Okay. I experimented with this, and I've now found that I can get into the bad state and out of the bad state, and I believe I have a "repro". So now I have a question: Should I place my hand into a garbage disposal and turn it on? Sorry, let me rephrase that. Should I try reporting a bug on the Automattic bug tracker?
If I try to post on the Automattic bug tracker am I gonna get banned for saying on Mastodon that I don't like Matt Mullenweg's vibes
Sometimes I say I want [thing] but can't get it, and people reply "well, why don't you try self-hosting?" and this is the reason why. The reason I don't self-host is I tried self-hosting Wordpress once and it turned into a never-ending, inescapable series of miserable obligations I can't get away from two decades later.
Okay. I experimented with this, and I've now found that I can get into the bad state and out of the bad state, and I believe I have a "repro". So now I have a question: Should I place my hand into a garbage disposal and turn it on? Sorry, let me rephrase that. Should I try reporting a bug on the Automattic bug tracker?
All the energy I might have put into blogging is instead eaten by the never-ending treadmill of dumping a shockingly large amount of work each year just into fixing the breakage on my existing WordPress install ( which is still not working, and even if I fixed the mojibake on the front page, it would not be working: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114875723743858920 ).
Sometimes I say I want [thing] but can't get it, and people reply "well, why don't you try self-hosting?" and this is the reason why. The reason I don't self-host is I tried self-hosting Wordpress once and it turned into a never-ending, inescapable series of miserable obligations I can't get away from two decades later.
Now the old latin1 characters in my old latin1 posts display right, and the posts created with the old text edit interface can be edited.
But!!
There is ONE POST, which I made last year, after the waves of breakage. I made it in the block editor, containing UTF-8 characters.
Ugh, I think—I guess I have to edit out the UTF-8. I go to edit it.
This post can no longer be edited by any means!! All my block-edited posts and drafts are just blank in the editor!! Even if I turn Classic Editor off!!
All the energy I might have put into blogging is instead eaten by the never-ending treadmill of dumping a shockingly large amount of work each year just into fixing the breakage on my existing WordPress install ( which is still not working, and even if I fixed the mojibake on the front page, it would not be working: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114875723743858920 ).
My 18-year-old WordPress site started suffering waves of increasing breakage around the year 2020. First, every one of my posts had its special characters (—, etc) turned into mojibake. Then, all my posts became completely uneditable as the post editor was replaced with a "block editor" that does not understand my existing Markdown and HTML posts.
I've since:
- Installed the "Classic Editor" plugin,
- Added define('DB_CHARSET', 'latin1'); to my wp-config
And here's where things get weird!!
Now the old latin1 characters in my old latin1 posts display right, and the posts created with the old text edit interface can be edited.
But!!
There is ONE POST, which I made last year, after the waves of breakage. I made it in the block editor, containing UTF-8 characters.
Ugh, I think—I guess I have to edit out the UTF-8. I go to edit it.
This post can no longer be edited by any means!! All my block-edited posts and drafts are just blank in the editor!! Even if I turn Classic Editor off!!
I hate Wordpress.
My 18-year-old WordPress site started suffering waves of increasing breakage around the year 2020. First, every one of my posts had its special characters (—, etc) turned into mojibake. Then, all my posts became completely uneditable as the post editor was replaced with a "block editor" that does not understand my existing Markdown and HTML posts.
I've since:
- Installed the "Classic Editor" plugin,
- Added define('DB_CHARSET', 'latin1'); to my wp-config
And here's where things get weird!!
I hate Wordpress.
What I'm listening to today: "The Terrorist", DJ Vadim & Motion Man
Motion Man is an Oakland rapper so far under the radar he has no Wikipedia page and at least one album of his I've listened to is not on Allmusic. If you know him it's probably from a guest spot he did on someone else's song, probably Kool Keith's, and you remember him because he absolutely steals every track he appears on.
Here, for a 1999 DJ Vadim single: Villainous pronouncements over supersaws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rOYGk6TV_o
What I'm listening to today: "Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra" (Overture), Friedrich Gulda
I don't know much about Gulda, but apparently his career was marked by a desire to work in both classical music but also jazz (back in an era when jazz was still cutting edge and/or illegal). This 1980 piece feels like he was asked to compose a concerto but he just really, really wanted to make funk music. This slaps. This cellist is fucking shredding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYTQQtwYYbQ
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️Loud static at 0:41
I wonder if there's a point in the next 18 months that Microsoft stops using github.com and redirects all URLs to new addresses at copilot.com
Imagining a future event where, while I'm interviewing for a job, the interviewer comments they checked my GitHub profile and I didn't seem to have much activity, and I explain it's because all my new development since 2025 has been on https://git.gay/
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