Figma is still my preferred canvas. Figjam is still great for rough wireframes, flows, and agreeing on data models with my eng counterparts.

But Claude accelerates the divergent early stage 'exploration' work. Unfortunately we don't take the time to properly validate the concepts with customers. Again in the name of 'moving fast'. They will learn eventually I guess.

I'm getting off-topic. Claude is super helpful. As time passes I'm doing more and more work with it. But sometimes taking my design system and pushing pixels is genuinely faster when there is an obvious solution, opposed to ensuring Claude has all the right context to solve a relatively simple problem.

All depends on what I'm working on really.

Music helps me get into a flow, but it has to be pure vibe and rhythm. Lyrics definitely distract from the task. Family and peers find it odd that I don't really listen to or seek out music with lyrics.

I can enjoy it, just not what stimulates me at this point.

"If it's bitter, its a spitter"

Considering Google has so much location history of its users, along its Places data, one would think that creating a recommendation engine for travelers would be fairly trivial for them. I would not be surprised if they are already working on this.

That said, I would enjoy and potentially prefer an alternative solution to one they could provide.

When this stuff is made into a process, it becomes robotic and the empathetic, human element of it is taken away from it.

These people need someone to listen and understand, not necessarily someone to shove anti-psychotics and whatever else caretakers are told to do.

I'm not saying drugs don't help, but it's best when trust is established, and one can help the patient see why the drug is necessary at the time.

That has always been my problem when seeking help for my psychological issues. I'll see a GP or a specialist, get a prescription, they may go over the mechanism of action with me if I push them to, but otherwise I'm told to take 2 every day and report back in a month.

I'm a lab rat. Not a patient. See why these people have trouble getting help? They don't feel like patients getting treatment.

WordPress was my gateway in 2008-9 to web development. back when I was still a graphic design student. I started off hacking away at themes with my extremely limited HTML / CSS / PHP knowledge back then. Shit, my Google-fu was't really even halfway decent then.

Today, thanks to the large community of developers working on the core WordPress project every day, and the sheer number of bug fixes, security updates, and new features that get added with each release -- there's absolutely nothing to compare it to. It runs nearly a quarter of the entire internet.

And now, with the upcoming release of the JSON REST API as a part of core, developers will be able to take advantage of using WP as a data backend (read: users still control their content), while using the API to build applications with modern tech like React or Angular.

Just my two satoshis.

Edit: I'd also like to point out that several (not all) hacks come from popular themes and plugins that are created by 3rd party authors / sources. Some of these are not available on the wordpress.org theme and plugin repositories, and usually this is due to not following certain standards. I would blame most successful hacks on brute force attempts against sites with admins who leave their username as the default admin and have incredibly weak passwords. I would also venture to say most of these hacks come from through exploits in third party code or out of date code, which users often fail to update.