Alex Kirk
@akirk
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Working at Automattic. Follow me via ActivityPub on @[email protected]. Hosted using WordPress, Friends+ActivityPub Plugin.
Vienna, Austria
Joined March 2008
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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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.
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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. https://t.co/P2TYYXaB2R
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I just released #WordPress Friends Plugin 2.6 https://t.co/dw4oJziBAA 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 https://t.co/lpJUlfuZ3S
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We’ve got Live translations on https://t.co/rioEUgky7s.
@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. https://t.co/66CATPB0Wq Send me a friend request, fellow geeks, nerds and phreaks! Big thanks to @aaronpk and @akirk. You're both great.
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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 all good ActivityPub-supporting projec...
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New WordPress Developer Blog post on how to build custom Query Loop variations: https://t.co/KdBa36PBfp 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.
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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: https://t.co/ZHQEeKEV2Y
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We just released DynaMo 1.1, our free #plugin to improve the #WordPress #translation performance. Now even better if you are using object cache. https://t.co/GvlpnHBPzP
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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: https://t.co/f8t1FGkkVE
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i have thought about this hacker news comment nearly every day since november ninth twenty seventeen
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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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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! https://t.co/io5rvAjAMy 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. https://t.co/gKG9hMNxkk
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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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