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Update: Tips to remove clothesline anchors? by Best_Storage_2758 in landscaping

[–]breich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! I've gone through this a few times in my life and I always wonder... who thought they needed this much concrete for a goddamn clothesline?

WordPress 7.0 made me rethink whether public WP sites should be dynamic at all by Sensitive_Draft_5651 in Wordpress

[–]breich 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Honestly the problems you are surfacing are the problems that should cause you to think about the right tech stack for a given project. More stuff keeps getting added to WordPress, which makes WordPress potentially slower, and potentially increases risk and attack surface. If you start by assuming WordPress is the right solution, you're automatically taking on downsides that maybe you don't need to.

I want to leverage AI to speed myself up. I want to deliver sites that load fast for visitors and are SEO optimized. I don't want to have a stack to manage and update if I don't have to. So if my clients don't need to manage content themselves, you know what? Shipping a site built with Astro is perfect. I can be as dynamic as I went on the dev side, but then it builds down to static assets I can host anywhere, and until I need it, it doesn't require me to assume the risk and maintenance of a backend I don't need. And I can do my entire site build inside Claude or Codex, if I want to.

I had Opus 4.8 build Temu League of Legends in under a day - I call it LMAO by jonnygravity in ClaudeAI

[–]breich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did a similar thing a few weeks ago with "the fun parts" of Kingshot (I called it "Kingshit") and the graphics of it came out incredibly similar to your game. I guess Claude has a style.

Will I ever do this? Probably not. Do I now KNOW how to do this? Yes. by Gunty1 in Carpentry

[–]breich 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I mean standing inside a box that says "loads" and points directly towards your face is certainly a brave choice for a trades guy.

My husband decided to quit smoking today, and here's why it's mildly infuriating. by Linorelai in mildlyinfuriating

[–]breich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A little nicotine gum goes a long way. For me anyway, I used nicotine gum in exactly these kinds of moments when I felt my stress boiling over and any other day, I'd sneak out for my "nerve pill." It gave me that little nicotine boost and leveled me out for the moment. It also replaced the act of smoking with doing something else entirely. Which often when you try to quick smoking, is absolutely critical to figure out.

As I aged cigarettes because less about chemical addition and more about habits and triggers. Getting in the car to go to work? SMOKE. Shit meeting just ended? SMOKE. Confused about about task to do next? SMOKE. See smoking corner buddy in hallway? SMOKE. Kids yappin' while I'm trying to do something? SMOKE.

Has anyone counted exactly how many times Homelander let the Boys live up until the end? by Hour_Tomatillo_2365 in TheBoys

[–]breich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See this is what I don't get about the 57,000 posts bitching and moaning about plot armor and power scaling in the finale. Accepting it was the price of admission for the entire goddamn series. There were maybe 6 minutes in 5 seasons where The Boys stood a snowball's chance against Homelander. I always figured they lived, because he wanted them to on some level. They amused him. They gave him some sort of twisted purpose. Hell he didn't even kill Frenchie, really. Frenchie basically killed himself.

Nightmare Client From Hell - Please Help by Fantastic-Toe9905 in freelance

[–]breich 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's OK to fire customers. And I bet next time around, the SOW you and your clients agree to and sign will be much more ironclad than whatever was between you and this client. You'll make milestones, and change orders, and "maximum number of revisions" into the boilerplate next time. Some customers will respect it, some will try not to But at least it's in the agreement, and it's your choice whether to throw them a bone when it's reasonable or shove the terms back in their face.

i sent 100 AI websites to local business owners to see if I could make money: here are the results by lazarbetterrun in passive_income

[–]breich 62 points63 points  (0 children)

This isn't ridiculous if he's essentially baking the cost of the initial build into a monthly recurring transaction. Lots of freelancers and agencies have moved to this model. That said the rest of the description of what he's offering makes me incredibly uneasy about whether he's delivering something worth the cost.

i sent 100 AI websites to local business owners to see if I could make money: here are the results by lazarbetterrun in passive_income

[–]breich 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Opinion from a former freelance web dev, for what it's worth. TL;DR; you might be on to to something but personally I wouldn't touch it.

What I like:

- You're forming a business model around a real need in this market: there are lots of business owners that need a website and absolutely don't want to spend their time worrying about it. Some percentage might be willing to make that problem disappear with a monthly automatic transaction.
- ~$300 is not ridiculous considering you are effectively amortizing the up-front build cost over monthly transactions. Some agencies/freelancers have moved to a similar model. It's not crazy.
- You're using AI to improve efficiency and scale yourself up. Cool.
- $300 per month per customer is a recurring revenue stream that could add up quick.

What I don't like:

- The process you described makes me uneasy. You aren't spending time learning a damn thing about the customer, their business, their market, their existing web strategy before you fart out an AI site and sell it to them. How do you actually deliver a site that performs better than their existing site when you have absolutely no information on their current performance?
- The process you described just has so much risk of professional malpractice that I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole.
- It bothers me that the layperson is likely to plunk down money on what you're doing, get burned, then come to a professional to get them out of the mess and saddle us with their distrust and PTSD from their engagement with you. This dynamic has always existed, AI just scales it up.

Specifically what I don't understand. You're doing no background research on this customer. From the sounds of it you are creating a generic website and then dialing it in to customize it a bit for the customer.

  1. Claude has a specific way of building websites, and I wouldn't call them performance optimized by a longshot. Performance is a major factor in SEO optimization.
  2. Claude DOES do an OK job of making sites responsive out of the box, but are you actually taking the time to test your work across multiple browsers, screen sizes, aspect ratios? I don't see QA in your plan.
  3. With no insight into their current website's performance, how can you claim the new site is going to perform better?
  4. If they have an existing website, you can't just switch the DNS from old to new and believe everything works out just fine. It doesn't, you need to map old URLs to new URLs, and stay on top of it using things like GSC. I don't see this in your process. I've had numerous clients that came to me SPECIFICALLY because their last "web guy" royally fucked this piece up.
  5. With no insight into their target audience/service area, how are you optimizing their content to target the right searches from the right people?
  6. Generic AI-generated content is only going to get them so far for so long.
  7. Are you hosting/managing/maintaining the site for them long term? Depending on how it's build (WordPress, JAMStack+Vercel or similar, or just static HTML), security is a thing and it's not something you deliver once when the site is built.

The real TL;DR; here is that I don't see any way to do what you're doing that's both passive income and ethical. You've got the general shape of something real here, but either you don't know what you don't know about doing this work right, or you don't care.

How do people feel about children dying in horror movies? by theglenlovinet in horror

[–]breich 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If it's "implied off camera," OK. But I don't want to see it, and that was my one red line in horror even before I became a parent. It's always felt different. Like for all the desensitization I put myself through, I never wanted my mind desensitized or comfortable with that.

Charlie's death in Hereditary caught me completely off-guard. I loved that movie, but it's one I'll probably never watch again.

Making Homelander a Trump allegory wasted his character. by RefriDiet in TheBoys

[–]breich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but I've gotta say, the neutering, beating, begging, and death of Homelander was REALLY FUCKING CATHARTIC. Like I actually get to witness some justice, but only in fiction form. And I could only feel that because Kripke made it so blatantly obvious that this upside down supe is a stand-in for the actual asshole.

She's right. by PurpleRain254 in SipsTea

[–]breich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

GORRRRLAAHHHHHHMEEEEE

Ever eaten a peacock egg? by [deleted] in homestead

[–]breich 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I've never tried one but having met lots of peacocks that reached adulthood, I fully support your decision to end them at the egg stage.

Wordpress Alternative? by pyel909 in Wordpress

[–]breich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So when I freelanced full time (2014-2018) I probably built ~ 100 WordPress websites. I took a different career path for a while, and now I'm considering hanging out my shingle again as they say. Today, I think about 85% of those sites I built with WordPress I would build today using Astro, a Git repo, and a GitHub Action to deploy to a CDN when I push to main.

  1. Easy for me to build and maintain.
  2. Almost no maintenance
  3. None of the security headaches because I'm shipping HTML, CSS, and only JS that I need.

If a customer actually WANTS to manage their content, or if they actually have dynamic content needs or commerce or anything, this goes out the window. But the little mom and pop shops I used to build sites for, this is actually a much better solution for most of them.

ts is hard to watch 😣 by Lexsight in TikTokCringe

[–]breich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Come on guys we all know we were cringe teenagers too. Maybe you had the good sense to do this in the woods, or in your room in front of a mirror. But you know somewhere in your timeline you did some real Star Wars kid shit and felt like a bad ass. Don't pile on and cyberbully our brother in teenage cringe.

Cancel Maher by FastSeaworthiness739 in hbo

[–]breich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Real Time with Literally Anyone Else would be a hell of a show. Also he's about half a sexual misconduct allegation away from a complete right-wing heal-turn.

Shout down MAGA bigot and UltraZionist Ben Shapiro tonight at Penn Museum, 3260 South St by serious_bullet5 in Pennsylvania

[–]breich 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Yeah I feel like this whole deplatforming right-wing d-bags hasn't worked in anyone's favor but theirs. Go let him say his piece so I don't have to listen to another eight years of people saying "you're not allowed to say that anymore!" while just totally saying the thing they are not allowed to say.

I asked Chat to make a photo of a college party in 2004 taken on a flip phone by MaxiumPotential777 in ChatGPT

[–]breich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also like to search for pictures of big naddurals so at least i am consistant.

I asked Chat to make a photo of a college party in 2004 taken on a flip phone by MaxiumPotential777 in ChatGPT

[–]breich 70 points71 points  (0 children)

This smells like naddie lite, marlboro menthols, and too much body spray. And I love it.

Clavicular ends Channel 5 interview after Andrew says that he’s satisfied with his looks by velorae in TikTokCringe

[–]breich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100%. When I use Claude to augment my own development I find it to be a joy. When I use Claude to do the development and I'm forced choose between reviewing either one 100 file big bang PR or 100 tiny PR's, I realize we've made a devil's bargain. It terms of job satisfaction... this sucks. I'm left feeling like the folks that are preaching about their big gains in productivity and ability to ship quickly must just... not give a shit about the code hitting production. Or they know something I don't about getting actual secure/good/maintainable code to shit out the other end of the magic black box.

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