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I watched the Hamilton the Musical episode of Hard Quiz last night and all I can think is how much of a waste of a subject it was that the contestant didn’t make it to the final round.

The Repository@therepository.email · 11mo ago

I'm thrilled to be speaking at Web Directions Enqueue, co presented by The Code Company. The line up is amazing and includes some of the best engineering minds in WordPress today. (BTW, there's a discount code in the Repository article!)

Enqueue Reveals Speaker Line-Up With Focus on AI, Performance, and the Future of WordPress

Ha, the NYT endpoint for the Wordle solution is available prior to the start of day. No token/request hash needed. Foolishly, I tested this in my browser for tomorrow (don't worry, I would never...). Switching to curl HEAD requests, it looks like the solutions are available up until October 8.

I was not expecting LinkedIn of all places to start doing good proper honest human constructed Sudokus. Not only that, they're by Thomas Snyder who's world renowned in Sudoku circles. Hopefully it starts a trend and newspapers will stop publishing boring algorithmically generated grids.

Many years ago, I saw a job application form with the biggest tell that the company was run by toxic wankers. "How many mouse clicks do you take to open your editor when you turn on your computer (we're serious)?" I still occasionally think about how much I'd hate to work for those people.

I released a new SEO WordPress Plugin last week: Simple Search Submission for IndexNow. I thought the official plugin was over-engineered and had an unnecessary top level menu so wrote one that got out of the way and just got the job done. wordpress.org/plugins/simp...

Simple Search Submission for IndexNow

A simplified plugin for submitting crawl requests to search engines supporting IndexNow.

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Chris Reynolds@jazzsequence.com · 11mo ago

Repost with a character that would make an excellent shitposter

Repost with a character that would make an excellent shitposter

There are admissions of guilt and then there's node recommending that node should only be used with a package manager.

I finished writing my latest WordPress plugin over the weekend. Its working subtitle is "Why write 1200 lines of code (including 700 lines of tests) with no build dependencies when you can write 3,200 lines of code (without any tests) with 73 build dependencies?"

On #SurvivorAU last night, Parvati mentioned that she and David had played Deal or No Deal Island together. Fascinated by the concept, I looked it up and the details are just as terrible as the name suggests. Possibly even worse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_or...

Deal or No Deal Island - Wikipedia

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An unfortunate side effect of agreeing to talk at a conference is the need to write a talk and prepare a slide deck.

kilopixel ::@kilopx.com · 12mo ago

I’m trying to figure out if it’s IndexNow or IndexNow®. I can’t find any registration details online but it’s not something I need to do regularly so may not be looking in the right place.

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The Repository @therepository.email · 12mo ago

WP Includes Is Helping Women Level Up Their Careers in WordPress — and Applications Are Now Open

Applications are now open for WP Includes’ next mentorship cohort, but the real story is the program’s impact since it launched in 2023.

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"Reduces the number of database queries ... by 344 (347 queries down to 3)" is always nice to write in a commit message. Even if it is for a process that runs once during the lifetime of a site.

The Repository @therepository.email · last yr.

I just made the typo `npm ruin` and I think I'm in to the idea.

Inside Enqueue: A New Developer-Focused WordPress Event Coming to APAC

A new event is set to launch in Sydney this November, aimed at providing the kind of professional development space WordPress engineers in the Asia-Pacific region rarely get access to.

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It has been 0️⃣ days since I tried to shut down a VM from the wrong directory.

“I am not the beta in this relationship” I try to convince myself as I open the bedroom blinds mainly so the cat can lie on the bed and have a good bake in full sun.

I really, really, really wish that whoever named pull requests had named them merge requests instead. It makes explaining both git and GitHub to a new users so much more complicated. While explaining the concept of git push & pull the existence of pull requests makes things so needlessly confusing.