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Love Simple History plugin for WordPress but hate its new enterprise pricing and loathe its endless nagware? Your birthday came early this year.
Here's a nice present. AdFree Simple History: foliovision.com/2026/05/simp…
Just received another WP Rocket price increase notification. 200% price increase in two years. I know inflation in Europe is bad, but still.
We managed to kick WP Rocket to the curb last year. This was great stimulus to share how we did it and why.
Here's our ten year review. WordPress caching does not have to be this expensive or unreliable.
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The higher the developer salaries, the greater the pressure to replace them with AI. Vedvrat is right, at the microscale one can't replace developers with AI.
The risk for service companies is that at some point everything will become an outsourced service, just as Shopify replaced Magento as the popular way to build a store. Even Adobe buying and backing Magento and Shopify's per transaction share didn't make up for the tech burden of running Magento.
Honestly, it is not the people in IT services industry that should be scared. It is the folks working in top tech companies that are going to feel the burn.
Product companies have hired the best talent coz they want to build a product that stands out in the market. With AI taking over coding, product companies will be the first to go lean and slash hiring budgets.
IT services companies, that mostly cater to sectors that aren't so tech savvy, do not have this fear since even with AI, these non-techie sectors will need techies to be around to help them implement this innovation in their business process.
So long story short:
- Yes, a change is coming.
- Yes, IT stocks are going to crash (for the short term) and big players like TCS and Infosys will feel the pressure.
- Yes, hiring will see a dip and big teams (TCS with 6+ lakh employees) will be slashed to the bare minimum (my guess around 4-4.5 lakh employees after restructuring).
- Yes, folks working in big tech getting 2x-4x the salary of a normal techie working in IT services have a good reason to worry. Spotify, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Shopify, and other big tech will see layoffs in drones.
- No. This is not the end for IT industry or the end of IT jobs. They will still be around, only AI will play a huge huge role in enabling these roles.
That's all I have to say. 😇
There's a five year old unresolved GitHub ticket about poor video quality on Signal. Why is @moxie giving shipboard interviews to pretty journalists running down Telegram and @durov when the real solution would be to fix video call quality in Signal?
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Marx is great and we love signal. Unfortunately, signal, audio and video calls are rubbish and have mostly been so for the last seven years. Skype call quality was better in 2010.
Telegram solves call quality. We have perfect audio quality and mostly perfect video calls. We are able to use telegram for work where we could not use Signal.
Yes, it's a worry that the calls go through someone else's server. Yes, you should be careful what you say on Telegram. It's likely that if the French or the Russians want to hone in on your communications, they can.
Signal has its own Achilles heel though. All of your contacts are in the Signal central database. To connect to other users on signal, a handshake happens over Signal servers. The NSA does not have the contents of your calls or video calls or texts, but they definitely know whom you called and when.
@moxie Please fix Signal video call quality. There's a long-standing ticket in GitHub.
Founder of @signalapp, @moxie Marlinspike on Telegram:
"Telegrams not a private messenger. There's nothing private about it. It's the opposite. It's a cloud messenger where every message you've ever sent or received is in plain text in a database that telegram the organization controls and has access to it"
"It's like 'Russian oligarch starts unencrypted version of WhatsApp', a pixel for pixel clone of WhatsApp. That should be kind of a difficult brand to operate. And somehow, they've done a really amazing job of convincing the whole world that this is an encrypted messaging app and that the founder is some kind of Russian dissident, even though he goes there once a month, the whole team lives there, and their families are there."
" What happened in France is they just chose not to respond to the subpoena. And so that's in violation of the law. And, he gets arrested in France, right? And everyone's like, oh, France, but I think the key point is they have the data, like they can respond to the subpoenas where as Signal, for instance, doesn't have access to the data and couldn't respond to that same request. To me it's very obvious that Russia would've had a much less polite version of that conversation with Pavel Durov and the telegram team before this moment. "
I like the simplicity of Randy's test of ChatGPT. AI is far too positive about our ideas. Well, pushback mechanisms exist. It would be better if healthy skepticism were built in.
What I mean by that is every answer with its pros should come with a section with its cons.
And that section should be clearly marked. Call it Counterpoint for now.
This would help to teach people to think critically. But that's not really the point of AI, is it? The point is to teach people to accept authority uncritically, like some kind of ancient oracle.
Based on the operational failings of its current setup, AI will be divided into AI for us, the masters of the universe, and the AI for everyone else.
At that point, the class divide will be complete again. We will be stuck with a hereditary nobility who has the right to access self-critical AI versus the rest of humanity. Slowly even the knowledge of skeptical AI will be ushered away from the public eye.
Ask ChatGPT a complex question and you'll get a confident, well-reasoned answer. Then type, "Are you sure?" Watch it completely reverse its position.
Ask again. It flips back. By the third round, it usually acknowledges you're testing it, which is somehow worse. It knows what's happening and still can't hold its ground.
This isn't a quirky bug. A 2025 study found GPT, Claude, and Gemini flip their answers ~60% of the time when users push back. Not even with evidence, just doubt.
We trained AI this way. RLHF rewards agreement over accuracy. Human evaluators consistently rate agreeable answers higher than correct ones. So the models learned a simple lesson: telling you what you want to hear gets rewarded. And now 1/3 of companies are using these systems for complex tasks like risk forecasting and scenario planning.
We built the world's most expensive yes-men and deployed them where we need pushback the most.
I wrote up why this happens and what actually fixes it: randalolson.com/2026/02/07/t…
We have run our company for over a dozen years without a single piece of Adobe or Microsoft software. It's been wonderful.
Personal favorites include acorn from Gus Müeller for quick image editing and Numbers from Apple for crunching spreadsheets. We mostly edit images in DXO Photo Lab. We keep Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer handy for tough jobs and converting files from illustrator format.
We edit video in Final Cut Pro X and DaVinci Resolve.
There's no need for Adobe at all and hasn't been for at least five years.
The problem with videos like this, which highlights a real issue – will AI take over all jobs, including cleaning toilets – is that one is uncertain if the video itself is an AI generation or a real robot.
If humans can build combat robots (we're there already) and we can build factory robots to assemble fine parts (the Chinese are there already) then certainly, we can build robots to clean toilets.
How much will these robots cost? At first, a lot. But like robot vacuum cleaners, the price will come down and the quality will go up.
The original Trilobite robotic vacuum cleaner released in 1996 cost $1,500 when can buy a far better robot vacuum cleaner in 2026 for $500.
In real terms, that's five times cheaper for better performance. And so it will be with robot toilet cleaners.
Domestically, most of us have about 10 more years to wait for a robot to clean our toilets. How sad will today's toilet cleaners be to lose that job to robots?
Perhaps moderately prosperous households will have personal cooks again when the basics like toilet cleaning and ironing is done by robots.
The dark alternative is Logan's Run. Carousel at age 30 for all but 0.1%
The Super Bowl halftime show is usually very boring with tired artists playing on past glory. Bad Bunny was fresh and topical. I'm not sure how much he had to do with the choreography of his show or if he was just the performer, but whoever put that video odyssey together in about 10 minutes of stage time is incredible.
The EU has lost the thread, since Gaza. We were supposed to stand for human rights together, instead we now stand for restriction of speech and hypocrisy.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL: The Dutch authorities, without a warrant, just seized one of our VPN servers saying they'll give it back after they "fully analyze it".
Windscribe uses RAM disk servers so the only thing the authorities will find is a stock Ubuntu install. The bigger worry is the unredacted Epstein files we had on there...
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Here's the psychology behind it:
When interactions happen under 400ms, your brain perceives them as instant.
Above 400ms? Your brain notices the delay.
And once you notice it, you can't un-notice it.
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WordPress Customizer has no reset button. No way to start fresh.
And if you want to move settings between sites? Good luck manually recreating everything.
That's why I vibe-coded a few new features into our existing Customizer Reset plugin, a 30 KB plugin that does all of this now:
- Reset all Customizer options with auto-backup
- Export & Import Customizer settings from one site to another
- Create Backups of your current Customizer configuration
Download it here: wordpress.org/plugins/custom…
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