Category: Rambling

What goes here:
Personal thoughts, rants, overthinking, life updates, meta posts.

Examples:
Category debates, “why I did X”, diary-style posts.

What does not belong here:
Technical tutorials or guides.

Women are not like alcohol?

Women are not like alcohol. There are many types of alcohol; but they all practically taste like fucking dogwater mixed with shit and you only drink them to drown out the depression for an hour or two. In the beginning you’ll drink all alcoholic beverages, but mostly you’ll drink beer mixed with vodka, because you’re 14 and 14 year old thinks that’s a good idea. As you grow older, you’ll realize you can’t handle acohol as much anymore, and make plans to watch football or whatever, but pass out after one beer at 20:13. After years of drinking you’ll find some non-alcoholic drink that you prefer over water, because fuck water – i’m made of 90% water, I DONT NEED MORE! As you mature you’ll appreciate the finer things in life, but it will be too late because your knees can no longer handle extreme sports and you dick cant do cocaine and hooker parties. You might enjoy a diet Coke with 2 drops of Jack from time to time, and it’ll be nice, but it’ll be nothing compared to chugging an entire Jack while you were 15, and still needing more to feel a buzz…. your life is over. You had to live to the max till 25, after that the body degrades. Have an eclaire, a cuba libre, maybe two, then shut the fuck up, because you’re old. Old people dont do shit, other than be old and get older some more. You’re old. FIN.

— Djan Duadov, 2026

Cheesy Labyrinths

This is not my text. I can’t remember where I got it from…

If you experiment with a rat by consistently placing cheese in the third of several tunnels, the rat will eventually figure out the cheese is always in the third tunnel. The rat will go directly to the third tunnel without looking in other tunnels. Start putting the cheese in the sixth tunnel and the rat will keep on going to the third tunnel.

Sooner or later, however, the rat will realize there is no cheese in the third tunnel; the rat will now start looking in the other tunnels until it discovers the cheese is in the sixth tunnel. As a matter of course the rat will now consistently show up in the tunnel with the cheese.

The difference between rats and human beings is that the majority of human beings will remain in a tunnel when there is no cheese in it. Weird no doubt — but true. Most humans get themselves into traps from which they never escape. Clearly, it’s pretty hard to get the cheese when one is caught in a trap that has no cheese left — or had no cheese in it in the first place.

Women are like alcohol?

Women are like alcohol. There are many types of alcohol; beer, wine, vodka, whiskey, and brandy for those with special interests. In the beginning you’ll drink all alcoholic beverages, but mostly you’ll drink beer or homebrew. As you grow older, you’ll start to drink new types of alcohol, beer is what you’ll have at home with the football match on TV, and you’ll get tequila shots or whisky on the rocks outside. After years of drinking you’ll find some alcohol that you prefer from other alcohol. For example you’ll prefer whisky to vodka, and within the whisky range, you’ll prefer Jack Daniel’s to Johnnie Walker. As you mature you’ll appreciate the finer things in life, and so will you with alcohol. You might enjoy a Jack Coke from time to time, and it’ll be nice, but it’ll be nothing compared to Jack Daniel’s Silver Select. You’ll get Silver Select at home, but it won’t be the same as when your out, and when you’re out, you never seem to find any place that carries Silver Select…

Forgotten rant found in a txt-file from 2011.

Claude Code: Dopamine Dealer

Obviously it’s an addiction. Watching Claude write his code. The silly vocabulary of random words to give you the illusion something is happening… yet behind the curtain something is actually happening.

Ideating… Scheming… Smooshing…

Claude Code is the Skinner Box of productivity.

I tell him Claude what I want in just plain text, sometimes not even skillfully explained, just a rough baseline. He goes on a journey reading and editing files however he sees fit, updating me along the way, stopping to “think”… to marinate and boop as he calls it, while I actually do fuck all.

After roughly 10 minutes of planning and maybe 15 minutes of editing, Claude has completed the task… which gives me a fake sense of accomplishment. That satisfactory feeling of having done something, even though I haven’t actually done anything. Sure, I’ll complain when something doesn’t work, tell Claude to recheck, feed him with screenshots to compare, maybe peek in Chrome DevTools to nudge him. But do I look at the code? Not really. The outcome is all I care about. That’s the dopamine kick. Seeing something being made. Something I didn’t make myself.

Addiction Cycle

There isn’t much punishment for not pulling the Claude lever, just the lack of dopamine. But the fake feeling of “creating” is still there. That fake feeling, the fake dopamine hit. Oh, I pretend I’m being productive (“Look what I got someone else to make!”), while I’m really just chasing the dragon, hunting for the next fix. At this point I might as well play ARK Survival Evolved…

Is Claude Code as bad as porn? Hard to tell. But I can already see how the brain wants more. More output, more motion, more fake creativity. Eventually the hit won’t be enough. The need to create turns into the need to simulate creating. Sooner or later it won’t give me the satisfaction I want, like a nifty sex toy that was abused so much all sensory feelings were lost in the process.

Discombobulating… Marinating…

Actually Works Insanely Well

Anywho! I am absolutely flabbergastedly amazeballs over how well Claude Opus 4.6 writes code, and that’s just simple HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, etc. Structure is better than what I did 10-12 years ago. Better commenting, naming, organizing. He reads my ancient code, instantly updates it to 2026 standards, and strips out the dead weight.

Fixing a 13-year-old PHP website with 150–200 pages? Done in maybe 4 hours. The baseline to get it running took only 30 minutes. I spent another 30 minutes thinking about what to tell him, then a couple of hours refining errors and tweaking visuals. And by “fixing” I mean we ditched PHP entirely and rebuilt the whole thing in Eleventy so the output is clean static HTML.

I’m fully hooked. Claude is my dealer, I’m the willing junkie, and I don’t even want rehab. Productivity without producing. The ultimate cheat code.

If I had done this myself, by hand, reading every file… it would’ve taken me a week. Maybe longer, because the gap between starting and actually seeing something is too long for my brain to release any dopamine.

See videos of Claude planning, discombobulating, and executing below.

It’s alive, it’s a… live!

From the dark domain and deepest corners of the realm, Dahlske Bank the bloggety websitearu is live! It’s alive!

Can’t really remember what I was doing with this project, so I kept all of the old posts for posterity. They might not be relevant or even slightly useful, but you can’t escape your past, there’s no erasing history, and no self-deleting records… unless you lose a backup drive or two…

Anywho!
Posts from the past are tagged with Legacy.
Click here to view them!

The Famous Uncategorized Category of WordPress

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I couldn’t even write one single post before I had to ask myself a question… how to organize blog posts in categories and tags?

This seems to be highly discussed topic, but I won’t go into what categories and tags are (they’re taxonomies), nor will I dive into SEO-semantics. My question is what to name categories and when to use tags? Should this post be filed in the category WordPress? Or since this blog will be lots of WordPress, can I simply skip that category? Though many of my posts will be pure CSS, which should be it’s own category. Some CSS-posts will be related to WordPress, is it better for CSS to be a tag? Or should WordPress be the tag?

Personally I feel this depends on the type of blog. If you are reviewing movies, genres might be categories, and actors/directors tags. So I wonder, is this blog too broad? Is that why I can’t choose category or tag? Let’s say I make a WordPress category, obviously I should have a plugins subcategory. But on the off-chance I write about a Joomla plugin, where do I categorize that? This is a website running on WordPress. The theme is coded for WordPress. Everything I make and write is basically for WordPress. So a category for WordPress seems superficial.

Then again, if you venture into my site, you may want to only read posts about WordPress… This leads me to the fact that I have to plan my categories in advance. My seven categories. Yes, that’s right. 7. There are only seven stories in the world. And seven deadly sins. If I were to believe in religion, blogging would be a sin, but that would make it eight sins, and then my analogy wouldn’t work… also if blogging was a sin, I wouldn’t be writing this…

So, keeping with human tradition, when ten is too much and five is too little, seven is always believable, I present my seven categories.

  1. WordPress
  2. Plugins
  3. CSS
  4. News
  5. Rambling
  6. …
  7. …

Already I’m having trouble with this, not only is this only five categories, but a WordPress plugin that changes CSS… that can’t be in three categories. That’s just bad categorizing. If this was a physically located backup log, it would be wasteful to keep a copy of the same document in three different file cabinets. Should CSS be a tag? Or perhaps both a tag and a category? Filed under CSS. Tagged with CSS. Isn’t that just surplussing? So, the category CSS contains CSS that I’ve stolen written myself. And plugins that change CSS are tagged with CSS, while CSS that is for WordPress is tagged with WordPress?

Obviously this post belongs in Rambling, but since I’m discussing pivotal WordPress functions, it’s tagged with WordPress. Will I ever need the category WordPress? Can’t I just tag anything that is WordPress with WordPress?

While writing this post, I went out on an errand. Walking around and being in motion helps me think, which made me rethink the categories. I had to consider the future. So my new categories are below, six of them kinda make sense, while the seventh is vacant… Anywho, I see myself doing some sort of design, logos for instance, which is not related to CSS or WordPress. This frees me to easily post stuff I’ve stolen found on Internet, and neatly keep it in separate categories.

  1. Design
    • Logos…
  2.  Styling
    • CSS
    • HTML
  3. Coding
    • PHP
    • JavaScript
    • jQuery
    • SQL
  4. Plugins
    • WordPress plugins…
  5. Rambling
    • Anything not useful at all…
  6. News
    • kNews…
  7.  Vacant Futuretech 1 Slot…

So there we have it. Several hours gone just so that I could rethink how to name and organize categories and tags. This is probably not the first time I have done that. And I haven’t even published the new site yet… Lord. I’m spending more time naming this post than I did with the fucking categories…

Coming back to WordPress

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It’s been 6 months since I was active with theme development for WordPress. Obviously I have forgotten some stuff, but most of it will come back to me. Since I have to question myself and look through code, config and plugins, I will post all my ramblings to this blog.

Ugh. Calling it a blog just makes it worse. A log. A detailed log where I write about how to code for WordPress, what plugins to use, and how to have fun with CSS. I might remember all this if I dig deep, but look at this like a backup of my experiences and memories related to WordPress. A backup log… *bwaff*

Although this may have some actual benefit; I finally start with that blog I’ve been talking about for years, it will also make sure that my theme works well with blogs. I fucking hate blogs. Blog posts, you big tourist! And who knows, maybe someone else can make use of my knowledge… or rather lack of. I take no responsibility for any posts, claims or ramblings I may incoherently put together on this site. As with anything on the Internet, use common sense and follow your gut. Or, you know, whatever.

I kinda feel like I’m making up excuses as to why I’m writing a blog, since I pretend to hate it so much. But it’s more for me than it is for anyone else. I often have lengthy discussions about what plugins I should use, how to organize code and files, or whether or not to write a blog. I have these discussions with myself. I don’t ask anyone else. I gather information from 30+ websites, combine the pro’s and con’s, and then ask myself. I’m my own soundboard. This save times. No need for anyone else to read up on the most logical way to name functions. But it also creates mass-confusion. Since I rarely agree with myself, I also often forget what my conclusion was.

So perhaps this is a coder’s diary? Perhaps I can find yet another excuse away from the word blog… Anywho, if you are reading this, you might just be another looney. This is merely the start of the ramblings. The roots. The first seed. Which will grow into something… stranger… weirder… most peculiar.

I’ll leave you with a quote… quoting myself of course.

I’m gonna start blogging. Don’t like it? Go fuck yourself. That’s what I said to myself when I told myself I was gonna start blogging, but since cloning isn’t commercialized, my other personality just looked dumbfounded upon me.

— Daniel Dahl, 2016

How to design a logo

LegacyYou don’t.

You’re starting a new business, forming an idea or simply putting together a new website, and what you don’t need is to design a logo. You might think you need to start branding, that you need to make a label for yourself, but what you really need to do is focus on your product. What are you selling? If you ever go beyond the start point, if you actually reach a level where branding comes into play, it will sort itself out cause you will have the money to pay for it. And when you do, hire professionals. But for now, nobody cares about your logo. I don’t care about changes in Google’s logo. It has absolutely nothing to do about their search engine. It could be called Lougle in all pink and I’d still use it cause I’m there for the product that they offer.

So, how do you design a logo? You steal. We’ve entered 2016. Nothing is new under the sun. Everything has already been thought up, and everything is a rehash of something else. Like South Park says, Simpson’s did it!

Go to a many number of websites that offer free logos, icons, vector art, and download a pack. Perhaps try a search for something you might like. This may not be legal, there might be some licensing, but remember that we are stealing, so we don’t care.

Take the logo you like, and simply change colors. Tilt the logo. Stretch it. Remove some small part of it. Perhaps mash two logos together to form one new logo. Nobody will notice. Those who do will never be the majority of your customers (unless you sell logos). You might even end up with a logo that hundreds of other companies use, but if you don’t offer the same product in the same country or continent, chances are nobody will ever see both at the same time. There are infact several famous logos that look like each other. They venture into lengthy court-battles over something as feudal as a logo. But they are already established. They’ve already got the money. You don’t.

Northug, Netthandelen. Etc.

Majuskel. Minuskel.