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Last time I posted that I'd work on my first PCB. That somehow fell off the table, can't really grip where the time went.

Job is very stressful as Q4 is peak-season for us. Managed to stick to some healthy habits though, like doing sport regularly and trying to eat less junk food. It ain't much but it's something I guess.

Also made a good deal on a broken Kitchen Aid machine. I want to repair it for a friend of mine who would like to have one but can't afford it right now. I think that will be a nice christmas present. Really need to get that going though, when time flies again.


flattr is dead, probably for a good reason. Maybe it was unfeasible, maybe it was greed, but it was there and worked.


The site listed the timeline with Matt Mullenweg randomly trying to crush Automattic competitors by using the non profit organisation as leverage.


I think it was GTA 3 or Vice City where you could place MP3s in a special folder to they would play on the onboard radio station of vehicles. This was the first song that started playing. Heard it so often, just driving around the city.

I miss these times. Easier times for sure.

edit: Well, on second thought not so easy times. But different problems. Problem that seem less problematic now.


I remember how amazed I was that you could do this with the xbox versions of the game. You could save music files to the internal hard drive. Stuff like that made sense to me on the computer, but at that point a console with internal storage was The Future


Also GTA: SA


> these are crucial for any e-commerce platform

For sure not. I'm running a seven figure shop without any of that.


I had to login to several sites and make sure that the plugins would not auto-update. This is pretty much like a rogue actor taking over a plugin.


Just stealing plugins right now? Or is this some kind of "eye for an eye" situation?

I'm really turned down from the whole ecosystem by this total shitshow. Seems like everything could be pulled from under running sites if some clown decides he doesn't like it anymore.

At this point I just hope that WP Engine wins whatever lawsuit happens and Matt Mullenweg (and everybody who was involved besides him) has to pack his things and leave everything WP-related forever.


> I _think_ that as long as I’m working out, I’m in better health than an _inactive_ non smoker.

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.


I can only repeat what I said the other day. This is all a huge pile of bullshit.

Automattic does not like the competition, so they pick one actor in the WP ecosystem _randomly_ and try to force this on to them.

For anybody who is running a service that uses WP this is a threat. You can't be sure that if you build on that ecosystem that one day Matt Mullenweg does not like you and will try to extort money from you, too.


Well, he takes care of them on (some) weekends! What more can a man do? /s


He could go out to the shops for some cigarettes.


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