Thanks!

WordPress menus are one of the final bosses of CSS. The selectors that it provides are horrible to build styles around, yet the WordPress API for changing it is somehow worse

It's seriously like every WordPress function name was just the first idea a developer had and now we're stuck with them forever

Moving forward, I'm going to try to keep at least 80% of my posts about non-AI topics. AI is a useful tool but it excites me about as much as a screwdriver or hammer. Expect home lab topics and a lil bit of programming stuff in the near future

This week I finally began splurging on the gear I've wanted for years and I'm gonna build my lab. My spending has been much lower for the past year so it was time to pull the trigger.

I'm gonna dig into pfSense, TrueNAS, and UniFi gear over the next few weeks & months. Should be fun.

Home lab YouTube has become my refuge from the AI mono-converstaion. Home labbers build stuff for the love of the game, and they're still interested in details. VMs vs containers. Network segmentation. Effective storage.

It's like a sanctuary from AI FUD and accelerationists.

Sweating details on the "easy" problems builds the mental framework for solving harder problems, and getting the easy stuff right means that it doesn't get in your way as much when it's time to solve hard problems. But if it does, at least you know how the lower layers work & what to change.

If you want to be able to solve hard problems, you have to solve hard problems. Some people say that AI will let us skip the easy repetitive stuff and focus on the _just_ the hard problems.

I don't know if I buy that.

I find the singular focus on AI exhausting. It's a useful tool, and I use it some times for some things

It's only about as exciting as Google Search though. "Googling" is a useful skill, but at anytime the algorithm can change out from under you and give you trash for months at a time.