Erick

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Any combination of Web/Software Engineer/Designer/Developer, but my degree was in Web Design. I program Rust for fun. Mostly JS and CSS for money. I release a lot of open-source code. If you're using any of it let me know! Happily married. Proud father to a silly toddler and a cranky bluetick coonhound. Upstate NY > Oregon > Virginia.
Bloghttps://erickmerchant.com
ErickMar 25, 2025
mccMar 24, 2025
I cannot summarize the anti-thought nature of the AI fad more clearly than to note that at the same time Firefox is forcing AI into our browsers, the Firefox spellcheck does not recognize the phrase "convolutional neural network"
ErickJan 23, 2025
Guy DupontJan 22, 2025

Playing with the idea of "different perspectives on the same story"!

A QR code that sends you to a different source based on the angle.

ErickJan 20, 2025
BЯIΛПJan 19, 2025
Good boy had the plan all worked out, and then the cat ruined everything.
ErickDec 19, 2024
That HTML BlogDec 18, 2024

React: functional components which aren't very functional.

TypeScript: types for JavaScript which aren't real types.

Great ecosystem! 😄
https://mastodon.social/@erlang_discussions/113675453562732716

ErickDec 18, 2024
Show threadmccDec 18, 2024
@GeePawHill I just somehow got the machine in a state where I had no start bar, alt-tabbing showed the Windows 95 UI for alt tabbing instead of the Windows 10 one, I couldn't take screenshots, and when I tried to reboot the restarting… screen softlocked.
ErickNov 21, 2024
mccNov 20, 2024
But if the rubber ducks can find the problems in the code by themselves then why do we need to pay the programmers
Show threadErickNov 14, 2024
She is now able to keep broth mixed with meat pouches for babies/toddlers down and she has energy again. We know it's temporary — the cancer is not treatable — but it looks like she's not leaving us yet.
ErickNov 13, 2024
We found out our dog has stage 4 cancer today. She hasn't been able to keep any food down for days, but we just thought she had an stomach bug. These are her final days. Ellie, a beautiful bluetick we adopted in 2019 is the best dog I've ever known. She understands everything we say and half the time is training us. Her intelligence is balanced by a gentleness and politeness though. She doesn't deserve this. She got our daughter's first laugh, and our family will not be the same now.
ErickNov 12, 2024
Luc PrincenNov 11, 2024

We're not releasing our new WooCommerce plugin "Shop Health" on wordpress.org, even though it's completely free.

I blogged about the reasons behind this decision:
https://wooping.io/blog/2024/11/why-were-not-releasing-on-wp-org-yet/

Why we're not releasing on wp.org... yet - Wooping

Why we’re not releasing on wp.org… yet When we were planning the release of our new WooCommerce plugin Shop Health a few months ago, all of us expected that we would be launching it on WordPress.org as a regular free plugin. The reason we wanted to distribute it for free was simple: we came across […]

Wooping
ErickNov 12, 2024
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Nov 11, 2024
This explains a lot. https://www.comicsands.com/aoc-instagram-voters-reason-trump-2669764337.html?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
AOC Posts Voters' Reasons For Voting AOC & Trump: PHOTO

This explains a lot.

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