Eric Karkovack

Eric Karkovack

@karks.com

30+ years as a web developer, WordPress aficionado, writer @speckyboy.bsky.social, podcast host at @thewpminute.com, teller of terrible puns. Passionate #Orioles and #Saints fan. Find me all over the web: https://karks.com/links/

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Scroll-driven animations in Firefox! 🦊 A bunch of the many @codepen.io demos I've made over the past 3+ years are now cross-browser, including my second most hearted demo ever - the almost pure CSS infinite scroll 3D circular gallery! 🥳 codepen.io/thebabydino/... #CSS

Firefox for Web Developers@webdevs.firefox.com

Firefox 159 has landed! This is a pretty big one for web dev stuff: 🎉 CSS scroll-driven animations, both scroll() and view(). 🎉 Scoped custom element registries. 🎉 Streaming sanitization of HTML. And more! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/M...

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New! AI Can Build a Website. So Why Hire a WordPress Agency? AI and client demands challenge agency profitability; smaller teams thrive.

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New! Your WordPress Security Plugin Isn’t Enough WordPress security concerns rise; many lack breach recovery plans.

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Happy 25th Birthday Windows XP! On October 25, 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP and began a new era of Windows operating systems.

Being a #Saints fan is getting punched in the face repeatedly, but waiting for that moment when it pays off.

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On this day in 1995, The Smashing Pumpkins released ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.’ With “1979,” “Tonight, Tonight” and “Bullet with Butterfly Wings,” the ambitious double album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard.

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Happy 25th Birthday Wayback Machine! On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine. The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.

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I think we're past the point of hoping a single politician will save us or change things for the better. We elect people and immediately go back to whatever we were doing. Maybe we need a citizenry that stays fully engaged and demands more from our leadership. This ain't working...

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York County father honors daughter’s memory with mission to prevent suicide After losing his 15-year-old daughter Brianna to suicide, Matt Dorgan founded "Building Bridges 4 Brianna" to raise awareness and help others in crisis.

wgal.comYork County father honors daughter’s memory with mission to prevent suicideAfter losing his 15-year-old daughter Brianna to suicide, Matt Dorgan founded "Building Bridges 4 Brianna" to raise awareness and help others in crisis.

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Junior Caminero hit a baseball so far during batting practice that it smoked the FOX Sports set in the back of the stadium 😳 Via: @FOXSports

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And Breathe :) What a year the last 3 days have been. Here's a bit of an overview of what happened and things I've done (and what I could potentially do better). And also, what you can do...

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On this day in 1991, Matthew Sweet released 'Girlfriend', a power-pop gem bursting with jangly guitars and heartbreak. Hooky, loud, and endlessly replayable — it’s the sound of love and loss turned all the way up.

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AI agents named WordPress as an option for about half the sites they were asked to build, then didn't use it. When asked to make changes to an existing WordPress site, they completed 79% of tasks without the MCP Adapter, and none with it. 🔗

therepository.emailNew Benchmarks Find AI Agents Overlook WordPress and Can’t Complete Tasks via the Official MCP AdapterAI agents named WordPress as an option for about half the sites they were asked to build, then didn’t use it. When asked to make changes to an existing WordPress site, they completed 79%

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Much of the modern digital world only exists because of human social norms. The Internet's backbone exchanges data at light speed because a bunch of regular folks, essentially, shake hands & agree to do so. Lots of fragile, vital infrastructure only survived because nobody decided (yet) to knife it.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

Security through obscurity is a terrible principle but in practice a lot of things didn't get hacked bc people ignored them, or didn't know they existed, or just generally got missed. AI makes it easy to probe all of these things at scale + makes it easier to find/develop exploits

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Not a single word of this is hyperbolic in the slightest. Buy your friends in cybersecurity the drink or chocolate of their choice right now. We are not doing well

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

I ask you: At what point do we say "enough is enough"? When does our collective intelligence become so insulted that we stand up and take action? How much blatant corruption will it take for us to value competency and decency over lies and hate?...

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Inheriting a website is a bit like adopting a stray cat. It may look cute, but you'd better check it for fleas before letting it into the house. 😹

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“This is The Lost Tour, motherfuckers. Do you understand? You will live in the moment. You will connect with the music. Does this look like a Maya Hawke show to you? Yeah, I didn’t think so.” — Phoebe Bridgers

theonion.comPhoebe Bridgers Sends Warning To Fans By Executing Phone On StageSALT LAKE CITY—Emphasizing that the ban on electronic recording devices was a rule, not a suggestion, singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers reportedly sent a warning to fans at the Delta Center on Wednesd...

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Two possible views into how widespread PHP is and the scale of fixes needing to be implemented: — Around 2.58M exposed hosts and 54.9 web properties are visible running PHP, security firm Censys says — Around 50% of PHP systems are old will not receive a patch, Cisco says

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social

"Updating is the only safe choice" As PHP releases the details of its critical vulnerabilities, governments around the world are taking their websites offline for updates. Security researchers warn things could be real bad if systems aren't patched immediately Story with @lhn.bsky.social