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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So he's added 50% more severance (6 -> 9 months) to this round of loyalty purges, AND is snooping on employees email?

Part of me is sad, but the rest of me wants more popcorn since I can't wait for Act 3.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

mullenweg pissing you off? you should totally replace WordPress with [static blog generator using an idiosyncratic variant of markdown], i wrote it yesterday in [nightly rust/perl 4/ocaml]. It doesn't have [list of basic blogging features] because those are wrong things to want

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

"comments? what do you mean, why aren't these people just on usenet?"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

acausal robot god, i have sinned, i am deliberately baiting the nerds. what no this isn't a confession it's a brag

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

@dgerard Thank you. Me and my three WordPress blogs (self hosted and one on Dreamhost) feel seen.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Mullenweg’s plumbing levels of Posting Through It previously unknown to science