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Mullenweg/Automattic offers a second round of 6mo redundancy pay in the hope of purging more dissenters (www.404media.co)
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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

mullenweg pissing you off? you should totally replace WordPress with [static blog generator using an idiosyncratic variant of markdown], i wrote it yesterday in [nightly rust/perl 4/ocaml]. It doesn't have [list of basic blogging features] because those are wrong things to want

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

"comments? what do you mean, why aren't these people just on usenet?"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

acausal robot god, i have sinned, i am deliberately baiting the nerds. what no this isn't a confession it's a brag

[–] jessamyn@glammr.us 5 points 3 weeks ago

@dgerard Thank you. Me and my three WordPress blogs (self hosted and one on Dreamhost) feel seen.