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Agile Manifsto turned 25 years this: happy birthmonth!

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/19

Missed Schedule 2020/02/19 at 6:00 pm

Missed Schedule 2020/02/19 at 6:00 pm

Yesterday evening, WordPress.com did it again: “missed schedule” – that bug still is not fixed, so I posted it manually today.

In the time when people create a lot of technical debt, the [Wayback/Archive] Manifesto for Agile Software Development turned 25 years. Happy birthmonth!

Birthmonty you say, not birthday? Yes, it took  a few days for the Agile Manifesto to get written – you can read about it at [Wayback/Archive] History: The Agile Manifesto which starts with

On February 11-13, 2001, at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah, seventeen people met to talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground—and of course, to eat. What emerged was the Agile ‘Software Development’ Manifesto. Representatives from Extreme Programming, SCRUM, DSDM, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal, Feature-Driven Development, Pragmatic Programming, and others sympathetic to the need for an alternative to documentation driven, heavyweight software development processes convened

I got reminded to it [Wayback/Archive] Agile Manifesto co-author ‘smitten’ with vibe coding • The Register which shows that vibe coding only can work when all people involved know exactly what they are doing. More often than not they don’t, and just increase their technical debt which was something that working in an agile way tries to solve. So better re-read this 25 year piece of work before you start using LLM to generate code.

Related blog posts:

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Quick Accent steals the WordPress classic editor space after a hyphen-minus sign or asterisk · Issue #24623 · microsoft/PowerToys

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/11

A while ago I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Quick Accent steals the WordPress classic editor space after a hyphen-minus sign or asterisk · Issue #24623 · microsoft/PowerToys.

In the WordPress Classic Editor, the *  or -  combinations quickly generate an empty bulleted list:

When enabling the PowerToys Quick Accent (formerly [Wayback/Archive] PowerAccent) with their default settings this fails (but it does work in the WordPress Gutenberg editor, Word and some other tools I tested).

The easiest way to work around this is to switch from the default “Activation Keys” setting “Left, Right or Space” to “Left/Right Arrow”.

Hopefully besides the workaround there will also be a full fix.

The related C++ and C# source files:

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Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more plugin for WordPress

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/29

Reminder to self: check if the WordPress.com classic editor is still alive and still supports adding Crowdsignal (formerly Polldaddy) polls (Crowdsignal is part of Automattic, the WordPress.com parent company).

From [Wayback/Archive] Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more plugin for WordPress (I made the areas that are important to me in bold):

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The WordPress feature that “beautifies” (malforms!) your Blog text is called `wptexturize`: on WordPress.com you cannot disable it.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/03

Over the years, WordPress started to beautify more and more text thereby malforming many (read thousands) of my older blog posts.

An example is this:

--jeroen

is now rendered as

–jeroen

The two hypen-minus signs or -- have become a en-dash or –, not even an em-dash or — that is is double the width of an en-dash.

So after figuring out the cause, I asked if one could change it for a WordPress.com blog backed by a premium account: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Hi @wordpressdotcom, how do I globally disable wptexturize for a paid wiert.wordpress.com blog (it has Premium subscription)? Over the years, it has malformed more and more of my text which I don’t want (as it is way too much work to re-visit thousands of blog posts).”

Unbelievably, the answer is no!

So WordPress.com mandatorily changes the display of all your old Premium blog posts and the only solution they offer is to upgrade for another USD ~17 per month to disable it.

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Links to HTML versions of RFC’s need to move from “tools” to “datatracker” – Meta Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/07

Some work to do replacing dead IETF RFC and draft links in my blog posts.

From the accepted answer on [Wayback/Archive.is] Links to HTML versions of RFC’s need to move from “tools” to “datatracker” – Meta Stack Exchange:

  1. [http/https]://tools.ietf.org/html/[rfc/RFC] became https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc network-wide
  2. [http/https]://tools.ietf.org/html/draft- became https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-

>Both of these should conform to the reply we received from IETF.

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By Jack Rhysider: if you’re in IT, I highly encourage you to write a blog. Here are 17 reasons why you should be blogging.🧵👇

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/04

I quote the last tweets in the series starting with [Wayback/Archive] Jack Rhysider on Twitter: “If you’re in IT, I highly encourage you to write a blog. Here are 17 reasons why you should be blogging. 🧵👇”

1…17.

So to recap. By blogging you will become a better writer and communicator, learn the concepts better, open new opportunities, have a fantastic notebook for self reference, maybe make money, become appreciated by more people, and show off your IT skills.

So how do you get started? Try these: WordPress, Jekyll, Ghost, Hugo, Medium, Wix, Squarespace. I really don’t care what you use. Just jump in and start blogging. You can always move everything to a different place later. Good luck and I hope to see some new bloggers from this.

and a few ones that came up in the responses:

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In the WordPress classic editor, avoid the SyntaxHighlighter Code Block

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/25

When you use the WordPress classic editor (which for me still works far better than the Gutenberg one), avoid at all cost the use of the [Wayback/Archive] SyntaxHighlighter Code Block – Page 2 – WordPress.com Support.

Each time you switch between from Text View back to Visual, some characters are html-encoded, like:

  • & becomes &
  • > becomes >

Switching twice makes & into &&gt.

Switching three times makes & into &&&gt.

I already explained why to avoid the Gutenberg editor in Bookmarklet to force WordPress classic-editor.

Via:

–jeroen

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Revision of some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs: WordPress ditched the undocumented HighlanderComments structure

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/15

As promised yesterday, I updated the scripts for Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs

Code (which broke at 20230914 because of WordPress.com changes: the undocumented HighlanderComments structure got removed; I will update the gist later on and post an updated blog post)

Instead of the undocumented HighlanderComments structure, I now use two (also undocumented) link rel elements.

In addition, I found this element that will be interesting in the future: <link rel='shortlink' href='https://wp.me/pvelJ-m8g' />.

You can view the change with the below archivals of the Wayback Machine and Archive.is.

And of course I learned a few things from these MDN entries:

The 20230530 archivals (Wayback/Archive) of wiert.me/2022/02/14/philosophy-of-management have this HighlanderComments structure:

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Some notes on the WordPress Press-This bookmarklet

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/23

I want to improve my WordPress blogging experience especially since most of the pages I link also have two extra links of the archived pages in the Wayback Machine and Archive.is.

The WordPress Press-This bookmarklet does not always cut it. It is slow too as it does a POST request to the WordPress site which then renders a new page.

It is also highly minified, so below are some links that will hopefully allow me to research it further to see if I either could improve it for my own workflow, or need to start from scratch.

I want to figure out:

  • what the values of the v= version parameter were (I know about v=8 and v=4, there are likely more)
  • which commits were involved
  • can I get more information (like summary, first heading or first paragraph of a page too)
  • what techniques are used for opening new windows/tabs

TODO: make diffs of the various versions

–jeroen

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Characters you need to escape in the Title of a WordPress post

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/18

I forgot to post this: [Wayback/Archive] Which characters need to be escaped in HTML? – Stack Overflow

If you’re inserting text content in your document in a location where text content is expected1, you typically only need to escape the same characters as you would in XML. Inside of an element, this just includes the entity escape ampersand & and the element delimiter less-than and greater-than signs < >:
& becomes &amp;
< becomes &lt;
> becomes &gt;

I didn’t quote further, as this bit is somehow important for WordPress posts. WordPress reminded me the hard way when initially these posts were wrongly titled:

Warning:

It also means the “Press This” bookmarklet always gets unescaped plain text wrong. Watch this when selecting text for blogging and check if the selected text actually got into your post fine.

Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Ahmet for asking the above question and [Wayback/Archive] Jeremy for answering it.

–jeroen

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