David Michael

Just a web developer with a passion for enabling others and making the world a better place.

[David Michael @ArrayPress]

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 @ArrayPress]

@UltraLinx Productivity is the new entertainment.

[Miauravilhas @Miauravilhas]

Ela olhando pra trás a cada 5 segundos para ver se tá tudo certo

[Dan Bochman @DanBochman]

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)

[Miaw @Miaw]

life update:

[David Michael @ArrayPress]

He posted his blood work prior and I went through it in depth. His bloodwork shows he’s optimised himself into metabolic suppression:

•Ferritin 20 (iron starved)
•Free T3 2.9 (low despite being on TWO thyroid medications since age 21)
•Basal temp 34.9°C (profoundly hypothyroid)
•Cholesterol 92 (dangerously low — brain and hormones need cholesterol)
•Leptin <0.5 (undetectable — body thinks it’s in famine)
•Glucose 103 with glucose in urine (pre-diabetic despite extreme diet)
•Glutathione 105 (low for someone spending millions on longevity)
•MCV 101 (macrocytic — oversized red blood cells)
•SHBG 68 (high — binding up free testosterone)
•Uric acid 3.1 (depleted — it’s actually a protective antioxidant)

He’s spending millions per year to achieve the bloodwork of someone in a caloric famine (essentially). His body is running cold, iron depleted, and metabolically suppressed by design. Caloric restriction taken to its logical endpoint.

[Oxidative State @oxidativestate]

Imagine spending millions of dollars each year just so you can be hypothyroid.

[David Michael @ArrayPress]

@ashen_one Cloudflare AI Gateway is a good option if you want to save the hassle of building your own!

[David Michael @ArrayPress]

@peduarte The brand recognition, distribution, community and marketing are arguably more important than the app now anyway.

Even if someone did make a better launcher, it would be hard to get the reach you guys have 😊

[Harmy @harrrmy]

you’re not autistic you just work from home and it’s making you weird

[Scott Tolinski @stolinski]

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.

[Slurp @doompost]

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

[Pat Walls @thepatwalls]

As I've said 10 times already, 2026 is the year of iOS.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Young people (20s) barely use websites, 70% prefer apps, they mostly exist inside apps and games not websites

[David Michael @ArrayPress]

@simonecanciello Apple Review process will be a nightmare with any app that offers health recommendations/advice. You would need to frame it as a tracker or journal

[__eloïse__ @dundereloise]

I'm in this facebook group where they're teaching their rats to drive

> Spark is picking up speed and confidence on the triple-barrier course! She’s still learning how to take each corner wide (as she accomplishes with the first two) rather than tight (like the last, which stumps her).

[Serious Bret @serious_bret]

"This app makes $300K per millisecond."

"It has a 4,000 step onboarding."

"It's been on the App Store for 7 microseconds."

This is my entire timeline.

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

Me reviewing Claude Code output before pushing directly to prod:

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

Claude Code watching me attempt to modify the code it just generated for me

[cats with jobs 🛠 @CatWorkers]

The IT specialist has arrived.

[CG @cgtwts]

pov: when you realise the era of human coding is over