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Ugg. I'd like to hope that Matt had hired better legal advice.

But that didn't happen. Matt this isn't going to end well for anyone. The first rule of holes is "STOP DIGGING" Can you put down the shovel for awhile and try talking to people?


Any recommended article/link to get the backstory on this situation?

This article is the canonical recap of what's happened:

- https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt



"Matt Mullenweg is showing the world that he’s one of the pettiest CEOs out there."

https://slate.com/technology/2024/10/wordpress-wpengine-matt...


Thanks.

The Mullenweg/WPE thing is the one I recommend:

https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7f...

It is a chronology published as a GitHub gist.


Maybe it is sometimes okay that people get what they deserve based on their actions? Whatever the result here will be.

Otherwise they will never learn. Is it more okay to do questionable things first and then later hide behind lawyer than just keeping doing it openly?


'Looks over at stack of T61 15" display refurbished laptops'

Yup, the are awesome, I'm on my second decade of driving them, should be able to get another decade out of the supply.


There is an awesome one in Wilmington DE, its the goto for startups. Very sketchy warehouse off of 12th street (if you pass the prison, you’ve gone too far). But lots of clean stuff, like the last of office stuff from DuPont clearing out all their locations.

Completely off topic, I lived in Fredonia around that time. I worked at the school, so I pretty much hung out in the townie bars (Coughlan's and an family run bar/italian restaurant I'm blanking on) . What was the big party bar you are talking about?

Sunny's. I know it was actually a dance bar. I hung out a lot at Rooney's and sometimes the OMI.

On the one side of Sunny's was a gym. On the other side was a Sears catalog showroom. Above the Sears were two apartments. My friends and I lived in one of them. I was a music major, as was another one of us. The other two were graphic design and communications, respectfully.

The Sears was at the end of the street, at the start of which was the police department. It was a one-way street, so the cops were always traveling past. My understanding is that the Sears eventually turned into a topless bar, after the Sears showrooms went out of business.

Where did you work at the school? I worked for a short time in the food service. I waited tables at the Topiary Tree. I also was part of the wait staff for events at the president's house.


Yes, Sunny's I went there more than a few times. I worked in the Computer Center in Maytum. The primary terminal room was in the bottom of the Library. I also taught some of the CS classes. I ate at the Topiary tree more often that I'd like to admit. It was a fun time. It was very creative school with the music and design people everywhere.

Any chance you remember the italian place? It was small, 1/2 was a restaurant, 1/2 was a bar. It was named after the family. Grandma was still working, making really awesome gravy. Awesome sausage sandwiches and Beef on Weck.

My email is in my profile, if you want to chat that way.


I also had a huge library of decompiled Websphere libraries. IBM was always sending patches and we would go "ok, what does this do?" "Fixes your problem?""How""Really well." So it got decompiled to see what it did.

There were lots of "We think your patch is doing XYZZY, we see where our code should be doing that. We've updated our code and the problem went away."

Fernflower was awesome. RIP Stiver, glioblastoma can be an ugly way to die.


> glioblastoma can be an ugly way to die.

He opted for an assisted suicide: https://flibusta.is/node/684900.


“A year after undergoing a world-first treatment for glioblastoma, Australian doctor Richard Scolyer remains cancer-free.”

Probably only a decade away from curing it. Unfortunately, medicine can evolve slowly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-69006713.amp


There is a micro kernel version that runs on RP2040 would that work for you?


Unfortunately, I want a desktop environment, so probably not.


Reading this and replying on a 2014 IPad Air. About 70% of the sites I goto work just fine. Oddly, about 1/2 of GitHub works. Old.reddit works, FB is horribly broke. So it’s clearly a resource thing. The more complicated the Javascript, the worse things run.

So it’s not only the resources needed by page, but that older devices end up in landfills.


+1 for the 010 editor. It comes with a number of pre-built binary templates, I use the sqlite one all the time. A recent upgrade got syntax coding by the tree-sitter environment, which is a great upgrade. Highly recommended.https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/


This is pretty cool, sadly the sites that it uses to show the examples in action are long gone.


This is weirdly compelling. I have some retro info that I've wanted to put in a small website, this may be the thing that pushes it into the active list.

Thanks!


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