aldavigdis

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by aldavigdis 2y ago
I'm sorry. I will never get married with this demeanour.
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
I love it when a non-lawyer mansplains contract law to me. Do you want my number too? Do you think I'm fucking stupid?
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
Matt didn't "make" WordPress. He started the project, which was based on another piece of software, with his friend Mike and now thousands of people have contributed to it in one way or another. I actually doubt there's
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
Author here. The US/CA statues of limitations are also extremely short compared to what I am used to, so I was too late for to perform any legal action over this stateside after I recovered somewhat from all of this. (There may be a wa
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
I think you still need the sync to happen to use any of the modular plugins.
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
100%! I made the journey myself after finally getting an honest feedback of a coding challenge I did for a job application, but I do think that my own background in other languages and frameworks helped. I do worry about the thousands of pe
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
I would argue that his recent behaviour warrants Automattic (and WordPress, as its dependence) being classed as a Designated Gatekeeper by the EU Commission under the Digital Markets Act.
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
Yeah. The Irish one is called Aut O'Mattic from the top of my head. Very Professional.
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
I would go as far as saying that PHP has developed into a very good OOP programming language in the past years (from C with dollar signs to something more Java like). Frameworks like Laravel and their ecosystems are actively using modern PH
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
Then there's Audrey Capital LLC, WordPress Community Services (which is a B corp owned by the foundation), an array of Automattic subsidiaries around the world.
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
His management style (which I'd go as far as calling it a belief system) simply does not scale, just like the BDFL model. It must have been great to work there when the staff count was around 30 or so, but not at a figure headcount. I
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
Hi Bullenweg. If you reach out, then I'll tell you one or two things on how the sausage is made.
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
I've been advocating for the removal of the Posts feature, or a configuration flag to disable it because I currently work for a different hosting company now and I have never seen a site using the Posts feature for blogging in my suppo
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
I still find it confusing that you can both claim to be GDPR compliant and also that only US law apply to your operations. Automattic was also claiming compliance via the EU-US Privacy Shield which had already been made invalid by the Europ
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
Author here. To clarify, the trademark rights were transferred to the WordPress Foundation 14 years ago and then licenced to Automattic to use for WordPress.com. (The internal verbal story was that it even involved a separate shade of blue
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by aldavigdis 2y ago
Author here. I know how the sausage is made. The thing is that when you set up Jetpack and authenticate, you sync your self-hosted site with a clone that resides on the WordPress.com infrastructure. This is to facilitate the backend service