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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 months

I give up. I can no longer contribute to Gutenberg… I can’t understand our code anymore, at this stage it’s alien to me and it keeps getting more and more complex instead of simpler. I’m wasting too much time trying to understand what we do.

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Ari Stathopoulos

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2 years

Been working on this one for quite a while... A proposal to officially support #SQLite in #WordPress . There have been requests for that for 17 years 😱 Let's make it happen! 🥰

Let’s make WordPress officially support SQLite

WordPress can be (and is) used for any kind of site, regardless of size or complexity. Some common use-cases include: Single-page landing sitesSimple company sites with just a few pages. These site…

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Ari Stathopoulos

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3 years

Are you a #WordPress theme developer? Do you use webfonts? We'd appreciate your feedback on adding a webfonts API in core. The window to merge this in 5.9 is closing soon, so leave feedback in the PR.🙏 Testing instructions:

Webfonts API - webfonts collection implementation by hellofromtonya · Pull Request #1736 · WordPr...

This API solves the problem of inefficient font loading which is a known "performance bottleneck" that can impact the user experience. What the API Provides This API provides: A standard...

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

In case you missed it, the 1st Full-Site-Editing theme is now live: in the #WordPress repository. Hopefully this will allow more people to easier test FSE in #Gutenberg and move the project forward a bit faster :)

Q | WordPress Theme Directory

Experimental Full Site Editing (FSE) Theme

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 years

I have the best job in the world.

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Ari Stathopoulos

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2 years

#WordPress is a tool, one of many. It happens to be the most popular tool for building websites... I want to improve the #Sustainability of the web, which is why I work on it, my contributions have a big impact there. If another project had a bigger impact, that's where I'd be.

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Ari Stathopoulos

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3 years

WordPress's barrier 2 entry hasn't changed... what we want to achieve has. If today I wanted to do the same things I did 10 years ago, the barrier would be the same. But that's not what I want, I want to do more. And I needed to learn more in order to do more. Isn't that natural?

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Ari Stathopoulos

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3 years

If you want to be welcoming to new members in an open-source community, please avoid using acronyms as much as possible. "OP" may mean Original Post in your mind, but someone else might wonder "what does Optimus Prime have to do with my ticket?"

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Ari Stathopoulos

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3 months

In the meantime, I’ll shift my focus a bit towards WordPress Core - which is still simple enough for anyone to contribute to.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 months

@riadbenguella Abstractions are good, but only up to a certain point. Nowadays, if I’m trying to understand the data-flow to debug something, I’m opening on average 10 files, following a prop from A to B to C all the way to Z where the bug is.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

Can you name one thing that you could do with "classic" themes but can't do with block themes in #WordPress ?

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 months

@riadbenguella In the meantime, I’ve wasted a couple of hours, wrangled 4 languages in my head, and I’m completely lost. Zero inline documentation, abstract naming, and a structure that makes sense if you work on it full time, but if I take a break for 3 months (as I did), you’re obsolete.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

Took me 16 hours but I finally made it to Porto #WCEU2022 I hope to see you all in person and rejoice after years 🤗

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 months

@riadbenguella In WordPress we were always writing code with a mindset “if someone else reads this 2 years from now, they need to understand it and be able to contribute”. That’s not the case in Gutenberg…

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

21 days

Getting a pension in Greece is highly unlikely. That means that when I’m 65, I’ll need some way to feed myself… To that end, my next goal is to buy a 300sqm piece of land next to my house, so I can grow my food year-round to survive, and add a couple of solar panels.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

Hello there #WordPress people! Isidoros and I are at WordCamp Athens, come and say hi at the Yoast booth! ❤️

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 months

I’ve been thinking about this for months, so I’ll go ahead and say it. Using React in WordPress looked like the right move a decade ago. Now… not so much. Not with all the things HTML & vanilla JS support out of the box. Feels like we’re a bit trapped…

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 months

@riadbenguella Just open a file in Gutenberg. Any JS file. Now, try to imagine reading it for the first time. Would you understand it? I sure don’t Now, do the same for a PHP file in WP-Core. It might take a minute to understand it, but you have help. Lots of inline docs, and a clear data path

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

This is an announcement I never thought I'd make. As much as it saddens me, I have decided to sell the Kirki #WordPress plugin. If you're interested PM me. If you're not, then please RT.

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Ari Stathopoulos

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5 years

You only need to follow a single #SEO rule: **Write good content**. Doesn't matter what your keywords, metas etc are, If your content is shit, you got nothing. Content is king.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Why I believe what I do in #WordPress matters for #Sustainability : Assuming 500million websites are built on WP (rough & conservative estimation), and an average of 10 daily page views, that brings us to 150 billion views/month. (1/2)

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

I went to the vet earlier today for some routine maintenance on my old dog... Came back with a new stray adoption. She's 3 months old and came to my lap as soon as she saw me, I couldn't resist. Suggestions for names?

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

19 days

I use it as an autocomplete, shaves off a few minutes of typing here and there. My time is worth more than what copilot costs, so it’s a good deal. Now that I started committing more to open-source projects again, GitHub automatically saw that and they refunded me. ❤️ Thank you!!

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

The single best piece of advice nobody will ever give you if you want to start your journey on WordPress theme development: Don't.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

If I manage to shave off even 10 bytes off the front-end of that many sites, it adds up to 1.5 trillion bytes (~1.3Terrabytes). 10 bytes may not be a lot for a single site, but when you add it all up you realize that every byte counts. Carbon emissions are real and costly

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

6 years

Writing normal posts with #WordPress #Gutenberg is a really, REALLY frustrating experience. No matter how much I want to love it I just can't. Content is not made of blocks. A paragraph is not a freaking block. I don't want a page builder, I just want to write content.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 months

I’m just hoping someone can pick up my pending PRs for 🐞 that I couldn’t merge, and bring them to completion.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

There are times in one’s life where being “OK” is a constant, daily struggle. It takes effort and a continuous commitment. Build your routines. Keep doing the things you do. Remember that you have the capacity to overcome this. You’ve done it before.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Today was the 1st time since I broke my knee that I managed to walk 500 steps 🍾🎉🎉

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 years

Pollution does NOT destroy the earth. This planet has survived far worse than humans. What pollution does is make it harder for humanity to survive on earth. The planet will be fine... We won't.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Dear WordPress, sometimes the decisions you make want me to start screaming "fuckyall, I'm outta here". But you're like an abusive girlfriend. No matter what you do I still love you. One of these days though you're gonna take things too far...

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 years

If you're a designer, think of the color schemes you use (yes, they impact energy consumption). If you're a web or app developer, efficiency and performance are essential. Think about web-sustainability. If you're working with WordPress, join the #performance team on slack

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Almost 2 months after I broke my knee, I am now able to walk with a cane. 1 more month and I'll be able to walk and run sans-assistance

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

This is how I spend my weekends... Renovating & restoring the basement of my new (but otherwise very old) house. The previous owners vandalized everything.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

@mennwebs The style engine will solve that. Just a little more patience.... I don't know if we'll make it on time for 6.1, but I'm hoping we will. We're working hard on it every single day. ❤️

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 months

@riadbenguella Everything is subjective… our very existence is debatable depending on ideas and beliefs 😄 I’m expressing my point of view and perspective at this point in time, knowing that it’s not the same POV I had when I was a full-time Gutenberg dev and was in that code all day.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Fellow WordPressers, if you're not subscribed to @therepositorywp 's newsletter I suggest you do it now.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

@TacoVerdo Same things I did today... But with less stress on my mind 😊

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Took me almost a year due to limited time, but finally finished this. Next up: Get certified. The certification itself is not really important, what's important is learning. I urge all web developers to study some more, #a11y is important to everyone.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

1 year

When things like lightboxes via interactivity API get merged without significant feedback, it makes the rest of us feel like arses for going through the proper procedures (which take months if not years). I get it… you want it. But do it right like the rest of the community.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 years

Couldn't sleep so continued my training. The bruises are worth it.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

I've been working on a new colorpicker control for the #WordPress #Customizer : This is a standalone #composer package, built as part of the next generation of Kirki controls & modules. And yes, it uses #Gutenberg palettes 😍

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

Gridd is probably the most versatile theme you've ever seen, you can build ANY layout you can imagine. From the most minimal to the most complex, with this thing you can create your own grid. And yes, it's free & open-source. 🥰

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

@carolinapoena Mental health.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

A simple PHP class to handle #WordPress #theme updates from a #github repository:

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 months

Everything we currently do with react in Gutenberg, could be done simpler, faster, more efficiently using native HTML: web components, custom elements, and a bunch of new (and some not that new) JS APIs

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

Plans for Kirki 4.0

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Now that #WCEU is cancelled I've got a new problem... I need to buy t-shirts this year, I haven't done that in ages. All my t-shirts are swag from WordCamps 🤣

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

Huge shoutout to @alexleestine303 for the amazing #a11y work in #Gutenberg #WordPress !

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

The Gridd #WordPress #theme was just updated to v1.1.16, along with its premium Gridd-Plus plugin which was updated to v1.0.6. #accessibility #greenweb

Gridd v1.1.16 & Gridd Plus v1.0.6 released - wplemon.com

Today we are releasing an update for the Gridd theme and the Gridd Plus plugin. Both the Gridd and Gridd-Plus releases are minor and contain various bugfixes and improvements. Gridd Theme New: Added...

wplemon.com

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

19 days

Started watching some #WCEU24 talks that I missed in Torino last week, and I somehow found myself spending 3 hours watching cats and dogs videos 🤷

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Yesterday I learned what "bikeshedding" means and couldn't help but think of Gutenberg. We don't have queries but sure let's waste our time discussing the border-radius of an input. Let's get this thing working first before we waste dozens of hours on border-radii, shall we?

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

@lukechesser @WordPress @photomatt The plugin itself is fine... It's the license of the images that was the issue Of course after a few hours the license on the site changed and the "or redistributed" clause from "Photos cannot be sold or redistributed without significant modification." was removed.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

The moment I see a pop-up on a site I don't stop to read it. I close the tab in my browser and move on to a less annoying site. Don't be an ass with marketing, stop annoying your customers. If your site has value I'll bookmark it, if not then no amount of popups is going to help.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

The web's contribution to global CO2 emissions is HUGE, so this weekend I built a #WordPress plugin to help offset carbon emissions of WP sites using the @getcloverly API: v1.0 is pretty basic but it'll get better soon 🙂🌲🌲🌲 #sustainable

Carbon Offset

Carbon Offset allows you to offset the CO2 emissions of your website, helping us build a better and more sustainable future for the web.

wordpress.org

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

It's not failure. It's called learning. I'll get it right next time. Or after 100 more failed attempts. But at some point I will get it right.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

6 years

The perfect book for the beach. @heydonworks thanks for all your work, it's an awesome read!

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Are you a #WordPress developer with a @github sponsors account? Awesome! You can now show your appreciation to sponsors by adding them automatically to your admin pages. Hint: Add "want to be in this list? Become a sponsor (link)" before the list of icons.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

10 months

@jdevalk @mikemcalister @photomatt I always felt that onboarding like this should be part of Core… The current experience for a newcomer to WP is not a good one. We have to start somewhere… if it’s in themes, then so be it 🤷

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

WordPress Themes Are Dead. Long Live WordPress Themes! - via @infinum

WordPress Themes Are Dead. Long Live WordPress Themes!

Did the new WordPress editor Gutenberg which came out a year ago kill themes?

infinum.com

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 years

High levels of stress can lead to questionable life choices in an attempt to relief that stress. My latest one? Got an electric unicycle last week, and trying to learn. Let's hope I don't walk out of this with broken bones, there's very few of them left intact.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Q: What's your Facebook so I can add you and stay connected? Me: I don't use FB Q: why? Me: Doesn't respect my privacy. Q: Can't be worse than Google Me: Who says I use Google? Q: Smartphone? Me: Nope, switched to dumbphone Q: But.... Me: No.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

After a lot of discussion with her, she decided her name is Kanela (Cinnamon in Greek). I tried lots of things, she seems to like this one and comes when she hears it so... Kanela it is ❤️

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Just got back from the supermarket, prepping for a possible quarantine: 10kg pasta, 5kg rice, 4kg flour, 50 rolls of toilet paper, spices and cleaning supplies. I can cook, eat and shit for the next 3 months until my potatoes start growing, then it's tomatoes season.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Trying to quit smoking while working on a major feature release is probably not the best choice I ever made. The irritation and frustration are all very real.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

This weekend's project was pretty different and refreshing. Still has a long way to go, but I'll be quarantined for a month so I might as well do something creative without looking at a screen.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

If you build #WordPress themes, it's time you stop with this "pixel-perfect" BS. Pixels are not what they used to be. I propose a new term: "Pixel Agnostic". Products (because yes, a website is a product) should scale to fit the medium, not the other way around.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

Wrote new article on click vs hover on navigation. Please help make the web less frustrating... Just say no to bad practices. #a11y

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

Moving to a new place and it's a lot of work IRL. Apologies to anyone waiting for an answer on GitHub, , Slack or email, but I'll be mostly unavailable for the next 1-2 weeks, taking care of things. Cheers. Short break and I'll be back :)

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

Wrote a new article. If you're a #WordPress theme developer consider using vanilla JS instead of jQuery. It's not that hard...

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 years

Gutenberg tickets get created faster than I can read them... It's a never-ending loop of playing catch-up

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Locally hosted gravatars: Allow your site visitors to use gravatars like before, but serving the images from your site instead. You get the convenience and don't sacrifice your users privacy:

Local Gravatars

Locally host gravatars for the privacy-concious.

wordpress.org

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

I was trying to read an article earlier today and this is what I got. Seriously... If when I visit your page I can't read the content because of all the ads, then there's other places I can get the same content. Respect your visitors.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Everyone needs a hobby, right?

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

Sometimes #coding means staring at your screen for 2 days without writing anything, and then write a single line.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

FFS, Gutenberg is an undocumented mess impossible to untangle. Other than creating blocks, doing anything else is next to impossible!

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

@yoast Yay! Finally I'll get to meet in person more of you all! ❤️🎉

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

Random thoughts, no conclusion. Personal post.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 years

@benswrite People building a plugin on their own, when it succeeds, at some point reach a point where they realize they can't give to their child what it deserves. At some point, a team needs to take over. I say it's a good thing otherwise these projects die a slow and painful death.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

6 years

On the way home, 10-hour boat trip. But with the right company it's definitely worth it.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

@bph @JosephaHaden @rzen I can't wait for a time when our community stops counting stats and can see beyond genders, colors and social labels. When we can say we have 12 amazing humans instead of 11 women and a guy. These labels are the exact same thing that makes us non-diverse and non-inclusive...

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

From now on if I see a site using Google Fonts without first asking for my permission to send my data to Google, they're going on my blocked & banned lists. FFS, it's not that hard and you really don't need them, system fonts have been great for years. It's no longer 2005.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

This weekend's project was more complete than last week's. Couldn't find any hinges so these are a snug fit, yet removable if needed (but they don't fold). I was thinking of making them snap-on with 🧲, but abandoned the idea cause we don't know how magnets work on the brain 😋

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

Fear of being a fraud - Imposter Syndrome

Don't you love that little voice in your head?Huge thanks to Playtech for letting us film at their amazing store!SUPPORT US ON PATREON - https://bit.ly/36Hg7...

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

The tastiness of Greek yogurt is measured in fat.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

8 years

Just released Recipes for WordPress 1.1.0:

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

Sometimes working with #Gutenberg and themes feels like the Kobayashi Maru.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

@jdevalk "To reduce crawling means your site uses less electricity which in the end is a win for the environment" 🙌🙌🙌

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

💖 I'm sponsoring @johnbillion because he's made my life easier

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

@TacoVerdo Actually, now that I think of it no. That would be the effect of 30k. For anything more than that, I'd try to do some good and spread the love ❤️❤️❤️

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 years

So yeah... I did it again. This time it's a tibial plateau fracture. Nasty business. Surgery went well and I should be out of the hospital tomorrow night. I'm turning into Wolverine, reinforcing my bones with metal plates and screws 😂🤘🤘

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

2 years

@wphaitofficial Ummmm none of the above?

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 years

@carolinapoena @samikeijonen The gist: Think AMP optimizations but without all the hassle of AMP. 😁 If a stylesheet is too small, it will be inlined with <style>. There's a filterable max-limit for the sum of inlined styles (20k by default). Saves a lot of round-trips so visitors get the page a lot faster!

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

4 years

I just found out that #SinglesDay exists! So yep, I'll celebrate tomorrow by making cookies and then devouring them.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

So this was new... Managed to sleep 8 hours straight (I usually average 4-5h/day).

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 months

@courtneyr_dev @dcook Or a GitHub workflow that will force all new PRs to add proper inline docs… over time the whole code add would be documented that way. We could probably come up with reasonable rules for that… example: you can’t have 30+ lines of logic code without explaining a single thing 🤷

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

7 years

The rewrite for Kirki's documentation site has begun using @jekyllrb and @ZURBfoundation , hosted on @github pages using a docs folder in the repository. A big thank you to all the wonderful people out there making this possible.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

6 months

If you’re one of the folks saying the WP block editor isn’t good ‘cause it lacks responsive controls, I’d challenge you to reconsider what “responsive” means. Responsive controls are only necessary because you think of web design that way. It’s your expectation, not the user’s.

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 years

@FrancescaMarano @helenhousandi @johnbillion Sound Engineering & Music Production degree. Worked in discography for years, writing code was always a hobby. First time I got "paid" for code was at 17, we couldn't afford the tuition for a school I was attending so I built them a site instead (WP & CSS didn't exist then) 🤓

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Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

5 years

A hidden gem in #WordPress : Color functions, props @mattwiebe

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