KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Thank you to everybody who joined for my #WCUS session on migrating content to Blocks. Find the slides here, and please contact me for any questions or follow ups, I'd love to keep this discussion going! docs.google.com/presentation... 020
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Yeah, youtube.com/@wordpress?s... ... sadly not all rooms, thoughyoutube.comWordPressWordPress is more than a publishing platform. It’s a powerful and empowering technology built by a global community of passionate contributors, united by the spirit of freedom; to create and share wit... 110
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Hey #WCUS: join me in Room 222 in 30 minutes for a rundown of how to migrate your content into WP as fully formed block markup, and a refresher course on all the different types of blocks and block patterns in e cab use to get there! 011
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026We know somebody who uses "they're so *Cartesian*" as a derogatory term, so, sure 000
Reposted by KAdamBoo! DooPerson @boodoo.co · 27/07/2026"This newly constructed building will offer 30 affordable apartments" (checks rent and qualifying income band) Studio - $3,543/mo. Minimum income: $135,360/yr we cannot keep giving incentives to developers and letting them call these things "affordable apartments." It's beyond parody at this point. 2354
Reposted by KAdamMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE. 10736505120334
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Announcing a small VS Code extension for modern WordPress development, which can assist with editing of inline CSS strings for theme.json styles or style variation JSON partials: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... Give it a try and let me know what you think!marketplace.visualstudio.comWP theme.json CSS string editor - Visual Studio MarketplaceExtension for Visual Studio Code - Highlight CSS strings inside WordPress theme.json files 000
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 08/05/2026That's like 1.16x at best, I say "coward", could be SO much faster 000
Reposted by KAdamam cosmos @amcosmos.bsky.social · 11/03/2026This off-handed mention of Dots kind of irks me because the “grand exit” was all my former studio mates losing their job. Those development roles are no longer in NYC. 091
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 02/01/2026YES, @repebble.com *are* bringing back the Time Round! repebble.com/blog/pebble-... Just two days after my Fossil Hybrid finally died, this is a ray of hope there may yet be something for me in the smartwatch world. Instant pre-order, as promised.repebble.com 000
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Observation: Kansai airbnb wifi significantly outclasses Kanto wifi. 020
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 15/10/2025I think John Wick is probably the ideal pinball table to play before a #WordCamp, because you earn Wick Points (WP)... 😏 #WCEH @ House of TARG 020
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Apply to work with us at @humanmade.com — we're looking for an Engineering Manager on our Americas team! wrkbl.ink/4gUMj3B If you want to work with and lead an absolutely world-class WordPress delivery team (or just if "telling me what to do" sounds fun), please consider applying!apply.workable.comEngineering Manager - Americas - Human Made, makers of Altis DXPReports to: Associate Director of EngineeringDiscipline: Engineering Primary Focus: Team effectivenessCompany Strategic Responsibility: No Squad Strategic Responsibility: YesLine Manag... 013
Reposted by KAdamRhys Wynne @rhys.wales · 28/08/2025An article that - if you work in technology tmand roll your eyes with every mention of AI - will nourish your soul. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comEnough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor DrageTitans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University 1146
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 30/08/2025For reasons I can't explain, #WCUS inspired me to draw a shark with a chainsaw 030
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Seems obvious it isn't the priority, but is there any chance there'll be a new Round in the future? That'd be an insta-buy, I hope so! Good luck with the square ones until then 000
Reposted by KAdamCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 28/07/2025absolutely nails it. the work of language in the age of mechanical reproduction I guess 11941255
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 28/07/2025You want your sales lead to be like a shark. An ancient, inexorable predator who can smell a deal from miles away. An individual who is unfairly maligned and feared due to media stereotypes; who has been hunted to the brink of extinction by over-fishing & catastrophic damage to their native habitat. 010
Reposted by KAdamHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 12/07/2025They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis. 6067082716
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 28/06/2025I'm gutted to miss #WCMontclair today — have a blast, everyone, and I hope to be back to present my cancelled talk on Debugging in a future year. (Tl;dr talk: write every step and assumption down, be methodical, work together, question assumptions, are you *sure* it's not caching) 000
Reposted by KAdamWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/06/2025Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York 262668609
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Lmk if I can help!! (Though your repair skills easily outstrip mine)! Nice find 000
Reposted by KAdamNaomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 29/05/2025We're on Steam today (feat. me making a fool of myself) with the GAMES IN NEW YORK sale: a whole lot of games made or set in New York! Have you played Despelote yet? Crush House? Immortality? Getting Over it with BFOD? Beglitched? Ape Out? Norwood Suite? store.steampowered.com/sale/GamesinNYstore.steampowered.comGames in New YorkGames set, published and designed in New York 15826
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 29/05/2025GO!! Fight!!! 18F has only sought to better the world, ever. Shutting it down was criminal 020
Reposted by KAdamKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/05/2025I see soooooooo many great writers putting so much of their time, effort, skill and money squarely in the lap of a really evil and untrustworthy company. Morality questions aside: is it worth planting seeds in THIS soil, in this moment? Does it seem likely to pay off? So many alternatives!techpolicy.pressSubstack Cofounder Defends Commercial Relationships with Nazis | TechPolicy.PressHelping Nazis grow subscription newsletter businesses is ultimately best for the world, reasons Hamish McKenzie. 32926475
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Are the three things the camera, film and developer, or two tall boys and a cat? I'd be believe either 100
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Huge shout-out to @mikelittle.com for sharing gist.github.com/lightningspi... with me — a snippet to suppress _load_textdomain_just_in_time deprecation notices in third-party plugins. Incredibly useful for cutting down on log noise in WP sites since 6.7gist.github.comRemove notice messages for _load_textdomain_just_in_time being loaded before init, in WordPress 6.7Remove notice messages for _load_textdomain_just_in_time being loaded before init, in WordPress 6.7 - doing-it-wrong-filter.php 100
Reposted by KAdamNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Trump is doing exactly what the voters elected him to do: give everyone measles, crash all the airplanes, and destroy the economy. 231884289
Reposted by KAdamRon Bronson @ronbronson.com · 06/03/2025Tech scale: Reduce human dependencies. Government scale: Work within them. The real skill isn’t just "moving fast" It's moving deliberately when you *can’t* bypass accountability. That kind of care requires interest in people beyond your own experience & actually listening to them. 311217
Reposted by KAdamDan Hon @danhon.com · 02/03/2025You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to 5846351190
Reposted by KAdamAlt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/202518F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org18f.orgWe're not done yet | 18F 697187356803
Reposted by KAdamam cosmos @amcosmos.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I get really irked when I see people post “indies will save us” or “the laid off devs should go indie” THERE IS NO MONEY publishers are cancelling contracts, angel investors/venture capital don’t want small returns. I think they mean hobbyists with a day job working doubletime & that is a rough ask 8354731011
Reposted by KAdamJordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 22/02/2025the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life." 331905705
Reposted by KAdamtim d (he/him) @doormouse12.bsky.social · 21/01/2025do you need 7 whole hours of blissful relaxing music? (probably not-- that's way too much music.) but do you want to support musicians affected by the fires in LA? of could you do. here's a nice way to do that. plus, it gets you access to a boatload of relaxing music.staying.bandcamp.comStaying: Leaving Records Aid to Artists Impacted by the Los Angeles Wildfires, by Various Aritsts98 track album 022
Reposted by KAdamBoo! DooPerson @boodoo.co · 15/01/2025Making some specific endless-scroll short-form video app illegal is petty, and ignorant. Making ALL endless-scroll short-form video apps illegal would usher in a Civilization 6 style Golden Age. 0596
Reposted by KAdamWikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 15/01/2025On 15 January 2001, Wikipedia was launched with a vision for a free, open encyclopedia that anyone could edit. 24 years later, it has grown into one of the world’s most visited websites, offering 63+ million articles in 300+ languages, thanks to its incredible global community of volunteers 🧵⬇️ (1/3) 610041
Reposted by KAdamAnil Dash @anildash.com · 19/11/2024Don't call it a Substack. www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...anildash.comDon't call it a Substack. - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999. 56783230
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 14/01/2025After a year and a half of travel since we moved out of our apartment, we've found a new place in Brooklyn! Nomadism is great but I'm excited to be based somewhere again, at least for a while 050
Reposted by KAdamWes Bos @wesbos.com · 16/12/2024I love Array.reduce, but I find myself writing less of them as the browser primitives get better. Map + Object groupBy is one place you can now get rid of reduce for www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bfK...youtube.comGoodbye Array .reduceYouTube video by Syntax 1316615
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Never thought I'd see the day! But it is definitely still The Trend, and expanding rapidly globally... found juicy ipas from Manchester to Osaka, this past year! 110
KAdam @kadam.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I love Cyber Monday, it's a great opportunity to remember what email lists I'm on and unsubscribe from them all en masse 040
