Is WordPress' use of God objects really such a big problem? I mean, sure wp_query is used for every possible purpose and is the most mutated piece of horror every. But what is the harm?

Coding PHP that prints JS that prints HTML and hating myself and everyone who sets “requirements”.

devRant has stopped

Setting Cache-Control headers that are aware of future changes on a given page is freakishly complex. Too bad the Expires header doesn't overrule Cache-Control.

When “unexpected end of document” feels really unexpected. 🤔

Implementing a third-party link shortner:

link.performance=-400ms; link.privacyFactor=-10;
link.ownership=externalProvider;

Keep hyperlinks in-house. Keep ’em fast. Fight the good fight.

Don’t you hate it when you realize that although your latest websites loads fine from your laptop; it takes more than a full second to load it from some location on the other side of the planet?

Qualifications and experience require to start a WordPress consultancy/brand agency:
• Be a marketing/people person.
• No technical requirements required.

Hate seeing others get clients and delivering half-assed solutions and deploying outdated and even insecure versions of everything.

WordPress core itself isn’t the problem. It’s the horribly substandard plugins the client insist on that introduces all the problems.

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devRant crashed way too often on Android. During startup, when switching to it from other apps, immediately after receiving notifications, and while typing in new rants or comments.

(Nexus 5X, Android 6, US locale, NO region, various network conditions, …)

devRant really should be accessible over IPv6. Their hosting provider, Vultr, doesn’t currently offer IPv6 services. 👎

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Locating undocumented API endpoints be like …

Follow @TheStrangeLog on Twitter to get funny verbatim quotes from various changelogs. They’re more often than not surprisingly entertaining [out of context]!

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Setup a VPS from Linode today (they hair started offering 2 GB for 10 USD), and was really pissed when I discovered that their “cloud enhanced” kernel had disabled SELinux and generally removed all sorts of useful features and security features from the default CentOS kernel.

It's surprising how fast current project code becomes ancient archaic code….

“Right-click not allowed!” Yeah, right!