Drugs are cool. I should say that but you don't do you do you do the good one you do the fun ones you do coke you do No, I know I I got scared. I got scared too young. I overdosed when I was 19. Really?  So When you when you have that early, yeah, it's and I could see the path I was on because I was trying thing I was in college and coke would have been a natural Thing but it's too it's too terrifying like I was too scared by that I thought you were gonna say Len bias then bias was my dog. Yeah, I mean One of your road dogs like I that did it for me. I've done co I've literally done this once and I did a bump The night after my Comedy Central you did our because I just was like well it'd be funny if I died If I do this bump and I die that's funny. You really committed. Yeah, like I did and I did one line And I was like, I don't even know why this is famous.   It gives you like this euphoric kind of like Yeah thing, but people are using it sometimes to get off of opiates. Yes. I I used to eat it I used to take I took the liquid form of it And I was like I feel great and the people are like BK a lot of people were like warning me to be careful. I Don't know. I never I was taking it every Four days you trust Donated drugs yeah, okay. I get thrown stuff given stuff never okay, but do you give somebody and they do it? Yeah, great. Yeah, there's always someone to stand up. Who's like, yeah, fine. Yeah, I don't give it.  Yeah. It was that I was like, okay. Yeah, what are you fucking?   Oh, I loved it Loved it was good at it. I mean I got the family history fun It was a blast Talked to anybody that got used to get fucked up with me. They're like I was I was a I was a real good time Never got mad Would always just be joking laughing. It numbed everything. Yeah, it's spending money Is it expensive?  I'm gonna give beer next door and then I get a beer and be like, well I don't want this. I already were late. Yeah now we're in it And then it would just be like and I was good at it.  I wouldn't get mad. I wouldn't start fights. I was just really good at same sense of humor Same sense of humor joke around do voices. I would I would like show my god I would it was so much fun. It's guys the total package. It was it was I would put on stand-up that I liked I would like find Obscure sets from people like I would find like oh if you seen Chappelle's second Def Jam and like put it on or like I would find like a Dana like you ever watched Dana Carvey's critics choice and like this bit right here Hicks You know like I would find random stuff because I loved stand-up. I believe Dave's second Def Jam He's wearing a sweater. I believe so his first one is the one with the pizza delivering pizzas in DC for Domino's And I still love that joke. I used to deliver pizzas for Domino's One of you motherfuckers is gonna tip you had good bits in high school crazy. He had a bit Here's a bit. He had in high school Alf remember Alf. Yeah, it's a good thing Alf didn't land in my neighborhood Yeah, because two weeks later you would have seen dudes wearing Alf skin coats.  Yeah, you just wrote that as a child Yeah, like all right, it's like Stevie Wonder when he wrote when he's 16 years old Genius, yeah, I'm just gonna stop. Um, yeah, okay, and I love I mean that's the thing I love about Stan I think like You know stand-up was the thing that I just loved and I was like oh I could just watch this and obsess about it It's funny like what you were the thing that you were experiencing where you're like Abandoning yourself. Mm-hmm. You're getting abandoned. Mm-hmm. Therefore you think well, I should abandon myself But you're mad at Yourself and them. Yeah, and it's like a perfect way to write Stan.  She's like hey if I put you through it Right jokes. Yeah, she was like without her being as supportive as she was like once she because once my sister died My mom was like, what am I gonna tell you?   It just became like a little adult Yeah, I would like help out around the house.  Yeah sewn in I go, hi, I'm Dan. I'm the son. What can I do for you? All right. Well, that's a lot.     Yeah, cool.   Yeah, it was me So I started then you kind of your brain tells you they're making you Well, they're not making you my mom tried to get me in therapy when I was young when I was like 10 because I started getting like a little violent towards people my mom was like we should Probably put him in therapy didn't work didn't take who told you which therapist said you could be angry Different therapist don't want to have as an adult. Oh, so you weren't angry. No, I'm so you were 30 something mid-20s late 20s but I Remember going to therapy with this guy Tom and I just was like yeah, how are we gonna get through this so I can go home? I was like and I want to go home and watch cartoons. I don't want to talk to you You dork Gonna come in the office.  Homie the EMDR EMDR. Yeah at Denver University.  Yeah, they tried to like oh you processed a lot of trauma recently We're gonna try to we got fresh trauma. We got fresh Fresh catch, but they didn't know that I was smoking a blunt in my car Yeah in the in the parking lot and then coming in being like yeah, she didn't want to date me and they're like We want to talk about your sister dying.   I finally got a therapist. That was like you want to work on this stuff And I was like, yeah, I think I need to and then it's been 12 years and I could tell you my life has improved 200% it's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot.  You're going to do you're getting a promotion. Yeah, 200% year-over-year And I was always in trouble.  Oh, there was a kid that was skateboarding by my house and he flipped a skateboard over and he was he Blinded math. That's about that. I just walked across street. I went can I I didn't know what it was It's funny. I knew like I whatever if that's gonna make me feel better different than I am now I want to do it and then I was sneaking to my dad's Liquor cabinet and also his he was such an alcoholic. He would have a refrigerator in the garage. Oh my dad had that Yeah, and I just for beer just for beer.  Yeah, that's what I do You should watch my Netflix.  I found the crew. Okay, you find a crew and then it's like My crew is weird because I want to name names, but um, there was some homosexual badly going on Homosexual why? Homosexual battle it now. Oh, how do you say homosexual? Tell me more. What do you mean?  And do you think they were gay or they were just weird at like at that age where it's like Yeah, maybe I don't know maybe not only they're gay now, right, but it was still like it seemed rapey Yeah, well then if you know what I say if it seemed rapey, it's rapey. Yeah. Yeah, but it was like But I said also I was there was so much going on that back then that it was like it was just another thing Also, do you remember childhood as all terror? Well, it was mostly terror, but there was like, you know, um moments of Relief Yeah, and there was moments of levity and there was moments of like my dad would feel so guilty like let's go Disneyland Oh, so he did feel guilty. Yeah, so we'd be like, oh, we're at Disneyland is cool, right? But then he would get drunk and then you know, I mean go hog wild again, you know So it's like he felt guilty and it's so funny because when I graduated from high school Because he would you know when I got on that TV. He was on sketches. I Didn't know. Oh, yeah, like he didn't sketch with me and Ike Bernholz Yeah in a bathtub and my dad had lines and everything did that was he your dad was he like Yeah, yeah, we would do sketches like, you know, Ike visits my parents house for Thanksgiving, you know I mean and my actual parents would be in the scene That's why it was wild and my dad was everyone would love them. Yeah, you got so cool He was so cool when I graduated from high school. Oh, like he was he changed so dramatically That's fun. So you think the stress of having kids was like too much for him. No, I think what happened was One day when I was 16 years old My dad used to take golf clubs and beat through and just hit my legs with that as hard as he could And I remember I was on the wrestling team in high school and I was so so loaded You know, I mean that one day he would he put the of the golf club and I went, you know what? I'm gonna pick up a couple of two and We're gonna go and we went at it like I see the same size you around that point.   He never touched me again. Fuck. I wish I had that moment But you never had that because I had golf clubs That you should I I didn't know I didn't know that we could use him against her dad That would I had so many golf clubs.  Yeah, why didn't you because you thought that the consequences would be too severe Yeah, it was the idea of hitting my dad is like was impossible. Do you hit you? Yeah? Yeah You're my brother one time one of my brothers through him. This is like the kind of guy my dad was He like went into my brother's room. My brother's probably 18 or 20 and like tried to start a fight and my brother Peter threw my dad into a closet Like through the door onto the ground and then my dad goes picking on an old man, huh?   Well, you can't randomly hit him one day like breakfast I mean, but if he's attacking you then you pick up the golf club Yeah, I would just never got to Wow You were in California in Minnesota when this happened minutes. No, California then well, it feels like a California move It's a California move. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a Minnesota move. No midwest ice pick Yeah Skates skate. Yeah. Yeah. That's very interesting and But luckily I got sober early How early I was a junior in high school.  I've heard a lot of good things about math. It's the best. Yeah, that's what I've heard I had a girlfriend who had done math and she was like my teeth But never looked better and all you do is fuck. Yeah, you can't come though. That's a problem.  Yeah.   Yeah. Yeah, yeah But um, eventually you'd get there. Yeah, but but it would come out as powder, right? And then you'd snort that Yeah, yeah So that's funny So then my senior year I would go to a meetings out in la Jolla and then when I graduated graduated from high school I um I just moved to la Jolla and I lived two blocks from the comedy store Yeah, so that's how the comedy thing started when you're getting kicked out of schools and like authorities are going and cops and like we're Do you think This is a normal life or do you know like this is falling apart? I don't really understand it. Let's just see what happens No, the goal was death I did not want to live Because I would go to this cliff by my level there's like a little cliff and I would stand there For days and go should I jump should I jump? I mean, I want I didn't want to be here And what were the thoughts like? Let's just do it. This is the day I do it do it And I don't know it was just I think the fear of the pain Right, right and then what if it because it wasn't that high of a thing I think probably would have broken the leg. Yeah, right and there was it'd be a call for You know me a cry for help Yeah, almost Because I wanted to if I was going to do what I wanted to do it like if I worked if I lived in San Francisco I probably would have died I would just got another access to bridges. Yeah.  Yeah, just that Hole in your soul. Yeah, you know me and no future and that's the thing it's like Especially like in sophomore junior, I would get my grades were terrible. So I knew college was in the thing Right and I like I don't know how I'm going to survive in the future. I have no skills whatsoever So I was just like Oh, I have I don't know what to do. I'm like I just like maybe working at like maybe like at a home Depot or something. Yeah, but that was like it Which is not not bad. If you if you work at home people, that's a great job. I don't yeah They shouldn't kill themselves. What they shouldn't kill them. So they shouldn't get them. That's a good job And then you got sober and how long were you sober for that time almost 13 years Wow, yeah, so you moved here started doing stand-ups. I realized when I was on that tv Right, okay. Yeah, I knew that you did but I didn't know that and then you then you got sober again for My second year I met the end of my second year of mad tv during that summer. I got sober again Okay, and then you were sober 17 years after that So you're making it longer next time will be 20 21 no because I relapsed when my dad died and then I only lasted like nine months or whatever Oh, god relapsed again. And now I have a year next Wednesday. Congratulations Um, thank you. I mean, what do you?  I think I know what it is. What is it? success No, what Don't say math. Do not say no. No. In fact success is I call it a false god it is because when you first Like when I was doing stand-up in my 20s, I remember going. Oh, I don't need a meetings because The applause of an audience feels like spirituality almost Right, it kind of fills it, but it's like not real Right, because eventually it stops working. So the only thing you can do is go spiritual Right, it's like I you know every day I struggle with the concept of god You know what I mean because just you just look at the planet and in the history of our planet And you just kind of go how could there be but It's the only way I can do it So I don't oh you thought I wouldn't like that answer god I believe in god now.  I don't I don't really like to You know, I think a lot of people uh do but I just feel like My take is you know, I I don't want to be like an an advertisement for anything I just think that Life is so tricky that you just never know. So I just don't want anyone Yeah, I try to be open about my experiences Anyway, yeah, I mean I certainly I certainly don't I certainly it was somebody who was you know Notorious and infamous for for getting high and obviously that's not my lifestyle anymore. Um, but I definitely I definitely identify with that Uh typology of of person or something. I don't know that You know Like the brain ever changes or the way you hear music or something Yeah, really changes. So in in that sense, it's always sort of like in other words I'm somebody who still needs to be kind of like walking these streets at 5 a.m. Sort of you know, just thinking thoughts in the middle of the night almost like alone and You know or within the company of strangers, uh, and just to say and In that sense, I don't know that I'm fully uh You know, it's like I'm a a changed person in terms of I'm not I'm no longer like self-destructive in these same sort of violent ways that land you in You know hospitals and dy's and that kind of a thing when you think about that being like that Yeah, is it about self-acceptance? Is it about you feel odd? Like do you ever think about like your motives for because I you are you're like a legit interesting I don't know anyone that's kind of like you Thank you, uh You know, the other thing that's so weird is uh, I don't know if you're getting older But I've been getting older. So what's happening now? Is we've slowed it down all this kind of shenanigans when we sort of like Even when my mind sort of tells me a story about myself it's so You know connected to this like great event that are like my years as a junkie and really In the sort of like history of that timeline That's now like a blip In the axis of you know what I mean? There's like Sort of 25 years before now. There's like almost, you know 20 years later, which is weird because I'm 22 But it's it's sort of weird because it that it's such a sort of seminal event But I think so in a way I no longer see it as being so much about drugs and alcohol per se but more almost like I was uh At tish like a film and philosophy double major. I was like skipped my senior year of high school So I was there by the time I was like 16 years old and in that time.  You know, like that's where and you know, my parents had put me in that business And so it just didn't add up and I don't think I had the sort of proper support network to say You know, no, this is just an aspect of self I was very entangled with like the artist's trip of you know, either this is a substantive life or it's not So I think I really went under into like this sort of belly of the beast of To see how the other half live in a way that was very Like pseudo intellectual teenager who was obsessed with a certain kind of literature that Is traditionally very male lone wolf like expat I want to see what it's like sort of, you know boozy under the skin and It's just non-filter cigarettes and then I think almost like a a narc who went in too deep It was like the nature of addiction. So you really look back on it like almost you were just like I'm just see what this is like just for a second Not even for a second, but while I was like this trip of like this sort of ego trip of I kind of I did it, you know the man. Congratulations american pie and magazines and I remember as you said american pie I remember thinking when I saw you that you were in it. I was surprised you did it Yeah, I was like I was surprised they got you. I was like they got Natasha Leon. Wow Like the good for them and I was like I didn't I just thought you were a cool Indie yeah person and I think probably I was just sort of confused like Sort of like now it's it's very fun being You know a girl Just because it's sort of like time has caught up or something. I couldn't agree more women In their 30s are unlike like I'll meet girls.  I just think I was sort of like what is this whole gig, you know, and Anyway, so I think like a narc that was in too deep. I sort of you know drugs are catching so I kind of like You know, I made to you if you're weak. Yeah, and And then it was sort of like the the journey out was really the dark nights of the soul because it was not Like she's back. You know what I mean?  But anyway, just to say that It's it's sort of it's it's weird now looking back at all that stuff in the language in which You have to talk about it to make it make sense sort of, you know, like Season one of orange is a new black. I had to sort of talk about it in a way that Would be You know palatable to people sort of re accepting that per it's just it's all so weird when you talk about the nature of Humanity and how we don't fully give ourselves like the full breath of the human experience is all I mean Well, I say all that only knowing that we know each other and part of you know The excitement of you doing this is that you're somebody who does see things that way. So that's all so that was a thank you Yeah, kind of I'm kidding Well, you know, I've always sort of indulged in the buffet of drugs But there was a lot of there was a lot of crystal for a while. Sure, you know, and uh, which is From my hometown, you know, some one of our main exports. Sure. Sure. And uh, and You know, I think I always had a fascination with there's so much to do that staying up late I look there's nothing cooler than staying up late. Yeah, and it's sort of like you want to dance You want an omelet? You want to fix your car? But you realize after a while, it's like those aren't eggs This car is not broken and there's no music, you know, and so I just think After a while and he snorted you told me you did none Apparently is for bridge and tunnel weekenders. It's no that's the intro to homelessness Oh, oh, that's like you're just you're you're you're it's not worth the Oh, yeah, that's exactly you get from smoking.   Yeah, essentially unlike cocaine. It's like it's Bonertown it puts an s on your chest, but that s is test for speech Whatever there's is there an s on my chest or not? It doesn't matter what it's for It sort of leaves you emotionally in a strange spot because you're interested You're interested But uh, you're only you kind of it keeps the stone from sinking all the way You're kind of skipping along the top. You're interested, but you have no attention span, right But you're ready to be like, you know, I feel I feel I was able to keep my attention span But also creates a bluntness. We're like, okay enough of that now. We're you know, and you don't you're like I can't worry about hurting that person's feelings. I don't think it made me cruel by any standard. It's just I love to To talk and listen engage in that back and forth but um, it's certainly You keep your eye on the prize And you and you put these kind of emotional blinders on I think and frankly, I realized that that it played into my workaholic nature You said you never missed a meeting meaning you were able to do meth off and on for 16 years. Yeah, and glorious years And you were a functioning I was a high functioning guy, you know, I I did, you know Business and didn't spend a lot didn't spend a lot of money didn't have any Didn't wreck any cars didn't do you know, um, I just felt like like I was leaning forward the whole time and really frankly enjoyed it so much for the time, you know, I don't I gotta say From the outside in faces of meth stuff aside if I could like pause my life And do it for a while. I would do it. Yeah. I mean, I think that's that's it's real It's real tractor beam as it's difficulty to sort of exit from I bet. Yeah, you know, that's it's got like a 4% Right. So once you get involved in that life, it's it's very difficult and that's including snorting It doesn't make a difference. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think that the main difference would be like Smoke and just degenerate you so much you go through so much more of it and it's just you start wearing it immediately and You know, it's to my experience that snorting it or parachuting it as they would call it to swallow something like Is more of a slow burn But you're on a high speed burning up a lot of life force Yeah, I mean, I I always reckon I knew that you're stealing the years at the end of your life To to pressure them like create a diamond in the pressure. That was the hope Yeah, you know, but but also those are kind of the those are the rationales you tell yourself a bit And I also realized I was really covering up a lot of My own blocks, you know, I really was sincerely Um trying to put a callus wherever it hurt Okay, well, that's what I want to that's why you're here You have an album out That doesn't matter though.  What's your name? And it was like that's what it is. That's not like I saw you say you came all over my algorithm. Yeah, basically Uh, but just that's where this what it is now. It's like, yeah, you got in my algorithm, right? But why are all the words for it so disgusting?  I don't want to hook the bag from around your ears What okay, so you you said that you didn't do any self-help stuff till about five years ago So it seems like you were just Living in a haphazard way Well, it was uh, frankly, I was like it's working for me. I'm able to get myself I'm able to get myself off for long stretches of time How long it would be like four months Yeah, five months and and was it was it definitely it was like well, it was of course It's increasingly difficult and so it would be on purpose It would say in order to justify my next camping trip so to speak he called it camping In order to justify this I need to You know, also it's like I would be home And it would be a father and I wouldn't be on tour and so I would be like this is not I need to show myself. I have this control and so it's kind of always flexing on my own psyche that way and there I I want to pause and say I get a perverse pleasure from Deprivation. Yeah, I like and it sounds like you did too like that sort of like Like there's something biblical about like in the desk in the desk Like, you know, yeah, and I I guess I romanticize my own ideals anyways And so romanticizing like I can take it I can do this And this is the right thing to do in this moment and then I can choose to stay off if I want to it's like Somehow running myself through the paces of you got to earn this Mm-hmm. I never felt like I would be playing music this long anyways. And so it comes To be that, you know, it's also like you got to earn this too. And this is art and you got to You know, you have to take it on the chin. You know, yeah, it's everything's a trial by fire Well, and I've always I've always loved my own blood and spit and scars and things like that.  I still believe that, you know I still believe what's funny is that reads in your work and it also reads in the fans It feels like a lot of people Believe it and there it like your sort of genre Has so many visual trappings tattoos. There's like a low rider thing.  I've sort of omitted or not omitted but sort of extracted Speed from the Maya conversation or my lifestyle anymore The ideals remain the same those things are unchanged. This is more dealing with them head on and being And not allowing Crystal to be part of that truth, right like my solution starts here hit it Gary bring those lines over It's just not because I I realized that how much I was running from things instead of I felt like I was taking them head on And I was colliding because it is There is something brutal about it. Yeah, it's it's brutal. It's a brutal lifestyle You know, but it's there's like a cool. There's like a cool. It's you know, it's like the glamour of You know bukowski and and yeah and the salt and sea Yeah, and and like the fringe of life its entry point is the fringe of life and so joshua tree and and To to feel like you're escaping you look no further than where you're already standing, you know You're in this location and and the mental location Of the fringe from the start and so it becomes really simple to make art or really not simple Joyous to make art there Because you feel like you're living the art you're already outside Yeah You're announced like everyone there is an outside the romantic side of that because again as I said I was like my ideals like fairness and justice and and love and revenge and perfection and and you know You know forgiveness That I romanticize those because that's what that's what we kind of do is you know, you know, I I need to believe That it's real. So it doesn't feel silly Yeah But also when you do stuff like speed you really deny what hurts You know you really and you're doing a psychotic, you know, and and so it is a psych out It is a psychotic and so you're what you're doing is encouraging But I really learned the last five years is that anger is the sword I hold in a hand which is hurt, right? So when I would feel insecure or scared Afraid to do something Or challenged by that Sometimes my reaction is anger. No, which really doesn't make sense You know, I mean it's a fight or flight mechanism I guess but it doesn't make sense in the solution Like I'm scared.  Well first putting gambit smoking crystal seems Like a badass Hardcore thing to do snort snort. I'm sorry. I'll do it again Again guys don't smoke it snort it If you take nothing away if you stop it right now Snort it Um, I beg of you sir, sir Hear my words here. Listen to me. You listen to me It seems like a badass thing to do. It seems brave. It seems But it's a complete avoidance Yeah, I mean it's the ultimate way to sort of be over sexualized and and and heightened at all levels except for your emotional Dexterity, you know, it's like talk about being emotionally unlimber And and and also getting off the the depression associated with getting off and taking those breaks So you're you constantly heave hoeing on your how long would the depression last when you quit? The full four months or would it be a couple weeks?  Yeah, and um Like when it's in the eggs, you're making. Yeah, you're like gooey.   So there's no way You know and then plus when you drain the ocean of that and that chemical depression side goes away You're still left with what was there from the beginning. What made you start to actually Do the work? What made you start to actually think about Your real problems not your relationship with crystal Snorted well, I I always was hoping that there I knew there would be something some day that would be like That's the wall and I hope that that thing would be something where someone would say if you Now's the time or you could die, but it didn't involve dying.   And that's it And how do you how do you manage this? How do you because I always felt I have the ability to exhibit those kinds of controls But I'm not a control freak. I just My preference would be To not have it go out of control.  That was my way of coping on tour Doing drugs. Yeah, and then I would come home and and it also it created Exacerbated that feral nature and nature in me, which I was like makes the shows more unpredictable And it does And I never knew what I was going to do and nobody else knew And it could be blood and it could be flowers and it's just and I loved Rolling the dice like that the risk and then it just became like unmanageable. Yeah.  There's no reason You know, and well, you've done it before there's your reason. Yeah, sure. Well, and it was like And and I'm actually gaining enough knowledge to do it better now Yeah, you know, I've thought about it. I'm an expert here. Yeah But I just like I remember like You know going to the coke dealers and just getting a gram You know when it was still light out. How much is that? It was like a hundred bucks. It was like, but how much how much? It's a gram of coke. I don't know. I've never I've only seen it. It doesn't seem like a lot It looks maybe like sort of like in the little rubber band spoon. Okay. No, it's like a like a like Like, uh, what do you call it a uh heavy tablespoon ish, you know, yeah, not a ton That might even be more than it. You know, yeah, I wish they did it a tablespoon They should have a teaspoon. You can it'd be easier. Yeah, maybe it's sort of like, you know It's like four or it's maybe like two or three sugar packets Okay, you know, but I just remember getting it And then going to the bar at the avenue B and seventh and just getting a pint of bass after doing a few rails at his house and just being like, this is the best It wasn't even like where we going. There was just possibility. There was like my brain It had a sort of a ritalin effect. I was jacked, but I was like, you know, like everything's okay, you know Yeah, but then it just gets bad. You can't hold on to that and you know, and you don't really know how you're acting You don't really know You know how you're coming on you probably don't care either, right? I think I I kind of care how you're I just thought I was like exciting and it was like it gave me like to what just reacting to what you said earlier like I don't know that I am fundamentally Angry, I don't think that's the deepest layer of me. I think I'm over sensitive and you know, weirdly terrified of failure in all ways including socially Uh, and I think the anger thing happened After my first heartbreak and you know, and I just kind of learned how to wear that But I think ultimately I'm a hypersensitive person that has I'm terrified of Of being embarrassed and and and but it happens a lot I think that was another thing I got from my mother. She was embarrassing My mother the way she'd order at restaurants the way she'd you know sexualize everything.   It's you shank. You got a shank. It's yeah, yeah, yeah Psych psychological uh prison logic. Yeah, so it came from Fear I just feel like I just didn't have a sense of self for you know until fairly recently In some what's funny is it's like you but you haven't really changed that much. I know I know like it's weird, you know when I At some point like a decade ago or so. I was watching my old stuff thinking like I can't watch it and I'm like, oh, that's me Yeah Like what what am I thinking? What's going on up here to where like, I don't even know who that guy is Yeah, I know that guy. Yeah the same guy. I'm still embarrassed, but it's like and it's true less embarrassed So it was yeah, it's not as embarrassing as things. Totally not. I'm like, I was just trying jokes. They weren't bad Hey, did you like that? Did you like that? Yeah, did you like it though? 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Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here bringing you another video about the Canon XA40 professional camcorder. This is the delightful pro camcorder I picked up about. I think six weeks ago now, I've been using it pretty much every day since then and I really, really love this device. The only criticism or negative I would say about it, and that's becoming more clear, the more I shoot with it is that the low light performance is definitely a lot. It definitely suffers, put it like that. If you're in nighttime shooting conditions and you have some artificial lighting, it'll do a decent job, but if you don't have that, it really starts to get quite noisy images. So if you have enough money to be able to afford the XA50 with that one in sensor versus a one over 2.3 in the XA40, I would definitely say it's a worthwhile upgrade. So one of the first things I wanted to buy in terms of aftermarket stuff, besides this lovely shotgun microphone, was to get another battery pack. So the battery pack that this, I'm gonna just take it off here. The battery pack it comes with is the, it doesn't actually, ah, it does, it's BP-820. And from what I read online, the BP-828 is interchangeable now at 7.4 volts. I'm just gonna see if I can get this in focus. Might be a little bit tricky because I'm shooting this on a webcam. And it's a 1700 milliampere hour, I believe. I'm not a battery expert, but that's the capacity as far as I know, 1700 milliampere hour battery. So I couldn't find a OEM battery for sale in my locality in Israel. So I probably will get one in the summer because one thing you always run out of when you're shooting video for long periods of time is battery. But what I did is I went on to AliExpress and I found out, as I said, that the, it seemed to me as if the 828 or Canon actually recommend there's interchangeable product numbers for this battery, the 828 and the 820. So this is the B-B-T-828. And so this was listed as being like basically an AliExpress knockoff of this. Now, what my understanding for non-OEM batteries has been that they can't damage your camera. I may be wrong about that. Do not rely on this statement, check that out. I've heard that they will not damage your camera but that you might have some issues with the chip. In other words, the battery reporting it's level to the circuit board of the camera. So that is a big disadvantage. But it's, you know, it's for, there's give and take when you're buying non-OEM stuff. The second thing to say about this is it's a big, it's a big chunky battery. So this is a, this capacity is 2,900 milliamp per hour and it's also listed as 7.4 volts. So it looks to me that they have the copycats right just at least in terms of the voltage. I'm trying again to get this guy in focus and failing. But it's a 2,900 milliamp per hour lithium ion. Do not store in temperatures over 60 degrees Celsius. And let me just show you a size, a side-by-side comparison. This is the OEM battery from Canon on the right. It's the shorter one and the AliExpress battery. I'm just going to move out of the frame for a second. So it's a decent bit longer. But to me, that actually makes sense because unless you're using the OED viewfinder you have room at the back. So I'm going to just firstly slide in the OEM battery here. Just show you how an OEM battery is supposed to work. So I'm turning this guy on and it's reading out my power remaining as being 147 minutes. So it's pretty close to its charging capacity up there on the top right. So now I'm going to go ahead and swap in the AliExpress battery. Okay, so I'm putting the AliExpress battery into the camera now and it's definitely locked firmly in place. Now in terms of, here's the side profile because as I said, this guy's a bit chunkier than this. So it's taken up another centimeter. In terms of using the viewfinder, that was my main concern here. So you can still actually do it even with this longer battery. Now I can't remember, I did the mathematics before starting this video, 2900 over 1700. I think it came to 1.6. So you're getting actually 160% of the battery capacity of the OEM battery. So it should theoretically last a bit longer. Now of course the litmus test is going to be, is this going to report the battery level to the camera? So let's go ahead and find that out. I haven't tested this before shooting this video. So this is a live test. It's showing 100, no, it's just jumped right up there to 227 minutes from 140. So it does look as if it's reporting. And the next question is, can this guy be charged? So let's go ahead and try that. So I have the camera turned off now when I'm using the OEM charger from Canon. And I'm going to just go ahead now and connect it into the DC in-jack here. Now what should happen when it's charging is that the red light on the opposite side should illuminate. So I've just gone ahead and connected and the red lights popped on. So it looks to me as if this is working. I'm definitely going to do just a little bit more research before going out and using the non-OEM battery. I'm always going to just as a kind of best practice. I always use my OEM battery first because I do worry a little bit, but assuming that the worry is unfounded, that looks like it works perfectly well just to sort of refresh the essentials of this video. It's a 2900 milliampere hour battery. It's called the Canon 4Kan BP-A28. Now when these kind of knockoff companies are trying to come out with product numbers, they typically try to sort of replicate the actual. So it's BP-A28 and Canon's official one is BT or something like that, Batmax battery pack. It came in this box, I didn't really say a whole bunch, but how much you need to know about it, about a battery. Lithium ion, 100% more power. And it just says basically, dispose of used batteries properly. So I'm going to give this a shot, shooting and hope that it works out well.


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Mae'r hwn yw'r cyfnodd yn fwyaf o'r cyfnodd y maen nhw yw'r cyfnodd. Felly mae'r ddwyライd. Felly mae'r ddwy Llywodraeth yn gyfnodd yn fwyaf o'r cyfnodd. Yn gyfryd o'r cyfnodd yn y ddwy Llywodraeth yn edrych ar gyfer cyfnodd, mae'r cyfnodd yn cyfnodd yn cyfnodd, rwy'n cyfnodd yn cyfnodd y cyfnodd, surfaces so it can grow more naturally and with less room for errors and problems. So there are a lot of misconceptions about WordPress. I'm sure we've all heard these, WordPress it's insecure. It's only for blogs and news websites. It's not for real developers and WordPress sites look too similar. Mae'r dweud yn diwrdd ei wneud flwyddyn, maen nhw'n gwrtho'r cyfle i'r cyflwyno'r rhagl. Mae'r un gweithio'r un, ac mae gennym eich bod nhw'n gweithio'r gweithio'r cyflwyno, ac yn y cwysig, mae'r cyflwyno'r cyflwyno'r cyflwyno, rwy'n gwneud fe yw'r hynny yw yw'r hwn, a'r tyfnod yw. Mae'r tyfnod yn ychydig yn dda. Dwi'n ddod i ddwy'r cyflwyno yw'r cyflwyno'r cyflwyno'r cyflwyno'r rhagl, A gynnyddio'r ystyried i gyfnodau toeth yn gynhyrchu'r problemau yn gynhyrchu'r gynhyrchu sy'n fawr. A wnaeth yw'r gynhyrchu, yna'r hyn ymgyrch yn y dyfodol? Felly mae'n bwysig o'r gynhyrchu eich bod yn gynhyrchu i weld, yn y cyflym i gyd ymweld. Mae'r gynhyrchu'r modd amser yn gweithio'r gwybodol. So, when we're talking about scaling in terms of development, what do we mean? Firstly, I'll go from what we don't mean, it doesn't mean just making something much bigger or making it a much larger code base or larger piece of software. Also related, it doesn't mean just adding to something that's already there. It does not mean adding more complexity. In fact, I would argue at the reverse is what you should go for. It's not removing old code, although that can be a part of it, but generally if it's legacy code that's actually doing something, then I would argue keep it in there. Not adding more workload or dependencies to any system. So, in the context of a WordPress site, we could argue that's adding plugins or adding to the theme that you've built. I would say scaling is about making something be able to grow organically. By this, I mean with minimal interference or minimal being able to develop it well initially so that there's less need for developer resource labour on down the line. So, you can easily add to it and if there is developer resource needed, you can add some functionality without rewriting everything else. Related to that, make something able to be added to without breaking anything else. This is where things like good development patterns are very good to have and good code structure using object-oriented PHP helps with this, but there are a lot of other things that go into that. Follow-in preset patterns for design implementation, particularly in terms of the code that you're writing. If you follow some set patterns for implementation and adding to that beforehand, particularly if within your team you're following similar coding standards and similar guidelines, it means that it's much easier to add to it later on. Allow for progressive improvements. This is why I meant you will allow for any new code to be added progressively. Particularly if you're building something in agile way where you release the site in a minimum workable version and then add to it later on. If you've scaled it effectively, it should allow for this much more efficiently. It allows for increased workload on the system of minimal impact. This is not only a server issue, but in terms of if we take WordPress, for example, if you can add extra code to the site without it breaking anything, or if you can add particular plugins that you have built, which are similar to maybe other custom ones that you have built, or maybe using some of their same classes, that can actually help. This would be my definition for what scaling is in terms of software development and web development and so on. You build a system in a way that's so minimal that you build a system in such a way that minimal effort is required to add to it's size of workload, and in doing so causes minimal impact. Why may WordPress sites typically have scaling problems? The big one that I found in many cases is over-alliance on third-party plugins. The problem there is that a lot of these plugins may use different coding standards, they may use outdated PHP in some cases, whereas some may be using more modern PHP, or there may be conflicts in their functionality. I've seen this across certain sites where many different caching plugins are added, which sounds, to uninformed users, it may sound like a good idea, but then a lot of that functionality can be conflicting with each other, because memory problems and so on. Potentially just a badly written code that we see in some places, so maybe it's using JavaScript that's not following standards very well, or even using PHP that technically works but could be improved. The WordPress site itself may not have been updated, the plugins may not be updated, so again it may be using older code, particularly if the server version of PHP or whatever software is running may have been updated, but the code base itself hasn't been for that, that can cause some problems. Replicates functionality that can easily be achieved without plugins. I've seen this, I'm not against using plugins, but I tend to take an approach of being very minimal with them. I tend to argue that if you add a plugin, or if a member of my team always adds a plugin, I kind of want to see a good reason why and what to be gained from that. So I'd like to keep it minimal, but I can't really give an idea of how many that should be, that would depend on the site. So if you're replicating functionality that you could easily achieve without plugins or with a very small custom build plugin, then that obviously can cause problems, particularly if that's done in a lot of cases. Or project management and version control mechanisms. So this is not necessarily a down to exactly the code, but more from a development team culture standpoint that can cause some problems for the code base itself. I've seen some of these before, changes being made on the fly, particularly on production where things are made, where we... I know I've probably made this excuse before, it's a very small change, but they add up to many little changes which maybe aren't being tracked well or not being put through version control or through proper testing mechanisms and made it snowballs into quite a big problem eventually. And no formal software development methodology. Now I'm not arguing that every team should go agile or can ban or scrum to the letter, but it's good to at least look at the way these methodologies do things and actually see if you can adapt it to your team in some way. So if you choose to go agile or scrum or can ban or many of the others, that's kind of a way to approach it, but I would argue to actually adapt that to your team. Scope Creek and Curran, we've all seen this when particular building third party websites, the scope can change a lot which does happen, but there should be things in place early on which means that Scope Creek can be redirected either into something that's a second version of the project or that's maybe a smaller component that you can add to it later on and not forcing it into a project at launch, for example. I have seen this not often, but probably more than I would like to admit where I've gone on to projects and there's not been an adequate stage in all development setup where maybe there is a stage in development setup, and there's always a disconnect between that environment and a production environment or there's not proper use of those versioning systems. So obviously that can cause problems in terms of code being pushed adequately and in terms of the code just being kept in good health, so checking it adequately before you actually put in the production. Not keeping themes called and plug-ins updates. This is mentioned and it's pretty simple. I'm sure many of us do realise this. By not keeping those things updated, there's a lot of security vulnerabilities that can be in that code and the code can be in an update standard or it increases potential for conflicts. For example, if a plug-in actually is using object-oriented PHP at me, it's probably calling a class in a particular area, whereas if it's using quite outdated mechanisms and there are many functions in there that are actually interfering with others, there might be similar names and so on. If they're the same, actually no, if they're the same it will often cause a complete error, but in terms of the functionality itself, that's something that could cause conflicts or memory leaks. So overall hosting resources that can't keep up the demand. So in this case, it's not directly down to development, it's more of a DevOps issue but if there's a lack of control over your hosting environment, then that obviously does limit what you can necessarily do with it and limits how you can actually optimise for that. So if you, for example, are hosting a site on shared hosting, that's obviously the obvious limitation. So that's why I would always recommend VPS hosting or dedicated server. They're really not... They are really very affordable now and there's very good setups for that. Like I mentioned earlier, there's many hosting providers we know who give VPS and dedicate server environments and often even for clients it can easily be sold to them that it's a pretty cost-effective solution when you're looking at more uptime, more control over the server environment, the ability to upscale it more efficiently and so on. So, yep, that's essentially, it's default setups being incompatible with project needs can cause this kind of problem. A lack of understanding of WordPress and its structure can cause a lot of these scaling problems. So if I've seen this in cases where certain themes that I've come across where there's PHP functions being declared within the theme itself and then used when those functions actually exist within core or something very similar does exist within the core WordPress framework. So if you get to understand the WordPress codex or similar or the WordPress developer resource you can see all these built-in functions and what they can be used for. So it's best to use that initially and then just if you need to add more you declare them in your functions following the theme and so on. And if you also have seen where some things are not following the template structure so like we have single.php and single-postaip etc. So it's just that with WordPress development the further you go away from the core rules or framework in terms of actually developing templates and developing themes the more room you leave for problems and the more harder it is to actually maintain that particularly when you update WordPress it might cause some problems or so on. And I'll touch on this as well later on but if you stretch your WordPress and store beyond its capacities without planning for it then that obviously can cause some issues. So if both in terms of the size and scale of the site but also in terms of if you're going outside of e-commerce and regular e-commerce and blogging certainly can do that in WordPress and there's many WordPress apps that do that very well but you probably would need a lot of planning to make sure that it's able to scale to that level. Update techniques and pull current standards so I'll touch on this but if you have any kind of outdated codes or use an inconsistency of standards across those things or if there's no proper organisation in the code base then that can cause some issues and use an object directly in PHP it's not a must do but I would say it definitely is you get huge benefits from doing that not just in terms of site performance but also in terms of saving time really and writing code yourself so if you declare a class or an object then you can reuse you can put all the related functions into that class and just reuse it simply put we can go much deeper into that there's no time really object-during PHP on its own it's more than a talk but what can we do so there are a few issues particularly for WordPress that can go scaling issues but what can we do to make them scale more quickly I'll say firstly reduce reliance on third party plugins not saying to move away from them completely some of them are useful even from a development point of view I would say reduce reliance on them where possible before installing ask is this plugin necessary will it actually save development resource or will it actually maybe cause more problems later on will it be something we'll actually need to develop something else to counter against I take this approach here build a custom plugin to store functionality instead of adding to the functions file within your theme if possible it also helps with debugging if you can add it to a plugin that you've custom built then if you do redevelop or change the theme you can simply move that same functionality across ensure plugins are deactivated and removed if they're no longer necessary I know it sounds obvious but I've seen this in many sites a plugin has been left active since launch and it's not doing anything I've seen that several times so something that's important to keep in mind also avoid the thinking of there's a plugin for this or there's a plugin for that plugins are good to use sparingly but then sometimes it's good to write a bit of code because you'd save yourself more time in the long run by doing that in many cases from my point of view sometimes it's the easier option for the team to develop their own functionality in-house implement proper project management methodologies to the development lifecycle so I think a mistake that I've seen in some development teams is particularly of developers who are new to WordPress they come to it with a mentality of WordPress development being easier or being not like building other softwares or other applications but it is a framework like all the others that should be looked at in a similar way I argue so you don't have to follow necessarily any of these or any particular methodology but it's good to at least know what they are about so it's just methods rather than technical knowledge it's the way you would organise a project in software development so if it's a Scrum, Majol or Canban or Scrum and Canban are actually forms of Majol or if it's a very rare now but waterfall or test room development so I think it's good to get at least a basic understanding of a lot of these methodologies and then look at how if you're in a position to do so you look at how the team is structured and the company culture and so on and try and think what the best way to actually implement some kind of system in your workplaces so I would not argue to follow everything to the letter without thinking how you would adapt it to your team because then that's just a recipe for disaster particularly if you're not taking into account the company culture and if you do make the changes I would say meant and gradually for example my team I'm trying to introduce Scrum but we're doing that in a much slower manner because I feel not only with users but also with development teams it's difficult to get people to adopt a new standard if you do it right away and force it right away so it's best to gradually get people used to some of the concepts and introduce some of the ways of working over time you saw the virtual control systems so Git is the main one there's also Mercurial use multiple branches in your repositories maybe it's basic it's just a development staging and production or master but I have seen in other cases where we create feature branches so for each new feature that's being built you'll create a separate branch and then merge it back into development or so on that's been some way of doing it so if you have multiple developers working on a project you can separate your code out more efficiently that way and it's obvious but don't push to production before putting it through the pipeline ideally you would have some kind of extra script that will run from your master branch to production but yeah that's maybe you would have to just do a Git pull depending on the resources keep themes, plugins and core updated as mentioned I won't go too much into this because we've gone for it already so conflicts are more likely if your plugin seems in core updated and performance benefits can be realised if you keep them updated I know sometimes some of you are probably thinking we've often updated things in WordPress and it breaks stuff true, that can still happen which is why you put things on a development server or a staging server first and ensure you run in a server and if you're going to scale your WordPress site and it's going to be a very large site and it's going to have a lot of resources ensure you're running our server or hosting and you'll have all large applications and requests so if ensure it's a server that can handle a lot of traffic and not fall down once it hits 1,000 users or not make sure you can actually run many scripts on there at once or can as I said serve many users and so on VPS hosting or dedicated hosting is ideal for this and if you're trying to sell this to clients to pay a bit more for hosting it's pretty easy to I would argue it's much easier now to sell it to clients than it was previously particularly because that kind of hosting is now much more affordable than it used to be so yeah use a VPS dedicated hosting and ideally also pick one that gives you SSH access so it may not be yourself doing that maybe a DevOps and so on but if you have access directly into the server and access to actually be able to change certain configurations that will help you to optimise it so if you have access to the command line then you can still WordPress CLI and it will just allow you to more scalably manage the application and ensure even within your team that there's an understanding of WordPress and it's you've stripped the limitations in your project team so this is more around basically around the misconception that it's only for blogs or news sites basically commerce so I would argue that you need to your team must have some understanding of that if you are going beyond those core uses of WordPress you can but it may be that you may need to heavily customise your own code or combine it with our frameworks and this is where we get into headless WordPress and so on I would argue if possible at all do not take the plugin heavy approach to this we see there are plugins for social media additions to WordPress and there are plugins for all kinds of additions but I would argue not to take that approach and try and maybe combine it with other frameworks if possible plan ahead and stick to the scope when planning a complex WordPress site so if you know that it's going to be a very complex site you can plan ahead and yes things do change but the more you plan ahead and the more you actually stick to a roadmap the more easier it is to adapt to any roadblocks that might come in the way and I mentioned about headless so you can look at different options depending on the complexity so if you go for the regular couple traditional coach where the CMS and the front end are directly linked or if you go for a headless site where WordPress is just the admin interface multi site obviously splitting up your WordPress site multiple sites within the one site so they can all be administrated separately or decoupled so similar to headless but it's as well as serving the data to a third party application you also serve like cached pages and so on and the last one is actually use modern well structured coding standards so there's only three things I'm really going to talk about here but I don't know if you can see or object-oriented PHP where possible object-oriented PHP two major things of this classes and something called dependency injection which I can't go deep into dependency injection because it's very technical but it's something that you can use within object-oriented PHP that really cleans up the code and makes it much easier to adapt it another recommendation adopt a coding standard in your team doesn't a coding standard will not necessarily improve the code or how it runs but it means if you have multiple developers working on the project it will be much easier to maintain it because for a project management point of view it means that commenting and so on is much easier and it's much more uniform adequate document and comment your code and use SAS to write CSS rules and compile that into CSS files so the last one isn't always necessary but I would recommend it so you use SAS to write your CSS rules and again it's much more scalable because it's generally much more intuitively arranged rules and then you compile that into a style CSS file so it's not central but it does help in terms of being able to scale the rules that you're adding to your CSS to be able to maintain it well and removes a lot of confusion and complexity that may inadvertently arrive from that so I said I've mentioned three areas classes so this is one part of object drawing at PHP so thinking about your code in terms of objects in wordpress you might put this object there's users, post pages, comments etc and any attributes that are associated with them so you combine the general idea is you combine any functions of an object into a class and it can save time encoding and can minimize code created as well as making the calls much more efficient when they're done well so the very basic example so if you take an object car and you create a class for that you could create these set color and get color functions for that so when we're actually calling that we just create new two instances of that car class and then run a set color as we've called it here to actually just add to set a color for each object and then if this was much more complex we would have more functions and it could get more complex and more but this is a very crude basic example just to demonstrate how it works depends injection so you reuse the way this works you reuse the functionality of other classes or objects in a new class to declare and declare functionality that depends on that functionality so saves time encoding is also great when it's cut down on this code or recoding certain functionality so again this is a very very crude example it goes a lot deeper than this but this is, if we were to take the car example again if you imported car as a class into so here the class that we're setting is that's using the dependency injection is the driver class at the bottom so I will explain it because I'm sorry I realize it's a bit so if we set a class driver then we could import functionality from the car class and use that within the driver class that we created so I suppose another good example if you think of a torch that's like think of that as like an object and almost it's like using a dependency injection from batteries or from a switch so a dependency injection is when you use the functionality of another class or object within the one that you're declaring so it's not necessary but you can help to cut down on unnecessary code and rewriting stuff but that's that's a totally separate thing and you could look into it afterwards because it goes quite deep and lastly MVC so this Laravel and Magento and Symphony is built on this but I've seen a lot of WordPress themes starting to use this concept so it's where you divide the model, you divide your code into model view and controller so I've seen this in you see this in other CMS systems like Drupal, Magento and also frameworks like Laravel and Symphony so to put it shortly, model it structures the data in a reliable form and prepares it based on our controller's instructions the view is essentially just your templates so what the user is rendered to the user on the front end and the controller takes user commands and sends them to the model for data updates and sends that to the view right thank you, that's everything I hear a lot about headless CMS at the moment and I was wondering what your experience with it is whether you think it makes a big difference and where you wouldn't use it or would use it and what the limitations are I would not I see a lot of benefits of it and the reason I would probably not use it would depend on if it's maybe overkill for your use so if you're still running a very basic WordPress site that's pretty light then you may not really see much benefit from it but if you are running a WordPress site that will be very complex and maybe it's best to serve that in another application framework then I might go with that approach or if you perhaps want to syndicate your WordPress content elsewhere I've seen that in some cases as well where maybe the content has been served in multiple places so then you might keep it just ahead of the CMS I did one quick question if you're serving a thousand users fairly complex application what kind of server resources would you assign to that? In that case I would go with a dedicated server with high good memory but aside from that it's not really about the server but I would argue use something like Plowflare for example to funnel certain traffic if it comes through a high rate You need an mention of on the life of this bicycle That's going to be difficult to scale on giving the advertiser of the WordPress database That's true It's a very good advertiser I agree that is a problem There are obviously new versions of MySQL that is MongoDB and MariaDB That is a limitation at the moment it's something that Core does can't rely on You can technically change the database but that's a very difficult thing to do So I agree that is a limitation I don't know how you'd overcome that side of it That's a processor Yeah It will probably target that, you'll get the information on it so you probably better partition off the database traditional database methods that we've used for years to handle SQL databases or SQL style databases would be a, you know, so you would separate transactions from data for instance, you would concentrate on, you know, those two put sort of stuff coming in and out you would need to potentially set them up with different you know the hardware at the back There's many ways you could actually walk your way through it I don't know the limitations they're not quite at the end of the world yet I don't think for the interest now about you know you just go back to traditional SQL practices The fundamentals are there at what price, most of the database it doesn't lend itself to the indexing because if you're in a value pair structure of the tables that's very difficult to change that thought puzzle and you're right, that's the limitation that the database is able to sell which is a, that's a different way but you know, normally you could do to look at those hotspots and then try and walk your way through the data but if you see something that you can't you should have a bit of complex Now I was going to say very quickly the other thing you do is split the database onto a different server which is going to complement what you might just say and just have one two separate servers so you can cluster your database also so I'm seeing that in one project I had What do you see? Don't the database have a different server? Well you cluster it into different nodes so rather than serving it all from the same you would have a few, it's only really for very big sites you might cluster it into different servers and they will serve it from different servers In front of me the queries less So it means cuts down queries and it also acts as a backup so in case a nice kind of server goes down it means there's still others that can serve that it helps with the memory and so on Thank you So with a typical framework for the planar version of that you've got database migrations that you've managed to do production in another virus so what would you recommend on that Honestly in terms of WordPress I don't know what I would I work with Laravel a lot so I know I know about migrations and seed files and so on You probably could set something like that for your WordPress install but I don't know the quick and easy solution Have you seen Laravel a new project built into your WordPress system is that what you do I have I have done that before so used headless WordPress with a Laravel application but in terms of because obviously Laravel has the built in like database migrations so you can just create a seed file for your table or you can generate it through the command line and you can move that to a new server WordPress I mean it could be something I've just missed out on but I don't know a solution like that for it In theory you probably could do that with that too maybe with composer or so on but I'm not sure off the top of my head how that would be done Remember if you have an idea for a lightning code you can go and sign up by the registration desk and thank you please Thank you