Jer Clarke
@jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
🇨🇦➡️🇲🇽 Canadian living in Mexico City
💚 WordPress developer for https://globalvoices.org
☸️ Free from addiction with https://recoverydharma.org
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💚 WordPress developer for https://globalvoices.org
☸️ Free from addiction with https://recoverydharma.org
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In the year 2025 of the Common Era, if you don't have a Code of Conduct that requires people to not be sexists or bigots, you're on 2.9999 strikes in my book already.
Don't rely on unwritten rules. If you can't at least write down on paper "no bigots or misogynist shitheads allowed", then your […]
Don't rely on unwritten rules. If you can't at least write down on paper "no bigots or misogynist shitheads allowed", then your […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
In the year 2025 of the Common Era, if you don't have a Code of Conduct that requires people to not be sexists or bigots, you're on 2.9999 strikes in my book already.
Don't rely on unwritten rules. If you can't at least write down on paper "no bigots or misogynist shitheads allowed", then your […]
Don't rely on unwritten rules. If you can't at least write down on paper "no bigots or misogynist shitheads allowed", then your […]
Hello world, it’s me Jer, and I’m looking for WordPress consulting contracts 👩🏻💻
I’d love to help with development, automated testing, or anything else WordPress related, so please get in touch if you have projects that need some help, and if you know someone that needs a website or especially […]
I’d love to help with development, automated testing, or anything else WordPress related, so please get in touch if you have projects that need some help, and if you know someone that needs a website or especially […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Hello world, it’s me Jer, and I’m looking for WordPress consulting contracts 👩🏻💻
I’d love to help with development, automated testing, or anything else WordPress related, so please get in touch if you have projects that need some help, and if you know someone that needs a website or especially […]
I’d love to help with development, automated testing, or anything else WordPress related, so please get in touch if you have projects that need some help, and if you know someone that needs a website or especially […]
The Mexican government has proposed a new law banning all "vaping”, and it strikes me as one of the most misguided ideas I've heard in a while.
As this article points out, the cartels are already profiting enormously from black market tobacco+vaping. Outlawing vaping would just give them a […]
As this article points out, the cartels are already profiting enormously from black market tobacco+vaping. Outlawing vaping would just give them a […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The Mexican government has proposed a new law banning all "vaping”, and it strikes me as one of the most misguided ideas I've heard in a while.
As this article points out, the cartels are already profiting enormously from black market tobacco+vaping. Outlawing vaping would just give them a […]
As this article points out, the cartels are already profiting enormously from black market tobacco+vaping. Outlawing vaping would just give them a […]
… and I never saw snow again. The end.
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
… and I never saw snow again. The end.
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The Internet was made for things like this: a website that looks like Gmail, that shows you the worst of the Epstein emails
https://jmail.world/
https://jmail.world/
Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The Internet was made for things like this: a website that looks like Gmail, that shows you the worst of the Epstein emails
https://jmail.world/
https://jmail.world/
Reposted by Jer Clarke
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]
James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]
Original post on mathstodon.xyz
mathstodon.xyz
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]
James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]
Shout out to a show I didn’t hear a single thing about, but saw on AppleTV and gave a chance to because it looked fun: The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
Its a silly bordering on ridiculous, but charmingly wholesome, 18th century romp. Full of […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Its a silly bordering on ridiculous, but charmingly wholesome, 18th century romp. Full of […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Shout out to a show I didn’t hear a single thing about, but saw on AppleTV and gave a chance to because it looked fun: The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
Its a silly bordering on ridiculous, but charmingly wholesome, 18th century romp. Full of […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Its a silly bordering on ridiculous, but charmingly wholesome, 18th century romp. Full of […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Another neighbor spotted out my office window. Buenas tardes, Yellow-rumped Warbler 👋🏻 🐥
#mexico #cdmx #birds #birdwatching #wildlifephotography
#mexico #cdmx #birds #birdwatching #wildlifephotography
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Another neighbor spotted out my office window. Buenas tardes, Yellow-rumped Warbler 👋🏻 🐥
#mexico #cdmx #birds #birdwatching #wildlifephotography
#mexico #cdmx #birds #birdwatching #wildlifephotography
I'd like to send some scorn out to anyone that decides JSON should be used as a configuration format where humans create files made of JSON to store information.
Humans need comments in their code, simple as that. It's a tragedy that WordPress trapped itself for untold years ahead with JSON as […]
Humans need comments in their code, simple as that. It's a tragedy that WordPress trapped itself for untold years ahead with JSON as […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I'd like to send some scorn out to anyone that decides JSON should be used as a configuration format where humans create files made of JSON to store information.
Humans need comments in their code, simple as that. It's a tragedy that WordPress trapped itself for untold years ahead with JSON as […]
Humans need comments in their code, simple as that. It's a tragedy that WordPress trapped itself for untold years ahead with JSON as […]
I'm so easily impressed these days. Feeling exalted just to see #vscode releasing updates that have QoL improvements that don't involve AI 😅
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_106#_code-editing
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_106#_code-editing
November 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'm so easily impressed these days. Feeling exalted just to see #vscode releasing updates that have QoL improvements that don't involve AI 😅
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_106#_code-editing
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_106#_code-editing
Reposted by Jer Clarke
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Reposted by Jer Clarke
“Cursor leads to…a significant and persistent increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity…the increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity acts as a major factor causing long-term velocity slowdown”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427v2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427v2
Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in their application to software development, with practitioners claiming a multifold productivity increase after adoption. Yet, empirical evidence is lacking around these claims. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of adopting a widely popular LLM agent assistant, namely Cursor, on development velocity and software quality. The estimation is enabled by a state-of-the-art difference-in-differences design comparing Cursor-adopting GitHub projects with a matched control group of similar GitHub projects that do not use Cursor. We find that the adoption of Cursor leads to a significant, large, but transient increase in project-level development velocity, along with a significant and persistent increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity. Further panel generalized method of moments estimation reveals that the increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity acts as a major factor causing long-term velocity slowdown. Our study carries implications for software engineering practitioners, LLM agent assistant designers, and researchers.
arxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“Cursor leads to…a significant and persistent increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity…the increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity acts as a major factor causing long-term velocity slowdown”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427v2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427v2
Couple of my neighbors chilling in the shade on Sunday morning 🕊️
1) Rufous-backed Robin
2) Black-backed Oriole
1) Rufous-backed Robin
2) Black-backed Oriole
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Couple of my neighbors chilling in the shade on Sunday morning 🕊️
1) Rufous-backed Robin
2) Black-backed Oriole
1) Rufous-backed Robin
2) Black-backed Oriole
Coming back to a #wordpress site with a bunch of feature-bloated plugins like Jetpack and AIOSEOP, it's really striking how much AI bloatware is harming the experience for people who just want to create the old fashioned way.
There are now two DIFFERENT […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
There are now two DIFFERENT […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Coming back to a #wordpress site with a bunch of feature-bloated plugins like Jetpack and AIOSEOP, it's really striking how much AI bloatware is harming the experience for people who just want to create the old fashioned way.
There are now two DIFFERENT […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
There are now two DIFFERENT […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Isn’t it fun when someone is scanning you to create your slop homonculous? What a great time. The future is going to be so shiny and joyfully tearful, I can’t wait. https://neopaquita.es/@Shine_McShine/115552814136429111
Shine McShine 🐌 (@Shine_McShine@neopaquita.es)
Attached: 1 video Ni todas las temporadas de Black Mirror me podían haber preparado para el horror que se despliega en este vídeo. Sí, es una app de verdad. #ainerativeAI #AIG #BlackMirror #butlerianjihad
neopaquita.es
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Isn’t it fun when someone is scanning you to create your slop homonculous? What a great time. The future is going to be so shiny and joyfully tearful, I can’t wait. https://neopaquita.es/@Shine_McShine/115552814136429111
Reposted by Jer Clarke
It's a tough time for non-profit, independent news outlets right now, but @globalvoices is nearly to halfway on our November fundraising goal! Help us keep providing free, ad-free, tracker-free, multilingual news and analysis from around the world!
https://globalvoices.org/donate/
https://globalvoices.org/donate/
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It's a tough time for non-profit, independent news outlets right now, but @globalvoices is nearly to halfway on our November fundraising goal! Help us keep providing free, ad-free, tracker-free, multilingual news and analysis from around the world!
https://globalvoices.org/donate/
https://globalvoices.org/donate/
Reposted by Jer Clarke
mastodon should fix the bug where typos are invisible in the editing box but obvious on the timeline
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
mastodon should fix the bug where typos are invisible in the editing box but obvious on the timeline
#wordpress Anyone have opinions on using "WP Pusher" versus “Gitium" to deploy plugins and themes based on a Github repo?
It seems they both do what I need, but Gitium might be a bit abandoned and/or buggy, while WP Pusher requires payment if you want to use private repositories, which I might […]
It seems they both do what I need, but Gitium might be a bit abandoned and/or buggy, while WP Pusher requires payment if you want to use private repositories, which I might […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
#wordpress Anyone have opinions on using "WP Pusher" versus “Gitium" to deploy plugins and themes based on a Github repo?
It seems they both do what I need, but Gitium might be a bit abandoned and/or buggy, while WP Pusher requires payment if you want to use private repositories, which I might […]
It seems they both do what I need, but Gitium might be a bit abandoned and/or buggy, while WP Pusher requires payment if you want to use private repositories, which I might […]
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Wow, this campaign website against Google's plan to kick out XSLT is a thing of beauty.
https://xslt.rip/
https://xslt.rip/
XSLT 安息吧
XSLT RIP (xslt.rip)
15:39 ↑ 112 HN Points
xslt.rip
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Wow, this campaign website against Google's plan to kick out XSLT is a thing of beauty.
https://xslt.rip/
https://xslt.rip/
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Great job, everybody. We did it.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-has-lost-its-measles-elimination-status/article_bd8dcb66-00f7-48b5-b071-16ffc4c4ae91.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-has-lost-its-measles-elimination-status/article_bd8dcb66-00f7-48b5-b071-16ffc4c4ae91.html
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by Jer Clarke
At @globalvoices , we offer ad-free multilingual community journalism from around the world FOR FREE! But with all the funding cuts, we are struggling to keep publishing this vital information for you. We are just over $400 short of being at one-third of our goal for November - can you help? […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
At @globalvoices , we offer ad-free multilingual community journalism from around the world FOR FREE! But with all the funding cuts, we are struggling to keep publishing this vital information for you. We are just over $400 short of being at one-third of our goal for November - can you help? […]
Reposted by Jer Clarke
1. In a devastating decision for trans kids in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, the 6th Circuit has ruled students can bully trans kids by repeatedly misgendering them.
Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies.
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Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
6th Circuit Rules Cis Students May Bully Trans Students By Repeatedly Misgendering Them
The Circuit also seemed to suggest that trans students could not misgender their bullies in return.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
1. In a devastating decision for trans kids in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, the 6th Circuit has ruled students can bully trans kids by repeatedly misgendering them.
Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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GOTDAMN!
not only was #zohranmamdani ready with the hastag worthy #transition2025 url, but his whole transition team are women. and one of those women is LINA “i will fuck up your monopoly” KHAN
“Zohran Mamdani announces all-female transition team” - NYC-ABC Eyewitness News […]
not only was #zohranmamdani ready with the hastag worthy #transition2025 url, but his whole transition team are women. and one of those women is LINA “i will fuck up your monopoly” KHAN
“Zohran Mamdani announces all-female transition team” - NYC-ABC Eyewitness News […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
GOTDAMN!
not only was #zohranmamdani ready with the hastag worthy #transition2025 url, but his whole transition team are women. and one of those women is LINA “i will fuck up your monopoly” KHAN
“Zohran Mamdani announces all-female transition team” - NYC-ABC Eyewitness News […]
not only was #zohranmamdani ready with the hastag worthy #transition2025 url, but his whole transition team are women. and one of those women is LINA “i will fuck up your monopoly” KHAN
“Zohran Mamdani announces all-female transition team” - NYC-ABC Eyewitness News […]
Very interesting and a useful concept. Back in the day we used something similar at Global Voices, a plugin called Amber created by @bkc. Unfortunately it was both a huge resource hog and ultimately stopped working due to API changes at archive.org.
Would love to see something that did the same […]
Would love to see something that did the same […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Very interesting and a useful concept. Back in the day we used something similar at Global Voices, a plugin called Amber created by @bkc. Unfortunately it was both a huge resource hog and ultimately stopped working due to API changes at archive.org.
Would love to see something that did the same […]
Would love to see something that did the same […]