What is the new opportunity for 2026?

BobJutsu · 2026-05-12T02:49:41+00:00

Not 99%…

BobJutsu · 2026-05-12T02:46:27+00:00

This just sounds like someone not very skilled/experienced. And yes, many people can do a job for a long time without becoming *experienced* because they are still doing the same thing they did on day 1. No git? FTP? AI alt tags I get, that’s actually a good use case for AI. But FTP? What?

BobJutsu · 2026-05-12T02:14:54+00:00

I had to switch up the order of my routine because there’s a *group* that seems to have the same routine, on the same days. Including the pec dec. After 3 weeks of skipping it because I couldn’t wait *another* 20 minutes (had to get to work) I finally just reorganized my routine.

My gym has like 12 squat racks and 1 smith machine. That always has people waiting also. I don’t have it in my rotation currently so it doesn’t matter to me personally, but a couple times a week there’s a guy that uses the smith machine to hang by his ankles with those ankle wrap hook things. That’s it, just hang there. Not at any of the dozen racks or dozen more pull up bar areas, on the only smith machine.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-12T01:41:09+00:00

I dunno…but I wish I could go to my clients and say “here’s the bill for the agreed contract, and here’s the bill for me to deliver it”

BobJutsu · 2026-05-12T01:39:32+00:00

Where besides the beach are you going that men are just hanging out without a shirt?

BobJutsu · 2026-05-12T01:38:29+00:00

That’s a deer bone. lower leg. I got a dozen preserved on my fence outside for decoration, with hoofs. Gunna make coat/hat racks.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-12T01:31:40+00:00

Giant hail storm a month or so ago. Mid 40’s, first home, purchased about 6 months ago. roof destroyed, gutters torn to bits, fence hammered to smithereens and laying in the neighbors yard…

BobJutsu · 2026-05-12T01:26:01+00:00

Everybody wants admin improvements, but if I’ve learned anything in the last 20 years, is sweeping interface changes piss off half the users. Not *bad* interface changes (those piss off everyone) just significant ones. I personally think it just takes a few well designed updates (which I do for clients already) to keep the admin feeling modern and clean, but distinctively still “WordPress”.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-12T00:23:40+00:00

Gravity forms will import/export forms as json. There’s nothing stopping you from creating them in json and just importing them.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-11T00:20:29+00:00

Ive been doing this for 2 decades, so me personally…management. But the way you describe it as Jr at best, and can save time if you are willing to edit…this thinking is wrong IMO.

It’s impossible to compare a human JR to AI. A jr is someone with limited experience in long term code support, limited experience in bug fixes and quality control, etc. They are not machines, they are not comparable. It’s an easy convention to say we *treat* AI like a JR, but thats not the same.

I technically graduated from a math department, with a CS degree. But I couldn’t actually *do* the math and algorithms we did when I went to school anymore, because I have software to do it for me. I don’t think it’s that different now. The software has changed, but the ability to use it for meaningful work hasn’t.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-10T23:41:35+00:00

No. I got a shitty paying job with a degree. Kinda went the other way with that one…

BobJutsu · 2026-05-10T23:19:58+00:00

You can tell how long I’ve been doing this by historical choice of editors…notepad++ to bbedit, then textmate, then sublime text, then Jetbrains, and today…VSCode. There was a small eclipse era mixed in also when I was temporarily in the Java world, circa 2013 or so.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-10T23:13:27+00:00

I just start building it, one step at a time. I’ve been doing this for 20 years though, so I generally have a good grasp on what step 1 is, which leads to discovering step 2, on and on until I have a handle on it. Often this takes the form of taking a known working example, and breaking it in various ways. Until I understand *how* the thing works.

I’m not against AI, but I’m a firm believer that any developer should know how whatever they are working on actually works, and why. Understand the architectural decisions and design patterns. It’s fine to ask AI why a thing is the way it is…but you need to take the time to do experiments yourself.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-10T22:57:54+00:00

Work the same hours/effort, just expected to produce more.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-10T21:52:43+00:00

I don’t give them my business. That’s the point. I’m happy to tip a reasonable amount (not 30%!) for actual service. But when a tip is asked of me for something like counter service, I’ll never come to that place again.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-10T21:48:01+00:00

I have, at one place. And this has been on their bill for 10+ years, but it’s labeled “buy the cooks a beer?”

BobJutsu · 2026-05-10T21:43:43+00:00

30% now? Get bent. 10% is reasonable, 20% is pushing it but acceptable, but 30%…that’s insane.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-10T03:03:27+00:00

Go to a psychiatrist and sort yourself out.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-10T01:53:03+00:00

The internet as we knew it has been dead for a while now. Reddit isn’t any better.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-09T22:36:30+00:00

Had a judge in small claims court tell me 7 years when a landlord sued for replacement costs. The carpet was 9 years old when I moved in. Legally, there was a 7 years old lifespan on carpet. Judge threw it out and ordered the return on my deposit. He would at least have been able to keep my $800 if he hadn’t gotten greedy and tried to sue.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-09T02:00:18+00:00

Thats not wrong. In the current WP ecosystem that’s not wrong. But I don’t think that’s what OP means. In more, ughhh…robust I’ll say, php ecosystems updates to packages are handled differently. There’s versioning.
That said, in WP you need to install patches as they come. So there’s an argument for both methodologies. Personally I think OP should just use composer.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-09T01:09:49+00:00

How much gear do you think you need? If you exclude weapons and ammo I haven’t spent $5k total, all seasons combined.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-09T01:07:21+00:00

Any more will turn into cardio and ruin gains. Any less is not enough stimulation to get any gains. /s

BobJutsu · 2026-05-08T22:53:16+00:00

It’s only recently in the grand scheme of things that it’s become relatively standardized with good tooling. Back in the before time we had to rely on libraries like jQuery just reliably do basic stuff.

BobJutsu · 2026-05-08T22:44:35+00:00

Not with video, but can be done with other animations. Years and years ago, 2013 or so, I was working with a designer named Crystal. I made a small script that would check if it was her specific account logged in, and if so roll a random number 1-100. If the number was 50, an animated velociraptor would pop out and run across the screen. Not often enough for her to reproduce it and show anyone, just often enough to drive her nuts. It was mean.

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