964: Markdown as a CMS Is a Bad Idea  ## Document Notes ## Highlights - **Master Keyboard Shortcuts And Macros** - Learn and customize keyboard shortcuts to speed navigation and repeated tasks. - Use tools like a hyper key, BetterTouchTool, and app command palettes to discover and map shortcuts. Transcript: Wes Bos You want to grab that one, Scott? Scott Tolinski Yes, from Josh Doveham. I've been obsessed with learning keyboard shortcuts recently, everything from a Mac OS shortcuts to Chrome VS Code. My goal is to start weaning off the mouse over time and see what I can lock with the extra productivity and a deeper sense of flow. What are your guys' thoughts on keyboard shortcuts? Do they really make you more productive, or are they just micro time savers that don't really help developers all that much? Love from Vancouver. Yeah, so me, personally, yes, I love keyboard shortcuts, and I do use them quite a bit. The ones I use most honestly are like window manage, management stuff. And I have everything to like hyper like hyper F to do full screen, but not like the actual full screen just to have it take up like maximize, just like stuff like that. And I have like hyper L wraps the current line in a console log. But I've tuned my personal ones in a way that like, especially in my text editor that I feel very comfortable getting around on the keyboard, and then in my system as well. ([Time 0:02:26](https://share.snipd.com/snip/3cf24a38-1b4f-449c-8f6e-732520dc31b0)) - **Framework Choice Still Shapes Outcomes** - Framework choice still matters for performance, maintainability, and accessibility. - AI will favor popular patterns but web-standards frameworks can reduce bloat and improve results. Transcript: Wes Bos With the rapid rise of AI-assisted coding, does the choice of frameworks still really matter? If generative AI can already produce 80 to 90% of reliable code and developers can use their experience to fix the remaining 10 to 20%, how should we think about selecting a tech stack For a new web or mobile app? Should we stick with what we know now, like the tried and true React ecosystem, explore frameworks that align more closely with web standards and performance optimization like remix Or svelte or should we focus focus shift entirely to using well-supported well-documented tools that generative ai can most effectively interact and produce production quality Yeah this is this is actually something that i was talking to some folks at Google that work at Chrome just a couple of days ago because I was like, man, we got like customizable select. We've got CSS anchor. We've got scroll snap. We've got scroll driven animations. And I know it's early, but like a lot of people are not using those things. There's just NPM install, blah, blah, blah, whatever. And, and it works right off the bat. And I was, I was kind of thinking like, like, why aren't, why aren't people, why aren't people using these things? Is it because it's easier just to boop, boop, boop NPM framework that it already knows? So the question here was, does choice of framework really matter? I think it matters a lot that the AI understands how to produce your framework. But I don't think that that's going to stop the progression of this stuff. Because we're going to hit a point where we're already seeing it with a lot of the React ecosystem. Where it knows to install Tailwind 3 and a whole bunch of UI frameworks and it just adds a whole bunch of stuff. And there's better stuff out there. There's new tech out there. And I think you're going to start to see, especially like, let's talk about performance and accessibility and all those things where your website is going to start to get slow and laggy And you're going to have perf problems if you're just installing all of this crap when there are significantly better options out there. Choice of framework does matter but I don't think that that's going to stop the fact that everything is just on the React ecosystem right now. I think that we will continue to see web standards frameworks that use browser primitives a lot more and use like web fetch, web requests, web response a lot more so that you can pick up These new things. Scott Tolinski Yeah, yeah, I think it really matters. ([Time 0:14:55](https://share.snipd.com/snip/f2252f90-a494-41b7-b83f-7e453b57fc38)) - **Pick Mature Stacks That Fit Your Team** - Choose mature, widely supported stacks that match your team's skills and your app's data needs. - Prefer meta-frameworks and TypeScript for consistent server/client types and simpler SSR. Transcript: Scott Tolinski For a Greenfield SaaS today, would you pick a batteries included framework like Laravel or Rails or go lean with a minimal stack? What specific criteria make that choice future proof? Yeah, I think most people would probably want to pick something that is mature, widely supported, popular, that people like and use. So many times when you're building these stacks out, you're like, who do I know that's a good developer who is going to work on this? And what do they know? And what are they skilled at? And let's build that stack around what we're most comfortable in. I mean, something like Rails is certainly worked for a lot of people. React in general, on any kind of node ecosystem, you're going to have a wide variety of developers who can work in those systems. You know, database technology and stuff like that. It really depends what the SaaS today is. So just to say, for a greenfield SaaS, you can't really give a generic answer to that because if you were building century right century has very different data needs than let's say an Email app or fresh books or a financial tracking app all of these have very different needs in what type of data they're storing and how they're storing it and where they're accessing It. If you're asking me personally, I'm using SvelteKit and Drizzle and BetterAuth because that's the stack that I like. But that's not a tried and true stack of, it's not like the most mature stack out there, but I like it. So that's why I would pick it. I'm effective with it. So it really depends. It depends on what you're building. ([Time 0:20:19](https://share.snipd.com/snip/80eba3ae-640b-4f3c-961c-fdaba7ffd85d)) - **Use A Real CMS For Content Editors** - Avoid using a git-repo-of-markdown as your primary CMS for non-technical editors. - Use a headless CMS (WordPress, Payload, Ghost, Keystone) plus a meta-framework for easy editing and publishing. Transcript: Wes Bos Yeah, localhost is the new garage, you know. You just got to get it out of localhost. I've built a prototype with a headless Next.js site using WordPress roots as a CMS. It works okay. I can create pages, update content, and pull into Next via the WordPress API, but I'm second-guessing myself. I feel stuck in the classic dev dilemma. Is Next.js overkill for a banned website? Would something like Payload or another headless CMS be smarter? Or is a repo as a CMS, which is mark MDX files and get actually the simplest and best fit. And how much would you lean on platforms like Vercel for something like this? So the question is, if you were building a banned website today with some media show dates, tour adventure updates, what would you pick as your stack and how would you balance a fun playground For me as a dev versus simple and sustainable to maintain? Yes. So as somebody who has two very large markdown based websites, my own personal blog, which has something like, I don't know, 1200 markdown files in the syntax website, which has what? Probably close to a thousand Markdown files. Markdown as content, like a CMS sucks. Don't do it. We only do it. I only do it for myself because I want people to be able to edit and like, I want to be able to write in Markdown and I want to be able to edit it. And I want other people to send pull requests. And for the same reason we do that on syntax. But as for somebody who's trying to create content and put it out there and have a nice ui it sucks because it's like you got to rebuild the website and you have all of these like weird plugins That you need to install and like it's it's awful so first of all don't do that you gotta manage it through git yeah yeah no fun Honestly, the best move is like some sort of framework that Pulls from an existing CMS that is very good. And if you want to update your website, you simply log into the CMS, you type what you want, you publish what you want, and then it shows up on your website when you've hit publish. And quite honestly, picking WordPress for that is probably the move. Payload is probably a really good solution as well. Keystone is in that area as well. Strappy also in that. Ghost CMS seems to be still cranking pretty hard. Scott Tolinski Yeah Ghost is pretty dope. Wes Bos Yeah I don't I don't know that I would probably move it off of WordPress because you just need a nice UI to edit your content and to be able to consume that via a JSON API. And I think you have that. I don't know that you have any problems that would be solved by moving to another CMS. And then in terms of the actual framework, is Next.js overkill for a ban site? I don't think so. No, you need server rendering, you need all of that stuff. If I were to build a ban website, I would certainly go and reach for a meta framework like 10sack start, Next.js, Remix, SvelteKit, Nuxt, something like that. Scott Tolinski If i reach for a demo i'm picking up svelte kit you know like yeah it the meta frameworks i'm a next not fan uh so i'm not gonna say next but like me personally they they feel so lightweight Nowadays to just you know what did the svelte kit version is sv create the thing you got the thing You have all your stuff there. And then if you want to add, yeah, I don't know. You get SSR out of the box. You get routing. Wes Bos You have to configure a router. Oh, it's so fast. Scott Tolinski I hardly build anything without it. Yeah. Wes Bos Yeah, I certainly think you should do that. You get it all. You get all the server functions ready, you know? Like if you decide, oh, I do actually want to do something that's outside of WordPress. Yeah. You just pop a server function in there and you're good to go. Yeah. So, yeah, I think I think you're in a good spot. The last advice I'll give you is err on the side of be easy to update your content, because yes, when it is hard to put content out there, you will not actually do it. ([Time 0:23:14](https://share.snipd.com/snip/2c0ffd44-1aa2-4d47-a866-9f54e00394a0)) - **Personal Move Offer Turned Down** - Wes turned down a San Francisco job offer because salary plus cost-of-living felt like a life downgrade. - He recommends negotiating, seeking assurances, and weighing family impact before moving countries for less pay. Transcript: Scott Tolinski Should I move to another country for less money, but potentially opportunity? I've been contracting for a company for about seven years, building custom software for their business. I built this solely at first, but over the years, the company has expanded into the last couple of years, another developer has joined us. We essentially have a full-time job with monthly salary for this company. This has all been remote work so far, and we reside in a different country than the company operates. Now, an opportunity has become available where the company wants to improve the feedback loop in the dev process and potentially give one of us a chance to be closer and more involved With the business. This will include some time working from the office and meeting staff who directly use the software we're building. The company has offered a pay raise to cover the cost of the initial move, which is great. But there is quite a difference in the living cost between countries where the business is located and where I'm currently living. And I have worked out that over bills, rent and tax, etc. I would be left with less than what I take home from contracting right now while living in a more expensive country, which makes me hesitant. I know there are positives and negatives to both places. I have a family which would likely benefit from the move in the long run too. But personally, I'm struggling to weigh the options. Hmm. That's a heavy question. You know, this is tough for me because moving to another country is not moving to another state. You know, there's a lot there. And it depends. Like, there's the distance. Like, is this opportunity something that they could just, you know, give you the job for six months and then let you go? Like, are there any assurances that they're going to keep you on here? And if you're packing up your entire family to move to another country, what kind of assurance do you have that that job will still be there in a year? Because if they drop you, then what do you got to move back? I mean, you could do that. But man, that's that's a hard thing to do. Especially if you're moving a family, that means you got kids, kids are in school, moving the kids to a new community, new friends. It depends. And all on that for less money, if it were me, I would probably not move. But without knowing more details, I don't think I can give another answer to this. I actually, funny enough, Figma, when they offered me the job, I had to move to San Francisco and I did not have a family at that point, but I did have two dogs. And my wife and I were looking at the salary that was offered versus if we were to move someplace like Denver. And it was like looking at just the cost of living plus the salary they were giving, it was going to be a pretty substantial life downgrade for us. And we weren't rolling in cash. I mean, I was making like, like $48,000 a year at an agency at this point. So like, it was going to be a tough, tough move. And that was just to another state. So I turned it down. And this to me, like without those assurances, without that money, like if you could get some assurances or get more money or something. I don't know. What do you think, Wes? Yeah. Wes Bos I think you let them know about your apprehensions. I've been in similar situations like this as well. You just say like, hey, this is what I'm thinking. Like, let them know. There are some upsides, you know, like if you're doing this for less money, but you said there's a potential upside for your family. That's exciting. I know plenty of people that have made big jumps like this and it's just been well worth it for them. You know, I know plenty of people who did the whole, I don't know, I'm going to go try live in San Francisco for a year and a half and then it pans out. You know, they get a job somewhere else. You know, they're able to laterally move because it's a a much better job market you know like there's a huge upside to that as well you maybe you meet some some really good friends obviously You're married so you're not going to meet another partner benefits your family that's huge like like what good is i know it's less money but if you're saying that it's going to be better For your family in the long run like is that yeah that's worth it but i would i would simply just straight up ask for more money and see what they say you know there's i there's not a huge downside To that they could say no and you still you're back where you started you have the decision to do it for the same amount of money or or stay where you are but then like there's the other flip Side of me it's just like yeah i, I don't really want to move for that. I love being able to just live where I want to live and do what I want to do. You can't be tamed, Wes. Yeah, I'm a stallion. That's why I always tell everyone, I'm a stallion. I can't be tamed. So part of me is like, it depends where it was. I would probably move. We always watch that show House Hunters, you know, and these people are like, oh, they're moving to Switzerland. Yes. For the family, like family from south of Texas is moving to Switzerland. You know, like it's just the most crazy change. And they're like looking at like a like a little European like two bedroom. And they're like, oh, we're used to our like 7,000 square foot Texas mansion. Yeah. But that could be exciting. Like that is really exciting for your kids to visit different countries and potentially make relationships there. So I would say go for it. You can always come back. It's obviously a lot. It's pretty disruptive. But what the hell? ([Time 0:28:30](https://share.snipd.com/snip/ca8617d9-89ea-46ae-8e81-8647e28e94ca)) - **Maintain Human Control Over Commits** - Keep human-in-the-loop for commits; review and craft commit scope/messages yourself. - Commit frequently but avoid AI making automated commits without you validating changes. Transcript: Wes Bos Question from Steven Highgrave. I'm a newer developer and I was just starting to have better intuition for human readable Git breakpoints. So making Git commits at a specific point. Then wham! Cloud code with Sonnet 4.5 in my editor. By the way, that's the old outdated one. They released 4.7 yesterday what have would have been logical break points are now getting hit 10 to 50 times every five minutes so he's saying that what he's getting 10 to 50 commits Every five minutes from cloud code that's that seems like a lot that seems like a lot what do i do to keep my commits digestible upon reflection and useful for debugging without stopping To commit every 10 seconds holy hells even what that what are you building yeah um is there a flow to let claude initiate appropriate commits on its own as it goes what are the pros and cons In in turning that over to claude as well yeah that's kind of interesting Like, do you let the AI, A, write the commit message and B, actually make the commits programmatically as you Go along? I don't know that I know the answer to this because what I've been doing recently is just like, I'll have AI generate a commit message, but then if it contains like kind of like two things That were done, I find that kind of muddy because if it's like two totally separate features, they should really be separate commits, you know. And I've not found a decent way yet to have it like commit feature by feature or take all the files that have been changed, select the ones that are associated with that feature and then Commit it. So I've kind of been doing like human in the loop right now. I certainly don't have 10 to 50 every five minutes. That seems ridiculous. I feel like I have a similar amount of commits, maybe slightly elevated if I'm doing a little bit more code generation. But I just every time I feel like I've hit a spot, I just stop. You still have to know what the hell is going on with your code. So at the very least, you should understand what the message should be for it. Scott Tolinski You know, I do not turn my commit messages to AI, even though they are very helpful to have those AI commit messages. But like, even if I am vibe coding something or having AI write a large portion of the code, I'm reading that. I'm reading it. I'm writing my own commit message. And I'm gonna go back and forth with what you know, I think you might be hitting them slopes a little too hard on this one i think you're you're uh i think you got to be really uh maybe a little Bit more like human in the loop here because it it feels like that is an intense like are you running how many agents at once to do this like to generate that much code yeah you got bigger Wes Bos Problems, Stephen. Yeah, you got bigger problems. Than your commit messages. Scott Tolinski Commit frequently, yes. Do it by hand, yes. Otherwise, who knows? What are you even putting up? Like, what is that even out there, that code? What is it? Like, yeah, I still personally, I'm always testing. I'm using, you know, Chrome DevTools, MCP use the thing and have it use the thing. And if I'm vibe coding something truly, I'm certainly not turning over every last thing to the AI because garbage out. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. ([Time 0:36:21](https://share.snipd.com/snip/2fa01b39-f459-4213-95d3-fe04ee23d81f)) - **Problem Solvers Stay Valuable** - AI will change workflows but problem-solvers remain essential and in demand. - Continuous learning and curiosity shield careers from disruption more than tool choices do. Transcript: Scott Tolinski I'm at 19, have been a React dev, so I must be autistic according to Wes. Wes, what have you done? Wes Bos For a year, I don't- That was in the episodes with Courtney. People love that. The comments on that were hilarious. Oh my. Scott Tolinski For a year and a half, I've been working at a startup for over a year. Okay. So 19 working on react for a year and a half, been working on a startup for over a year with AI. It's hard not to think twice about the career I'm pursuing with all of the noise about programmers becoming obsolete. What do you guys think that the future for young guns like me will be in this industry? Thank you for your time. Love from New Zealand. Yes, me personally, you can't predict the future. This stuff gets better all the time. Last year at this time, I wasn't vibe coding anything. Now I'm still not vibe coding anything in production, but I'm vibe coding personal software tools all the time. And the code sucks, but they largely work. So that's going to get better. It's going to get better. But at the same time, I'm building all kinds of stuff. I'm building cool stuff and I'm able to make it work. Now, how far away is, you know, just say what you want and the thing builds and works and is perfect with no bugs and is performant and has no security issues and no flaws whatsoever. I don't know. But to me personally, I just like making stuff. If you like making stuff, then to me, I don't think this is a bad career to pursue. I don't think it's bad to get into it. But a lot of it is caring about the stuff that you're building and liking making stuff and, and pushing things that way and pushing yourself. But when I first started doing web development, you did your layouts in a table and you didn't even do floats. You just did everything in a table. Yeah. If there's one industry where this changes constantly. 24 seven. So like, it's not just that you're not going to wake up one night and be like, oh, I'm out of a job. You're going to have an opportunity to evolve with this profession and whatever that may look like at some point in the future. Who knows? Wes Bos We get this question every week in our potluck and it's one of three. I am young and I'm worried about if this is a good profession. I am middle-aged and worry about long-term of my career because of AI or I am old and I am worried that I can't keep up with it because of AI. And like AI is going to get rid of the button clickers. AI is going to get rid of the people who don't want to put in the work. But we will forever in this world need people who are smart and can solve problems. And given that you are 19 years old, you are at the very beginning of your career. And if you can shape your career in a way where you will be the smart person, where you will be the problem solver, you will be able to figure things out, you will be always, always in demand. What you are solving and how you do that will constantly be changing. But being smart and solving those problems will never change. And I had a little rant the other day on Twitter where I was just talking about how like everything sucks. You know, like we had major downtimes from AWS and Cloudflare within a week. Twitter DMs weren't working. Google launched this anti-gravity editor and it didn't work still as a week later it still doesn't work and just like everything seems like it's kind of and like there's this whole in Shitification of the internet that is is popping up and we're starting to see that everybody replied to that was like it's oh it's vibe coding you know but i i don't know that that's it's Ai or i don't know that it's vibe coding i know that it is people just trying to move too fast because a lot is changing right now and i know that it is that people don't give as much as they Scott Tolinski Used to and and they're they're spread too thin because they've been laid off and the teams are smaller. Wes Bos Yeah. Yeah. And a lot of stuff is just breaking and wearing away and we're starting to see the cracks form. And who's going to be there to fix that? It's going to be the people that are actually smart. The people that actually know how to fix these things. The people that have not just like sort of checked out and boop, boop, boop into the box. So if I have any advice for you is just like, try to live an entire career of just constant learning and constant. And that doesn't just have to be coding, but it's just like, yeah, evolve. ([Time 0:40:53](https://share.snipd.com/snip/40c18d1f-0fe0-49ec-9cae-690679f6578e)) - **Automate Local + Offsite Backups** - Use automated local and off-site backups: Time Machine, NAS, and Backblaze (or B2). - Keep large media on a NAS and configure cloud replication to ensure redundancy and easy restores. Transcript: Wes Bos Canada Trav says, best practices to backup. After the Halloween episode, I realized I don't have the best backup systems. I don't know. I have big files such as music and videos of screen recordings that take up a lot of space. Hey, us too. Since you guys deal a lot with large files, I hope you could help. I was wondering what tools, workflows, practices and other stuff you suggest for a good system. In particular, I had questions about how to handle setting up automatic backups in the following situation. So before I answer this, we'll answer them quickly, but we are going to do an entire show on local servers and NAS probably the week after this something like that just watch out for it It's coming out so personal for technical minded developers backing up code along with larger files for solo and hobby projects so for me the way that all of this works is that you should Assume at any point in time that your computer and or the place where you have your backups will go away and you should be able to recover for that. So what that means is that you should have automatic backups both locally, so it's nice and quick to restore, but also off-site. So for me, I use Time Machine to back up my entire computer just constantly. And then I also have my computer running backblaze where it just constantly mirrors to the cloud so that if, worst case, if my laptop and my backup hard drives were to go away, then I would Still be able to, it would be a pain in the butt, but I still would be able to recover from that. Scott Tolinski Yeah, no, I agree. For me, I think backing up things is something that needs to happen without you thinking about it. Yeah. Because if your process really gets too bogged down or manual or anything, you know, I always really liked the time machine, Apple backups, but then it would like break and then I would Stop using it. And then it like, cause it doesn't play nice. Yeah. So some kind of automated process is really good. I used to use carbon copy cloner to do an automated full clone of my drive, which is a nice little app to do that with. But yes, making the process something that is automated. I actually don't have a good process for this either. So I'm listening right now. Wes Bos Yeah. So I have Time Machine on a, and I've tried the Time Machine like on a, like a local server backup and it always breaks. So I simply just have a hard drive on my desk that I plug in. And even then, I forget to plug it in as often as I want. So that's why I love Backblaze because it's just always running on my computer. It's very hard to quit it. You can only pause it for like 30 minutes or a couple hours while we're recording. And then it will just resume itself. And it saved my bacon several times. So that's personal. And then the second one here was for family, for not as technical people that want to back up the photos. They have lots of photos, documents, other important things they should be backing up. How can I implement something to give them a bit of protection and redundancy? Since if they get locked out of iCloud or take a photo that is not on the cloud, it could be lost forever. This is also really tricky because like as much as you like preach this stuff to family, if they're not technical, they don't care. You know, like you see it all the time on Facebook. Lost my phone. Send me your numbers. Like, oh, you just or like, oh, my goodness, I lost my phone at the grocery store. It has all of my family memories on it. Like, oh, you didn't think like this one little rectangle with everything you've ever held dear might get lost at some point? Scott Tolinski Yeah. Wes Bos Yeah. But that's why, like, as much as I hate I hate iCloud so much because it's a mob. You know, they every every five seconds oh you're out of space it's critical to back up that's the only thing that people are gonna do uh but I have for my family I have a uh something running On my Synology it's the Synology Photos app yeah do you like it and then it yeah it's it's great it just like I don't use it to like search and view I use Google Photos for that. Yeah. But I know that, like, Google Photos could rug pull or I could get locked out at some point for reasons. So it's nice knowing that we have, like, a secondary backup of all of our photos locally on a drive. Scott Tolinski You know what I hate about the Synology Photos app? I don't know if this is a me issue is that it doesn't just back up uh you have to like run the backup you have to say run the backup in the background and i don't i've like never gotten it so then Like i i'll go to synology photos and it's like a way out of date from what i have in my google photos because that's why i use i use google photos um just because we used to be on android so It's like just locked in into Google Photos. But still, it's like you can just Google Photos can figure it out. You can figure it out, Synology Photos. Don't make me enter some focused backup mode. Wes Bos Yeah, I think I think it has something to do with the fact that you don't open it often enough and then if you don't open it for a couple weeks like i my google photos does this every now and Then where i open it to like search for a photo i was like oh shit it hasn't backed up for like three weeks uh it's just because i haven't opened it so yeah there does need to be some sort of Better way to do that. I should check. I have it all on my kids' iPads as well because they've got like a two megabyte iPad. That's the default one from Apple. And then they take one video and then they're always mad that their iPad is out of space. And all the apps have that stupid little download icon behind them because it like offloads the app i hate that feature but you can't man nothing to manage but they have like nine gigs Of like roblox stored somewhere and like but you can't delete it there's no tools to delete it it drives me now i hate apple and their storage so much yeah it sucks and it's always sucked I remember like it has they they just want you to use the cloud just pay for it yeah just pay business not necessarily if it does but suggestions for clients friends or people running smallish Operations that is not code uh what are solutions so i run a synology nas and then that nas backs up to backblaze b2. So what I'll do is I'll take like a video project. Like yesterday we recorded like three hours worth of video, right? So that's, I don't know, probably 60, 70 gigs. And then I'll just drag that over to my NAS and I'll hold down the, what is it? The command key. And what that does is it just, once it's done transferring ([Time 0:47:04](https://share.snipd.com/snip/dfa7b9c2-b788-40ba-9963-59f9013fa2b7)) - **Encrypt Sensitive Files And Keep Physical Copies** - Store sensitive documents in encrypted volumes or encrypted Synology folders and keep recovery codes in a fireproof safe. - Use disk images or encrypted NAS folders to move and protect tax and medical files securely. Transcript: Wes Bos And then sensitive files, things like password manager, recovery codes, keys, auth, intimate images or medical info you might not have safe, but don't want it just sitting around. Oh, one other thing I should say is that like Dropbox is still I still pay for Dropbox. Dropbox is still good. Scott Tolinski Especially for Google Drive. So, yeah. Wes Bos Yeah, maybe I should switch over to that. I'm paying for Google Drive anyway. Recovery codes is a good one. Put them somewhere that is fire safe some people like to get a safety deposit box some people like getting a fireproof safe in their house i'm getting a fireproof safe for my feet pictures For your feet feet photos yeah yeah i i've got i got copies of those ready though if anyone wants them let me know yep uh gotta put it in a fireproof. Medical, I don't know. I don't have intimate images if anyone's looking for those. And medical stuff, I just keep in my regular files on my computer. That drive is encrypted. So I'm not too worried about that. Scott Tolinski Yeah. And if you have a synology you can actually create an encrypted folder by the way um so any any of the files you can say this is an encrypted folder um and then every time the synology mounts It mounts unmounted and you have to manually in uh unmounted with your encryption key so i do that for my, like, my, whatever, my medical documents and stuff like that. So, you know, you know what, somebody gets to drive, they got all that, that all that stuff, just your, your tax documents and any of that stuff. So just throw it, it's really easy to make it encrypted, although it is kind of a pain in the butt, just kind of a pain in the butt to de-encrypt it all the time. I like was like, I'm going to write a script to automatically de-encrypt it and do this and that. And I was like, well, then it's kind of like defeating the point, I guess. Wes Bos Yeah. That's annoying. That's because I have mine mounted to my computer all the time. Yeah. That would be annoying to have to implement. I even, our doorbell does that. It's like local encrypted. And every time I like open the doorbell app, it's like unencrypting. And I was like, do I care that like the the Amazon delivery guy is encrypted? You know, I kind of wish this was faster. Yes. Scott Tolinski You know, you can also do in Mac OS, at least you can create a disk image that's encrypted as well. So you can from disk utility, you can create a disk image, you can set it to be a certain size and make it encrypted with a key. Wes Bos And then it just exists as a disk image. My whole computer is encrypted. If you took the hard drive out of my computer, you wouldn't be able to read the code. Scott Tolinski I'm just saying if you want to have an encrypted folder to put your tax documents in, you would create a disk image, make it encrypted, drag your stuff in there. Then you can move it around as if it's a normal folder, open it anywhere that you have access to that key. I don't know if you can open it on iOS at that point, but I haven't tried. ([Time 0:55:14](https://share.snipd.com/snip/e3fa87c1-a23e-4dea-9ff0-c6bfaa36a5e0)) - **LEGO App Beats Paper Instructions** - Wes and his son use the LEGO Builder app to follow 3D step-by-step instructions for sets. - The app also supports collaborative building so two people can work on large sets simultaneously. Transcript: Wes Bos I'm going to sick pick a Lego set. So this is a little bit weird, but when I was growing up, Lego was just like, I don't know if there were sets or I didn't get sets. But Lego to me, it was just you have a bunch of bricks and you make like that like pyramid that goes. There were sets. Yeah, there were absolute sets. Scott Tolinski Yeah. Wes Bos But like my son is getting super into Lego and he loves getting a set for like Christmas or his birthday or whatever. And so we recently got the Lego Santa, which is like, I don't know, about a foot high Santa. It's 800 pieces or so. And he was reading through the book. But I was like, let's check out what the Lego app has. Unbelievable, the Lego app. It does every step, I guess, with these new Lego steps, it's like a 3D model of every single step. It highlights the piece that you're working on. It animates the direction you need to press it down. You can pan around the model at any time just to give yourself context. You know, like, that's kind of frustrating when you're looking at the Lego, you have to flip it upside down. You're like, which way is it in the directions? It's so nice to have a nice big screen and you just click next, next, next, and you can visually see where you're at. I found that so helpful. And apparently someone else on, on Instagram told me this, you can do it together. So if you get a Lego set that is like a really big one, you can have two people working on two separate parts of the Lego set at the same time. And then it will like it can they connect to each other via your account and you can like sort of track your progress and say, all right, I'm I'm working on this part. You work on that part. Scott Tolinski Yes. Check out the Lego app. I love that little. I love a lot of that stuff in that app. Landon has been doing the same thing where he has now like filled bins and bins of Legos, even though we had sets at some point. And so now going back to build the things that he has, it's like so much more convenient to fire up the iPad than to try to find that instruction booklet. Find the little book. Wes Bos And also like we found at the thrift store, we found a Toyota Supra and like some Lamborghini, like old ones. And like they were all done, but it was like 10 bucks each. And I was like, we gotta get these. So we brought it home and we're like, we don't have the instructions. But then I realized, oh, you could just use the Lego app and just go through the instructions. Unbelievable. Word. Scott Tolinski Yes. ([Time 0:58:12](https://share.snipd.com/snip/02737634-fd9f-49fe-9d3e-c6136e527fa5)) - **Buy Quality LED Bulbs For Dimming** - Buy high-quality LED bulbs (Philips Ultra Definition) to avoid flicker and dimming issues. - Pair with compatible dimmers like Lutron to prevent fluttering and poor refresh behavior. Transcript: Scott Tolinski Yes. I'm going to pick light bulbs, LED light bulbs specifically. They can have all kinds issues when you get into dimming whether they're fluttering or their refresh rate or whatever is going wild world it's a wild world these are the best bulbs that I found they're phillips led ultra definition bulbs i just bought a new set of these and i use them with my lutron dimmers all over the place and they're just they're just good bulbs so Uh if you're looking for light bulbs that don't suck, that are LED bulbs, Philips LED Ultra Definition. Good. Wes Bos When we moved into our house, we replaced all the like pot lights because the psycho that lived here before put cool white everywhere. Cool white, yeah. Scott Tolinski And you got to do warm. Wes Bos That's not, you got to do warm white. So we replaced them all and they're expensive. It's light and the good light bulbs are very very expensive and cheap light bulbs suck because they last about six days before you have to replace them so i have learned that you just got To pay the money for the phillips bulbs they last forever not fuss with it yeah yeah yeah i i've actually been considering moving our bathrooms to be cool white. Scott Tolinski Because every time you go to a hotel, the bathrooms are all the cool white. And they're so illuminating. You can see all the imperfections in your skin or whatever. Wes Bos Our mirrors are cool. But the rest of the thing is a warm white. Scott Tolinski I like a warm light throughout the house. Courtney says it makes it feel like a cave. But I like a cave house. Wes Bos Oh, no, you got it. Apparently, like, in, like, hotter climates, like, in the Caribbean, they like the cooler white a lot more. Scott Tolinski Yes. Wes Bos But that's a red flag for me. You know, you walk into someone's house and they've got, like, a very cool white light on. Scott Tolinski I like that the evening goes on, even though I don't have a lot of multicolored bulbs. I like the light to get warmer. I like it to get darker. ([Time 1:00:53](https://share.snipd.com/snip/4cde7f53-8134-4233-9cec-7c8a3a3f82c2))