If you’re running a version of WordPress affected by wp2shell (6.9 or 7.0) and are waiting until Monday to update, please don’t. Scripts are doing the rounds to exploit the issue.
If you have auto-updates enabled and are waiting until Monday to make sure they have successfully updated, please check now.
This is one of those issues in which you need to act NOW or you’re leaving it too late.
See the WordPress 7.0.2 announcement post for more details.
I’ve just booked in my first ever blood donation. They announced the change to eligibility rules just after returned from India so I needed to wait. Travel delayed my first plasma donation so, at the very least, I am consistent.
The person at the blood bank told me I have a very good blood type. I’m putting it on my LinkedIn.
No, this is not a sub-post of the team that fixed this bug on GitHub Actions without, apparently, including tests to ensure it doesn’t return at a later date. Either that, or failed to check the tests failed without to fix.
As I say, this is not a sub-post of that team. I want to make that very clear.
Breaking news: Australia’s tax system favours boomers.
Stunned. Stunned, I tell you.
I missed this at the time but apparently the Melbourne White Elephant is to reopen. Once again people will be able to spend half-an-hour locked in a bubble taking in the extraordinary views of apartment blocks, the Costco roof and shipping containers at the docks.
We ended up ordering the Sweet & Sour Pig Head for our main dish. Our waiter, Lockie, helped explain how to carve the pig so we could get to the best meat after starting it off with a Liverpool kiss.
Two of the people had allergies at the table and they waiter that sat us, Jordan, spent a good deal of time going through the menu with each of them to make sure we all had a great experience.
When I got into cooking YouTube, one of the channels I started watching regularly was the Fellow Restaurant’s.
One of the first things we did for our London trip was book a meal there. Jack Croft happened to be in on Monday so we got a snap toward the end of our meal. He was lovely and spent a good few minutes with us.
He and I discussed cooking eggs, of all things.
I didn’t get to spend as much time at the WordCamp Europe after party as I’d have liked because I needed to catch a 6:45am train to Wawsaw.
It’s my own fault for not booking a train ticket in time. I even asked someone for advice and then forgot to take it. Why are men, etc, etc?!
I’m now overstaying my welcome at a random cafe to avoid getting to the airport hours and hours in advance. (I asked and the cafe staff are actually quite welcoming but I feel like I’m taking the piss.)
Apparently the mother Maribyrnong River swan was put down by the Zoo yesterday after getting badly injured by some discarded fishing gear.
People are the absolute worst.
Two of the three cygnets have disappeared in recent weeks, I’d assumed it was because they’d matured and moved on as adults. Now I’m trying to find out for sure.
So I actually think Paramount deciding not to issue copyright take down notices for bootleg copies Colbert’s Only In Monroe appearance is a dumb decision.
The official video is a collaboration between Colbert (the Individual), the Late Show and Monroe Community Media. I reckon the latter could do with as many people seeing their channel as possible.
I’m trying to work out if any AI bots have been crawling my site. I find it remarkable that thirty years of responsible crawling has been discarded by AI companies.
As Dries Buytaert found, not even following their recommendations help, it doubles the number of pages they crawl.
Today marks ten years since I became a WordPress Core committer. It’s been a ride and I’ve certainly grown a lot in that time; I’d have never been able to work on a feature as large as Real Time Collaboration back in the day.
I remember getting the offer very clearly because Slack protocols were still developing and I woke to a message from a Lead Developer, Helen Hou-Sandí, that she wanted to “talk about something” when it was timezone appropriate.
I tentatively replied thinking I must have screwed up and screwed up badly. No, I was about to take the first step that would entirely change my career over the next few years.
It’s been a ride. And sometimes still is.
I’m pleased to announce that I will be speaking at WordCamp Europe about recent performance improvements to post querying in WordPress.
With a persistent object cache on many page loads WordPress no longer makes any database queries. The many contributors who worked on this have done great work and I am thrilled to be able to celebrate their work.
There’s an urgent call for testing by hosting providers for the WordPress Real-Time Collaboration feature coming in WordPress 7.0.
There are a few data structures being considered and the testing will help determine the best approach across a range of environments.
I do wish said humans were better at keeping said canines on a leash. Dogs have killed previous Maribyrnong River Swan families in the past.
