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Jer Clarke
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🇨🇦➡️🇲🇽 Canadian living in Mexico City

💚 WordPress developer for https://globalvoices.org

☸️ Free from addiction with https://recoverydharma.org

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ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy
We're looking for a mission-driven director of product engineering for our product team at @ProPublica. Our journalists investigate abuses of trust and power in the public interest. This is a way to make a difference. (Must be US-based.) […]
Original post on werd.social
werd.social
December 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Gave my first talk en español at the Mexico City #wordpress meetup on Saturday. 90 mins of pure Spanish, what a workout!

So glad I connected with this community, made some great friends already and it's awesome to shoot the 💩 with fellow nerds.

Slides and […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Photo of Jer wearing a ponytail and blue wordpress t-shirt, sitting in front of a laptop and pointing towards a screen with a presentation on it. A phone is also visible, recording the talk. Photo of a talk participant in a room with little desks, asking a question of the presenter while a couple other participants listen. Selfie of a group of people in the presentation room, looking at the camera and making thumbs-up gestures.
December 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
@jos Very funny you just followed me. At this very moment I am wresting with my Dreamhost account SFTP which refuses to work.

Doing so because they added a new limit on the web-based file manager so it can only go up to 1GB. For years I've used the web uploader for everything, but now I have a […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Reposted by Jer Clarke
phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy
Doing a variant of Advent of Code where I open a little door and eat a chocolate and don’t type anything or look at a computer
December 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
My first public speaking engagement en español will be at the #wordpress Mexico City meetup tomorrow morning. Wish me luck!

#cdmx #wpcdmx

https://jerclarke.org/2025/12/05/charla-wordpress-cdmx-full-site-editing-fs/
Jer Clarke is a web developer based in Mexico City. Jer builds **Global Voices** with **WordPress** and loves everything. Jer is available to work! Read about **Jer’s skills** and **get in touch.** Jer’s pronouns are **They/Them**.
jerclarke.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Good morning to this tree, springing forth in December so I only saw the sticks for like two weeks in November 🪾🌳🇲🇽
Photo of the top of a tree backlit by morning light. It’s covered in new green buds and tiny leaves. Behind it is a brick high rise residential building.
December 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
May the holidays brighten your chilly days ❄️☃️❤️‍🔥
Illustration of what looked like a white gorilla or yeti in a snowy landscape, there’s what looks like a chimpanzee on their back, clawing at them and drawing blood. The whole thing has a weird vibe. At the bottom is the text “Season’s Greetings” in a gift card font.
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Screenshot of Duolingo summarizing my yearly progress. Accompanying the text is an illustration of their owl mascot duo with a big butt. You earned 69680 XP in total, more than 99% of learners! You put in the work. It shows.
December 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Seasonal lighting ✅
A living room lit up by various Christmas lights around a large window. A cat tree, a huge plant and a couch are also visible. A fluffy Siberian cat sitting at the top of a cat tree with colorful Christmas lights in the background
December 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Reposted by Jer Clarke
jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
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 […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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 […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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 […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
… and I never saw snow again. The end.
Screenshot of a Facebook post that says “ on this day five years ago” and shows a post by me that says “ out doing errands before moving to Mexico like” followed by a photo of a statue of a man seemingly walking into the wind with an old-fashioned outfit and a cane. The statue is covered in snow.
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Reposted by Jer Clarke
skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
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/
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Reposted by Jer Clarke
dougmerritt.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
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 […]
Original post on mathstodon.xyz
mathstodon.xyz
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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]
Promotional poster for the show, with a photo of a 18th century man in a fancy costume drinking tea while riding backwards on a horse. He’s surrounded by text praising the show: 'AS A COMEDY, AS PURE ESCAPISM, THIS STANDS & DELIERS’ - THE TIMES 'A LOT OF FUN...A JOY TO WATCH' - RADIO TIMES 'BRILLIANTLY ABSURD... A LOT OF LAUGHS’ - DIGITAL SPY 'NOEL FIELDING...WHAT ASINGULAR TALENT HE IS’ - THE TELEGRAPH
November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Another neighbor spotted out my office window. Buenas tardes, Yellow-rumped Warbler 👋🏻 🐥

#mexico #cdmx #birds #birdwatching #wildlifephotography
Photo of a small bird sitting on a branch without any leaves and looking off into the sunset. The bird has a mix of black, white, and grey feathers, with yellow patches on its throat, the top of its head, and a section under the wing. Photo of the same bird on a branch at sunset, but now its head is pointed towards the camera, and the crest of yellow feathers in the center of its head is clearly visible.
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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 […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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
Screenshot from the link in this post: Title: Copy diagnostic hover text "A copy button now appears in diagnostic hovers (errors, warnings, info, and hints) to make copying error messages easier. When you hover over a diagnostic marker, move your mouse over the hover message to reveal a copy button in the top-right corner.” Followed by a screenshot of a hover message in the code editor with a highlighted “copy” button in the corner.
November 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Reposted by Jer Clarke
nonfedimemes.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy
A tweet from VirtualGirl (@VRTLGRLL) reading "Finally" with a screenshot of a gender selector with male, female, and custom with a file uploader maxing out at 10 megabytes. Below is a Google screenshot about the file size of the original Doom game, saying it's about 2.39 megabytes.
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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ramsey.dev
“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
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
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Couple of my neighbors chilling in the shade on Sunday morning 🕊️

1) Rufous-backed Robin
2) Black-backed Oriole
Photo of a largish bird (Rufous-backed Robin) sitting on the branch of a tree. It has a bright orange chest, yellow beak, and a bright red eye with yellow eye-ring. It seems to be looking at the camera. Photo of a black and yellow bird (Black-backed Oriole) sitting on a branch in a tree. It looks a little cold.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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]
Screenshot of the WordPress editor with the “Add image” tools open. Along with the usual “Upload” and “Select Image” buttons, there are two nearly-identical “Generate with AI” buttons that cause the interface to stretch to two lines.
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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 🐌 (@[email protected])
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