Eric Karkovack

Keeping it real is more important than ever! I encourage you to be your agentic self.

When another plugin overrides a WordPress setting, nothing tells you. #WordPress lets any number of plugins weigh in on the same setting, and the last one to run wins without a word. "Two thermostats, one furnace."

Is the barrage of security fixes driving you crazy? Yeah, me too. There's got to be a better way. speckyboy.com/how-ai-fuels...

I like my commentary the way I like my water: unfiltered. Drink it down.

Nobody Knows What Third Light Switch Does

Parenting Question The Tech Industry Wants Me To Ask AI, Or Question Odysseus Asks Upon Returning to Ithaca After 20 Years Of Absence? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Is the barrage of security fixes driving you crazy? Yeah, me too. There's got to be a better way. speckyboy.com/how-ai-fuels...

Happy 32nd Birthday The First Web Banner! On October 27, 1994, The AT&T Telecommunications Company placed the first web banner in Internet history on the HotWired magazine website. The first web banner in the world was 476×56 px.

What's the state of #WordPress security? I asked Robert Abela of Melapress to share the results of his company's annual security survey. Check it out over at @thewpminute.com! thewpminute.com/your-wordpre...

By employing some sophisticated digital tactics, burglars have managed to easily make off with more than $100 million in data center freight during the second half of 2026: arstechnica.visitlink.me/9CGMaA

Susan Saint James, the Emmy winning actress known for “McMillan & Wife” and “Kate & Allie,” has died at 80 following a battle with pancreatic cancer, closing out a career that also included decades of work with the Special Olympics. zurl.co/Fi2tz

Scroll-driven animations in Firefox! 🦊 A bunch of the many @codepen.io demos I've made over the past 3+ years are now cross-browser, including my second most hearted demo ever - the almost pure CSS infinite scroll 3D circular gallery! 🥳 codepen.io/thebabydino/... #CSS

Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields' indie rock duo Dead Man's Bones return with the romantically gothy "Lost In The Night," their first new song in 17 years

New! AI Can Build a Website. So Why Hire a WordPress Agency? AI and client demands challenge agency profitability; smaller teams thrive.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have officially entered the live album phase of their career.

Election Officials Warn That Ballots Tied To Stray Cat Unlikely To Arrive In Time https://theonion.com/election-officials-warn-that-ballots-tied-to-stray-cat-unlikely-to-arrive-in-time/

I'm so gosh-darned excited! css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

What's the state of #WordPress security? I asked Robert Abela of Melapress to share the results of his company's annual security survey. Check it out over at @thewpminute.com! thewpminute.com/your-wordpre...

New! Your WordPress Security Plugin Isn’t Enough WordPress security concerns rise; many lack breach recovery plans.

I've watched way too much football today. All it's done is frustrate me.

If you can't think of your kid's best attributes, there's something wrong.

Can AI Make Us So Productive That It Destroys the Economy? www.vincentschmalbach.com/can-ai-make-...

Happy 25th Birthday Windows XP! On October 25, 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP and began a new era of Windows operating systems.

Being a #Saints fan is getting punched in the face repeatedly, but waiting for that moment when it pays off.

Chemists Announce Upgraded Periodic Table With Dozens Of New Elements For Just $4 A Month https://theonion.com/chemists-announce-upgraded-periodic-table-with-dozens-o-1839288701/

AI is forcing us to play the cat-and-mouse game of web security at warp speed. speckyboy.com/how-ai-fuels...

On this day in 1995, The Smashing Pumpkins released ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.’ With “1979,” “Tonight, Tonight” and “Bullet with Butterfly Wings,” the ambitious double album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard.

Happy 25th Birthday Wayback Machine! On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine. The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.

A critical PHP fix, WordPress 7.2 Beta 1, Notes in the margin, and more—Weekend Edition 378 Read onlineIssue #378 | October 24, 2026 Howdy, Before anything else: check which version of PHP your sites run. On October 21, the PHP project released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities, and they…

White House Staff Heartbroken By Sight Of Weak Trump Struggling To Yell Racial Slurs At TV https://theonion.com/white-house-staff-heartbroken-by-sight-of-weak-trump-st-1845298690/

"The Jackie Robinson Story" (1950) #MLB #Baseball #Legend #Dodgers

I think we're past the point of hoping a single politician will save us or change things for the better. We elect people and immediately go back to whatever we were doing. Maybe we need a citizenry that stays fully engaged and demands more from our leadership. This ain't working...

York County father honors daughter’s memory with mission to prevent suicide After losing his 15-year-old daughter Brianna to suicide, Matt Dorgan founded "Building Bridges 4 Brianna" to raise awareness and help others in crisis.

#Saints mascots take over Paris 🇫🇷

Junior Caminero hit a baseball so far during batting practice that it smoked the FOX Sports set in the back of the stadium 😳 Via: @FOXSports

Allez les Saints 🇫🇷

punkin dunkin

Sure, you can use AI to build your own QuickBooks or Asana clone. But what are the drawbacks? How do you maintain it? @matthewmedeiros.bsky.social and I discussed the good and bad on @thewpminute.com. thewpminute.com/ai-built-the...

And Breathe :) What a year the last 3 days have been. Here's a bit of an overview of what happened and things I've done (and what I could potentially do better). And also, what you can do...

On this day in 1991, Matthew Sweet released 'Girlfriend', a power-pop gem bursting with jangly guitars and heartbreak. Hooky, loud, and endlessly replayable — it’s the sound of love and loss turned all the way up.

AI agents named WordPress as an option for about half the sites they were asked to build, then didn't use it. When asked to make changes to an existing WordPress site, they completed 79% of tasks without the MCP Adapter, and none with it. 🔗

Much of the modern digital world only exists because of human social norms. The Internet's backbone exchanges data at light speed because a bunch of regular folks, essentially, shake hands & agree to do so. Lots of fragile, vital infrastructure only survived because nobody decided (yet) to knife it.

Not a single word of this is hyperbolic in the slightest. Buy your friends in cybersecurity the drink or chocolate of their choice right now. We are not doing well

ok new plan: writing all of my code on parchment, which i’ll place under a rock in the forest

I ask you: At what point do we say "enough is enough"? When does our collective intelligence become so insulted that we stand up and take action? How much blatant corruption will it take for us to value competency and decency over lies and hate?...