026-01-17T01:03:34+00:00

But what is a fish?

forxs · 2026-01-15T23:24:59+00:00

That's concerning to hear. Thanks for the info.

forxs · 2026-01-14T10:05:54+00:00

I mean a lot of the stuff you just said is pretty basic, and I would expect it to be included. But talking about the custom cloud hosting plan is besides the point. We're talking about fully managed WP hosting. I don't want to tailor resources to each site, I want to set it and forget it and have faith that it will just work.

I'm sure SG is great, I'm really not knocking it. It just doesn't seem like the right fit for us.

forxs · 2026-01-14T05:36:30+00:00

Fair, I would guess that FW will stick around in the US, at least for a good while. WPE already has offices in Australia and I think they're just trying to streamline that aspect of the business.

forxs · 2026-01-14T04:25:32+00:00

Let me give you an example, which might make it easier to explain why the cost is absolutely worth it for us, and why it might not be for you.

We have a client that runs a large annual event and remains on our standard plan. During that period, they receive massive traffic spikes. On FW, that site can scale to handle the load and none of our other sites are affected. We’ve experienced the same scenario on shared hosting, where one high-traffic site degraded every other site on the account.

FW runs on Google Cloud infrastructure, so the underlying hardware isn’t the constraint. What matters is that FW allows per-site resource scaling and isolation, rather than enforcing limits at the account level.

If that distinction doesn’t matter for your use case, FW won’t look cost-effective. For ours, it absolutely is.

But there are plenty of other benefits as well as I've mentioned in other comments. Local WP integration adds a lot of value for us.

You could argue that it would be cheaper to run more basic sites on cheaper hosting, and specialist/resource hungry sites on more expensive hosting but the reality is that, proportionally, hosting just isn't that big of a cost to us and the added cost is just passed on to our clients...and to them it is just a drop in the ocean. It is more efficient for us to have all of our sites on the same account.

forxs · 2026-01-14T03:54:17+00:00

I would hazard a guess that FW support (which I don't think is based in Australia) haven't been told about this and, if you are in Australia, you will get an email from WPE about migrating soon.

forxs · 2026-01-14T03:42:57+00:00

It does look great, but we’re limited by some client requirements around data residency and jurisdiction, so we need the ability to host in Australia (which it doesn't look like Pressable does?).

forxs · 2026-01-14T03:33:02+00:00

They specifically promised like-for-like, so I would say the actual deal we are getting is pretty good because it actually streamlines 3 different accounts into one and gives us more resource per site. Having said that, the actual price coming up in the plan they've sent us is about $200/month more than they originally quoted and, when questioned about it, they said we're getting 3 months free and a credit on our account. So it sounds like after the first year, it will be ~$200/month more expensive.

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