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Matt
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I appreciate that this is a WordPress site. It’s never worked terribly for me and this is the kind of get shit done attitude that I come here for. This site is run by people who gamified plant watering and are building jeeps in their driveways.
David’s sense of humor is in a different world from the rest of the team. I lean towards the rest of the team – so I get and would have appreciated the Leno’s is dead lede.
If you are going to work on the website please investigate ways to speed the page loading, which is abysmally slow – I have low latency gigabit internet and this is the slowest site I use.
WordPress – are you F’ing kidding me, that was/is the best choice for content management in this day and age?? Is this an opportunity for an upstart to come and make everyone’s life better?? It has been a while since I managed commercial websites, but back in the day we were not using WordPress for anything that needed robustness. Maybe WordPress had gotten better?
WordPress explains a lot with how poorly this site generally works.
Am I the only one that accidently clicks in their feed to issue a response?
I am? Fuck.
Wow, I love you guys you’re all awesome, but making a change in production without testing in dev only wouldn’t get me fired because I’m union. Happy labor day 😉
Pretty rough decision to have made initially to base the site on WordPress. Cheap but rickety and slow. Every new plugin created or enabled only increases the risk of the whole thing falling down.
“So long as I’ve acquired the know-how, the proper tools, and, most importantly, the correct amount of time… I can fix anything I want.”
Matt, have you not been made aware of the Two Universal Rules of Projects?
1. It will take longer than you think.
2. It will cost more than you think.
3. You will need one thing you don’t have or can’t find.
3a. You will discover this immediately after returning from the hardware store/auto parts store/store store.
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3b. Or after those stores have closed for the day.
That would be the 32 mm 12-point socket on my last project. You’re not supposed to have to pull the axles from the hubs to change the lower control arms, but as a matter of fact I did have to…
3c(po?): “If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy”
As a fan of all things dark mode, I’d just like to repeat that I absolutely love the night panel option.
And the fact that the Konami cheat code activates it just means that I am in the right place 🙂
Kinja PTSD I concur
+1 for “palimpsest.” It’s a very useful word, but I’m afraid only a tiny number of people understand when I use it and I sound like a pompous ass.
I know, right? It’s like every time I read that word, I have to look it up again and realize the definition got erased and then overwritten.
What are the odds of that.
Ha!
I like “palimpsest”! It sounds delightfully old fashioned yet sophisticated.
For night panel to be truly accurate to the inspiration it would dim everything that wasn’t the current article or a notification.
I was actually browsing the site during the blood red link phase and I was like huh that’s certainly a choice. Figured it was related to night panel experimentation and didn’t say anything further haha
I like night mode but some of the colors could still use some tweaking, like the notifications aren’t super legible when using it, and links were still a little invisible at least yesterday I think, just in notifications like “comment’ and ‘ mark as read’
I am loving the VFD-like turquoise color of the night panel text, so I hope it sticks around.
It’s basically invisible to me:
https://imgur.com/a/M8xyyuf
Yeah the link is like full on FFFFFF and the regular background is like FEFEFE, just a smidge off but fairly invisible.
My favourite color is C0FFEE, which ironically is more like a bluer English racing green.
Lol, that’s awesome! I never thought to see what words could be a color.AC1D1C is a fairly cool red. Holy Crud, CABB1E is a yellow!
Ha, that’s great!
I do apologize for being 50% of the impetus for the change which borked the entire site. 😀 At the same time I very much appreciate your willingness to look into it so quickly. You staffers are a good bunch!
Could you elaborate a bit on the “four-month marathon”? It’s pretty clearly aligned with the end of CY25, but is there a specific goal in mind?
Same! I felt bad that you were working on the holiday to try to make us happy! Thanks for all y’all do to help make this the best website on the internet!
And you still don’t have a badge by your names 🙁
No he had to take it away to unbreak the site, but our names are green vs the teal and we get a tiny little green border around our avatars too
I don’t want to speak for Brandon, but I’m not worried about it. 🙂
They may have a contributor badge at some point, but until then the subtle green circle around the avatar will work.
Yeah that too. The member badge is cool but I’m just along for the ride here and not terribly bothered.
As an aside on the Leno’s Law article, saw that someone thankfully pulled a ninja edit on the lede image. I was scratching my head why an article about ’76-’95 vehicles prominently featured an image of a 1960s Oldsmobile. I’ll ignore the fact that the 810 you chose instead came in a diesel version which would be smog exempt 🙂
Which kinda plays into another reason why I think Leno’s Law failed, and that’s because many people including the politicians voting on it don’t see cars from that era as being “classic cars.” I remember reading about some politician somewhere scoffing at the idea of some ’80s car having collector/historical plates. My guy, that’s a 40 year old car now, and anyone watching car values knows that Radwood era stuff is going up, whereas a lot of winga-dinga stuff is coming down.
Props for one of my favorite words, Palimpsest. I did a whole studio section based on that word (Architecture major).
For those that don’t know, it was originally used for when monks would transcribe texts on vellum. When they screwed up, they would scrape away the layer with the misspelled word and write over it, but you could see remnants of the original under it. So think layers upon layers with hints of the original peeking through. It’s a lovely word for an incredible thing we see every day.
The word of the day was my takeaway, too.
Hardigree, that was a missed opportunity to demonstrate the new links–given that aside from the architects and monks, the rest of us have to look it up before finishing the article and reading the first comment!
Not just when they screwed up! They also reused the writing medium when the words written on it weren’t useful anymore.
I love that word and coincidentally commented basically the same as you did!
And here I just figured it was a wierd sex thing.
Well, I mean, it certainly COULD be….