@akirk

Working at Automattic. Follow me via ActivityPub on @alex@alex.kirk.at. Hosted using WordPress, Friends+ActivityPub Plugin.

 Vienna, Austria
alex.kirk.at/
Joined March 2008
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Variation: QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders -1 beers. Orders a hi你好. Orders ';DROP TABLE beer;--
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From veteran WordPress developers to beginner supporters ready to dive into the world of WordPress-- Contributor Day is a great chance to connect and learn with a variety of teams across the entire WordPress project. #WCEU
Two WordPress contributors at WordCamp Europe 2024

ALT Two WordPress contributors at WordCamp Europe 2024

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As WP continues through the decades, we have to deal with all parts of life, including death. As a community, we now have a memorial place we can remember and honor those who contributed to @WordPress but are no longer part of this world. wordpress.org/remembers/

Remembers

WordPress Remembers WordPress dedicates this page to the memory of those we’ve lost. They’ve shaped our project and enriched our community. As we remember their passion and commitment to WordPress...

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Learn about the challenges of translating #WordPress and how you can get involved. Dive into the world of multilingual possibilities with @JosephaHaden & @akirk and expand your understanding of how language connects us within and beyond the WP platform. ow.ly/UhX350P3vZ1
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I just released #WordPress Friends Plugin 2.6 wordpress.org/plugins/friend… Biggest change: no local user will be created for following someone. Other improvements include a better status view, share posts from your /friends/ and more. For more screenshots see github.com/akirk/friends/pul…
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@WordPress10 Jun 2023
Check out the WordPress Translation Playground here: make.wordpress.org/polyglots… #WCEU #WCEUKeynote

Translate Live: Updates to the Translation Playground

Over the last weeks, we have shipped a number of improvements to the Translation Playground: (Here is an example link to the Friends plugin’s playground which is shown in the screenshots below. You…

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We’ve got Live translations on translate.wordpress.org. @akirk demos the feature live at #WCEU contributor day and I’m on the floor ready to sob. After years of hoping & frustrations we finally have a flow for translating #WordPress in context. Thank you Alex, this is huge!
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Wir - @AnnaMasoner @IrmiWutscher - waren auf der @republica in #berlin und heute gibts ein ganzes @oe1 #matrix - zur Frage ob es noch #bargeld braucht, warum sich #tech Mobilitäts Versprechen um das Auto drehen und wie man in #kuba an Internet kommt #rp23 heute ab 19:05!
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I'm back from inner space. I wrote about adding my personal blog as an entity within the fediverse via ActivityPub. It's pretty neat. hammyhavoc.com/setting-up-my… Send me a friend request, fellow geeks, nerds and phreaks! Big thanks to @aaronpk and @akirk. You're both great.

Setting Up My Blog within the Fediverse via ActivityPub | Hammy Havoc

tl;dr: I now have a self-hosted presence within the fediverse via ActivityPub, which distributes content from my hammyhavoc.com blog. You can follow this from

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New WordPress Developer Blog post on how to build custom Query Loop variations: developer.wordpress.org/news… This tutorial takes you step by step through the process of building a grid of book reviews and how to use custom post meta in your variations.
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I like the idea of @akirk's Friends plugin for #WordPress: Part feed reader, part private social network, part indieauth. wpfriends.at/
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I've completely revamped the Preferred Languages plugin recently: - Ensure compatibility with WordPress 6.1 - Added a ton of new tests - Fixed a lot of bugs as a result of that - Completely rewritten the UI with React Please help me test it: github.com/swissspidy/prefer…
Preferred Languages UI on the WordPress settings page, allowing the user to choose languages for displaying WordPress in, in order of preference.

ALT Preferred Languages UI on the WordPress settings page, allowing the user to choose languages for displaying WordPress in, in order of preference.

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Polylang@polylang25 Jul 2022
We just released DynaMo 1.1, our free #plugin to improve the #WordPress #translation performance. Now even better if you are using object cache. wordpress.org/plugins/dynamo…

DynaMo

Improves the performance of WordPress translation

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Don’t like graphs? This new visualization shows monthly global temperature anomalies (changes from an average) between 1880 and 2021, based on @NASAGISS data. White and blue = cooler temps Orange and red = warmer temps More: climate.nasa.gov/climate_res…
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i have thought about this hacker news comment nearly every day since november ninth twenty seventeen
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Today was a lovely day at WordCamp Europe 😍😍 #WCEU
Contributor Day at WordCamp Europa

ALT Contributor Day at WordCamp Europa

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Das derzeit wichtigste Bild der Pandemie und Masken. Warum ? Weil es verdammt noch mal daran erinnert, dass es primär die INFIZIERTE Person ist, die 1 Maske zum Schutz der anderen tragen muss & nicht die #Vulnerablen! Weiß ganz Asien seit 20 Jahren. #DurchseuchtEuchDochSelbst
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Alex Kirk retweeted
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@juanbuis3 May 2022
can't stop watching these guys who run around tokyo like they're in a video game
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Great video that summarizes the new WordPress 6.0 features in 4mins! youtu.be/09affdqg0-E via @get_dave
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Matthias Pfefferle @pfefferle has a few thoughts around enhancing WordPress comments. (German) for the IndieWeb. While Gutenberg devs are rethinking Comment blocks, exploring, considering Webmentions and other standards could be on the roadmap, too. notiz.blog/2022/04/27/custom…

Custom Post Type: Comment

Soziale Netzwerke haben die Art wie wir kommunizieren drastisch verändert. Wir reagieren selten mit Text, statt dessen liken, re-tweeten, sharen und faven wir was das Zeug hält. Und wenn wir mit Text...

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220304_133027_D.clj tweegeemee.com/i/220304_1330… gist.github.com/rogerallen/6… #ProceduralArt #generative
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