As of today I am officially looking for a self-hosted replacement for WordPress that I can migrate all of my posts to. No, this change will not be soon, but it will happen, and here’s why. They dun fucked up. Oh, it’s still usable, and not broken yet, but the upcoming chaos is inevitable much like watching a train wreck in slow motion. There’s a reason I used WordPress. Not because I couldn’t write my own CMS – Did that for “fun” back in 2002 with the default LAMP stack. I’m no great programm…
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Originally spotted this via Peter Grant’s blog [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2018/04/a-diverging-diamond-interchange.html] , I’d seen one of these about a year back when traveling out of state, and now I know it wasn’t just someone trying something weird.…
I’ve posted before [https://thelastredoubt.com/2017/01/speaking-of-losing-daring-fireball-and.html] on why I believe [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/09/sjw-convergence-and-apple-redux.html] that Apple, despite some ongoing technical inertia from their glory days, is slipping [https://thelastredoubt.com/2017/01/when-youve-lost-daring-fireba.html]. I’ve also said that it’s not like any of their windows based competitors are actually “getting better”, for the most part. Take Microsoft. … What,…
In no particular order… First, over at the reach, the Didact talks weightlifting, and fitness [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-riddle-of-steel.html], and how it helps out in life. > We endure the pain and soreness, the exhaustion, the nagging injuries caused by past poor form, the commitment of time and effort, because the iron has repaid our initial investment in it a thousandfold. It has transformed us physically, mentally, and spiritually. > There is a calmness and a peace to…
Google recently put out its methodology for determining wages and pay to address allegations that they are systematically underpaying female staff and programmers. The verge of course has [the expected response](https://web.archive.org/web/20170411054812/http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/11/15254582/google-gender-gap-pay-methodology) (web archive). Let’s start with the headline:> **Google releases pay methodology in attempt to prove no gender gap exists** Subtle, I tell ya. Reeeeeaaal subtle.> The…