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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 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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Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields' indie rock duo Dead Man's Bones return with the romantically gothy "Lost In The Night," their first new song in 17 years
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs have officially entered the live album phase of their career.
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Election Officials Warn That Ballots Tied To Stray Cat Unlikely To Arrive In Time https://theonion.com/election-officials-warn-that-ballots-tied-to-stray-cat-unlikely-to-arrive-in-time/
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What's the state of #WordPress security? I asked Robert Abela of Melapress to share the results of his company's annual security survey. Check it out over at @thewpminute.com! thewpminute.com/your-wordpre...
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What's the state of #WordPress security? I asked Robert Abela of Melapress to share the results of his company's annual security survey. Check it out over at @thewpminute.com! thewpminute.com/your-wordpre...
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Can AI Make Us So Productive That It Destroys the Economy? www.vincentschmalbach.com/can-ai-make-...
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Chemists Announce Upgraded Periodic Table With Dozens Of New Elements For Just $4 A Month https://theonion.com/chemists-announce-upgraded-periodic-table-with-dozens-o-1839288701/
AI is forcing us to play the cat-and-mouse game of web security at warp speed. speckyboy.com/how-ai-fuels...
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A critical PHP fix, WordPress 7.2 Beta 1, Notes in the margin, and more—Weekend Edition 378 Read onlineIssue #378 | October 24, 2026 Howdy, Before anything else: check which version of PHP your sites run. On October 21, the PHP project released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities, and they…
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White House Staff Heartbroken By Sight Of Weak Trump Struggling To Yell Racial Slurs At TV https://theonion.com/white-house-staff-heartbroken-by-sight-of-weak-trump-st-1845298690/
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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.
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Sure, you can use AI to build your own QuickBooks or Asana clone. But what are the drawbacks? How do you maintain it? @matthewmedeiros.bsky.social and I discussed the good and bad on @thewpminute.com. thewpminute.com/ai-built-the...
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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. 🔗
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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.
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
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...
Ruin a song by adding "In My Pants" to the title. Bush - "Comedown In My Pants" youtu.be/xS3GiUAvjJ8?...
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Sure, you can use AI to build your own QuickBooks or Asana clone. But what are the drawbacks? How do you maintain it? @matthewmedeiros.bsky.social and I discussed the good and bad on @thewpminute.com. thewpminute.com/ai-built-the...
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I haven't looked at too many comments on here yet, but I've noticed enough amount of "just fix it with AI" that... I donno what the feeling is, but it's not good. I do think a compilation video of people trying to one-shot prompting migrating from PHP 5 would be great though. youtu.be/cBD1AgkM1VQ
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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
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Fired General Warned Of Missile Shortages Before Iran War https://theonion.com/fired-general-warned-of-missile-shortages-before-iran-war/
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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
"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