Mark Jaquith

@markjaquith

I make WordPress and other things on the web. Skeptic. INTJ. Always hungry; ever curious. = ❤️

Tampa, FL
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Joined March 2007
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    21 Feb 2019

    Every time I click on the AWS dropdown menu: “Welcome to the Cheesecake Factory. I’ll get you all some water while you browse.”

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  2. 11 hours ago

    Why doesn’t PHP have something like ::function the way it has ::class? It would be really useful if you could pass a function or a method without ‘ClassName@method’ (Laravel routes) or [$instance, ‘method’] / ‘function’ (WordPress hooks).

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  3. Retweeted
    May 10

    okay i mulled over this idea in my head for a month and then just sat down and wrote this in one pass without switching tabs so here it is, raw and extra spicy: "Second guessing the modern web"

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  4. May 9

    This explanation of the tech and reasoning behind Facebook’s re-architecting is fascinating. Their use of three-tiered imports feels like a good pattern to spread wide.

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  5. Retweeted
    May 9

    the matrix was a collage of philosophy and action/kung fu/etc. cinema styles which felt original in this "quentin tarantino does sci-fi" way. the matrix reloaded asks important question "what if ... he could stop a hundred bullets instead of eight?"

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  6. May 8

    “Masks might not do very much good, but they’re better than nothing!” Yeah, if you can isolate that variable and hold physical distance constant. But humans are dumb, so you can’t.

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  7. May 8

    Three weeks ago in the grocery store almost no one was wearing masks but everyone was making a serious effort to stay six feet apart. Now, almost everyone is wearing masks but almost no one is consistently staying six feet apart and many aren’t even covering their nose.

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  8. Retweeted
    May 7

    ┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ somehow use every single dish every single day ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔

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  9. Retweeted
    May 7

    Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income has concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and benefits recipients’ mental and financial wellbeing

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  10. May 7

    Delete your account

    Adelle Thin: A graceful, slab, legible, humanist and elegant font.
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  11. May 6

    WordPress Local Development Without the Uploads Directory Do local development without syncing the uploads directory. Includes code for Nginx, Apache, and Valet.

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  12. Retweeted
    May 6

    I'm never going to finish this so here it is.

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  13. May 5

    When someone adds type="text/javascript" to all their <script> tags

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  14. May 5

    WordPress/Jetpack Driver for Laravel Valet

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  15. May 3

    I miss dreamless sleep. It’s fucking exhausting to spend all night relentlessly building dreamworlds of tedium and horror.

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  16. May 3

    I literally can feel my brain trying to convince me this is correct. I have to look at the data to snap myself out of it (infection rates haven’t dropped).

    Very American to decide we are bored with COVID and therefore it is over
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  17. May 2

    First game of Mastermind in his life, first guess, WTFFFFF.

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  18. May 1

    I’ve been working with Svelte 3 more and more, so I wrote about using reactive declarations to write less code: Reactive declarations are seriously cool — code statements that are guaranteed to stay valid when their inputs change. 🤩

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  19. Retweeted
    Apr 30

    Math joke in banner at bottom of screen. Answer: they never quite do...

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  20. May 1

    Imagine his lawyer right now.

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  21. Apr 30

    Zoomers are SO BAD at managing internet accounts. Every time they have to sign up for something they make a new email address — some cringey meme shit that they get embarrassed about in three months so they go make another. And then they forget their passwords and lose access.

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