Chris Wiegman @chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com

If this capture is accurate it sure explains an awful lot about the orange pos' executive order regarding social media today. H/T @EFF

The easier barrier to entry that helped fuel WordPress' growth is gone. It has been replaced with something that serves as a very heavy gate for many.
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RT @cgrymala
So, you want to learn how to build a WordPress block? Okay, but, first, you have to learn how to use React. In order to use React, though, you first have to learn how to use NodeJS.
https://twitter.com/cgrymala/status/1266039391748788224

@takeonrules HA! My background is PHP professionally (though I have an MS in Computer Science) and Go still through me off when I started with it. I love working in it though. Want to give Rust a try too. So many good tools for the right projects :D

@takeonrules So true. JavaScript seems like the ultimate example of this too.

On my last team I was tasked with building our own alternative to ngrok. Of course I picked Go (Rust and others would have worked) for multi-threading and other capabilities, hell, it's what actual ngrok is written in.

After months of planning it was scrubbed a weak after I started as a PM from another team insisted he do it all himself with node because... "everything should be node." Complete idiocy.

@takeonrules You're preaching to the choir, my friend. Yet we see this with so much in this space, not just react. Ugh.

@takeonrules Ha! I've already had someone suggest to me elsewhere that I should use React as a Yeoman replacement... Ugh... This is why we can't have nice things.

@takeonrules Thanks and will do!

@Eden Good luck and congrats on the new place either way!

@takeonrules I'll give it a look. Haven't played with the Ruby ecosystem in quite a while but totally up to giving it a shot

@Eden Most of the rest, even drywall, windows, furnace, etc usually only lasts so long anyway and isn't all that hard to replace.

@Eden Ah, gotcha. That's interesting with inspections... Here the buyer hires one as part of the purchase process and you usually can't get a mortgage without it coming back satisfactory...

...That said, on something that age I would pay special attention to leaks in the foundation or any other big cracks/etc that could indicate a structural problem with the ability. Also watch electric and plumbing as replacing either can be very expeinsive.

@takeonrules That makes sense. I'm just looking for a good scaffolding tools for a repeatable and complete WordPress plugin generator. I've used Yeoman in the past but I hate the multiple dependencies of Node and Yeoman installed globally. Really hoping I can find an easy solution with a single binary without re-inventing the wheel.

@Eden I've owned 3 places. Make sure you trust the inspector if you're buying and be ready for problems appropriate for the age of the house. For example, a 10 year old roof will need replacement soon in many places, regardless of how good it looks.

The house I'm in now was built in 1961 and has had plenty of problems appropriate for its age. IF I did anything differently I would look for more recent updates that so I could have avoided them myself.

Does anyone know of any good alternatives to Yeoman? Preferably something that doesn't rely on Node?

.@redcrew, this seems like it would be a neat place to go birding :D
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RT @SkokholmIsland
We thought that, given the lack of visitors, the Puffins might become a little more timid around us. Not so much.
https://twitter.com/SkokholmIsland/status/1265353703231574016