Tyler Garrett

Recently had my first software acquisitions. Where a company acquired my software. That's a big deal in my line of work. Excited to be able to type about it. I think the main word of advice is if you're looking to improve on something in the LLM world, be willing to consider what you're asking for today is not nearly advanced enough, and you should be shooting for the moon. Even if it makes you feel really uncomfortable getting there.

Fortunate enough that I had business law in previous life in uni. This helped me a lot, but nothing more than my father in-law. Great to have that kind of relationship with another person, where you can trust them to read legal documentation and offer advice. Alright, good times ahead.

The challenge here is a lot of interesting pricing practices or lack of technology causing inability to plan accordingly. Injuries are consistent and fucken expensive. I'm not done yet, just perhaps need to find new places.

I've always wanted to do this and here I am. Cutting down wood to be turned into wooden nunchucks. I know that sounds wild but that's what I'm doing. Cutting down a small tree, so that I can turn it into something. Being that I am eager to go from tree to object, and my client Heritage Beam and Board in Wisconsin has given me this opportunity. Of course their old barn wood route is much cooler overall, and the source of my nunchucks, the owner said I could give this a swing! So barn wood hand crafted nunchucks they created thus far are from old barn wood, this is just a small dead tree I am wacking!... So yea! This, it's the history of our country. Also, what they created - barn wood to nunchucks, likely the oldest nunchucks in america, and the only ones being hand crafted and verified by a real human! What I learned when shopping for american made nunchucks, it's just people buying things not created in america and they re-string them. Very inexpensive wood, made with a machine, and claimed to be american made. Not something I'm going to sink any of my dollars into.. So much of wood is just machine crafted, using new wood that was pumped with fertilizer, and automatically built. Not like what I'm chopping, although what I'm chopping is dead, it was fertilized. Much like the barn wood used in the creation of the nunchucks on BJJ.AC... This tree was grown by itself. It grew, it died, I found, I cut the bottom of this dead tree down. The wood is light. Much lighter than the barn wood nunchucks. What's cool is my software engineering engagement turned into building the first pair of American made nunchucks, and priced appropriately for being built in America. Not some junk you buy online, a real product, hand made in a time where automation wins.

I traveled north, visited the makers of the hand made nunchucks, Heritage Beam and Board, and learned about the entire process. The first two are finished, and beautiful. They are the heaviest nunchucks I've ever used, one of the makers has claimed the first elbow injury, and I'm sure I'm in for a fair share of clunks. I do not recommend purchasing these nunchucks without some really solid experience. They work great as wood chimes if you're feeling cheeky, or a laptop stand that is worthy of a convo in a public space. Alright back to living. Chat more soon.

Wordpress has become the internets new excel file. The place where you paint yourself into a corner, manually. Although AI is being added to excel and wordpress themes, it's dominated by manual effort to keep a bloated and old system alive. Wordpress is a dying artwork, a lot like excel. It was great at prototyping, but today wordpress is now the axe in a good companies knee.

Wordpress is now the new skill gap for every business under the sun. With the rise of AI hacking, simple scripts are now becoming weaponized in enterprise methods. Meaning anyone is able to now generate the most powerful and diverse hacking software, known to the earth, simply due to having access to LLMs. Now, wordpress is simply a target, in world of LLMs being able to create you a static website.

Why do static websites beat wordpress?

LLMs connected to code editors, a github repo, and attached to netlify will dunk every wordpress website in 24 to 48 hours. I speak from experience having moved small wordpress and big wordpress websites (1k+ pages) to static web pages with great ease. Each time, creating a more sophisticated means of migrating. One being the sitemap, next being simple web scrapes, and beyond that it's a wordpress export, redirect export, and google search console scraped by an ai agent and poof. A few prompts later you're done? Then you can ask it to be faster than your original website, and you're at $20/month spend? So to access an app that can rug your wordpress website, you're spending less per month than your hosting. I know hosting is expensive on wordpress when the site has a ton of activity, it's expensive to keep it safe, and now LLM access is more affordable than ever, enabling users to quickly go from wordpress to astro/react/vite/tailwind.

My suggestion, drop wordpress while you have time to be competitive.

Took a long break from BJJ, sadly I hurt my knee sparing a super heavy weight at the ATOS gym in bee cave during a gi session. Was something very strange, a noise I feel like that was more helpful adjustment than anything, turned out to be a possible tear in my knee. But I don't really know, first thing I did when I got home, I attacked it with a massage tool for hours, then my knee was swollen. Makes me wonder, perhaps I did that with the massage hero day or I just need to admit to myself that I am just dealing with an injury, this is just how it goes.

Now, while in BJJ, I'm realizing that I can't just spar anyone, and I have to respect weight classes more appropriately. Just because I can scrap with heavy weights or super heavy weights, doesn't mean my body enjoys nor do I enjoy the recovery timer. That's one thing I need to realize, if I want to play in the mud, I should expect to get very dirty.

Fortunately my instructor at Gracie Barra has not given up on me during my injury, and keeps inviting me to visit. So I've made it to now 3 no gi sessions, each extremely helpful and although I'm sparring less, I'm learning a lot and getting to come back more often. My theory is my body is just not ready to spar at the level most people are at in these gyms, and it will take time to get there. It's not just strength, conditioning, but it's also the nervous system. My nervous system is improving, but it's still an impactful situation that I must learn to evolve with.

Regardless of the injury, I'm glad to find no gi is really good for me, and I think knowing this element of grappling is key to being better at bjj with a gi. Excited to see how it translates.