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Pivot To AI is launched! Elevator pitch: “Web 3 Is Going Great, but it’s AI.” (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just fixed (or at least kludged) Dark Mode too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

speaking of, with darkreader loading your blog occasionally makes it go a bit wild. I haven't tried to dig into it but you just made me remember about it

if/when it happens again, I'll see if I can profile it to see what's going on

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

so WP Dark Mode requires a bit of kludging and most themes are frankly slapdash, so it always requires kludging. I'm happy dark mode works as well as it does.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

nod

I ran into some fedi post somewhere recently where someone showed some neat all-css hacks (for doing this), and I'm sure I have the tab or bookmark somewhere but .... going to be hard to find atm. and flipside is probably it won't work on the wp modes anyway because wp is of course utterly fucking cursed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

all software sucks, but WordPress particularly sucks

it started as blogging software, then overwhelmingly its users were business site designers, so that's who's paying Automattic

hence the shitty Gutenberg block editor

the substrate of blogging functionality hasn't actually been broken, but ...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"what do you mean you can't model your whole site on Posts"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

followed by the next level of hell: "oh god, what, these are all made of Posts? seriously? what?", and crying in a corner