#NOSTR #VLOG VOLUME 3
“You hope and you hope and hope. And it keeps getting worse. Your last hope is to become hopeless.”
— A note from my journal, July 5, 2025
I recorded this video as I was in the process of working through and making sense of my thoughts on this subject for my own sanity, first and foremost, but also for the creative non-fiction week on @Stacker News, for which I wrote "The Last Hope:"
Sometimes I read the notes in my own journal and I’m like:
1. Who writes these?
2. Whoa.
3. Am I listening to too much David Goggins?
Case in point - May 7, 2025:
Remember: on the path of the Warrior, there will be no comfort, no certainty, no glory. You will suffer like Jesus did, but without the followers, without the Divine guidance, without your name ever being written in any history book. Perform without a cause; sacrifice without redemption. Taking that path and taking those risks though - it’s the only way to truly live, to truly evolve and individuate. Perhaps there is something there along the journey, but you cannot expect that. You must accept suffering for the sake of suffering.
Web developers / Wordpress experts / Code wizards! I need help with the following issue: WooCommerce referral links only trigger on 2nd visit.
25k sats + lifetime Gold membership on SATOSH.EE and my eternal gratitude to whoever helps me solve the problem.
I’m running into an issue with referral links on a WooCommerce site (WordPress + WooRewards paid version + Referral Codes (WooRewards and Referral Codes are LongWatchStudio plugins); also tested with the Affiliates plugin - the issue also occurred with that one). The goal is to establish referral bonds between users for a loyalty/affiliate program.
The problem:
Referral logic only triggers on the second visit to a referral URL.
On first visit, cookies for tracking (e.g., lwsadmsession…) either don’t appear or the plugin code never runs.
Reloading the same link triggers the referral logic as expected.
This behavior occurs with multiple referral plugins, not just WooRewards.
What I’ve tried:
Disabled all other plugins, switched to default theme
Cloudflare + Rocket.net: disabled query string caching
.htaccess rules to bypass server caching
Early hook code to force session/logic execution (relied on ChatGPT to come up with those codes, would not be surprised if they were faulty in and of themselves)
Verified no Varnish or server-level caching interference
Developer insight from WooRewards:
“Our code is never called. Something else takes charge before WordPress, and (even if unintentional) fakes our redirection.”
Looking for ideas why referral plugin code isn’t executing on first visit, even when cookies or sessions should be available.
Happy to provide more details, just drop a comment or email me kontext@satosh.ee
Thanks!
#asknostr #devs #wordpress #woocommerce #bounty
Heard this song on the radio today and it brought me down memory lane....
Backdrop. It's early 2005, I'm 12 years old. I was already in my "rebellious teenager" phase so pop music and the Eurovision song contest seemed pretty lame to me by then. However, it was still all over the Estonian media and my parents were into it as well, so for better or for worse, I got exposed to the whole thing.
The Estonian preliminary round of the contest is on. My parents are watching it downstairs; I'm somewhere around, probably playing video games or something, and then I hear this song. And I see this girl... I'm enamored. Gobsmacked. Spellbound. Who is she and why do feel this way? I leave the living room and run upstairs to my room. And no, I didn't go there to do what you’re now probably thinking I went to do.
Nowadays, some people know me as the guy who does 120+ pushups every day. This was not always the case. However, this song and this girl (she was 16 at the time) propelled me to do some pushups and sit-ups right then and there, as I figured I'd have to be in top shape to ever get a girl like this. A shame I didn’t commit to 100+ a day and stick with it… otherwise, who knows!
In the end, the song got a close second place in the votes, and the (absolutely horrendous) song "Let's Get Loud" by the girl group Suntribe went on to represent Estonia in Kyiv that year. Unsurprisingly, it didn't do too well - 20th place out of 25 in the semi-final.
Fun fact: the singer of "Moonwalk" - Laura Põldvere - was also one of the members of Suntribe. So, while one could be moderately happy that she at least got to go to the contest, the fact that "Let's Get Loud" was a better song than "Moonwalk" in the eyes of the Estonian public, forever remains, to me, a sign of my compatriots’ utter lack of taste.
#tunestr #2005 #Estonia #childhood #100ADayTilIDie
