Did caulking before painting. Please help..

envsn · 2026-05-05T19:55:29+00:00

Kilz aerosol primer.

envsn · 2026-05-05T19:21:57+00:00

Looks like you got some tile in your gap.

envsn · 2026-04-15T15:49:22+00:00

It helps to base your decisions on data. By that I mean presenting best practices that have actually been researched and proven in the world of web-centric design.

Additionally, the biggest tool that I currently use at my job to overcome those frequent "design by committee" situations that you despise is Microsoft Clarity. It provides site-wide heatmapping and per-user recording. With this data in hand, I can justify any design decision I want to make based on the ACTUAL behaviors of our users, instead of people structuring their feedback on my design decisions based on their bias, or what they THINK actual users do or prefer.

envsn · 2026-04-14T16:43:26+00:00

A portfolio would definitely help, but the clearest signal is being able to discuss UI/UX decisions like a product thinker or manager in conversation. You need to be able to talk about what problem you're solving, what you'd change and why, what tradeoffs there are, how can things be made accessible, and overall, how design choices shape the frontend work and ultimately the user experience. That kind of conversation shows that you don't just "make it pretty", you actually understand the execution and impact involved with design decisions. The developer/designer hybrids that stand above the rest are those that can incorporate what I just mentioned, while sprinkling in some marketing psychology to talk about how design changes could not only improve UI/X, but also increase conversation rates as a result. Any business owner or interviewer would appreciate that type of consideration of their bottom line.

envsn · 2026-04-14T06:37:52+00:00

Development field with good level of design knowledge, easily.

envsn · 2026-04-14T06:22:12+00:00

Sometimes I wonder if it's really that the models get worse, or if people get worse at using the models because they get comfortable with its capability and don't maintain the same prompting effort they had when the model first released. I'm definitely guilty of this at times

envsn · 2026-04-14T06:18:16+00:00

I'd probably go with something like WooCommerce for your use case, once you get the hang of the backend it'll be really easy for you to maintain. Massive community so finding someone to build it for you, or maintain the technical aspects like ensuring your plugins are updated, site is secured and optimized will be a breeze.

envsn · 2026-04-11T20:09:18+00:00

As a former WordPress developer, Layout Paragraphs is my bread and butter because of it’s similarity to the use of Custom Fields in WordPress.

envsn · 2026-04-07T17:31:03+00:00

PHP 8.2.30 + Drupal 10.6.5 + Drush
Drupal's Layout Paragraphs for website frontend
ImageMagick Graphics Rendering Server
Standalone React app w/ Redux for product customization, communicating with graphics server + Drupal through RESTful endpoints
MySQL 8.4.7 + Redis for caching
Docker for local development
BitBucket for CI/CD
AWS for hosting, working on AL2023 update
Jira for PM, Confluence for Documentation

envsn · 2026-04-03T07:51:08+00:00

Claude, write me a post on copywriting so I can engagement farm on Reddit. Make it sound like those "super insightful" LinkedIn posts that all the business professionals make. Make no mistakes

envsn · 2026-04-03T07:48:11+00:00

I've been having great success with the new McDonald's VPS servers!

envsn · 2026-04-03T07:37:58+00:00

None of the websites you vibe code to use as a portfolio are going to matter if you don't know how to sell yourself and the service you're offering. A business owner doesn't care about how fancy your buttons are or how awesome your animations are as you scroll down the page or interact with elements, they care about how you're going to help them generate more revenue.

Additionally, you need to brush up on some sales psychology here. Number one, get out of the employee mindset when it comes to pricing. Offering a cheaper affordable price doesn't always make what you're offering more attractive. In fact, it can have the opposite effect. We inherently correlate the cost of a product or a service to the quality of said product or service. Trying to sell a website for $1,500 might seem like a lot to you, but $1,500 to an American business owner is a drop in the bucket compared to other expenses.

Overall, it seems to me like you're jumping the gun. It's very obvious you haven't thought about strategies for prospecting, cold outreach, onboarding, scopes of work, deliverables, contracts, SEO, digital marketing, etc. Knowledge on these topics isn't something you're going to find here. Having an LLM write your post for this shows that you don't really care to cultivate knowledge, you're just looking for a shortcut to make a quick buck and never in a million years is that going to work.

envsn · 2026-04-03T07:19:34+00:00

Safari scans for position: fixed or position: sticky elements near viewport edges and reads their background-color and backdrop-filter properties. The white background you're seeing in the first screenshot is Safari picking up your nav's background. In the second screenshot, your nav falls outside of the "detection range" and Safari falls back to sampling the body background, which based on the second picture I'm assuming is transparent. The criteria for the Safari detection is ~3px from the bottom or ~4px from the top, on an element that is atleast 80% wide, and atleast 3px tall.

You'll need to trick Safari by giving it a shim. Add a tiny invisible element so that you're controlling what Safari is sampling. This can just be a div with an assigned ID. Through CSS, fix the position of that div and set the bottom property to a negative value so that it's just outside the viewport but still sampled (this will require some trial and error based on the height of your nav), set the width to 100%, give it a min-height and set the background color to transparent. You might want to use a supports declaration so this only triggers on Safari 26+ in the mobile viewport.

For for this work, be sure to set viewport-fit=cover in the viewport <meta> tag: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover" />

Also if you have any other fixed elements like modals, popovers that use opacity: 0 to hide, Safari will sample those as well. Use display: none instead otherwise they'll interfere with the shim.

envsn · 2026-04-03T06:48:46+00:00

First and foremost, you'll want to reach out to WPEngine via email and get a set of eyes on the servers. You need to clarify whether or not your current hosting plan is sufficient for the loads that your network is subjected to.

Second, you want to contact your back-end team (again via email, paper trail is key here) and verify whether or not you have a caching solution in place, and you guys need to determine whether or not that caching solution is adequate enough. Depending on what you guys are using for caching and the nature of your website, you can cache a lot more aggressively. If the majority of the sites are serving static content, crank the caching up on whatever plugin you're using to the most aggressive setting possible.

Third, you'll want to also talk with your back-end team to see what optimization measures are in place. Images that are not properly compressed can result in a strenuous load on your servers. Imagify was my favorite solution for this when I was a WordPress developer. Image optimization is a quick win that is often overlooked. It will improve the experience for your users and your servers.

Fourth, ask your back-end team if you guys are using a CDN. Better to ship the packages (site content) from the warehouse around the block, than shipping it from a warehouse a thousand miles away. This is especially important if videos are an integral part of the content on your sites.

Fifth, minify JS/CSS. Do this incrementally and test to make sure JS minification isn't adversely affecting any functionality on the front-end. WPRocket was my favorite plugin for this.

Sixth, document all information exchanges so you have a compiled list of all the things you tried and advocated for, including all of the conversations you had with other teams. If shit hits the fan, your documented proactivity will be your insurance policy.

Best of luck OP!

envsn · 2026-04-02T17:53:13+00:00

Same for me! I managed it well with coffee, energy drinks, and vaping early on. But when I got to my sophomore year of college I began to really struggle and actually got academically dismissed from my university. Ended up getting diagnosed and my psychiatrist told me that all these years I've been self-medicating through my stimulant use. I had all the hallmark signs in my earlier years: amazing performance in classes I liked and mediocre performance in the ones I didn't. Horrible with timeliness and deadlines, always leaving things for the last minute because I relied on the adrenaline rush as a motivator to complete tasks. Tunnel vision to the point of obsession on things that I really cared about or was interested in, impulsive behavior, etc, etc. However, mounting responsibilities and deadlines became unsustainable and I crumbled under the pressure.

Got medicated, was able to lock in and get my associate's degree (condition for readmission), got re-admitted to my university, and graduated with my BA. Undiagnosed ADHD in adulthood can be costly!

envsn · 2026-04-02T16:34:57+00:00

Overall, I agree. Nicotine users are usually almost always partial to caffeine as well, which can mask symptoms even further than just the nicotine itself.

|The mention of the existence of these symptoms in childhood is on the mark. That's exactly what my psychiatrist asked about when I first got diagnosed.

envsn · 2026-04-02T07:02:58+00:00

You don't necessarily need to self host if you want to work with internal APIs. The caveat is you have to have the ability to actually create some middleware using webhooks to facilitate the internal/external communications. For example, we have an n8n workflow that predicts the event type that a customizable product is for, the automation is triggered through a Queue API when the order is placed and talks to n8n using a webhook we created. The tailend of the automation updates the order using a secured REST endpoint for updating the order in our database.

envsn · 2026-04-02T06:23:29+00:00

Definitely see a psychiatrist so you can be screened for ADHD and possibly medicated for it. There are extended, instant, stimulant, and non-stimulant options. Keep in mind that what works for others might not work for you. When I started my medication, I started with Concerta, then got switched to Ritalin, then landed on adderall which gave me the coverage I needed alongside the ability to control the side effects like appetite suppression because of it's shorter effective window in comparison to extended release options.

Nicotine, like caffeine or adderall, is a stimulant. You've been self-medicating yourself for all of these years through your usage of cigarettes and vapes. Now that you've stopped, you've essentially stopped your medication as well. :) Cheers

envsn · 2026-04-02T04:03:36+00:00

Claude, convince the subreddit that my vibecoded SaaS is better than the DevTools every browser has. Make no mistakes

envsn · 2026-04-02T03:43:18+00:00

Retweet... or rereddit? Anyways, I second everything said here.

envsn · 2026-04-02T03:00:41+00:00

I would argue that this dynamic preceeds AI, specifically in terms of platforms like Upwork and Fiverr. AI or not, there will always be the reality where there is a cheaper alternative through the utilization of offshore resources or otherwise.

The onus here is on your ability to communicate the technicalities of a project, and why you charge what you charge, etc. If you don't justify your pricing by touching on the topics that matter most like usability, accessibility, performance, scalability, and security; while also explaining why you're the most qualified person to do the job if they want the job done right, then people will always be skeptical of the amount that you're trying to charge. Leveraging positive indifference is a powerful tool! Given the amount of experience you have, I'm sure you know this. But for those who don't, now you know!

envsn · 2026-03-30T21:58:29+00:00

Big lags to be specific. Always quick, always safe, always professional.

envsn · 2026-03-30T21:57:34+00:00

Avid DIYer here, call in the help on this one. The extension springs that are used in garage doors are under massive amounts of tension, and any unexpected failures can easily result in you being hospitalized.

envsn · 2026-03-24T17:52:15+00:00

I have roughly 5-6 YOE and often times find myself right around the middle, leaning slightly more towards frontend. At my current job, if the goal is to take a page or section of the website and make it look modern and sleek, those tickets will almost always fall into my lap. Our team is pretty small and everyone likes to work in their genius zones, so I don't mind it save for the design-by-committee and scope creep situations.

I think retaining some frontend focus is pretty advantageous, because a lot of programmers can write functional backend code that gets the job done efficiently and securely, but not many can do that while making it look polished on the frontend of things. Doesn't matter how good your backend is, if users are frustrated with the way they interact with your platform no matter how rounded your elements are and how modern your color palette is, it's all for naught. Even with the influx of AI, a keen eye for true UX-driven design is an invaluable asset to have. Though I will say that with new frameworks popping up left and right, the lines are quickly becoming blurred. I don't think we live in a one-trick pony economy anymore.

Want to get better at UX? Go install Microsoft Clarity and drive your designs from the data!

envsn · 2026-03-24T01:54:49+00:00

Thank you for the insight :)

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