I think WordPress is still hard to beat. AI can write code, but WordPress has a long built ecosystem already in place. You get plugins, themes, add ons, docs, step by step guides, and fixes for many typical site needs.
AI does not have to make WordPress “done.” If anything, it can speed up how people build with it. The platform and its ecosystem still handle a lot of the work behind the scenes.
Right now at my work we are using langgraph to build a chat agent, anyone else doing something similar, do you fucking hate it? are you building it with Claude and just hoping it fucking works, haha no worries we will ask Claude to fix it.
I am making the spaghetto, I miss components, logic and endpoints, I hate this black box I have to relinquish my decisions too, whatever pays the bills.
As a WordPress developer, I know most of the common features, but I’m sure there are some hidden gems I’ve never used. For example, WordPress lets you create and manage posts through third-party apps using its REST API. What are some other hidden WordPress features that you think other developers should know?
I work for a large company that runs multiple services used by millions of people. Over the years, I’ve noticed a consistent pattern: management, business teams, and SEO teams keep pushing changes that make our websites more annoying to use, just for the sake of getting more page views and generating more ad revenue. I’ve tried to talk them out of some of these decisions, but I’ve never had much success.
Perhaps it’s not that big of a deal and I should just ignore it, but honestly it is a bit disheartening when I open random website on the internet, see some dark patterns, think to myself 'what a fucking dogshit website this is', and then I go to work and I code literally the same things, like I’m on the dark side of the Force or smth.
I know I’m not the only one with this problem, and it’s something that truly makes me hate an app. A lot of times I just need one quick thing from a website or online tool, I go through the entire process, and then it demands that I sign in.
The worst part is that you feel forced to do it, because when you're short on time you can't really go looking for alternatives. How do you all deal with this? I know there are plenty of open-source applications out there and I really appreciate them, but I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Starting to think of moving my app from supabase. The increased outages and no communication is concerning. My app is still pretty small so shouldn't be too painful right? Right??
Originally posted to r/Supabase but looks like the moderators work for the company...
I’m a somewhat experienced backend dev paired with a mobile developer for some knowledge sharing. The guy is genuinely a good dude, but I’m starting to lose my mind a little.
We be discussing an implementation, I’ll explain something, and instead of engaging with what I just said, he’ll immediately type my explanation/question into Claude and then come back with “Claude says…”
And on calls, he’ll literally stop the conversation, type what I just asked into Claude, and then read me Claude’s response.
Like bro, I’m right here. 😂
The frustrating part isn’t that he’s using Claude. I use AI constantly too. It’s that it feels like he trusts Claude’s answer more than the actual technical conversation we’re having.
I’m trying to understand how you think about the implementation, not get a second-hand answer from Claude.
He’s a good dude, so I genuinely don’t know how to approach it without making things awkward.
Has anyone else dealt with this? AI is making ppl fkn dumb and blurring the lines.
I've noticed that my server receives a surprisingly large number of requests every day for random URLs that don't exist.
Every one of those requests eventually results in a 404, but WordPress still has to bootstrap, load plugins and process the request before it can determine that the page doesn't exist.
With enough of these requests, that seems like a lot of unnecessary PHP work for something that will only return a 404 anyway.
How do you deal with this?
Do you just accept it as normal WordPress overhead, handle these requests before they reach WordPress, or use some other approach?
For context I'm a freelance full stack dev, currently working solo on projects for small clients
Am I the only one recently experiencing that every client I have I am constantly arguing with ChatGPT/Other AI's?
My most recent client (not technical at all) send me a 12 page technical document, along with 3 other 12 page documents after I had started the project, these documents were directing me on database structure, schema expectations, workflow sequencing, and many other technical requirements, which she had no idea how to defend upon questioning on a call. She also requested an ERD which is fine, however after sending a extremely client friendly dumbed down version of the ERD, I recieved 6 questions all over a paragraph long which she (ChatGPT) wanted me to respond to in detail, along with another 30 pages total of documentation over 2 documents.
I have recieved over 70 pages of documentation in 2 days and I have called off the project after 3 weeks due to constantly explaining my thought process and arguing the technical direction to an AI which I'm assuming she hasnt provided all the context to, it also keeps trying to expand the scope after every new message.
Am I the only person experiencing this, this cannot turn into the new normal.
I recently launched a small project designed to solve a simple problem: letting everyday people transfer files directly between two computers with a cable without needing any network setup. The post got a lot of love and reached the top of the community, but the comment section had a handful of advanced users getting genuinely angry that the tool even exists.
Their whole argument came down to: "Why build this? SMB exists, you can just build a router out of a Raspberry Pi, or manually configure static IPs and network sharing policies."
It got me thinking about how disconnected some tech enthusiasts are from reality. The entire purpose of software engineering was always to solve problems and remove friction for human beings, not to force everyone to become a system administrator just to do a basic task.
Just because an advanced user knows how to manage IP subnets, firewall exceptions, and OS sharing permissions doesn't mean a regular person wants to waste 30 minutes figuring that out. Hiding complexity behind a clean, one-click interface is literally the foundation of good software.
It seems like in a lot of tech spaces, people equate complexity with value. If something is simple and convenient, they dismiss it. But the reality is that the people who find your tool useful will quietly use it and appreciate it, while the loud minority will write essays in the comments trying to show off how much they know.
If you are a developer building simple tools that make life easier for ordinary people, do not let the gatekeepers talk you down. Build for the people who value their time, not for the people who want to show off their homelabs.
Would love to hear how other developers deal with this kind of feedback when sharing their work.
Every time friends came over to watch something, we'd end up fighting over speaker volume — too loud for the neighbors, too quiet to hear from the couch, and using one pair of headphones meant everyone else was left out.
Windows only lets you play audio to one output device at a time, so I built PairUp — it captures whatever's playing on your PC and streams it to every Bluetooth headphone, wired headset, and speaker you connect, simultaneously and in sync. Everyone gets their own volume, their own delay correction for laggy Bluetooth codecs, even their own EQ.
A few things:
It's free, open source (MIT), and there's a proper installer (no admin rights needed). Built solo, so bug reports/feature requests genuinely welcome.
Happy to answer questions about how the audio sync works if anyone's curious — it was the most interesting part to get right.
I'm trying to access my WordPress platform today to write a new post and this is what I get. I can't access my website or WordPress and the host platform isn't showing any issues or getting me anywhere. I have no emails to refer to and I don't even know where to start. So sick of WordPress. What do I do?
I run a free service which has a map on the website. I've got a location auto complete powered by MapBox. At my current scale, I'm spending $150/mo on that location search box.
It looks like long term, hosting a Photon server myself might be the best option as I keep scaling, but that's going to cost me $300/mo on Hetzner plus require management.
In the meantime, any suggestions for cheaper location autocomplete services?
So I've been running a WP agency since 2003. Love it. I am, however, learning how to create sites using Claude with Supabase. Let me tell you all something, this is nothing....nothing a client's ever going to learn or figure out. If a client wants an instant site, that's Wix/Square which have been around for more than a decade.
But to think AI is going to harm WP, as in client using AI to create their own sites, laughably false. If you don't know the right prompts, don't use the right tool, oh and pay for tokens you're nowhere - not even talking deploying the site live along with a database to manage things like contact form submissions and bookings.
The biggest issue? A client's ability to go in an edit anything themselves, which will always favor WP. Other issue? No plugin environment.
Paste any public URL and it opens the page in Chrome, explores its interactions, then checks the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for things that browsers can now handle natively.
It catches patterns such as custom accordions, popovers, dialogs, scroll reveals, JavaScript sticky elements, and older CSS workarounds.
The report includes the code it found, a proposed replacement, browser support, what to verify before changing anything, and a small example towards a codepen to implement it.
It scans ONE page, so it is not a performance, accessibility, security, or full-site audit.
It is free (10 url/day/human) and requires no account.
Don't hesitate to tell me if you find a bug, an UI/UX issue, or any other thing you find weird
Maybe I am just getting old, but I miss when software solved one problem really well and then got out of the way.
These days, even many open source and freemium apps feel like they are trying to become all in one platforms. The work behind them is impressive, but I often end up using only a small fraction of the features. It feels like many applications are becoming platforms instead of tools.
I still have a soft spot for software like Winamp, VLC, IrfanView, Notepad++, 7-Zip, and SumatraPDF. They were fast, focused, and never felt like they were asking for my attention.
Maybe expectations have simply changed, but I wonder if there is still a place for small, focused software that does one thing really well.
What older application (released before at least 20years) do you still use today, and what keeps you coming back to it?
ok so this happened to me with Trello a while back, remember when it was just clean simple boards and now it's got like 15 power-ups shoved in your face and half the UI feels like an upsell screen
anyway made me think about how many apps do this. you use something for years, it's perfect, then one update later it's unrecognizable and somehow worse even though it has "more features"
what's yours? bonus points if you remember the exact version/update where it went downhill
Is there a historical reason or was it simply part of the original URL specification?
