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by rmccue 1y ago
As a Queenslander now living in the UK, seeing Bluey for the first time filled me with homesickness in a way that no other media has. Despite the huge media industry in SEQ, it's so rare to see it actually represented as itself (rather
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by rmccue 1y ago
It's often used as a tone signifier: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/18/death-of-cap...
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by rmccue 1y ago
What do you see as the benefits over Nightjet’s Mini Cabins? Also, interesting to see just after the launch of https://noxmobility.com/ which is targeting the same market.
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by rmccue 1y ago
TSC co-chair here - one of my fellow co-chairs (Mika Epstein, aka Ipstenu) was the lead of the plugin review team for a long time, and several other contributors have been very involved in the plugin review processes, so definitely somethin
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by rmccue 1y ago
The contributors who worked on this project (including myself - I'm one of the TSC co-chairs) are very familiar with the internals of WordPress - we were the ones who wrote them :) Blocking the way that FAIR works would break the way t
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by rmccue 1y ago
The protocol repository [1] has more documentation on how to implement your own repository and we expect there’ll be many implementations of it over time - for launch, our proof-of-concept repo is built on WP since it integrates with Git Up
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by rmccue 1y ago
Indeed, Mozilla only recently allowed Debian to use the brand for their modified version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_tradema...
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by rmccue 1y ago
The library I was maintaining (SimplePie) was an RSS feed parser which supported every flavour of the RSS/Atom specs. Because of the history of those particular formats, there were a huge number of compatibility hacks necessary to pars
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by rmccue 1y ago
As someone who maintained a (PHP) library that Debian distributed, it fucking sucked that they made source modifications. There were a number of times where they broke the library in subtle ways, and there was little to no indication to use
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by rmccue 1y ago
Seems reasonable to have the most frequently used numbers close to the user; I wonder if there might be something of Benfold’s law involved, where lower digits are more frequently used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben
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by rmccue 1y ago
Ben Thompson is working on Passport, which seems to be a self-hosted (WordPress-based) Substack: https://stratechery.com/2021/passport/ He gave a talk on it at WordCamp Asia at the start of last year, although I h
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by rmccue 2y ago
Yeah, agreed! I titled my guide "Practical IMAP" for reason (and almost called it "IMAP As She Is Spoke"). The standards are useful to a point, but actually to jeffbee's point the internet has evolved a lot since th
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by rmccue 2y ago
My memory is hazy on it, _but_ from memory, there were some issues around IDs and persistence which don't occur on other servers, as well as the auth being a bit funky. (Gmail also uses its own extension to the protocol for IDs instead
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by rmccue 2y ago
I started writing a guide to IMAP back when I was working on an email client: https://github.com/rmccue/griffin/tree/master/docs/imap Pulling large amounts of data for things like threading can be d
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by rmccue 2y ago
I’d recommend adding your first (and maybe second) paragraphs directly to your readme - this is a much clearer description if you don’t know what landlock is already!
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by rmccue 2y ago
That might not be the only reason: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-f... > France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immi
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by rmccue 2y ago
Annoyingly, they no longer show your IP on their web homepage.
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by rmccue 2y ago
Nit for schacon: in the "Listing branches" section, you say branch.sort + column.ui and talk about these as first/second options, but the commands are in the opposite order so it reads a little confusingly.
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by rmccue 2y ago
> That's a USofAian "suburb" .. not a well designed suburb. If you don’t want to say “American”, you could use Usonian, a term coined by Lloyd Wright himself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usonia
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by rmccue 2y ago
> Started/founded are basically the same, no? My point was that his name is Mike, not Mark :)
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by rmccue 2y ago
The value of WordPress is in the brand, the ecosystem, and the community, and we’re all trying desperately to hold that together.
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by rmccue 2y ago
> Him and Mark Little started WordPress Nit: Mike Little was the other cofounder - you might be confusing him with Mark Jaquith, one of the lead developers and largest contributors early in the project. Also, with regards to contribution
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by rmccue 2y ago
This isn’t unexpected; I’ve been deactivated on Slack since very early in this dispute, and later banned from the issue tracker as well. I’ve been contributing for 20 years to the project, am a committer, and built several large parts of Wo
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by rmccue 2y ago
I’ve been deactivated on Slack since very early in this dispute, and later banned from the issue tracker: https://journal.rmccue.io/468/on-contribution/ The only potential cause of this were some posts discussing
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by rmccue 2y ago
> The ILS are supposed to be built on level surface or "frangile" structure Nit: I think the word you want is “frangible”, easy to break.
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by rmccue 2y ago
It would be great to have a reverse sort; if I’m sorting by cost of living, I’d like the cheapest first.
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by rmccue 2y ago
> I have money and I have a URL, how do I send money to the publisher of that URL? This question could easily be “I have money and I have a person’s name and address, how do I send money to them?” The only way to do this consistently wou
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by rmccue 2y ago
As far as I've seen, it was only sold in the US, so EU regs wouldn't apply.
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by rmccue 2y ago
Also: WP Engine Must Win - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41653480 (Disclaimer: my submission and post. I am a WordPress core committer and built the REST API for it.)
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WP Engine Must Win(journal.rmccue.io)
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