{"id":4423,"date":"2022-12-27T21:09:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2022-12-27T21:09:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:09:22","slug":"the-plugin-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/12\/the-plugin-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plugin Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah so I just got owned by a WordPress plugin that I updated and it broke everything.<\/p>\n<p>I think outside audio, plugins\/extensions are the absolute worst:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Security wise, the worst.<\/li>\n<li>Consistency of experience for everyone, the worst.<\/li>\n<li>Fake plugin \u201ceconomies\u201d and markets, the worst.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Back in the days I had a neat Firefox that I had customized perfectly. A few plugins, all set up. This idiot program updated to the next version, killing all my plugins at once.<\/p>\n<p>I never used Firefox ever again. Nor browser plugins, outside the crucial ones like anti-spam plugins called adblockers for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>With audio software plugins work because by design they are easy to deal with: drop them in a folder, done. Plugin crashes? Take it out of the folder, done.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t make your digital life depend on plugins. The least possible, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah so I just got owned by a WordPress plugin that I updated and it broke everything. I think outside audio, plugins\/extensions are the absolute worst: Security wise, the worst. Consistency of experience for everyone, the worst. Fake plugin \u201ceconomies\u201d and markets, the worst. Back in the days I had a neat Firefox that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4424,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions\/4424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}