@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs On Friday we typically go out as a team [...] thinking of pushing for the chinese buffet

Better attack down the middle, right into the centre of their strength, in the stomach, because I've heard they have a lot of chins.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

The mere fact they invented tea and porcelain almost certainly is why they never invented glass in that entire time. Not so smart now, are you, Chinaman?

@wrx7m said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

It should be patients are a virtue. huh dummies.

She can just pretend to be a white trash doctor. I would have said nurse, but we all know when you see the really trashy nurse, you know she didn't finish the program, she's just a nurse's assistant. A really trashy doctor: drug addict and/or alcoholic, gotta own that.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

RHCSA study.

I thought "Royal.... Computer.... some sort of Common Wealth Cadet school.... oh Red Head duh. I bet he's not even English * clicks * * clicks * ... why was this my first thought?"

@mlnews

Google buys Fossil Group and then closes Fossil Group smartwatch division

Google, like most beasts which consume a meal far too large for their gullet, the terror sets in at Google Fossil Group

Ricky Kashaut was hoping for his new stock in Google to mature on Friday in a $1 trillion dollar deal most Silicon Valley insiders said "that amount is so stupid it has to be real", but by the time he was done signing the papers, and went to take a leak, it was all over. Within just a few moments of purchasing the company Google shut it down saying they didn't see a market for a smartwatch at this time. As we at Some Idiotic Technews Dumpsite watched with sadness as Ricky "No-Longer-Ricktired" Kashaut, the idea man that no one wanted, asked if he could at least have a doughnut. Mr. Pichai smiled, shook his head and, then promptly had him removed from the property.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just getting into the office, Got my Radar up
Coffee and closing tickets

Looking for speeders huh? Watch out for those damn teenagers hot roddin' around.

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I believe the one on the left, but the one on the right, well, since it's America I imagine he has a fully loaded, huge Ford F-150 that he drives to and from his house in the suburbs through the rugged hills and terrain that a truck like that is for: the Henry Hudson Parkway. Sure, it's a 45 minute drive at 4am so he can beat grid lock, but hey man, he's a man, he's an American. He likes his job at ConEd though, until they destroy his 401k which won't matter anyway he cashed it out to redo the deck. Gotta keep it up though, his wife has a massive SUV "for the room" but the only have one kid and they never buy groceries, just take out every night. And they bought some crappy McMansion out in Westchester.

Sometimes, while at the top of that pole he solemnly looks into the distance realises that his coworkers don't have cars, sure they pay high rent in the city, but they just take public transport, and overall it'd be cheaper than gas, insurance, all of that because he needs full coverage you know.

Damn, he should have stayed in Bayside.

(This isn't meant to be some angsty post about American life, I'm just screwing around trying to capture the mirror image of the one on the left as far as reality of some people goes.)

I want pizza

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller Ive never used cpanel. Just used Linux from the start. I would be lost if I had to use cpanel

I tried it once and it was SO hard to use. Mind blowing to me that people actually pay for that.

I had to set it up for a client (they really insisted, and even paid for it), the mere face you had to start with a new install of Linux and it had to take everything over, build its own versions of things, etc and then create crazy configs and then there's a level of needless complexity to configuring. Why make it so complex to change one damn thing in a config file? It takes no time at all in a text editor.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

The SO and mother of my kid is Vietnamese and has come firmed

What's your excuse for "come firmed?"

LMAO

Scott, please don't insult people who confirm my utter genius

@scottalanmiller I would guess that's from someone who speaks Vietnamese, because in Vietnamese "TH" is an aspirated "T"... and thus concludes almost all I know about Vietnamese.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Lead Dev on Wordpress explains their logic on this: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17048

Legitimate reasons.

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Esquite is very popular in the Balkan states, too. It's huge there.

Are you talking about plov?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dave_c said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller
It is all over the place.
wp_posts
wp_postmeta
etc.
I am 90% sure vainilla WordPress does that. That's the reason plugins like Better Search Replace or wp search-replace exist and are very useful. For example, moving from HTTP to HTTPS needs the URLs changed in the database

See, that's why I feel something is wrong. For us, it does not require that change. And we have a lot of different sites with different themes and such and we've never needed to make changes like that before.

I've had to deal with such changes when migrating domains primarily

@dave_c said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I am a developer and sys admin, not a web designer and I prefer ProcessWire or Grav than WordPress.

I get where you're coming from personally, because I am the same, primarily developer and I've had much of the same feelings, had to deal with the same tasks, and the results were basically the same.

@dave_c said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller
Again, you are correct. I still don't like things WordPress does. Like storing URLs in the database. After using Craft CMS or ProcessWire WordPress does not make much sense

WordPress is far more database intensive than I like, there are cache plugins for that kind of thing though. There is a balance between being extendable and being ridiculous, they're getting better about just being extendable. Regardless, if you ever watch the queries on a typical front page load, it queries the same things over and over and over. Even without memcached/redis/whatever there are ways to deal with this, but again, if I try to empathise with them, maybe it's not an easy problem to solve without potentially breaking their plugin system in some way, at least for now.

I also don't like how they keep edit history, drafts, and published items in the same table making it grow massively.

@scottalanmiller In my experience those who want cPanel, not those forced to install it by some jackass admin or something, tend to because they lack confidence and experience with configuration and management within the Unix world.

@dave_c said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

4. They demand cPanel access. And the clients authorize that access (out of my pay grade)

This happens from time to time when some project I worked on is handed over to some new guy, they often are baffled by the concept of "I use SSH, I don't install anything on the server not needed, it's just Apache, PHP, and MySQL, and SSH" or whatever.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dave_c said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@StrongBad
Incomplete list in no special order

Wordpress:

1. If you update WordPress you risk breaking the site.
2. If you don't, you risk being hacked.
3. It is too big that the ecosystem is out of control.

Web developers with no idea:
4. They demand cPanel access. And the clients authorize that access (out of my pay grade)
5. The mess with DNS, really, why?
6. They choose poor plugins

About points 1 &2: Theory says WordPress is secure but plugins maybe not. So the problem is not WordPress and the solution is to choose good plugins. WordPress is so easy to use that point 3 is on spot. And then I fall on point 6 because everybody can be a WordPress developer/web master. Talk about Catch 22

Right now, I have a production web site down because the web developer insists on using a plugin that breaks the site. I already disabled the plugin twice.

Perhaps I am in the wrong industry, it is just that fell in love IT at first sight

I have never broken WP with updates.

Same here, they seem to be really good. Way, way better than, say, Windows. They "just work". I've been using WordPress for a really long time and support a lot of sites.

I hate WordPress but I've always praised both their reverse compatibility and their slow crawl toward proper design showing they at least, I think, have some understanding of how bad it is.

@dave_c said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Wondering if I hate WordPress or I hate web developers with no idea. Maybe neither, maybe both, I don't know

Web developers tend to know how to do things, web designers tend to be utterly incompetent with programming and write terrible code regardless of how pretty their sites are, they also choose to use WordPress which is worthy of any hate you throw at it. There's also dumb web developers, but most of them just work for major corporations.