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Super-organism cyber-surgeon JavaScript-person

Canberra, Australia
Joined July 2008
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Jacob Peattie retweeted
Another missile fired in @photomatt war on accessibility. Truly astounding how much Matt hates accessibility. I don't really understand it. Sad day for WordPress. And he will blame @wpengine for the marketshare loss when it's his poor decisions that are ruining this community.
WordPress Accessibility took a major hit today core.trac.wordpress.org/tick… there’s no rhyme or reason for this response to Andrea Fercia on a three year old trac ticket.
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"The senator Mitch McConnell... The senator Lindsey Graham..."
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Jacob Peattie retweeted
He has been _every release lead_ since WordPress 5.0 with a few exceptions who were his direct employees. He also has his employees in all key positions. Including marketing and design. He wants the community to “let” him lead? What exactly has he been doing this whole time?
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Jacob Peattie retweeted
Had an interesting discussion with my front-end UI developer. I was asking him why he does not use more claude code to do things faster, and I quickly built a prototype in front of him to show how it was done. He calmly asked me, "Well, if you observe here, this button does not look like the design given in Figma." I said, "It's okay, but look at how fast we quickly built it." Then he told me, "Why is it okay to be fast but wrong with AI, but with me it has to be fast and correct?" 😁
we knew how to make bad code, cheap, and fast, before agentic coding emerged. why didn't we follow that path earlier? it bugs me. why now? we had the knowledge how to build bad code before.
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Jacob Peattie retweeted
The only resolution I can see for this shit show is for @photomatt to resign and hand WordPress over to Apache or Linux foundations to be run as proper open source projects, while there is even anything left.
"WPackagist was acquired by WP Engine, a private-equity backed company," but now we have WP Composer, with 17x faster cold resolves and CDN caching. Open source always wins.
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Jacob Peattie retweeted
In WordPress, you can go from valued community member to persona non grata overnight. Not for sabotage. For suggesting the project should be led differently. I wrote about what that does to an ecosystem: coenjacobs.com/blog/fear-voi…
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Jacob Peattie retweeted
Imagine owning a WordPress products company and wanting the platform to continue to succeed so that it brings you more customers. But the leader of WordPress keeps doing shit that's out of your control to drive people away. That's reality for a lot of people.
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Jacob Peattie retweeted
working at a company that's been doing quarterly layoffs for the last two years is probably worse for your health than smoking three packs of cigarettes a day
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Someone just said it
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Jacob Peattie retweeted
.@ElasticPressIO 5.0 is here, with usability improvements across its admin tools: a new web-based sync page, metafield management in the weighting dashboard, and a redesigned Feature management page. Learn more about the latest release: buff.ly/3QqzW06
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Jacob Peattie retweeted
Next week, join @JakePT as he shares how @ElasticPressIO optimizes #WooCommerce performance as part of a panel, "Building #WordPress eCommerce at Scale," at @wpengine's #wpeDECODE virtual developer conference. Free registration: wpeng.in/wpedecode22/
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I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson Season 2 premieres July 6!
As a... – website visitor I want to... – see key content in an auto-advancing carousel So that... – even though ~80% of the content is off screen, it is thankfully above the fold
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Tasked with creating a slideshow for a funeral, and I have to say @Apple Photos is absolute garbage. Absolutely shameful effort. So much frustration at the worse possible time. I miss iPhoto.
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