37 replies

1. Zach Leatherman moments later

   bless us (maintainers), every one (not monetarily)

   1. Jim Nielsen 13 min later

      @zachleat if these maintainers are going to burnout from our extraction of their labor, they had better hurry and do it, and decrease the surplus population!

   2. jadonn 29 min later

      @zachleat I would pay a not-insignificant sum of money to see "A Muppet's Christmas Carol" rendition of the Christmas Carol, but it's about the peril of being miserly when it comes to the open source software on which your entire business depends.

      Not sure what the Ghosts of Open Source Past, Present, and Future would be like, though

      1. Zach Leatherman 30 min later

         @jadonn well wait… how much money 😅

2. Max Fenton 6 min later

   @zachleat Fire up that email about getting 8% of revenue!

   1. Zach Leatherman 7 min later

      @maxfenton gotta wait for it to drop on .com first 😅

      1. Max Fenton 4 hr later

         @zachleat Didn't you hear? They're all the same, lol.

         1. Zach Leatherman 4 hr later

            @maxfenton huh. well that’s hot garbage

3. Sam Stephenson 11 min later

   @zachleat (soon) “we are invoking point 23 of the web component directory guidelines and forking <snow-fall> into a new component, <prat-fall>”

   1. Zach Leatherman 23 min later

      @sstephenson oh no

4. Klaas Pieter Annema 12 min later

   @zachleat make it rain required checkboxes.

5. Max Böck 13 min later

   @zachleat time for a fal-la-la-la-lawsuit

6. Eric Portis 21 min later

   @zachleat hm

   1. Zach Leatherman 22 min later

      @eeeps scrooge wishes he had step dad energy

      1. Eric Portis 27 min later

         @zachleat just realizing now how purely divorced dad energy this all is https://wordpress.org/news/2024/12/holiday-break/

         1. Zach Leatherman 29 min later

            @eeeps masculinity is a prison

            1. Jason Garber 1 hr later

               @zachleat @eeeps i wish i could favorite a whole thread on this app

7. Zach Leatherman 21 min later

   a reminder that <snow-fall> can do emoji too!

   1. Andrew Douglass 41 min later

      @zachleat quick, make the pineapple and pizza emojis the default!

   2. nilsmielke ⁂ 1 hr later

      @zachleat Stop, Zach! You are killing me. 🤣

   3. Slab Bulkhead 1 hr later

      @zachleat <slow-clap>

   4. Noah Liebman 2 hr later

      @zachleat flying toasters vibes 😍

   5. Helen Chong 9 hr later

      @zachleat LOL, love the irony of Matt using <snow-fall> on both his personal website and wordpress.org, given the fact you just updated <snow-fall> to add the feature to do emoji after getting inspired by the website that awarded Matt Tech Arsehole of the Year. 🤣

8. nicolas ⁂ 46 min later

   @zachleat

   To spice it up, time to add

   if (window.location.hostname == 'wordpress.org') {
   document.querySelector(':root').style.setProperty('--snow-fall-color', 'url(wp-engine-logo.svg)');
   }

   in snow-fall.js 😅

9. nilsmielke ⁂ 57 min later

   @zachleat Epic burn!

10. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

    to everyone suggesting that I change the code to do some kind of harm to their web site (humorous or not)—no, I will not be doing that.

    I think we can all agree that it would be wrong to cause production harm to another organization or company’s web site—right?

    1. Jason Garber 1 hr later

       @zachleat no war but class war zach

       1. Eric A. Meyer 1 day later

          @jgarber @zachleat Maybe a little ID war, as a treat.

          1. Jason Garber 1 day later

             @Meyerweb @zachleat that’s incredibly specific

    2. Andrew Douglass 1 hr later

       @zachleat I was joking for sure, actually doing this would grant you problematic BDFL status. Even a small harmless prank would give me a little pause about using your other code like 11ty for non-personal stuff.

       1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

          @ardouglass for sure—open source is built on reputation and trust

    3. Slab Bulkhead 2 hr later

       @zachleat

    4. Jan Lehnardt 3 hr later

       @zachleat insert padme meme

       1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

          @janl right!???

          1. Jan Lehnardt 3 hr later

             @zachleat I didn’t specify which side.

             1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

                @janl …right

                1. Jan Lehnardt 3 hr later

                   @zachleat …or left?