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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 🧑💻
David Michael retweeted
Today is a very historical moment for AI video generation
You can now generate AI video faster than you can watch it
Before it'd take let's say 2-5 minutes to generate 15 seconds of video
@fal made a post-trained Minimax H3 variant called Max which is 50x faster than the original but still maintains quality
It generates 15 seconds of video in 9 seconds!
That means you can now do new things like build a perpetual livestream with it that never ends!
David Michael retweeted
30% of Fable is shit like this
“First, framing is key here since context precedes substance. This is an observation - not an assertion. The honest answer is different from what you described, and has two layers. One of them rooted in principle, the other in practice. Here’s your answer - synthesized, not condensed”
David Michael retweeted
making software without bugs that lasts more then a few months is really hard still btw
David Michael retweeted
Incredible interaction here between @_mattwelter and @pedrotech_ showing exactly what's going on
No judgement on both btw, just interesting to observe:
Matt complains how he improved his product 10x but revenue is down by 1/3rd. Shouldn't it go up if you make the product better? The thing is every competitor also made their product 10x better using AI. So AI raised the baseline quality of everyone's apps (easier to make great apps) and increased competition (easier to enter the market)
But then one of his customers @pedrotech_ replies how he loved the app so much he decided to vibecode his own version for himself "so he didn't have to pay"
This exactly shows:
- everyone thinks they're improving their app but everyone is improving the same amount with AI (but not many realizing), it's like a race but everyone gets nitro now without realizing everyone else has nitro too
- barrier to entry is gone, anyone can just clone an app and enter as a competitor
- personal software is here, as he just cloned an existing app to not have to pay for it anymore
- he then only pays for API tokens for LLM or image models to the model hosters and model owners
So you went from a business chain of
- customer > app > ai model provider
To
- customer > ai model provider
The app layer is possibly getting removed!
Also some thing I forgot to add
There's so many things now where I don't even use the app anymore but just generate my own app to do things
Like WHOOP, for years I wanted to know the correlation between stuff I do and my workouts and sleep, like going to sauna, or what I eat. WHOOP has a journal but it's practically unusable, I logged sauna for ahwile, then I realized you have to ALSO log the days you DO NOT go to sauna, by hand, every day! Useless
So in those cases I just ask Claude Code to build a little web app for me that pulls all my data in from my WHOOP, and what I eat, my @wip logs when I go to sauna, or go tan, or go gym etc. It just pulls all the data in and gives me the answers to questions I have
Half the time I don't even use the web app it generates, I just ask it directly stuff
I have to find a hotel now for some trips we go, I didn't even go to my own site Hotelist, I just asked Claude Code on my Hotelist VPS server to find me a hotel, etc.
So many times where it just saves more time to ask Claude Code directly stuff than try to do it with some startup/company's app
That's what I mean, I'm obviously more tech than regular people, but we usually slightly ahead in how we use tools, and if I stop using websites and apps, and just use Claude Code for everything in my life, it's not without logic to think that something like that will be the future for most people
And of course it's already happening with Claude Cowork and Codex app which regular non-tech people use
My point is that the entire app and website layer is just getting decimated
And me being a person who lived kinda in that layer (well more websites ofc to be honest) means I have no clue where it's going to except this, or what a person should do, for the first time, I have no clue
The only thing I know is that the superintelligence clanker can't reach into IRL and hardware yet for the next few years at least, and there's lots of stuff there to do that's differentiating, because you need a space, tools, machines, make things, and no you can't generate that in 3 minutes with an AI
Blood, sweat and tears are not automated yet by AI, yet!!!!
David Michael retweeted
crazy times ahead.
We’re sharing the next major milestone in our non-invasive brain-to-text decoder research: Brain2Qwerty v2.
Building on v1, which was published today in @Nature, Brain2Qwerty v2 is the highest-performing end-to-end pipeline capable of real-time sentence decoding from raw brain signals. It advances beyond character-level performance to decoding words and semantics, enabling accuracy for overall communication.
We believe this research has the potential to make a real difference for the millions of people who suffer from brain lesions or disorders that prevent them from communicating.
🧵👇
David Michael retweeted
Typical coding day with Claude (Opus 4.8)
- explain to Claude the task (5 minutes)
- Claude implements task (10 minutes)
me: "Why is this necessary?"
Claude: "You're right to push back! I over-engineered this!"
- Repeat x87 times (13 hours)
David Michael retweeted
Imagine spending millions of dollars each year just so you can be hypothyroid.
David Michael retweeted
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.
David Michael retweeted
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