Over the past year, the ancient WordPress theme I use for this blog has gradually stopped working, to the extent that some of you cannot enter comments and the GitHub Gists no longer display properly.
So it’s once again time for a new theme.
The notes from the last time this happened remain appropriate and I commend your attention there while I screw around setting up whatever the new hotness might be.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
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9 responses to “Blog Theme Update”
Thanks Ed….
This BLOCK does not work on my Ipad….so you miss alot of my pithy comments on the weekends ;)
Chuck
The new emails are great . . . but they are so good I find myself NOT visiting the page. Which makes me miss the comments . . .
Maybe the emails should just have the teaser and a link?
If I had any control over those things … :sigh:
Point a feed reader (rss) to https://softsolder.com/feed/
For what it’s worth, the theme that Sarah Hoyt uses on accordingtohoyt dot com works about as well as any other WP instances. Depending on moon phase or a random number generator, it may allow html code, or displays the limited enhancements. (Blockquote isn’t one of them. HTML replies do.)
And remember: WPDE == WordPress Delenda Est. :)
And, to make your theme change more fun, WordPress (Delenda Est) has “improved” various things that make the comments section even more fun. Here, I can get something to work in private mode (Pale Moon), if I paste, then backspace to get the send-data info.
Seems to be going for various WP blogs.
Good luck!
(And this might double post. Seems to be another misfeature of the improvement.)
Well at least comments seem to work :) I wouldn’t mind if you kept looking for different theme though :)
It is kinda chonky, isn’t it?
Basically, I must re-learn how to make their machinery work, which is being complicated by having an entirely new administration UI dropped into place over the weekend. Blech & similar remarks.
You should definitely try Android app development then (don’t it’s awful)… you know it was envisioned by crazed millennials when any tutorial older that 6 months is obsolete and there are at least 6 ways to do something, but 3 don’t really work, 2 are a hack and 1 is not documented.
Back to topic at hand, your reply went in my mailbox as well, even though I’m pretty sure I didn’t check “email me new comments” switch. Software seems to follow the trajectory machine tools took about 50 years ago where nice sturdy cast iron parts got replaced by stamped sheet metal crap. Ironically, tools available for writing software today are inconceivably more advanced than what was available even 15 years ago. Maybe a high bar to entry to the CS field back when only assembler and maybe C were available helped prune out people who make this crap today…