Ryan McCue

It’s fascinating seeing online arguments that, at the root, come down to people not understanding the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources.

Almost as bonkers as creating a temperature scale based on a mix of water, salt, and NH4Cl.

I see someone was reading reddit today.

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🎉 Just Dropped: FAIR plugin v.0.3.0
Featuring new translations, fixes, and update improvements from a bevy of amazing contributors - thank you!
Check out the release notes & upcoming release roadmap: github.com/fairpm/fair-...

as abraham lincoln once said, never let the truth get in the way of a good joke, and never let anyone tell you socket wrench parts aren’t tasty

that's what the mri is for, right andy?

Something Has to Change with WordPress. FAIR is a Great Start. Last week in Basel, Switzerland—at the Alt Ctrl Org conference held alongside WordCamp Europe—I stood on stage with my colleagues to introduce the FAIR Package Manager for WordPress. This wasn’t just ...

What is FAIR and why am I involved? I wrote about it here:
carriedils.com/wordpress-fa...

#FAIRPM #WordPress

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It’s used for generating slugs, since you can only really use ASCII characters.

Open Source: Deceptive Power or Collective Governance? | Open Source Pledge Collective governance prevents abuses of power — but it needs distributed funding in order to survive.

Here's my talk on why collective governance can prevent abusive power, and why distributed funding is necessary for collective governance. Thanks to @altctrl.org for inviting me, and to @fairpm.bsky.social for putting these ideas into practice. ❤️

FAIR Package Manager Project FAIR Package Manager Project has 8 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

I installed the Fair Package Manager (@fairpm) on my personal site last night. I'm excited to say it worked flawlessly. A couple of plugins were updated from Fastly's servers, & a paid plugin updated from its servers as normal. I'm excited to see what else comes from this interesting development.

Another FAIR shoutout I totally forgot: big thanks to @mburnette.com - thewp.world powers the events API in the Dashboard Widget, listing both WordCamps and other community events.

Thanks, appreciate the link!

Big thanks to the Bluesky team for shipping this for FAIR 🚀

@ngerakines.me Hi! Your link in the Smoke Signal docs for the lexicon goes to github.com/SmokeSignal-... which is sadly a 404 :(

Thanks for your great talk! Would love to chat open source and FAIR in person some time too if you ever want to get a drink :)

The issue we’re solving for is one where we have a reliance on a single repository right now, which isn’t entirely trustworthy. Meanwhile, third party repos are hard to use and not integrated into the system.

this is a pretty fun project!

it is basically a decentralized WordPress plugin package manager, using DID PLC as an identifier and store for package signing keys; and atproto for discovery/indexing of plugins in the ecosystem.

github.com/fairpm/fair-...

Yep, we haven’t updated for the new Ed25519 support just yet - but will soon. Right now we’ve got the standard keys but just not fully using them.

Linux Foundation Announces the FAIR Package Manager Project for Open Source Content Management System Stability Linux Foundation announces FAIR Package Manager project, creating simplicity, security and consistency for the WordPress ecosystem

@bnewbold.net Thanks for all your help and feedback with www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-... :)

Today, we’re launching something big for the WordPress community. Say hello to FAIR - a new decentralised package manager for WordPress.

I frequently tell people the only reason to choose headless is if you need to scale people/teams - you have a natural break already, so headless helps codify it. Otherwise, it’s a waste.

Redis is open source again: antirez.com/news/151

You don't need headless WordPress. It's a waste of money.

Ben May runs The Code Company, one of the most successful WordPress agencies. And he spends a lot of time and effort talking people out of building headless WordPress projects.

If you have to ask…

WordPress Contribution History - Peter Wilson Review an individual contributor's history of props to WordPress Core and the credit they received in each release.

I've added a page to my website to show a history of a person's contributions to WordPress Core and the props they received in each release. peterwilson.cc/wordpress-co...

as hilarious as that would be, I saw bsky.app/profile/pfef... so you can thank @pfefferle.org 😄

tastes like sadness AND gives me anxiety? perfect millennial fuel

IMO, quite the step back that React went from examples with “add a container, add the script tags” to “install Next to get started instead of React” - React was great when it fit perfectly into incremental adoption. (One of the reasons we picked it for WordPress.)