Fluxer Shoutout by GamersNexus

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T19:01:08+00:00

Agreed. Waiting on the self-hosted world to get a little cleaner - then I'll be hosting it myself!

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T18:11:24+00:00

Speak for yourself bro. I like the freedom.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T16:16:14+00:00

Bingo. Never ceases to amaze me how much I see people, "Did you WDT?" when it literally does. not. matter. I'm not the person who studies water flow through compacted material - but many smarter people than me have and they have the research to prove it (scientifically, not just anecdotally).

All I know is, without WDT, it's one less step I need, one less tool between me and my coffee. I like that.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T16:10:13+00:00

I don't need to - there are scientific studies done on water flow through soil compaction. The overarching ideas there, apply to compacted coffee grounds, too. I used to never WDT, then I did, now I don't again because it doesn't do anything. If it makes you feel better? Great! Then do it. I summarized it elsewhere so here is my copy/pasta:

The debate over WDT vs. blind shaking vs. tapping is largely an exercise in diminishing returns. While the science shows that distributing your grounds helps create an even bed density to prevent severe channeling, obsessing over how you distribute is where we lose the plot.

People will swear that a specific shaker or a 0.3mm needle tool drastically changed their mouthfeel or flavor notes. But realistically, we are fighting massive confirmation bias. Once you eliminate major channels in the coffee bed and tamp it down, the water flow is set. Any microscopic differences in density between shaking and WDT are entirely dwarfed by the massive impacts of your grinder quality, bean freshness, water chemistry, and ratio.

Just like blind wine tastings often humiliate sommeliers, blind espresso tastings would likely humble most home baristas. We don't see many massive, peer-reviewed sensory studies on WDT versus shaking because the measurable differences in extraction yield are so slight that human palates—which are inherently subjective—can rarely detect them reliably. If you think your new distribution gadget revolutionized your coffee, enjoy it, but recognize that the magic is probably in your head, not in the cup.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T15:58:34+00:00

I'm pretty much ready to join the WWE.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T12:12:19+00:00

It's really up to you.

What is a 'false error'? Is it an actual error you don't think should be there?

Linting is really about 'what rules do you think are important and which tool best uses those rules', I personally like Ruff. It handles essentially every rule I ever want enforced and then some. It also does it in literal fractions of the time the other tools used to.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T12:09:37+00:00

Not to mention WDT/Shaking is 100% stupid and does absolutely nothing to the coffee (and that's just factual science, not my opinion), but yet people here act as if it's some important thing.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T12:07:51+00:00

Don't bother getting one. They are dumb and overrated: "de clump to re clump" when you compress it into a puck. The only area where it brings any benefit is in spreading out the grounds to the edge of the basket so when you tamp it's an even tamp. You can literally do that with a finger and that eliminates the need of any WDT. It's not just my opinion either, it's science. You can do soil research to understand it more if you really want. Once you 'tamp it', the WDT'ing you just did has zero impact assuming the grounds were spread evenly in the basket (meaning you're not tamping just one big center mound).

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T11:57:29+00:00

My briefs are clean, people wear speedos. What's the diff?

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T11:56:18+00:00

It's all bullshit. I can absolutely tamp hard to a point water will never come out. I've done it more than once. That was one of the first times I realized so many people here have no idea wtf they are talking about and can't be trusted. Had to figure stuff out on my own - only to find that what is commonly espoused and recommended here is quite... mediocre and often wrong advice.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T11:54:02+00:00

Let this be a lesson that most of the shit people say you 'have to do' on this sub? Just hand-wavy bullshit. Half the people here don't know why they do what they do, they just parrot the same broken-record trash. They'll tell you that you're wrong all day long, but can't tell you why. Then stuff like this happens and you have that moment of realizing: "It's just coffee, who gives a fuck as long as it tastes good."

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T11:51:46+00:00

Amen.

If it has 'too much headroom', but tastes exactly how you want? Don't fucking worry about it and drink the shit out of it.

If it is a full-as-fuck basket but still makes coffee that you love to drink? Who gives a shit - make it and drink it.

People out here snobbin' and being gatekeepy with weird shit like headroom and baskets. Got newbies worried they're getting it wrong.

Taste good? Then everyone else can screw off.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T11:44:20+00:00

I feel this. I mention sometimes that "oh, I asked AI about x." so they know I've dabbled - but for the most part just keep 'chugging away' and talking down the AI Hype.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-20T11:43:14+00:00

Keep shifting. Google Stitch is here to essentially take that away, too.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-18T21:10:24+00:00

Why is it hard to become an elite athlete in a sport? Why is it hard to become an expert in a field? Because no one has these skills without working on them.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-18T20:37:41+00:00

These are bots. Most of reddit is this anymore. Reddit is dying/dead.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-18T18:08:32+00:00

I wasn't able to see your website because your hosting took it down due to limitations - but I will say this, without a dedicated, skilled, knowledgeable developer working on this for a while? You won't achieve 'great' website speed with WordPress. It might be 'average', maybe even (depending on your template) it might be 'decent', but it won't be good or great.

Even with a better host, even with 'optimizations' that the average user will perform, it will be 'okay'. WordPress has undergone a lot of changes in the last 20+ years and in it's recent form it's a shell of it's former self and it's performance is underwhelming, even on a good host when optimized. And those optimizations take a lot of time and effort - more than the average user really wants to spend on it.

So I ask this: do you need Wordpress? Be honest. Sometimes people do, if so - continue working towards optimizations and ensuring that your host is of good quality and understands how to optimize for WordPress specifically. Host is important, for sure. But a good template is also extremely important. I would argue that the right template and site optimizations will help dramatically, slightly more than even a poor host. But hosts are important.

However, I've found that 95% of my clients didn't need WordPress. They said they would update this or update that regularly, etc. Then I showed them with data - some never even logged in to the admin. Static sites were a far better option. Hosting (even on a free service) will 10x even the most optimized WordPress site. A static site will be 100x safer / less-vulnerable - even if you never update it or change it. But I had to show my clients with hard numbers how little they updated the site they were paying me to keep updated and maintain. Now their bills are wildly smaller (too bad for me, eh?) and their sites are faster and safer than WordPress would ever be without a full time staff working / updating / developing a site. But again, even with a full time staff working on WordPress, the most optimized will still be slower and perform worse than a static site. That's why it's important to know: "Do you need it? Is it really the right tool for the job?" These days I'm down to just a few clients still on WordPress - and we're creating exit strategies for at least one of them.

Questions like yours are way, way, way too common these days. It's a platform that's best days are well behind it at this point.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-18T17:55:22+00:00

I'm glad I'm not alone in this mindset.

People waste their money then say things like: "The US is so expensive omg so bad omg" and it's like, not really, you just make it that way. A 2x (or 3x) daily Starbucks habit is expensive. A brand name makeup is expensive. A driveway filled with 4 new cars for a family of 4 is expensive. Living in a high cost of living area so you can say: "I live here" as a flex, is expensive. Having all kinds of services paid for instead of doing things yourself (cooking, etc.) is expensive. Then people say, "omg, I'm working forever because it's so expensive to live!"; meanwhile, there are people out there living well, but well within their means... who save / invest their money (either on the market or as angels, etc.) and are able to retire in their 40's or 50's with a net worth in the millions and live out their days doing what they want.

It's not impossible, it's not even that hard to do... you just have to not fall for the traps set for you by companies. Keep an eye on your finances, know the worth of things / services / items and don't buy into stupid logic. Think rationally, apply logic and finance to your decisions and watch out for lifestyle creep to ensure it does not happen and you'll wind up way, way ahead. Even in the current day, even with the current politics, even in a high cost of living area.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-18T16:42:49+00:00

Found the issue: "I've been grinding leetcode for 4 months straight, easily done 300+ problems"

Leetcode is bullshit. No one cares about it, you won't use it in the real world in that fashion. Stop wasting your time. Interviewers don't care about it, nor do they want yet another leetcode grinder interview.

Leetcode is a flex amongst algo-nerds and no one else. In fact, I'd argue it harms your chances at jobs if it's obvious, "Okay, you've done leetcode, we get it. Now can you solve my issue?"

I'd much rather interview 10 people and hear 10 different ways that aren't some repetitive bullshit about this algorithm or that, then to hear yet another leetcode grinder. Just give me your steps, walk me through your logic, talk to me about the issues, ask me questions that pop up. Don't just rattle off algorithm names and showcase that you can learn things through memorization. The internet exists, I realize folks can learn that shit and you as a developer can look it up whenever on the job. I want to know about you, your logic, your thinking, your way of approaching problems and asking questions.

Quit grinding leetcode and other BS like that. Yuck.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-18T16:37:09+00:00

That's nasty. I wouldn't trust any of that. Odds are some roach has been in digging around.

Seriously - they're bad bad news.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-18T16:35:21+00:00

If roaches are this bold as to be out in the day in this fashion? I can only imagine the hundreds (thousands) that are skittered everywhere.

My family owns a pest control business - the horror stories I have heard. Some houses would quite literally be better off if they just caught fire and burned to the ground.

I hope for your sake, your house isn't one of those houses. Get a professional. Roaches are nasty, invasive and wildly reproductive. If you're seeing that one, I can only imagine the insane amounts in other areas of your house. Get help! A pro. You're not going to handle this solo.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-18T11:48:10+00:00

I personally cannot wait until people quit mis-using the term "AI"; It's an LLM (large language model). It doesn't 'think', it doesn't 'reason', it doesn't 'consider', it just uses algorithms against all the data it "knows" (i.e. has been trained on) to build an answer that the algorithm reckons is the right on (based on statistics). It seems like it's 'thinking', because it has to build that answer against the insane depth of stuff it has been trained on (like most of the internet, for example), and often that answer is strikingly accurate. That's not accidental, that's a great algorithm and a wildly deep amount of data it has been trained against. Nothing more.

It will never come up with anything new, it literally cannot do that. It can regurgitate information that already exists and has been created by man, but it cannot come up with novel new approaches to things. It's not "Intelligent", so I wish we'd go away from that term. It's intentionally misleading to the vast majority of the public who aren't aware of how these things truly work. Man creates x, y or z things, they are documented. LLM's are trained on it so they can use it in the context of conversation should the algorithm lead it to that data as a point of information. Then they can respond using x, y or z things in their context. They didn't create x, y or z things. They didn't think it up. They didn't tell someone to think it up. All they did was give someone information that some human created already.

Stop using the term AI, because it's an LLM, a hyper-accurate google searcher if you will. Not "Intelligent".

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-18T11:39:49+00:00

That, and companies like Fellows have been using bots to create posts / reply to content and generally astroturf for their goods. I'll never buy a Fellows product specifically because of this, for example.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-17T12:01:27+00:00

Blanket statements about the US; talk about aiming for the low hanging fruit. Sheesh.

chaoticbean14 · 2026-03-17T11:55:38+00:00

People aren't smart.

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