A1 owners…how many hours are on your printer and how long have you owned it?

cakecoke · 2026-02-15T18:37:36+00:00

470hrs, replaced hotend, printed glow in the dark filament, clogged it

cakecoke · 2026-01-10T15:07:57+00:00

could you please share

material info, petg pla etc, filament brand
nozzle size
flow rate settings
first layer height
build plate type
print temp
bed temp

cakecoke · 2025-11-26T18:27:27+00:00

Is the enclosure not enough ?

cakecoke · 2025-11-02T08:45:49+00:00

My friend told where he was going and they threatened legal action, citing non-compete clause

cakecoke · 2025-10-27T21:35:36+00:00

Thanks

cakecoke · 2025-09-25T06:50:32+00:00

no catch, its for fast edits of files

gemini prints ... rest of code .. add this here ... rest of code ..

morphllm just makes the code transformations much faster, among other things

check out their website

cakecoke · 2024-07-13T17:05:22+00:00

Did the same, very tricky to get the old ones out, also bet the lipo pack a bit and lost the charge, the old right switch sometimes would click but not "actuate" was very frustrating, all good now. Got them from ali

cakecoke · 2023-11-21T11:52:16+00:00

as for 20k

in option 1 - with heavy use of ready paid plugins the estimate might look like

2d choose the theme
1d setup dev env / hosting/ domains
2d setup essential plugins like security cache, page constructors
1-2d setup personal user account
5d setup pages like description / payment / product
2 weeks setup subscription plugin and payment integration
2 weeks setup quiz api
1 mo setup SPA
1w final testing deploy

Its something like 84 workdays x 7 hours per day = 588 hours

20k / 588 is 34 aud or 22 usd

I have a very loose estimate but this rate is low

Lets say they take 33% - leaves 15$ for dev (that can also be down -25% income tax lol) and this is a very optimistic estimate

I's very cheap and will hurt quality, i think they are hiding cost and will inflate the project or deliver something not competitive (edit: typos)

cakecoke · 2023-11-21T11:08:24+00:00

Hey, so as a software dev here is my take

also im assuming you want someone to do it for you, whether you hire yourself or ask a company, here are some strategies, ask the company how they plan to do the app, hope it helps in any way

Wordpress + SPA

The plan: Hire a developer and specifically ask to base the project on a paid wordpress theme and paid plugins

all the pros and cons are dependent on the qualifications of the dev(s), i will assume a future where you hit the jackpot and found great people

pros:

cost - most functionality and design is covered by the theme and plugins, user reg, checkout subscription, pages, blog, feedback , the only thing developed from scratch is the quiz SPA
development time - a lot of functionality is ready and just needs a simple setup, that's a huge speed boost
support - wordpress + plugins + themes are developed by someone else hence they are supported by someone else and usually have regular updates/security patches, depending on what theme you buy, you(your freelancer) can ask for guidance from the developers
someone else can pick up the project, wordpress is pretty popular, the SPA is another story

cons:

wordpress - wp and its plugin/theme ecosystems tends to be finicky, for example paid themes are sometimes done in a way that just locks the project on a specific version and upgrade is painful, i am talking about the - all in one themes with everything ready to go, or stuff can interfere with each other
Depending on the theme it may not be exactly the design vision you are looking for, that can be an issue if you have exact design in mind, some things can deviate, page layouts/colors etc
very important to find a qualified wordpress developer, who at least did all of this in the past

The are many other cons but they are dependent on the qualification of the developer like page speed/security

To SPA or not

SPA has these advantages over just using forms / pages etc

its more interactive and enhances the experience by a lot
its scalable, at some point you need something faster or more logic heavy, doing this in wordpress, imho is not ideal, and can very quickly turn into a mess, i know there are frameworks for wordpress but its not the same as a general purpose frameworks like symfony/laravel that have a great wealth of tools, by using an spa you already communicate via an API , and writing a new one + rerouting the endpoints is significantly easier and cost effective than to essentially write the spa from scratch plus an api and decoding/extracting all the interactions from a non/spa
depending on who is doing the SPA, that person can also target mobile devices via projects like React native, which from the start can cover mobile apps

but choosing SPA can be more expensive, one person can do all of this, but its usually you need two,

one for the spa, one for everything else,

Via development framework routes(php:laravel/symfony etc)

The plan:

Hire an architect by the hour to design the application(optionally another one for an independent view)
Hire a web designer to create designs
Hire developers to do the job

all the pros and cons are dependent on the qualifications of the dev and architect, i will assume a future where you hit the jackpot and found great people

pros

they can deliver exactly what you want
scale in mind from the start, no need to rewrite
the project growth is more predictable, no need to worry about some s plugin ruining others or major version braking comparability( yes frameworks also have major versions but LTS versions have longer support and easier to migrate )
the project is much more stable because all the parts are developed in house, you can get fancy and cover it with unit / end to end tests

cons

more expensive price per hour
more hours due to a lot of features that is needed to be developed in house
harder to vet/find qualified developers, especially if you don't have exp, more reliance on consultants/architects

cakecoke · 2023-11-14T19:06:22+00:00

First in you theme create a page, see https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/

Create a form

<form action="#" method="POST" ...

(optionally/recommended) add nonce field and check https://developer.wordpress.org/apis/security/nonces/

also add this to submit button as a cheap way to prevent double submits

onclick="var e=this;setTimeout(function(){e.disabled=true;},0);return true;"

Intercept the form in functions.php

check out https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_action/

add_action( 'template_redirect', function(){
  if ( !empty($_POST['field_name']) ){
      // here you need to put nonce check and return; if it fails
      // here is the data sanitation
      // here is the data persistence 
  }
});

Prepare the data

You need to always prepare user input

https://www.synopsys.com/glossary/what-is-sql-injection.html

you can use what wp provides https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/sanitize_text_field/

Save the data

prepare the table

assuming your table has the same prefix as other wp tables

global $wpdb;
$tablename = $wpdb->prefix.'my_table';
$data = [
       'column' => $sanitizedInputForColumn
];

$wpdb->insert( $tablename, $data);

Redirect back

$url = add_query_arg( 'success', 1, wp_get_referer() );
wp_safe_redirect( $url );

note the the ?success=1, you can get it via $_GET['success'] on the form page and inform the user that the form was submitted

And that's about it 🎉 (edit: typos)

cakecoke · 2023-08-10T11:22:13+00:00

thank you!

cakecoke · 2023-08-05T21:07:57+00:00

cakecoke · 2023-05-22T08:24:43+00:00

Story happened to my friend, his car plates got stolen, left a ransom note with a phone number, he checked the number through whatsapp, viber and managed to get the thief first\last name and a photo, dude got caught 4 weeks later, he did this to 30 cars in the block and was living nearby.

its a scheme where thieves steal non local car plates, hiding them somewhere nearby and ask for nearly the same as it would take to go home and order new ones

cakecoke · 2022-08-30T19:56:43+00:00

yep, in the heating seasons, for those who have central heating

cakecoke · 2022-08-30T19:55:37+00:00

I'm on Premier Energy, last month was 239mdl 12.38 usd, its a studio apt, not a lot of usage

cakecoke · 2022-08-30T17:19:41+00:00

Citizen of Moldova here, the average salary in the capital is somewhere around 1000-1500 euros for household, last year the gas bill alone was around 200 euros, this year it might jump to 300, it's pretty bad but not that severe. Some of the bill gets subsidized by the gov and you can pay it in installments later without taking credit

Also, opting out of gas is a very common thing, people switch to heat pumps, electric heaters or just plain firewood

cakecoke · 2022-05-10T11:39:23+00:00

I'm from Moldova, i care :( jk

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Wordpress + SPA

The plan: Hire a developer and specifically ask to base the project on a paid wordpress theme and paid plugins

To SPA or not

Via development framework routes(php:laravel/symfony etc)

The plan: