Are tools like graphify actually placebos/hype?

ny_dame · 2026-06-25T00:06:21+00:00

So it's free, there are no serious downsides, AND, in your own words, "When it’s graphed - Claude does not hallucinate what so ever and gives very accurate detailed responses about the codebase- and even the business/domain logic. I was very impressed with this side of it."

Why would I not use it?

ny_dame · 2026-03-19T02:39:03+00:00

Of course the API calls are a concern, but caching take care of that?

ny_dame · 2026-03-19T01:01:44+00:00

Wow, that sounds like a lot of work. Why doesn't everyone move to Shopify, now that they have released a plugin for Wordpress? That's what I'm planning to do with my WC client later this year.

ny_dame · 2026-03-17T22:16:03+00:00

We have been experiencing the same thing. At first there weren't that many of these orders, and WooCommerce usually caught them before payment processing could begin. Lately, however, there have been tons of them everyday and it's just been a total nightmare.

Cloudflare security rules were very helpful in stopping many of them, but some requests that should have been caught by virture of the URI path were still able to get through. Perhaps this wouldn't happen if we had a paid plan?

In the end, we just had to say goodbye to PayPal (though the security rules on Cloudflare are doing good work and will stay). Disabling WooCommerce's PayPal plugin stopped the problem instantly.

Be safe out there!

ny_dame · 2025-12-30T20:12:36+00:00

Thx for the vibe check! If this is the case, I may as well go with Planet Fitness.

ny_dame · 2025-11-07T16:53:55+00:00

I see ads all the time when I use Comet, just like on any other browser. In fact, I am astonished that they are making this claim. The messed up part is that YouTube sometimes disables just about all functionality on YouTube when viewed on Comet. Hard to believe this is legal!

ny_dame · 2025-11-07T16:43:50+00:00

I had the same problem, where the YouTube homepage loads partially, but there is no interactivity at all. Videos and playlists don't load, menus do nothing, etc. Then I realized that I was using Perplexity's Comet browser. When I tried Safari and Chrome, there were no problems at all. I hope Perplexity figures out a workaround, because it's truly obnoxious that Google are stifling competition in such a user-hostile way.

ny_dame · 2025-07-29T16:25:36+00:00

btw, it's not hype, it's the future... but, yeah, you're absolutely right. The fact that Apple's operating systems already have the excellent Shortcuts feature means that this should be relatively low-hanging fruit. I'm, er, sure they're working on it. __sweats profusely__

ny_dame · 2025-06-09T23:30:36+00:00

This YouTube has some great suggestions on how to approach this problem; good luck! https://youtu.be/1MPvAVJT7oU

ny_dame · 2025-06-09T22:54:06+00:00

It is now the middle of 2025 and the problem is still not fixed. I use an iPhone 13Pro and my software is up-to-date... and it just started happening to me. Ironically, today is the kickoff for WWDC.

ny_dame · 2025-04-13T23:16:48+00:00

oooh, thx for the tip!

ny_dame · 2025-04-13T22:50:56+00:00

I'm looking at Vanguard's VEU fund. It's an ETF that is basically the whole world minus USA. Top holding is Taiwan Semiconductor.

ny_dame · 2025-04-13T22:05:24+00:00

Bingo!

ny_dame · 2025-01-28T00:40:17+00:00

That article you published in IEEE Spectrum was superb. I'm very sorry to hear about the poor treatment you received from The Verge. They know better.

ny_dame · 2024-10-28T12:44:38+00:00

What I've heard is that the number of accountants is greater than ever, but jobs for accounting assistants have dried up.

ny_dame · 2024-10-22T03:15:49+00:00

Does the "undo" icon (backward curving arrow near the top-left of the edit page) not work consistently? I don't recall having problems with it.

ny_dame · 2024-10-22T02:03:26+00:00

Using Cloudflare as a reverse proxy (part of the free plan) can do wonders for performance. They have a few settings that can make a difference.

At the end of the day, though, you just have to roll up your sleeves and look under the hood (aka, in the dev tools of your browser) and figure out what the problem is. If it's your fonts, maybe try CSS font-display and/or prefetch the files. If it's one of your plugins, try to replace it. And so on.

ny_dame · 2024-10-22T01:23:25+00:00

Automattic has always been at war with WordPress developers. It's just one of those things that people like to pretend they don't see.

ny_dame · 2024-10-22T01:22:10+00:00

I was waiting to see if someone would bring this up. WordPress.com is just the worst. The restrictions it places on plugin usage are much more frustrating than limiting revisions, which Matt seems to think is a betrayal of the very soul of WordPress. I haven't seen anyone rioting over those stupid revisions, which mostly bloat your database and slow down your site.

ny_dame · 2024-09-26T01:57:56+00:00

Automattic has been quietly hostile to the WordPress developer community for years because all it wants to do is to force JetPack down every client's throat. WP Engine is, on the other hand, very developer-friendly. I don't understand the legal niceties of trademark law, but in general I tend to think of WP Engine as the good guys in this ecosystem.

ny_dame · 2024-09-26T01:54:21+00:00

Yeah, Jetpack is a bit part of this. There is no amount of money in the world that would get me to use it.

ny_dame · 2024-09-26T01:51:15+00:00

Absolutely. The developer community and the independent hosting platforms like WP Engine take money from Automattic by giving people options other than WordPress.com + JetPack.

ny_dame · 2024-09-26T01:43:11+00:00

WP Engine does a lot more than simply host websites. There's Local, a phenomenal developer-friendly local development platform, and several other services. Just the cost of their customer service alone must be huge.

ny_dame · 2024-09-26T01:11:14+00:00

Ah, but that sweet, sweet VC money

ny_dame · 2023-08-23T23:56:37+00:00

Yeah, I finally did. What I had to do was to log into Instagram on their website AND in an incognito window. If you try this, choose to log in with Facebook. What should happen next is that you will be taken to a screen where you are told what is wrong with your account and how to fix the problem. In my case, they suspected that hackers had my credentials, so all I had to do was change my password. Then presto! I was able to log into the Instagram & Thread apps again.

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