Just a web developer with a passion for enabling others and making the world a better place.
Joined September 2017
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28 Jan 2025
Working this year on a modern e-commerce plugin for @WordPress aimed at people selling digital products, subscriptions, licenses, services, etc!
I’ve always been a fan of @eddwp but it has a lot of backwards compatibility code and bloat now, with a clunky checkout process that isn’t really designed for modern commerce. We have better things now like Stripe Checkout which save reinventing the wheel and provide better security.
WooCommerce also suffers from poor admin experience and bad database design. None are really “friendly” or easy to use. Which i think is a factor why people opt for @lemonsqueezy and similar hosted solutions.
Because I have the luxury of starting from scratch, I can design with performance, security and scalability in mind. I also can use newer technologies like React for every single screen, REST, etc.
Not sure how much “market” is left in WordPress as it’s kinda dying in the water and not really relevant anymore, but if anything it will be a fun project to undertake. I’m already about 50% done 🚀
Drop a like or comment if this something you would be interested in! Or any questions 🧑💻
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May 24
Imagine spending millions of dollars each year just so you can be hypothyroid.
May 24
I’m off to bed. This is my resting heart rate right now. Goodnight
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May 11
100% hand coded a project for a couple of days and felt great, accomplished a lot and have a really awesome product at the end of it. super productive.
Vibe coded something today and have been endlessly more frustrated. Codex spinning up endless dev processes, ignoring specific instructions just writing shitty code in general.
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The U.K. is miserable
When I quit my shitty 9-5 2 years ago thanks to crypto all I got from colleagues was “it’s risky” or “are you sure that’s a good idea”
What’s risky is sitting in a dead-end lifeless job for the rest of your boring life like every other sheep
Take a chance
it makes me so sad to see the UK like this
brits have been conditioned to believe that risk taking is too dangerous
culturally, we’ve been told all our lives that the most important thing to ever do as an adult is to buy a house (which is a liability if you don’t rent it out) but that’s it
no investing, no entrepreneurialism, it’s simply ‘too risky’
if we were incessantly schooled about investing, passive income, entrepreneurship and general risk taking in the same way we are schooled about ‘getting on the housing ladder’ the UK would be significantly wealthier
if you don’t take risk you will never build wealth.
I wish more Brits would understand this. even if it’s just throwing £100 or even £20 a month into the stock market. it adds up and compound interest does the rest
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Apr 13
As I've said 10 times already, 2026 is the year of iOS.
Young people (20s) barely use websites, 70% prefer apps, they mostly exist inside apps and games not websites
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Young people (20s) barely use websites, 70% prefer apps, they mostly exist inside apps and games not websites
Apr 13
Agree with the calculator piece but my brain can't quite stretch all the way to websites in general being a thing of the past.
I think peoplle and business still will need and want to put out a representation of themselves that they control.
But yes, a calculator as lead driver is very likely going away
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Apr 6
I'm in this facebook group where they're teaching their rats to drive
> Spark is picking up speed and confidence on the triple-barrier course! She’s still learning how to take each corner wide (as she accomplishes with the first two) rather than tight (like the last, which stumps her).
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Apr 4
"This app makes $300K per millisecond."
"It has a 4,000 step onboarding."
"It's been on the App Store for 7 microseconds."
This is my entire timeline.
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Mar 31
Me reviewing Claude Code output before pushing directly to prod:
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Mar 26
Claude Code watching me attempt to modify the code it just generated for me
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Mar 25
The IT specialist has arrived.
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pov: when you realise the era of human coding is over
Mar 17
I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.
Thank you for getting us to this point.
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Mar 11
the older i get the more i realise happiness is quiet mornings, a clean space, early nights, a safe home and people who don’t drain my energy.
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Mar 5
Be honest, is this relatable??
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Feb 17
It's funny how it's anti-capitalists who are so much more obsessed with money than capitalists.
They're always focusing on how much money other people have and how they should spend it.
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Jan 28
Every persons number one priority should be reducing inflammation
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