Alternative to WPackagist now that private equity-driven WPEngine snapped it up.

This post is reminiscent of the weekly internal posts Toni wrote during his most recent stint at Automattic as acting CEO while Matt was on sabbatical. Toni’s open communication is one of his many strengths.

My favorite quote from Lachmann’s Capital and Its Structure:

Such are the pleasures of generalization for those who do not stop to reflect upon the intrinsic differences of the objects of their manipulations.

I love the ::after link icon Alan added. I’m going to add this into the main plugin.

TIL that Venezuela now produces less oil than the US state of North Dakota.

Amaro sours? I’ll have one, please.

Rob Worthing just announced DEMON’S GAME: The Definitive Guide to Oni School Tenkara. Instant purchase for me. I can’t wait for this book to arrive.

The definitive guide to the tenkara fly fishing school of master angler, Masami “Tenkara no Oni” Sakakibara. Widely regarded as the best tenkara angler in the world, Masami revolutionized Japanese fly fishing with the use of ultralight rigs and elegant fly presentation, blending cast and drift into one seamless act. Presented for the first time in English, the Oni tenkara school includes everything the fly fisher needs to become an adaptive angler, ready to tackle any problem a trout stream might present. A comprehensive review of the physiology and behavior of trout, the water they live in, and the bugs they eat sets the stage for detailed lessons in fundamental and advanced casting, fly presentation, playing and landing fish, and more. Whether you enjoy tenkara or any other style of fly fishing, you will learn to trick more trout and have more fun fly fishing than ever before.

Paul Frazee on the differences between atproto, ActivityPub, and Nostr.

I don’t pop molly, I read Paul Ford
International bring back the blog post

Yeah, Ftrain is back on the tools again.

“What concerns me most is the unintended consequence of these blocks. When libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses access to history. Journalists lose tools for accountability. Researchers lose evidence. The web becomes more fragile and more fragmented, and history becomes easier to rewrite.”

We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of work.

We’re calling it Deep Blue.