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47yro geek | he/him | PHP developer by trade | #indie #gamedev for fun

PHP oldbie, since PHP3 in 1997, first as a hobby, professionally since 2000. Senior developer at ProMedia Group since 2008.

My hobby-related profile is at @shdon

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Unusual to see adblocker detection on a website actually recommend using a blocker. Normally sites try to deny access to people with adblockers.
And this is (one of the reasons) why I despise the WordPress block editor. Whenever I have the misfortune of opening a block editor page, CPU use goes through the roof. Firefox's about:performance shows 410% CPU utilisation for it, and Task Manager just shows it solidly maxing out on all cores. Does the same thing on my Mac Mini and MacBook, so it's not just a problem with Windows.
Someone: Do you save often enough?
Me:
No, no, NO!! JUST NO! Of all the places I don't want #AI, a disk utility has to rank at the very top!
Disgusting. I think spammers already have a special place in hell, but having a fake unsubscribe page makes me wish for something worse than that upon them. #spam The "web developer" who did this deserves every bad thing that happens to them.
Drat. It's no fun waiting in the cold for an hour with 4000 other evacuees while the emergency services determine that yes, this was a false alarm triggered by an idiot.
Argh, Shopify! This is not Artificial Intelligence, this is Real Stupidityβ„’. And when I finally created a dummy store in order to talk to a person (ostensibly), all they could "help" me with was deleting that dummy store. The support advisor was almost as intelligent or competent as the chatbot.
Ugh, spam gets everywhere... Even control boxes at the train station aren't safe from it!
My friend Nigel has overcome many struggles, but he's also dangerously close to giving up. He still needs help surviving his condition and to recover from surgeries. Check out the fund raiser to help give him a second chance at life. https://gofund.me/b2f28d5d Please boost this post if you can!
Today would have been Jumber's 34th birthday 😒 I wish that I could congratulate him today. Instead, I mourn his loss. https://www.shdon.com/blog/2023/11/24/jumber-was-here I have also opened a fundraiser for @amnestynl in his memory. https://www.inactievooramnesty.nl/fundraisers/steven-don
Jumber Was Here! | blog | shdon.com

Five years ago, I met and befriended a young man from the eastern European country of Georgia. He had come to the Netherlands seeking asylum. This was because he is bisexual, which is just not accepted there and he was in fear of his life. The authorities looked at a piece of paper that says that it is safe for LGBT people in Georgia, and told him that he would be sent back. I helped him evade deportation and he tried again in another country. That, I have written about at the time. Unfortunately, they too looked at that same piece of paper and sent him back. He was deported to Georgia.