WordPress released an all-new version earlier this week. Having been away from writing for most of it, I am only now getting to grips with the changes. I have to say, the overall interface looks MUCH better. The higher-contrast colour schemes work better, it seems to be quite a lot faster, and the feel of it is slicker, somehow. We shall see how long that lasts, though – WordPress 6.0 promised a lot but ended up being frustrating for a number of reasons, so who knows, maybe WordPress 7.0 will be more of the same.
I strongly suspect the insistence on ramming Abominable Imbecile into every possible nook and cranny, which is so common and so typical in tech projects these days, will drive me batty. As it is – believe it or not – this site does not use AI, beyond image generation.
(For those who are not entirely convinced that this place is NOT a bunch of AI-shlock… ask yourself this: if DAIdact were truly in charge, wouldn’t you be seeing 4 obviously generic slop-poasts a day, instead of more like one every 2 weeks? The defence rests.)
One thing that HAS changed, however, is the embedding functionality – to my considerable annoyance. I used to be able to insert a “Custom HTML” code block, into which I could then insert the embedding code from an Instathot’s poasts, without all the annoying captions. I could then preview the image to ensure that it would load.
In the new version, however, that functionality has straight-up DISAPPORATED. I have no idea why. Now, if you use the Custom HTML block, no matter what poast you embed, it is impossible to see the result – you just get that stupid annoying “View this post on Instagram” tag with a blank template image behind it.
And this leads us to the big problem with change: not all of it is good. Quite often, you end up breaking the shit that works.
Anyway – here is your lovely lady of the week, rather late, admittedly, but it IS a long weekend (at least, where I am, and where most of my American readers are).
This here is Anastasiya Makshaeva (Анастасия Макшаева), age 26 or so, originally from eastern Kazakhstan. However, her looks tell you she has considerable Slavic blood – which she does, her mother is Russian and Ukrainian, while her father is evidently Kazakh. She lives in Do-buy, because of course she does, and she was a highly lauded gymnast back in the day. Nowadays she makes a living as a gymnastics coach and model.
Happy long weekend, everyone.
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