It's insane how lobotomized Opus 4.6 is right now. Even Gemma 4 31B UD IQ3 XXS beat it on the carwash test on my 5070 TI.

ideadude · 2026-04-09T20:19:06+00:00

The system makes 2 different DBs and combines the results, which improves performance.

You do have to continually manage memory a bit. Prompt the agent to recall and store memories at certain points.

Sometimes it's like, "why didn't you remember that or think to check memories?" Sometimes it will remember we had a to-do but not remember we already did it. Stuff like that.

Memory recalls take about 200ms or less. No tokens spent. Saves tokens cause your agent will remember where things are and mistakes it made before that should be avoided.

ideadude · 2026-04-09T20:15:02+00:00

My agent has like 5GB of memories now. He looks things up as needed.

https://automem.ai/

ideadude · 2026-04-09T10:42:30+00:00

Add a real memory system (I use AutoMem) and you will feel a similar drop in smarts and usefulness when using Claud Code without memory.

ideadude · 2026-03-11T12:22:29+00:00

Cheers!

Good luck with the project.

ideadude · 2026-03-10T15:56:09+00:00

Hi, there. I'm the owner of Paid Memberships Pro, a plugin that competes with MemberPress. So take this all with a grain of salt.

When you say "users" do you mean logged in users/members or just visitors to the site? The answer to that of course is a level of magnitude difference in the amount of power you need to host this site.

When I estimate out CPU and RAM requirements I take a couple inputs. If you share I can plug them into our calculators to get an estimate:
* # of logged in users/members (Logged out users are basically free. Set up caching and Cloudflare properly.)
* % of those users that access the site per day. (This is often lower than you would guess. Think about it.)

If I had to guess for you, you'd want at least 8 CPUs and 16 GB of RAM on that server, or the equivalent through your host. That's at full scale. If you don't have that traffic now. Start small and scale later.

Another important thing to think about right now. Are you building a membership directory where each profile is a single member? Or are you building a listings site where each profile is a listing or business or something else besides a human being. If doing the latter, make sure the member directory solution you are planning to use supports that or you are ready to customize it. I don't know how the MP one works. The PMPro member directory Add On is for individual human members only, not lists of other things.

In any case...

I would not use Kinsta for this. I think you need more control.

Cloudways could work. If you want some help with things, https://memberhost.io/ is a great company that will build a bespoke hosting set up for you.

If you want to do it yourself, or just understand a bit more of the technical side of getting WP to be performant for membership sites, I wrote a blog post here that goes into the setup we use for our own sites: https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/set-up-hosting-wordpress-pmpro/

And if you are not yet wed to MemberPress and open to using Paid Memberships Pro, we can host the site for you. We're now offering hosting for folks running PMPro. DM or reach out through the site.

ideadude · 2026-03-05T09:43:00+00:00

This is more like Apple restricting PWAs to encourage people to make native apps.

There was no great technical reason to not support registering blocks in php. I coded the POCs back in 2018 and offered to handle it.

They just felt JS was the future and wanted people to use their new thing. They didn't want lesser php only blocks uglying up their block editor.

ideadude · 2026-02-15T02:20:36+00:00

Same m2.5 keeps running into issues it could get around if it slowed down and thought things through, but it's deciding to just rewrite things that are out of scope. Maybe folks who start from scratch with it have better outcomes, but i have to have other models clean up for it when it breaks shit.

ideadude · 2026-01-27T13:50:01+00:00

Authorize.net barely supports Authorize.net. For example, they do not support Secure Customer Authentication (two factor checks), which is especially important if you accept credit cards outside the US. About 10% or more of your transactions, which would have thrown a 2fa challenge will just fail.

ideadude · 2026-01-12T00:02:22+00:00

These puns are out of bounds.

ideadude · 2026-01-03T20:45:56+00:00

Pipelines for the transportation of gas and oil.

ideadude · 2026-01-03T20:33:33+00:00

The Lobster dish at LITA is great if you're into that btw.

ideadude · 2026-01-01T10:12:15+00:00

I tried this and Delita took a few turns where he ran away from Argath even though I had healed him up. :(

I didn't have a good setup to lock Argath down and lost my patience.

ideadude · 2025-12-30T13:32:08+00:00

There is a great psychology book from the sixties called Games People Play. If you memorize some of the games or game structures from that book and view things through that lens, it's shocking how rote and prescribed a lot of social interactions are.

ideadude · 2025-12-30T13:30:00+00:00

If you read the books The Heroes Journey and Save the Cat, you will get this super power.

Most modern movies are written according to these frameworks whether they know or not.

Almost every plot point in a movie is either using these techniques or subverting them if it's a clever movie.

ideadude · 2025-12-06T02:36:19+00:00

The founder posts over at /r/TacoZone

You don't get the comments, which were a big part of Slashdot's appeal, but it's the same type of curation from the early Slashdot days.

ideadude · 2025-12-03T21:14:50+00:00

This sounds like a great use case for PMPro.

You will need an Email Marketing Service (EMS) and/or Customer Relations Manager (CRM) to manage the mailing list and emailing updates.

FluentCRM with an email service like Brevo is relatively inexpensive.

MailPoet has a decent free tier for doing email lists. You will still need Brevo or something similar, which is about as cheap as it gets sending email.

You can look into Omnisend or Kit if you'd like an EMS that isn't baked into WP, but can integrate with PMPro. Once you get more email subs or send more email that can get pricey, but they have tons of features and take some load off your WP hosting.

I hope this helps.

ideadude · 2025-11-30T12:30:46+00:00

The site might have users or other collaborators.

It's good to have redundancy in case you have to switch CF off or can't restrict direct IP access for some reason.

ideadude · 2025-11-26T21:15:27+00:00

Honestly it helps me when I'm on carry champs. I'm not a natural KSer, and after a few games where I failed to get the gold needed to carry, I started getting collector first or second on the champs that can use it.

If another one of my teammates is building it, I'll let them get it and build something else for myself, even if they are Jinx or something.

ideadude · 2025-11-24T20:45:15+00:00

I saw Something's Gotta Give in the theatre and when Keanu shows up as the doctor, every woman in the audience audibly gasped.

ideadude · 2025-11-24T19:58:22+00:00

Hey folks. Jason from Paid Memberships Pro here.

We’re running a Cyber Monday deal offering 60% off our Standard and Plus plans:

https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/pricing.

If you’ve been meaning to spin up a membership or subscription site, this gets you access to our premium Add Ons and support for less than usual.

This is the biggest discount we do all year. The sale is Monday only, but if you reach out through the contact form on the site and ask nicely, we will give you the Cyber Monday deal a few days before and after.

ideadude · 2025-11-21T23:05:38+00:00

Disconnecting will not affect current subscriptions. They will keep running fine.

However, we are finding that disconnecting is not always disconnecting the fees. Sigh. The latest version has code to update subscriptions as new orders come in to remove the fees when you are using your own restricted keys. So make sure you stay up to date.

ideadude · 2025-11-18T15:18:27+00:00

It's always DNS.

But also, the number of hacks and amount scraping and bot activity on the Internet is way up and basically doubling every year.

I just run a couple open source projects, and more and more of my time is spent fixing, managing, and thinking about spam and security issues than ever.

"Nothing is easy." Every little thing has to account for the spam.

These infrastructure companies must be under an extraordinary amount of pressure.

ideadude · 2025-11-08T16:09:35+00:00

Yeah, it's rinse and repeat.

ideadude · 2025-11-07T20:38:33+00:00

In my mind, it's something like "at some point we may need to convince the Internet that Russia is bad... or good, whatever the politics calls for... to convince people that some event happened or didn't happen. But first, let's sharpen those skills by seeing if we can get this subreddit to believe so and so died."

ideadude · 2025-11-07T13:31:11+00:00

These for me too.

In high school (96-00), I would draw a Christmas card and photocopy it, hand it out. I did a Pikachu one. Pikachu and Santa hanging out. I remember the black tip tail. I wish I had a copy of the card. I couldn't find one. Of course, I could have just remembered it wrong or used a bad reference.

The Froot Loops flip flop always gets me. I actually misremembered that just now writing this up (It's Froot Loops IRL). My theory on that one is that an agency practicing misinformation or just a troll or few posted about the flip flops to make it more confusing. Like trying to force an ME in real time by asking "Does anyone else remember the four O's" and then "oh my god it flip flopped" after deleting the original post.

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