Luthiery Laboratories

WordPress image handling has been getting worse since at least version 5.5. In their arrogance, the programmers are sabotaging the user in every way they can. I'm still finding and fixing damage. It's really aggravating that there is no way to turn off all the nonsense. These programmers are truly idiots. Thankfully, with php you can hack the code yourself, and that is exactly what I did, and then made it automatic. Simple, my WordPress theme, now searches out the bad code and disables it. No more image insanity.

The worst part is that these programmers obviously think they are doing wonderful things - programmers always do. By default, if you upload an image that is too big for their taste, they re-size it, and then discard the original! Without telling you! They are destroying your work, and they don't give you any choice or even a notice. That is stupidity combined with arrogance in the worst possible way.

Doesn't really surprise me - looking back on it, my computer science education ( masters degree from a major university ) was utter garbage. If garbage is all you know, then you probably can't recognize it, but I came from an engineering background, and I could see it perfectly clearly. Most of my professors struck me as being utterly useless in the real world. Lots of theories, though, and Big-O notation!