I’m beginning to get very fed up with the modern web.\u00a0 Stuff that has worked for years just breaks.<\/p>\n
So I’ve spent some time changing my footnotes plugin.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because WordPress has decided that the old one isn’t allowed any more.\u00a0 It won’t work with the current version.\u00a0 Thank you WordPress.<\/p>\n
I’ve just uploaded an image of a monument to my Mithras page.\u00a0 I allowed the feature to make comments, using disqus, although few people do.\u00a0 Today I scroll to the bottom of the page and find… massive adverts.\u00a0 I don’t profit from them.\u00a0 I knew nothing about them.\u00a0 But apparently disqus are doing this to their remaining users.\u00a0 A classic case of enshitiffication<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rather than endure that rubbish, I will remove disqus from the Mithras pages.\u00a0 Which means… additional work.\u00a0 Thank you disqus.<\/p>\n Somewhere out there, people are working on “improving” PHP.\u00a0 Morally I agree that the language is poor.\u00a0 But I don’t want my website broken because, effectively, they’ve changed the language.\u00a0 And something is now stopping me uploading images of more than a certain size to my website.\u00a0 It’s bound to be something connected to that.\u00a0 Sheesh guys, leave me alone!<\/p>\n All these changes wear heaviest on the long-term small website.\u00a0 Like my own.\u00a0 They push us all in the direction of corporate control.<\/p>\n Which is hardly a very good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m beginning to get very fed up with the modern web.\u00a0 Stuff that has worked for years just breaks. So I’ve spent some time changing my footnotes plugin.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because WordPress has decided that the old one isn’t allowed any more.\u00a0 It won’t work with the current version.\u00a0 Thank you WordPress. I’ve just uploaded an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}