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Ari Stathopoulos
@aristath
Humanist. Trying to be the man my dog thinks I am. Doing things with code @emiliacapital. Focused on Web Sustainability. Human, opinions my own.
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Apr 19, 2024
    I give up. I can no longer contribute to Gutenberg… I can’t understand our code anymore, at this stage it’s alien to me and it keeps getting more and more complex instead of simpler. I’m wasting too much time trying to understand what we do.
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Sep 12, 2022
    Been working on this one for quite a while... A proposal to officially support #SQLite in #WordPress. There have been requests for that for 17 years 😱 Let's make it happen! 🥰
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    make.wordpress.org
    Let’s make WordPress officially support SQLite
    WordPress can be (and is) used for any kind of site, regardless of size or complexity. Some common use-cases include: Single-page landing sitesSimple company sites with just a few pages. These site…
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Nov 3, 2021
    Are you a #WordPress theme developer? Do you use webfonts? We'd appreciate your feedback on github.com/WordPress/word… adding a webfonts API in core. The window to merge this in 5.9 is closing soon, so leave feedback in the PR.🙏 Testing instructions: core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/46370#c…
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    Webfonts API - webfonts collection implementation by hellofromtonya · Pull Request #1736 · WordPr...
    From github.com
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Oct 18, 2020
    In case you missed it, the 1st Full-Site-Editing theme is now live: w.org/themes/q/ in the #WordPress repository. Hopefully this will allow more people to easier test FSE in #Gutenberg and move the project forward a bit faster :)
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    Q | WordPress Theme Directory
    From wordpress.org
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Sep 20, 2022
    #WordPress is a tool, one of many. It happens to be the most popular tool for building websites... I want to improve the #Sustainability of the web, which is why I work on it, my contributions have a big impact there. If another project had a bigger impact, that's where I'd be.
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Mar 22, 2021
    I have the best job in the world.
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Aug 25, 2021
    WordPress's barrier 2 entry hasn't changed... what we want to achieve has. If today I wanted to do the same things I did 10 years ago, the barrier would be the same. But that's not what I want, I want to do more. And I needed to learn more in order to do more. Isn't that natural?
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Aug 13, 2021
    If you want to be welcoming to new members in an open-source community, please avoid using acronyms as much as possible. "OP" may mean Original Post in your mind, but someone else might wonder "what does Optimus Prime have to do with my ticket?"
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Apr 19, 2024
    Replying to @aristath
    In the meantime, I’ll shift my focus a bit towards WordPress Core - which is still simple enough for anyone to contribute to.
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Apr 19, 2024
    Replying to @riadbenguella
    Abstractions are good, but only up to a certain point. Nowadays, if I’m trying to understand the data-flow to debug something, I’m opening on average 10 files, following a prop from A to B to C all the way to Z where the bug is.
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Jul 29, 2022
    Can you name one thing that you could do with "classic" themes but can't do with block themes in #WordPress?
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Apr 19, 2024
    Replying to @aristath and @riadbenguella
    In the meantime, I’ve wasted a couple of hours, wrangled 4 languages in my head, and I’m completely lost. Zero inline documentation, abstract naming, and a structure that makes sense if you work on it full time, but if I take a break for 3 months (as I did), you’re obsolete.
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Apr 19, 2024
    Replying to @aristath and @riadbenguella
    In WordPress we were always writing code with a mindset “if someone else reads this 2 years from now, they need to understand it and be able to contribute”. That’s not the case in Gutenberg…
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    Ari Stathopoulos
    @aristath
    Jun 1, 2022
    Took me 16 hours but I finally made it to Porto #WCEU2022 I hope to see you all in person and rejoice after years 🤗
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