Posted on: August 20, 2024, 5:12 am

As I get older, I find that I’m especially attuned to people with personality disorders who are around me. They stand out as if they have a spotlight on them.

I believe I developed this awareness as a child growing up in a family with mental illness (personality disorders) on my mother's side, and as an adult by working with various customers around the world, which has sharpened that awareness.

It’s rather disheartening to see both young and old living in this static state of toxicity, and it seems at times like life will thrust people like this at you unexpectedly.

This perception bias, if you will, while helpful at times, can also be a curse because I see a lot of the bad in a lot of people. Maybe it’s best to be naive, and this is why they say ignorance is bliss.

Posted on: August 19, 2024, 9:46 pm

As someone heavily involved in the shared hosting industry for the last 28 years, it’s time for people to stop using WordPress.

The WordPress core seems secure enough, but their open ecosystem of plugins and themes is a disaster that they can’t seem to get under control. Customer sites are constantly attacked and, worse, exploited, making the hosting provider look bad even though the issue lies with WordPress and PHP code exploits. There’s really little shared hosting providers can do from the server side to prevent exploits from poorly coded scripts. This is not new and has been occurring for over a decade.

I could get into site owners being lazy and not updating in a timely manner, but ultimately, WordPress has the responsibility to create and manage a secure ecosystem. That time has passed, and hosting providers are left to clean up their mess. It’s costly.

It’s time to move on from WordPress.

Posted on: August 19, 2024, 4:19 am

Ice Poseidon’s Hunger Games have been decently entertaining. It got off to a rough start with some contestants giving up on the first night and the following day.

The health vest was a neat concept, but the execution was poor. On the first day, contestants were losing health just from running and even while lying down to rest. The next day, they wouldn’t go off at all, even during battles. They were eventually scrapped and replaced with white shirts, essentially eliminating sword 🗡 fights and limiting the games to paintball only.

Ac7ionman, Rampage Jackson, and Fousey have stopped by to make appearances on stream, which was a nice break from the regular commentary.

Overall, the games have been good, and I think with a few revisions and learning from this experience, the team can make it even better next year if they decide to try it again.

It’s not over yet, so maybe there’s more in store!

Posted on: August 18, 2024, 5:10 am

For the last few months, I've been working on Fynd, a search engine that is solving the issue of bias and algorithmic bubbles found in current mainstream search engines.

It's been amazing how everything has just fallen together and doesn't feel forced. I've found that Fynd does not need hundreds or thousands of ranking factors. In fact, Fynd does not use ranking factors at all in its code.

Fynd has 9 million pages currently indexed, and the results are outstanding. It provides a broad view of the internet instead of a small subset.

Site owners should like Fynd because it does not try to be an answer engine and steal their content and traffic; it just returns results based on the closest matching web page, more like a classic search engine.

I plan to make fynd available to the public in an experimental state when it reaches 15-20 million pages indexed. It currently indexes about 140,000 pages a day.

Posted on: August 17, 2024, 2:36 am

I’ve been thinking about the self-driving car concept and a world where the human element is removed, with accidents essentially non-existent.

It would be ideal to summon an electric car 🚗 on demand, with the ride cost being lower than gasoline. The ever-growing cost of owning your own car, maintaining it, and the cost of insurance would become a thing of the past.

I think 🤔 some people are hesitant about a future like this, and it’s likely decades away, but I’m excited for it.