Please help support legal costs for an asylum seeker in our Southern California community. They were kidnapped by ICE at their court hearing: https://gofund.me/24440eda

Any amount helps and boosting appreciated. 💛

A handy note for future-me or any other WordPress plugin developers:

If you need a plugin admin link that performs a download (e.g. a CSV file), you will need to use a hook that is called earlier in the process, before WP sends HTTP headers/content to the browser.

With a typical plugin admin page that displays content, I would use:

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'foo_add_menu' );

Then in function foo_add_menu(), I would use add_menu_page like:

// my example is OO, so $this points to the object and calls the index() method
add_menu_page(
    'Plugin Page Title', 
    'Plugin Menu Title', 
    'edit_posts', 
    $this->plugin_name . '_index', 
    [$this, 'index'], 
    ''
);

If you try to do this with a method that starts a download, you will get errors like “Cannot modify header information.” This StackOverflow answer pointed me in the direction of the load-page hook to solve that.

That documentation is a bit slim, but what I figured out was add_menu_page() returns a hook name. You can take that hook name, prefix “load-”, and use the resulting string as the hook name in an add_action().

In my example above, let’s say the plugin name is “foo_plugin” and replace “index” with “download”. The resulting hook name would be:

load-admin_page_foo_plugin_download

Then I can use:

add_action( 'load-admin_page_foo_plugin_download', 'download' );

(Be careful with the hyphen vs underscores in that)

Finally, within the download() class method, I can safely modify HTTP headers to start a download:

header('Content-type: text/csv; charset=utf8');
// other headers and content...

Scheduled to get my pacemaker generator replaced soon. Here’s hoping the new one looks like Stark’s arc reactor.

Great snipe by Rebecca Watson in this video:

“Musk is so terrible at programming that he couldn't even get Grok to say that white genocide is a real thing. Musk has had more success reprogramming his other chatbot, President of the United States Donald Trump...”

youtu.be/bNla2Jl1DZk

An FDA committee is meeting and considering removing some COVID vaccine recommendations for certain groups. Public comment is open until May 23, 2025 11:59PM Eastern.

• Visit the People’s CDC guide for background and follow their steps to leave a comment
• Read my own comment and feel free to borrow any language from it!

I was reminded of this satirical gem from 2006. Funny/sad/infuriating how much it still applies almost 20 years later.

Still getting them, unfortunately. I posted in the #indieweb-wordpress chat to see if there’s any known issues with the plugin. Maybe you can drop in to chat and they can help debug? You can connect a variety of ways: indieweb.org/discuss

Scam text message from (509) 387-9884

Watch out for a text message that is attempting to get you to enter your Amazon login like this. Amazon will not send you a text message like this:

“Amazon Order Review - Your Refund Has Been Approved

Dear Customer,
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As a result, you are entitled to a full refund, with no need to return the product. This action will not affect your account or purhcase history in any way.

Please click the secure link below to confirm your refund:
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Thank you for shopping with Amazon.
-Amazon Customer Support
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I’m reporting the link to bit.ly using their report abuse page.

Nerd stuff:

This was a group message, including nine other numbers. It was also an RCS message, not SMS, and was end-to-end encrypted.

Various Unicode letters were used, making the text appear bold every few words. For example, it used the Unicode “mathematical sans-serif bold” characters to spell out “Amazon.” Most likely this was an attempt to avoid triggering spam filters, though my Android automatically prompted “report this as suspected spam?”

Bit.ly’s link checker indicates the destination was guoqushangmao dot com. Obviously, I do not recommend visiting that domain.

Today’s forgotten album: Pacific Standard Time by Stairwell.

“Hearts and Chevys” youtu.be/beBTpV-N7xk

Yep, from IP 45.8.227.175

Today I saw a video about a formative childhood memory of Jill and how kind she was. I figured you'd appreciate it: tiktok.com/@laurahigh5/video/7501816146811735327

Look forward to listening to more of her music!

Nice, I’ll check those out! “Massachusetts” is the last song on her new album, very good.

I’ve been hearing that Jensen McRae is asking people to mask at her shows and she’s been providing them. Wasn’t familiar with her before, but I must stan! Loving the music so far, great voice: “Savannah”

What years did you go?

Hey Los Angeles, please consider leaving a public comment on CF #25-0600 urging them to reverse the proposed cut to the Department of Disability and also add a line item funding prevention, treatment, education, and support services for Long COVID.

I came across someone who has scans of the Cornerstone Festival programs on Flickr. This will be a fun nostalgia trip for me. First year I attended and the last.

★ Study Hall Reflections

My friend Joe wrote some good reflections about one year of the Front End Study Hall meetups.

If you’re interested in HTML/CSS, this is the place to be. It’s a fun, supportive group of people meeting every couple weeks. Join an upcoming one!

Congratulations to Joe Crawford for a year of organizing the Front End Study Hall meetups! Here’s a little badge:

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