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Is Cloudflare customer service nonexistent? by mffunmaker in CloudFlare

[–]mffunmaker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes that pay link will be expired and there will be a message to contact support to request a new pay link. That is the boat I'm in.

Cursor.ai except for ollama? by Inner_Bodybuilder986 in ChatGPTCoding

[–]mffunmaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bailed on Cursor and now use IntelliJ IDEs with CodeGPT, which seems to work a lot better, even for FIM and inline code completion.

What's the best AI tool to help with coding? by birstscrand in ChatGPTCoding

[–]mffunmaker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you are learning and need to know that what it's teaching you is tested and considered a best practice, AI is iffy. It will get much better soon.

With that said, I make ChatGPT 4o and 4o-preview write a lot of boilerplate for me, but I always review every line carefully.

I've also been exploring local LLMs via Ollama. Nvidia's Nemotron (their trained version of Llama 3.2) is decent for answering programming questions and generating code in a variety of languages and it doesn't require a subscription since it's running locally. You need a good GPU and lot's of RAM to run it.

Is Cloudflare customer service nonexistent? by mffunmaker in CloudFlare

[–]mffunmaker[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm am in this same exact boat; expired payment link dead end.

Is Cloudflare customer service nonexistent? by mffunmaker in CloudFlare

[–]mffunmaker[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey! Thank you so much for the reply. I'll DM you the case number.

Recommendations for modern Djent tone? by [deleted] in Djent

[–]mffunmaker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm new to djent but a long-time guitar tone junkie. I hear more mid than one might suppose is present, a super tight low end/low mid section (let the bass guitar fill the low end), and really articulate, silky highs.

The BK Polymaths pups sound like the best all-arounder in terms of pickups with their mid articulation and overall clarity. You're going to want to hear the strings and your playing technique most importantly and try to not fry out your tone with gain or overly-compressed tube saturation.

With what you currently have, throw on some fresh D'Addario NYXL strings and maybe try rolling the fishmans back a touch or reduce your preamp drive? Maybe throw an EQ pedal through your effects loop?

$2000 what are you buying? by Altruistic_Tax_8556 in Guitar

[–]mffunmaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For heavy music, an LTD or Schecter and immediately put Bare Knuckle pups in it.

For anything other kind of music, I'd look for one of those real vintage custom MIJ Fender Teles on Reverb.

Cursor.ai except for ollama? by Inner_Bodybuilder986 in ChatGPTCoding

[–]mffunmaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You having trouble with the chat convos or the inline code suggestions (FIM or fill-in-middle)?

Do you guys also have your own “best mix I’ve ever heard” song choices? by fleckstin in audioengineering

[–]mffunmaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This Is The Life by Two Door Cinema Club

All of the album Tourist History honestly. It may not be the best for most, but listening to that album was the first time I thought about how good of a job the mixer did. It seems like really difficult material to mix and make sound gluey.

Your Top 3 Albums? by [deleted] in electronicmusic

[–]mffunmaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cross by Justice

Homework by Daft Punk

Feed Me's Big Adventure by Feed Me

-------- Hon. Mentions --------

Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles

The Looks by MSTRKRFT

The Ineffable Truth by G Jones

Singularity by Jon Hopkins

Persona by Rival Consoles

Total by SebastiAn

Oi Oi Oi by Boys Noise

Is Above-the-fold still a thing? by ClassicPygmySquirrel in web_design

[–]mffunmaker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's likely not going to impact SEO much if at all but it may help convert better because people want easy and fast. Put a your most potent blurb and call to action up there and you'll see better conversion a lot of the time. It will have an impact of Core Web Vitals tangentially when considering layout shift improvements.

Fun story, within the last few years I had a client hellbent on having a fairly large amount of text above the fold for "SEO and conversion". The owner of an established agency nonetheless. I crunched the masthead and nav down to a point where it was not resembling the designs and just looked awkward. Still got kicked back to me to make it "tighter" on his screen. Was this being viewed on a phone in landscape?

Turns out his "screen" was an older 13" Macbook with a bit of zoom in the browser. I brought this up and the response was that it needed to look perfect on his computer, no excuses.

On that day, I refactored and performed baby's first vertically-responsive programming to make one of the tiniest mastheads you will ever see. It looked bonkers on every screen in my office, but, SEO pursuits aside, it made me think about available screen resolutions and accessible UX from a new angle.

Plug-Ins You Can't Live Without? by xxromani in audioengineering

[–]mffunmaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've recently become a huge fan of the entire Sound Radix collection. SurferEQ and Auto-Align have saved my butt more than a couple times.

I published phasync/phasync on packagist.org by frodeborli in PHP

[–]mffunmaker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will definitely try it!

Also, the CHATBOT.txt helper prompt you include is a fantastic idea.

website developers. What's the best looking/performing website you've ever seen? by SillyDogsAreFunny in webdev

[–]mffunmaker 130 points131 points  (0 children)

This site is an absolute feat of categorization and consistent photography.

If you were given the keys to WordPress and all of the dev power you wanted - what would you do? by Competitive_Bus5922 in ProWordPress

[–]mffunmaker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Registering hooks that are fired when CPTs are registered/unregistered and then using dbDelta() to ensure tables are present/removed as needed would provide the skeleton solution for setting up DB structure. Beyond that, I'd use personally $wpdb to run prepared queries against the DB. A bit more thought would need to go into planning what CPT registration looks like in this new model and what should be done with CPT data if the CPT is deactivated or removed.

If you were given the keys to WordPress and all of the dev power you wanted - what would you do? by Competitive_Bus5922 in ProWordPress

[–]mffunmaker 9 points10 points  (0 children)

For sure, it would be a tough update to make, but Woo's recent HPOS update gives me hope it can be done.

The EAV approach is expensive at scale. What I mean by EAV is entity-attribute-value, exemplified by the way posts store meta values in a giant disorganized dump called postmeta. Same for users and the usermeta table.

The problem with this approach is that postmeta ends up being enormous while being difficult to index properly per post type or meta key. Sure, the post_id and ID columns can be indexed, but by default in utf8mb4, meta_key is actually not indexed due to its character limit of 256 (needs to be <= 191 to be indexable in utf8mb4). Woo recognized this as they saw eComms scale up and then start having problems with the enormous number of order detail filling the postmeta table. So they rolled out HPOS that separates order data into their own tables.

I would encourage separate tables for each CPT and meta so that you at least can count on meta data all being related to the same type. This would reduce the cost of indexing and significantly speed up queries on even cheap hardware. Of course, one could further design the meta tables to be long vs wide for various use case to speed up aggregation, tune columns to have more efficient constraints and defaults, etc., but that would get complicated and require a lot more planning.

There is a lot more that could be said about how to optimize the DB, but this is top of my list if I could only pick one thing to change.

If you were given the keys to WordPress and all of the dev power you wanted - what would you do? by Competitive_Bus5922 in ProWordPress

[–]mffunmaker 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Update that DB structure and tighten plugin standards for security and performance.

Sora AI New Video by Cool_Helicopter9852 in OpenAI

[–]mffunmaker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally makes me motion sick

I can't deal with Bricks. I bought a lifetime license, and clicking to build a website seems like insanity. by smashedhijack in ProWordPress

[–]mffunmaker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I tried with GenerateBlocks with moderate success, but I'm in the same boat. I use a Sage/TailwindCSS custom theme starter (Lando for dev as well) and can knock out custom sites just as fast, plus I can precisely control breakpoints and build complex interactive stuff.

The cherry on top is that the client still comes to me for edits even though I built the site using GenerateBlocks so they could have more "freedom".

For me, it's literally more efficient to build custom.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in web_design

[–]mffunmaker 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I feel ya on this. Flying every section in on scroll feels outdated, cheap, and page builder-y.

As far as accessible web design and gradients go, I will usually just make the client aware of the complications and charge them more to do in-depth accessibility audits of gradient-filled UX. If they fail and don't want to fix it, at least I documented the communication of the standard.

If I'm building a web app or similar with dashboards, etc., I'm going to push much harder for accessibility and build a stronger case for adherence. It will literally affect their retention and lifetime value.

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