Hi there,
I’m Alex Kirk, a web application programmer and experienced lead of remote teams, based in Vienna, Austria. I speak German and English.
I currently work with Automattic. In my personal time, I created and maintain the Friends and the Enable Mastodon Apps plugins for WordPress.
Follow me via RSS or reach me via ActivityPub (Mastodon) at @alex@kirk.at (powered by Friends & EMA), or bridged on Bluesky at @alex.kirk.at
Recent Post Highlights
I write about various aspects of web applications and WordPress. For example:
- Your WordPress as Your Personal Mastodon Instance
- WordPress as a Self-Hosting Platform
- Reducing Our Dependency On Third-Party Platforms For Our Online Activity
Last 5 Posts & more
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Proposal: an Interactive Mode for phpcbf
It can be very time consuming to resolve issues detected by PHP Code Sniffer. An interactive mode for phpcbf could make things much faster!
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npm install playground-step-library
I have updated my Playground Step Library (which I had written about before)–the tool that allows you to use more advanced steps in WordPress Playground–so that it can now also be used programmatically: It is now an npm package: playground-step-library. Behind the scenes this actually dominoed into migrating it to TypeScript and restructuring the code…
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Can’t Follow You!
So, I created this little website https://cantfollowyou.kirk.at/ as something that you can send to people who don’t realize that they are on a closed network and what it means to others. A bit like Let me Google that for you but for the Fediverse. Here is the backstory, and some details around it: I attended…
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WordPress as a Refuge from Algorithms
In a previous post, I have written about how you can use WordPress as your own Mastodon instance with the three plugins ActivityPub, Friends, and Enable Mastodon Apps. The Friends plugin also provides an RSS/Atom feed parser (and can be extended with more of them) so you that you can automatically receive content from many…
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Reblog of jeckman: WordPress and the Fediverse
Posted in WebReblog via jeckman. Great slides! Thanks for mentioning the Friends plugin! [John Eckman] gave a talk at the Boston WordPress Meetup last night about WordPress and the Fediverse Slideshare link (You Got Your WordPress in My Fediverse): Went well I think – did not have a ton of time to put it together, and you…
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