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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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@chris Perfect classic.

We picked The Santa Clause. Turned out great, so much better than I suspected 🎅🏻
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
@chris well don’t write off child themes either way! Just like before they’re a good way to manage customizations, especially with Create Block Theme as a power tool (it should be merged into core).
December 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
@chris Ah yeah.

I’ve been managing it locally with everything hard coded in a child theme, then push with git. Very nice to be able to reset everything to what’s in the child theme at any moment.

Are you using https://wordpress.org/plugins/create-block-theme/ ?

The ability to save changes […]
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December 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
@chris Spill it, what's going wrong?
December 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Maybe it’s just that, like the author, I am currently looking for work and facing down the expectations that I’ll “use AI” to “work faster”. How should I express my approach to LLMs when I am so fundamentally distrustful of technology that lies by default?

They say “any sufficiently advanced […]
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December 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Wrote up some thoughts on this: https://jerclarke.org/2025/12/15/when-you-dream-you-see-the-monster-the-monster-wears-your-face/

I spend a lot of time thinking and talking about AI, mostly with spite, disgust and fear. Of all the jokes and warnings I’ve seen that made me laugh or cringe or yell […]
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December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM