I do believe that we have survived all of the attacks and the punishers and we kind of had a little bit of fun with all the punishment stuff so hopefully you realize that punishment isn't always the most ethical way to change behavior for various reasons as you noticed that I was avoiding all right I was able to predict it I was able to and then one of the side effects is also imitating it and so on so forth so we had a little bit of fun with the punishment so we're done with that particular piece but we did want to keep going on with the rest of the evaluation here so let's jump back into it and here we go we often talk about teaching people to fish well you know what screw that I'm just gonna teach them to go out and eat I don't need them to go fish right now I need them to put fish in my pocket I need to be able to feed my family so I am absolutely gonna focus on milking this for as long as I can I don't you know they've ethically speaking they've hired like 30 people anyway so there none of what I'm doing is gonna have any bit of effect at all because they've already hired tons of people so if they want to make sure effective hooey it's not even gonna happen I don't even care anymore okay well I didn't get shot thankfully we did at least violate 2.09 so 2.09 being the whoa lost it here what do we have the treatment intervention efficacy and what we're really talking about is how the client has a right to the to effective treatment and you heard me talking about that repeatedly how the client does not did we really didn't care right so we're just like whatever we don't care what they're doing we don't care what's gonna go on we don't care if it's gonna be effective we just care about client in a paycheck that's just woefully did unethical and I think the bigger picture here with this isn't even an ethical vibe well I suppose it is an ethical violation but it's really getting outside of what ABA is all about right so in general you see this whole thing talking about teaching people to fish right but I'm saying no we're not gonna teach him to fish we just we want him to go out and eat and so the point being there that we're violating I don't know how many of the seven characteristics right and I'm not gonna go through all the seven characteristics but social significant behavior and so on so forth so there's a whole bunch of things in there that we're violating we're really just not being behavior analytic as a behavior analyst your idea the goal is to build behavior you're gonna strengthen behavior you're gonna teach people to do things you're not gonna do it for them you're not gonna fill in the gaps you're literally gonna teach people so that applies in whether you're working with the clinic with kiddos or you're working with a business in an OVM setting so keep that in mind folks we are got to keep that seven principles in front and center every time you're working in the field it doesn't matter what you're doing and of course our standard ethical violation here of 2.09 so thanks I know this is a quick one we'll see you again for another one


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A 3500-year-old Egyptian obelisk stands at 69 feet tall in New York City. The 220-ton obelisk was carved from a single piece of stone from Aswan in Upper Egypt. Upon completion, ancient Egyptian engineers transported it to Heliopolis. This symbolized the living deities absolute power, energy, immortality, duality, and balance. The central park's obelisk is one of two obelisks, Pharaoh put most of the third place at the gate of the temple of the sun in ancient Heliopolis, east of the modern-day city of Cairo. Heliopolis is considered one of the most ancient Egyptian cities and the worship hub of the Sun God Ra. The second obelisk, also called Cleopatra's Needle, stands on the Thames Embankment in London, England. In 12 BC, the Egyptian queen Cleopatra brought the two obelisks from the ancient city of Heliopolis to Alexandria. Since then, the two obelisks have been known as Cleopatra's Needles. The Greek engineers added bronze crabs to support the damaged bases to erect the two giant obelisks. In Greek mythology, crabs are linked with Apollo, the Sun God. In 10 BC, Emperor Augustus transported two obelisks to Rome. By the 17th century, obelisks were placed in front of many Catholic churches in Rome to symbolize the church's power and authority. Even Vatican City has its 4,500-year-old obelisk at the center of St. Peter's Square. Today, Rome is the Egyptian obelisk's capital of the world. In 1877, while the Egyptians struggled to raise money to construct the Suez Canal, Cadewi Ismail Pasha, the monarch of Egypt, donated the two Cleopatra's Needles to England and the United States. The Americans spent $100,000 to transport the obelisk to Central Park, and $18,000 was paid to the Englishmen who persuaded Ismail Pasha to donate it to America. The 9,000 miles to Central Park was a complex engineering operation. Unlike the British, who secured the obelisk inside a steel cylinder and used a tugboat to tow it to England, the Americans used a specially modified steamer to transport the obelisk across the ocean to New York. The American engineers used parallel beams supported by roll boxes and a piledriver engine. The engineers loaded the obelisk through the ship's hull with cannonballs. It took almost three weeks to sail from Egypt to America, and nearly four months from when the ancient obelisk arrived at the banks of the Hudson River until it reached its final destination in the middle of Central Park. In January 1881, Cleopatra's Needle moved to its new home in the heart of New York City.


It's April and in America that means tax season and as Benjamin Franklin said in this world Nothing can be said to be certain except death in taxes And I'd argue maybe Transformers movies, but what are taxes and why do we have them?  So instead we were gonna try something different and just list off some funny Facts about tax tax facts tax tax tax fact facts tax We'll come up with a cool title right now Here's some things that have a lower word count than the US tax code the combined works of the Iliad in the Odyssey The Bible the Harry Potter series and 50 Shades of Grey. I have only read one of those books The ancient Greeks had an interesting tax policy called is for a Ra is for a I Just put it put it underneath. I'll keep going In this policy they would tax the wealthy but only in times of war and then would actually repay them with the spoils of victory Something tells me that Leonidas didn't get his cut back Now let's talk about the beard tax You might be saying which beard tax, but more likely you're saying there was more than one beard tax in England in 1535 the bearded King Henry the 8th instituted a beard tax to ensure that a man's facial hair would match his social status I'm probably just slightly above a surf at this point Meanwhile in 1700s Russia Peter the Great and beardless though. He did have a sweet stash Look at that stash that stash dope That's a good stash Check it out. Like it's a nice stash. I'm just saying like people don't rock stashes like that anymore As a business it's good. It's a good mustache. All right. He introduced the opposite beard tax He wanted everyone to be clean-shaven because he thought that the clean-shaven man represented a modern society if you're not getting a theme through this this show yet like Everything's been taxed at some point the Rosetta Stone even mentions taxes And I'm not talking about the computer program that I'm going to use as a write-off on my taxes for learn in Spanish It's mucho gusto. We're talking about the stone slab that let modern scientists translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs It's basically a piece of propaganda from the Egyptian pharaoh in 196 BC it tells the temple priests all the great things that the pharaoh has done for them One of which is exempting them from taxes The Boston Tea Party was an exciting moment for the American Revolution When the Americans push back against paying taxes on tea imposed by the British Today I bought a tea at the store and paid sales tax The 24th amendment to the US Constitution outlawed poll taxes a common practice used to suppress the underprivileged vote But one state still has a poll tax Texas they just spell it differently and use it for different stuff This fact will soon be out of date because I bet half the people watching don't get newspapers The newspaper format that you know called Broad Street is due to taxes in 1712 the British crown decided to levy a tax on newspapers based on the page count in response Newspaper printers just started printing on bigger pages making them able to deliver the same amount of news in less pages Well, that was a fun list Let us know if you like this format or you want us to go back to the other one if you didn't like this format Don't worry. We've already filmed the next one if you did like this format We already filmed the next one so it's not it's gonna be the old way But all this talk of taxes has really gotten me thinking I should probably get paid sometime soon, right John John John


What's up guys, welcome back to Bitcoin Daily. In today's video, we're doing a tutorial, full tutorial on Bybit app, Bybit mobile, that's right. So this is completely different than the other tutorials. This is on the actual app itself. We're showing you guys how to use the app, how to make trades on the app and how to use a different function that the app offers to you guys. So we hope you guys enjoyed this video. Please make sure to hit that like button, hit that share, hit that subscribe and hit that notification bell. So we can continue to grow this community and continue putting out this free content. Thank you guys, peace and love, enjoy. If you guys have not opened up a Bybit account as of yet, it's very simple to do. You can check the description of this video and hit that link or go to the comments and go to the pinned comment and hit that link where it says sign up. After that, they're giving away $520 for free to anybody that signs up. All you gotta do is go ahead and use that coupon that says win $500 all caps. And then depending on what bonus you want, look at how much you have to deposit. We have the Bybit tutorial for the PC and we have the Bybit tutorial for the mobile app here. If you guys have any questions, let me know. Anybody that signs up using my link is supporting my channel and I will get a commission paid on that. So I thank you in advance. Alrighty guys, so we're now looking at the Bybit app and this is exactly what you will see when you first launch your app. All right, so once you're here, you're gonna be on this home screen on the bottom left-hand corner. And here you can basically see the contracts that and the different currencies that you can trade and you can see that you can either do inverse, perpetual contracts or USD, right? So it's two different ones. Now you're probably asking and wondering what's the difference between these. So if you're gonna trade the inverse ones, you have to actually hold and deposit the underlying currency for that. So for example, if you wanna trade Bitcoin, you have to deposit Bitcoin into the Bitcoin wallet. If you wanna trade Ethereum, you gotta deposit Ethereum into the Ethereum wallet and so forth, you can't trade Ethereum with Bitcoin or Bitcoin with Ethereum. So that's the big thing about those two. In USDT, you have some different coins that you can also trade. So in inverse, you have Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS and XRP. In USDT, you have Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tezos, Litecoin and Chainlink. Okay, so that's the other difference. Now when you're in USDT, you can use just have the USDT and use that to trade all of these basically. So you don't have to worry about which one you're in. You don't have to worry about having to exchange a coin for another coin to trade it and stuff like that. And because it's brand new and just got added to the platform, you're gonna notice that there's a 30% off currently. You'll see that it says that. What that means, it's a 30% off on your trading fees.  All right, so what do I prefer when it comes to this? Currently, because of the trend that we're in, I'm using the actual contracts. So I'm using the actual underlying assets because I want to be exposed to them even when I'm not in an active trade. So for example, if I'm trading Bitcoin but I'm not in an active trading Bitcoin, I want to still have my funds in Bitcoin so that I'm exposed to the ups and downs of Bitcoin. I wanna make sure that I'm in it when it's moving up. Not just when I'm in a trade. Now, once it starts getting to levels like now or where you might think it might reverse or if we're in a bear market or anything like that, then I would be trading in USDT because I wanna make sure that I retain and preserve my capital and I don't want its value to go down. So that's how I differentiate which ones I'm using because I currently wanna be exposed to the markets up and ups and downs. I'm currently trading inverse contracts if I decide that I wanna be in cash, then I'll be trading the USDT contracts. Okay, hopefully that makes sense to you guys. I feel like it makes sense in my head. So that's the big difference between them. Now let's jump to the next tab on the bottom left which is chart and this is pretty straight up. This is just the chart. So here you can see the different charts. You could play around with it, you can move it around, do whatever you want, put it in different time frames, five minute, 15, four hour. You could even add indicators if you really wanted to. You can see here you could add different indicators and there's even advanced drawing tools and advanced settings that you guys can mess with. I definitely encourage everybody to play around with those. Here you're gonna see the order book. You could see the filled contracts. You could see different contracts. You see here the buys, the sales and so forth. What you can do and anything you can do as well, if you wanna change the coin you're looking at on the top left, you just go ahead and hit it and then you're gonna be able to see the different coins here. So you could click whichever one you want. So I clicked Ethereum for example. Boom, here's the Ethereum chart. I could hit it again. If I wanna go to USDT and see Ethereum there, I could just hit that. Boom, and it switched me over to that chart. So that's the way that you can do that. And that's pretty much it. That's pretty much all the options and things that you have on this tab. So now the next tab that we're gonna check out is the middle button, right? So let's go ahead and press it. And here is where you can see your active trades and you can see your active orders, right? So for example, right now you just saw that my order got filled. I had an active trade that I opened up and then I had a conditional order that I had it was here and it just triggered right now, which sold my position, right? So that was an active trade I had and this is where you're gonna be watching your trades. This is where you're gonna be setting up your trades. And this is where you basically manage everything. This is where you're gonna manage your trades, right? So we're gonna come back into this section in a little bit. I just wanna continue going through the other tabs and then we'll come right back to this, all right? So then the next tab is the alerts. So I've had a lot of people ask me about how to set alerts on Bybit. So it's actually pretty simple as you guys can see here. I have different alert setup, including one for 20,000 that you can see right there, right? So let's go ahead and create a new alert. So let's see, let's take one of these old ones out to the 17.6K support, right? So let's take this one out and we're gonna say 19K support, right? So basically I wanna know anytime that that Bitcoin goes below this range, it'll notify me, right? So what you're gonna do, you can name it whatever you want. You choose your contract, I'm choosing Bitcoin, choose your candle frequency, I leave it on 30 minute. Tracking variable, I'm on price, right? So now trigger is where the main thing you have to change here. Where you go to trigger, make sure you hit crossing down or crossing up, okay? So for this one, I'm doing crossing down. Once you hit crossing down, it should show you the tracking variable for price should be there and the target should be at value, right? So, and then you just go ahead and you put the price that you wanted to track. So I want 19,100. I wanna know if it goes under that, I wanna be alerted. So I go ahead and enter that there and I hit save, boom. Now that is done, as you guys can see there on the top, it says 19.1K support and then it tells me what is tracking, BTC, USD, price crossing down, 19,100 USD. So I have my alert set and that's how you set alerts. You just do the same thing for Ethereum, you know, for whatever it is you want, okay? So that's pretty simple, pretty straightforward. And then obviously the last tab here is gonna be the asset tab where it's just gonna show you all your stuff here.  Here you can deposit, you can withdraw, you can exchange, you have all the different options here.  And yeah, that's pretty much it. You have your settings here, username, wallet addresses, security, everything, everything's here. So that's pretty much that. Up here you have your system notifications. And that's pretty much it guys, as far as the different tabs that you have in the bottom. So we're gonna go ahead and talk about trade orders. So the first thing we're gonna do, we're gonna talk about how to set a conditional order as this is the order that we use the most in our trade room and we use the most for ourselves and our team. So the way that you're using, we're gonna show you how we use it and then you guys, you know, we'll talk about some of the other features. So currently, you see how the price is at 19,000. We're gonna set a conditional order for it to buy, for it to trigger if it goes above 19,100, right? So we already have basically our thing set up. We're gonna go ahead and hit buy. And like you just saw, it just set up the order there. And all we have to do now is just wait and that order triggers on its own. There's nothing else that we have to do. You'll see once the price gets to that order, to that order's range, it will trigger on its own. We don't have to do anything. So let us go ahead and explain how it is that it works and why we set it up this way and break it down for you guys. All right, guys. So the first thing that we're gonna look at here when we're setting up a conditional order, this is the first thing that we did. So the first spot is up here, right? Let me take this off and you're gonna see that it says trigger price and then here it says a contract quantity in USD. So those are the first things that you're looking at, right? Obviously on the top, you're gonna say if you're going long or short, long is if you're buying, thinking that the price is going up short, if you're buying and thinking the price is going down. So we were long, we set our order for a long. We set this as a conditional order and what a conditional order is is basically a stop order. They just name it differently on Bybit. So it's an order that it triggers once the condition is met. So here, the way that we set it, we almost always use market orders for any conditional orders because we don't wanna miss a movement. If you have it set up as limit, the price could skip your order and just keep going and your order will not trigger. So because we don't want that, we don't mind slippage and we don't mind paying the fees in order to get into the trade. We always go ahead and hit market orders. And like that, we don't have to worry about anything like that. The next thing is here where it says index. So you're gonna have three different things here. It's market, index and mark, right? All right, so when we're looking at, over here at market, index or mark, market is basically the last price, right? So if you want your order to be triggered by market, market price, that's gonna be triggered by the last price. So as soon as there's any transaction that hits that order even one time, it's gonna trigger, right? So that's gonna be the fastest way to get your order to trigger. Now the issue with that is that there could be just one contract bought at that price and then it just drops down. So even though you will get a faster fill, the market could just drop on you and you could get stopped out a lot easier. So that's the issue with that. There's always pros and cons to everyone. The next one is index. Index price is basically the average price of multiple exchanges combined, right? So we use index at times. It just depends. It's all dependent. Everything varies as always with everything in trading. There's no one right answer. So for index, the good thing about it is that it can avoid triggering your position when it's not really, the market's not really pushing up. That's the good thing. The bad thing is that usually when it does trigger your position, it'll, you'll have a bit more slippage. So meaning if my, my, our current order is set for 19, 110, but because of the index, because we have it set with index, we might not get triggered until that price is a bit higher. So we might end up getting triggered at 19,130 or something like that. Maybe 140, 150. It all depends how fast and tighter market moves and what's, you know, what's the best order available when it finally does, when it does trigger. And then the last one is mark price. So mark price is the average between the funding basis and the index price. So that's the mark. I don't really know too much about that and don't really even know what that means exactly. But if you guys want more information, you can check it out on, on Bybit's website. They have a, you know, frequently asked questions spot where you can look up all that different stuff, right? So I don't know about it cause I don't use it. So stick, my recommendation stick to index, stick to market slash last. Those are the two that you guys should probably be using the most either way. And I already spoke to you guys about limited market. The only time I'm using limit orders is when I'm taking profits, everything else, I'm using market orders. That's pretty much it. You know, limit orders, I don't mind doing limit orders when I'm taking profits, but when I need to either get out, get into the entry or get out of the entry, I need market orders because I need the order to fulfill as immediately, you know, as fast as possible. I don't want to, I don't want my order to get skipped. I need to make sure it gets fulfilled. If your contracts and your orders do not get fulfilled, that's how you take huge losses for no reason. So it's better to do market orders and pay a little bit of slippage and a little bit of fees than to have your entire order skipped and lose out on possibly thousands of dollars just because you set up a limit order versus a market order. And then the last thing is contract quantity. So this is all dependent on your position size, how much your portfolio is. You'll see that the more I move it, the more or less contracts that it'll tell me, right? Another thing is up here on the top right is where you can choose your margin. This is very, very important guys. Make sure that you're trading on isolated, not on cross margin, okay? So this is cross margin. You can see that the liquidation price is calculated from the total available balance of currency. In the event of liquidation, all account balances in that currency will be lost. Please manage the position and risk accordingly. Guys, do not use cross margin. If you use cross margin, even though you only put a percentage of your funds into the trade, cross margin, you're giving it the permission to use all of the funds in your account, okay? So it can literally liquidate your entire account in a losing trade without a stop loss, all right? So because of that, the safest way to trade is isolated, right? And so you see how you can change your leverage? If you're starting out, I recommend 2X max leverage. Guys, leverage is very, very risky. Leverage does not make you a better trader. Leverage, what it does is emphasizes the type of trader that you are.    So leverage is not something to play with so much. It's not something to go crazy with. It's not something to experiment with. Guys, I have seen people blow their accounts time after time because they're greedy and they're not satisfied with having 2X, 5X, 10X leverage.  Guys, do not do it.  Stick to 5X if you're intermediate and then if you're consistently a winning trader for months and at a time, not for one day. Guys, okay, not for one day. If you've been a consistent winner for a long time, okay, then you can go up to 10, right? Guys, if you're not a consistent winner, you should not be at 10X. You should not be at 10X. You should be using 2 and 5. 2 and 5 is where you have to stay until you're a consistent winner. If you're not consistent, you're gonna just make your losses bigger. It makes no sense, all right? So stick to 2 and 5, guys. Do not go beyond that until you're a consistent winner over at least a three month period. Then you can go to 10X. If you can consistently win at 10X for another three month period, then you can start experimenting beyond 10X. But other than that, you should not ever go beyond that. I've been trading for years and I do not go beyond 10X very frequently. So I do not recommend it for you guys. Another thing about the fees, if you're using market orders, your paying fees, if you're using limit orders, you're getting paid fees, okay? The fees aren't crazy, so don't start setting just 100 limit orders and trying to collect payments. I don't think you can make that much money, but hey, if anybody tries, let me know how it goes. That'll be interesting to see. And the last thing is funding rate. You can see it over here on the right side. I can't click it, but just see on that middle right side, it says funding rate 0.0877% and it says next funding three hours, 14 minutes and 16 seconds. So every eight hours, the funding rate is when the funding rate happens. If it's positive, you see how it's currently positive. So it's plus or it's 0.0877%. So that means the long positions, anybody that has a long position, open will pay any short position. So when the funding rate is positive, long positions will pay the short positions. When the funding rate is negative, then short positions will pay the long positions. If you don't want to pay anybody, close your positions before that funding rate timer runs out and then you can reopen your position once that funding rate timer resets. What's up guys? I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Thank you guys so much for watching. That's pretty much it. We've done a tutorial on how to use Bybit on your web browser and a tutorial on how to use Bybit now on your mobile app. Hopefully you guys have everything covered now. If you guys still have any questions, let us know in the comments and we'll try to answer. If we have the answer for it, we'll try to get it back to you. All right guys, thank you so much. As always, peace and love.


how to get a health services coordination degree in as little as six months, that's gonna be the topic of today's video. And the university that you can do this at is going to be WGU, also known as Western Governors University. Now, this degree is a Bachelor of Science or BS that you can get at WGU. And that college is what's known as a competency-based university. Now, what exactly does that mean? Well, pretty much you can get your degree much faster than at a traditional university if you are competent in those subjects, right? So instead of having to go through those four to six years of university, which it on average does take 5.1 years in the United States of America, if you are competent, if you are the type of person who wants to do extra or do it faster, you can do so. So instead of a traditional university where you have to put the time and dedication in, at least four years typically, they're gonna test you based on how competent you are. And this is why you see reviews of WGU online all the time where people are able to get degrees in a year, a year and a half, even as low as two months, like in the case of my good friend, Josh Matacor. And he was actually able to get the most difficult degree that WGU offers, arguably, which is the computer science degree in two months. Now that, of course, is an extreme example, but I'm basically gonna be teaching the same strategies and tactics that he uses and the same strategies and tactics that I have shared with my private consulting clients in this video, completely free. And Josh and I even worked really hard creating cheat sheets for you to make this entire process insanely easy. And I'm gonna put that cheat sheet down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. So if you appreciate this type of video, go ahead, gently tap that like button and let's jump into it. All right, so we are gonna follow a simple four step model. And by the way, there are two previous steps. I'm just gonna mention this just in case. And those two previous steps are, of course, choosing your degree and then choosing which university that you can go to in order to accelerate your degree. And I assume that you've already checked that out and you've decided that you want to go to WGU and you wanna get this exact degree. But with that being said, there are some WGU alternatives. WGU also has its pros and its cons, which you should definitely weigh. And I did make a video about that, which I'll put right here. But the first step is you want to transfer in all of your existing credits. Now, this step sounds really easy and you're probably wondering, why would you even put that in? Of course, I'm gonna transfer in my existing credits, but I've seen people actually mess up at this step. And the way that they mess up is they don't realize the different types of credits that they can transfer in. And WGU is extremely gracious with the credits that they accept. So for instance, you can transfer in work experience, military experience, certifications and certificates, AP and IB classes that you might have taken in high school, as well as other college classes that you took if you maybe got a degree already or you went to community college for a few semesters. So definitely make sure that you look into all of the stuff that you can transfer in. Now don't worry if you don't have anything to transfer in, that's totally fine. I actually have a better alternative a little bit later on in the video. But yeah, definitely make sure you transfer in everything that you possibly can, get your transcript together, tell the advisor all of your experience, et cetera. And then once you've done that, the advisor is going to send you back a list of classes that you still have to take. And like I said, the cheat sheet down below will look very similar to what they're gonna send you. And in fact, I'd say my spreadsheet's probably a little bit better. But then once you get that list of classes back, you're gonna move on to step two, which is you are going to use third-party companies to test out of many of the remaining classes. And the third-party companies that we recommend that we've had the most good experiences with are study.com, straighterline.com, and Sophia.org. Now our favorite one is study.com. The reason it's our favorite one is because it just seems to be the one that people have the best experiences with. But with that being said, some people get super technical with it and they're like, oh, this straighterline.com class is the best for testing out of this class and this Sophia.org class is the best for testing out of that class. So if you wanna get extremely technical with it, you can kinda like go to the WGU, subreddit, and figure out which ones are the best for testing out of the different classes. But typically, overall, just to keep things simple, study.com does tend to be the best one. Now overall, you do have to take 36 classes to graduate with this degree. And you can very comfortably, especially with the entry-level classes, test out of one class per week. And that's even if you have a full-time job, a family, and you're very busy. Now if you have more time to dedicate to it, many of my students have reported to me that they can test out of like one class per day or in some cases, even like two classes per day. But if you wanna take things slowly, you can do one per week. Now the reason that you use third-party companies rather than just taking the classes at WGU is simply because it's faster, cheaper, and easier. So you wanna test out of as many classes as you possibly can, and then go ahead and transfer them into WGU. And once you've done that, you want to move on to the third step, which is the remaining classes you want to pre-study. Now what exactly do I mean by this? You are gonna have some classes left that you have to take. And before enrolling in WGU, you have not enrolled at this point because the counselor might be kinda pressuring you to enroll, don't do it yet. You want to go ahead and pre-study all of the classes that you're gonna have to take. And the reason for that is because ideally, you want to only be enrolled in WGU for one to two terms. Because at WGU, you pay a flat rate per term. So if you get like 20 classes done in one term, you're gonna pay the exact same amount as if you got one class done.  Now the best place to go to look up strategies on how to pre-game or pre-study these different classes is the WGU subreddit. And not only is there a main WGU subreddit, but there's typically going to be a WGU subreddit for all of the different degree types as well. And on there, people will share strategies and tactics on how you can best study for these classes and then take the tests. So definitely leverage that. That can be a great resource for you. But there's also lots of other free resources online. YouTube is great. Khan Academy is great. You can buy a cheap textbook. You can take classes on Udemy. There are many different places that you can go to in order to research this information. Now, if you're not really a Reddit type person, there's also WGU related Facebook groups that you can check out as well. And you can probably talk to people who have already graduated with this degree and ask their opinion on how they would go about studying for the different classes. So once you feel very confident you've pre-studied for all these classes, you do want to go ahead and enroll now and move on to step number four, which is knock out the classes as fast as possible, ideally in one to two terms. Now, bachelor's degrees typically take about 5.1 years on average in order to complete. At WGU, there are countless stories of people who have completed bachelor's degrees in less than two years. And in extreme cases, there's people who have done them in like two months like my friend, Josh Matikor. But of course he did transfer and pre-study and all that sort of thing in order to complete it in that two month period. But yeah, very realistically you can knock out almost all the degrees at WGU if you really focus on it and the full process in about one year. And if you've got a family you're very busy, full-time job, et cetera you can still probably knock it out in two years or less if you really focus on it. Now there are some classes that are gonna be more difficult than others. For instance, the financial resource management, healthcare reimbursement and health service coordination capstone classes are going to be some of the more difficult ones. So definitely leverage, you know, talking to your professor and asking them, you know, how they recommend going about studying for those classes. And then boom, you're done. You graduated with a degree and hopefully two years or less. And in some cases it can be six months or less.  All right, so we just jumped into the cheat sheet and let me kind of go over these categories. So this one right here is the ID and that is just a really easy way for you to identify which class it is. Here is the course names and here is the amount of units each course has. And then this column is gonna have the study.com transfers that you can transfer in to substitute for those classes. And if you click on one of these, it will actually take you to the exact study.com class. Also, if study.com doesn't offer the class, we do have alternatives in this particular case. It's just one alternative, which is the straighter line, farm 103 class, which will be able to be substituted for introduction to pharmacology. So let's go ahead and go over the four steps. So step number one, you are going to transfer in existing credits. So let's just say for example, you took AP psychology during high school and then you took one semester of college where you did a sociology class and you completed it. So you would be able to transfer in those two classes, then you would move on to the next phase, which is testing out. And by the way, you can do this for yourself. Just go ahead and go to file and make a copy and you can do all this for yourself. But you would go ahead and you'd take all the classes that you possibly can at study.com and then you would take the farm 103 class at straighter line and then you'd let your counselor know and you would transfer those classes in. So at the end of that process, these are the classes that you would have left. So a little bit more than half of the classes left. And you'd go ahead and start pre-studying all of the remaining classes at this point. So you would leverage the WGU subreddit, Facebook groups and other resources online to study these classes. And then once you felt like you were confident with your knowledge in these classes, you would go ahead and enroll in WGU and you would start knocking these classes out as fast as you possibly can. And ideally with a degree like this, there's not as many classes that you can test out of and transfer in as there is in like technology degrees, for instance, but you can still test out of these classes relatively fast. And I don't think they're as difficult as the technology related classes. So you should realistically, if you pre-studied properly, be able to knock all of these out in one to two terms. Now, Western Governors University overall is a phenomenal choice for a lot of people out there. But with that being said, it is fully remote. It's online.  So it's not for everybody. There's certain things about WGU as well as the other competency-based universities that are just not gonna be great for every single person out there. I don't think there's ever a situation in all of human history where there's one option that is perfect for every single person. But this is a great option for a ton of people that I've consulted with. But with that being said, if you want to determine if this is the right option for you, check out this video I did right here on WGU.


What is up? My name is Rebedia and welcome to the Crimson Engine. Today we are at Canon Burbank to look at the video modes of the new EOS R. This is the internal 8-bit 4.2.0 that the camera allows you to record two pretty fast SD cards or one pretty fast SD card that goes in the body of the camera. In a second we're going to swap over to the external 4K 4.2.2 10-bit that's recorded that you can record via a HDMI output record. I'm using the Blackmagic video assist 4K. So this is the 8-bit and and this is the 10-bit 4.2.2 on the external recorder in 4K. Now when I originally heard about this camera I thought that I would be able to do 10-bit external 4.2.2 full frame with C-Log 1 on the external recorder but it turns out that the only way to get that higher bit depth and color depth is to actually use 4K which means cropping in on the sensor and getting the same field of view that you get on an APS-C sensor so similar to my C200. I won't know how much difference the color science and the grain and all those other things are until I get back and look at them but judging by the images on the monitor it's pretty similar. There's not that much difference to it. You would have to really be wanting to do some pretty hardcore visual effects work or something that required every single piece of the color science in order to carry an external recorder and record to external cards. Another reason that you may want to use an external recorder is that this camera can only record for 29 minutes in video mode continuously because of I believe EU tax rules but you you can get around that and record non-stop on an external recorder like this one. A lot of people were frustrated shall we say or I read one comment on my last video, Kenan has betrayed us. Pretty dramatic. You're getting a APS-C sized MPEG 4 or 420 ProRes image if you use an external recorder in a pretty small manageable package with 42210 bit which you don't get on the C200 for one-third of the price. So time will tell whether or not this camera makes a really good companion to the C200, C300 range whether or not people maybe use it as a C camera or a stunt camera you know like if you're shooting a car scene you can rig one of these as a wide you could rig one of these as a you know something on a crane something on top of a C-stand to get a top-down view of something really just anytime you want to use a second angle simultaneously but you don't want to go out spend another seven grand for another C200. So basically this is a in the lab high quality video test of the EOS video capabilities. So check out the footage I'll post it somewhere. Thank you very much for watching and I will see you next time.


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Hello, my name is Marco Berrocal and as Michelle mentioned in the initially this morning, I'm the guy from Costa Rica. I'm the one who came as far from to be here. It's an honor. I'm really, really excited about it. I'm a WordPress developer. I worked both GreenGeeks, which is a hosting company, and I worked for the Boston Globe as a WordPress developer. So I participate in the community in Costa Rica, Meetups. I've been an organizer. I'm a huge WordPress fanatic and I absolutely love as you highlighted the whole community aspect of it, of helping each other out, of contributing, of, you know, making a life of what we give. So today I am going to share a little bit about the experiences on becoming a WordPress developer. I've been doing this for the past, I would say, 13, 14 years. And you know, what does WordPress bring to the ecosystem? What does it bring to the world? So first it's market share. It's a huge market, 40%, 45%, I think it stands, of all the websites out there use WordPress and that is a huge, huge, huge number. I'm going to have to use my glasses because I can't see the, I can't see anymore. Hold on. Yeah, I was going to look at the thing, but getting old. There you go. I can't look at my phone anymore. So I would say it's market share. Like I said, it's a 40%. It's entry level. One of the things that back then when I was developing, when I started to do, I got serious about this. One of the things I had to decide was which content management system to use. Back then it was in pretty much an option between Drupal or WordPress. And one of the things that swung, or I heavily leaned towards WordPress was the fact that, first of all, clients absolutely loved using the interface. They were like, oh, this is so simple. You know, it's like using Word, yada, yada, yada. And second were all the tutorials out there of how to use WordPress. It's still true today. There's a lot of help out there online that you can pretty much Google it and someone will give you an answer as to how to do things from a programmatic perspective. It's repository of stuff. With this, I mean the vast amount of plugins, themes, hacks, all that stuff is out there. It's very, it's very, very vast. And that always brings some troubles from time to time. You know, vulnerabilities with the platform, people might have an opinion about coding standards, about it being PHP, et cetera, et cetera. So I've come to the conclusion that there are four type of people out there who are working as WordPress developers. The first one, it's plugins. People who build plugins, be this for themselves, clients or for the whole world, same as with themes, theme development, core. We had a guy who spoke here today. His name is Jonathan, I think, from Bluehost. Yeah, he's a core contributor. He works directly with the project. And here I would like to quote my boss. It's people who like to configure WordPress. And those people may or may not code, but they do know how to use the dashboard. They do know their snippets of scripts here and there. But they're just not comfortable enough to fully start, you know, smashing that door or going through that gate where they become a fully fledged WordPress developer. So this talk is about pretty much any of these four. I try to simplify things as much as possible. Part of the things that I like to do when it comes to work camps, I like to teach basics. I like to teach fundamentals about WordPress development, because you never know what might stick to someone and what concepts will that person bring back home and apply it. And also, no matter how expertise you are, they might say, oh, I didn't know that. That's pretty cool. So what do I need to know in terms of technology? One of the barriers when I tell people that I am a WordPress developer, they tell me, but I'm not good at math. I'm like, what do you mean you're not good at math? Yeah, I see the code, and I see those numbers, and I see this, and I see that, and that's like, dude, man, just like you, I take out the calculator to have numbers up. I mean, it's not like I know formulas. What you're talking about is computational thinking. How do computers make, how do you change your mindset so that you can instruct a piece of software to make decisions? It's called computational thinking. It's an abstract way of thinking of solving problems that computers simply cannot do. And I always tell people an analogy of turning the lights off. For us humans, it's as simple as walking a straight line and hitting that switch, and the lights are off. But if you instruct that to a computer, you have to give computers a step-by-step instruction in order to do so. Like for example, walk until you reach a wall. Once a wall, stretch your hand.  Yes or no? No? Keep searching. Yes, pull the switch. Are the lights on or off? And so on and so forth. And that is exactly the mindset that you need to have in order to solve everyday problems. And I always notice that people go straight into a language. They go straight into learning any given language, computer language. And they don't think about the computational aspect of it. They don't think about the problem solving because you go straight into the language. And I sometimes feel that it's too much at once. And in university I took a course that it was just paper and pencil and you had to solve problems like this. Like the one I just gave you about the lights. But it could be about calculating an average of grades within 40 students. How would you instruct a computer to do that? And it introduced you to principles such as data. What type of data can a computer handle and whatnot? What is an integer? What is a number, a floating number? What is a string? What is an array? So I've always felt more in the camp of learning these basics in order to fully transition yourself to a computer language. Because what differentiates a computer language from the other it's pretty much the rules, the syntaxes. It's like speaking English versus Spanish. It's different syntaxes of saying things, of declaring things and it's the same with computer languages. Some people might lean towards JavaScript for example which is a computer language. Others might lean towards PHP, Ruby, so forth and so forth. But the computational thinking aspect of it will never change. This is the mindset that people tell you, oh it's like solving math, I'm not good with math. But it's really not. It's the logical thinking that will allow you to solve problems. And I think that's one of the beautiful aspects of being a developer. It's having that mindset, that logical mindset, that abstract way of thinking of solving everyday problems that I really, really like because there are 100 ways to solve a thing. I mean I could have asked you how would you turn the lights off and you would have told me a different answer or a different solution compared to what I have. And sometimes I could say, man your solution is good or your solution will fail if this and this will happen and that's why this career is so beautiful because it's comparing mindsets, it's comparing ways of solving problems that up to this date I still find fascinating. So if you're looking for courses out there try to find courses that involve algorithm exercises so that you can do more and more of these problems because they will also tell you about certain things about computers, about programming such as iterations, about loops, about functions and what they are. But when you're writing them on a piece of paper it's far better to learn as opposed to going straight into a code and saying, oh man I can't handle both the syntaxes and the logical aspect of it. And I think that's where most people get frustrated with it because I'm just not good enough for it and I would heavily disagree with that. It's just that you're doing too much at once like both the mindset and the language. So having said that, WordPress does use quite a few languages under the hood so it uses HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript and SQL. So all of them combine is how WordPress works. So when I make a request to a website and the server processes that information and it says, oh you're a WordPress website I'm going to use that URL to fetch a specific post from the database and I'm going to use the PHP logic, all that logic in order to retrieve the content of that post because in the end WordPress uses the database to store post information, options, categories, tags all that information is stored within the database. So in the life cycle of how WordPress works it boots and it starts sequentially doing things until it gets you all that information and it ships it back to you using HTML, CSS and PHP. So people ask me, so what should I do? Should I start with PHP? Should I start with JavaScript? I'm an old guy so I'll go with PHP for now. I've had some, over the past years I've had to transition more and more into JavaScript because of the block editor and because of how WordPress, yes. Yeah, just a comment on that. JavaScript is low barrier to entry in that you can do all your practice stuff just in a browser you don't have to worry about all the services. That's true. From that perspective I'd say start with JavaScript, but... Well, that's true. But when I started with WordPress it was mostly PHP and it was mostly CSS and it was HTML and JavaScript came later. And I had difficulties transitioning to JavaScript. I felt like I was writing, I don't know, like... It's rough. It was rough. I'm still not there but I'm working on it. So all of them combined is how WordPress works. So how much do I need to know about this? How many... It's until you feel more and more comfortable with it and I'm going to have to quote Steve Jobs on this. You're going to have to love this because if you don't love the coding aspect of it I just don't see it. And one of the things I love the most is not knowing. And one of my favorite philosophers of all time is Socrates and he once said, the only thing I know is that I know nothing, which is true. And I really don't know anything. And every day I have that mindset because that allows me to know more and more as the years go by. But I'm infinitely curious about how do things work. And I think that's part of the also mindset and that you're going to have to have in order to do that. I'll keep going back. What else? This is also about life. You're going to have to use blood, sweat, and tears. So you better get the yoga post right. There's a lot of times and trust me there's a lot of times when I don't have the answer to something. I just don't. And you get frustrated, you get angry, you don't talk to your significant other and she asks you what's wrong with you. Are you breaking up with me? You've seen the means. So they're all true. You're just thinking about the solution. You're just thinking about things you've tried. You've tried, you've tried. But in the end, and I will quote, and I'll give you another quote. It's called by Churchill and it's given by Churchill. And success is merely going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. And you just got to keep going and keep on thinking and there will come a new way for you to solve it. It may work, it may not work. And trust me that when it works you feel like I still have that feeling today. When it truly works you feel fantastic because you felt like you've, I don't know, I'm not into climbing but I guess it feels like climbing a mountain, being at the summit and saying hey man, I made it. So you feel very satisfied with yourself because all of the effort, all of that thinking, researching, trying, discarding and having that code up and down and you don't even know what it looks like. But in the end it works. That's also one of the things that you got to have and you got to be persistent about and saying no matter what happens, I'm not going to give up. And I think that's also one of the key things of becoming, not just a workplace developer, I would say in anything in life, you got to persist, you can never give up and at the end of the clouds there is the sun. So you've got to have faith. And specifically what do I need to know about WordPress? So some say WordPress is a platform, others say it's a framework. Don't ask me which one I think. But what they all say is that it's a content management system and it is an event-driven software application. And I'd like to highlight this last part, that it is an event-driven application because that ties up with what Jonathan says this morning about hooks. When you go to the website, the WordPress websites, and it starts to boot, it starts to sequentially do things. And as it does, you can hook into those things and you can alter the behavior or the data or its data to your liking as a developer. And that is why WordPress is so powerful because it's a software application that as it runs, you can tap into it and you can do pretty much whatever you want without touching core. And that's why I love talks such as the one he gave because that's like an aha moment that I had as a developer because when I started, I mean, I'm not going to lie. I did like everybody. I just copied and pasted stuff in the functions file and it worked and I was like, yeah, man, this is the best. I love this. I'm getting, oh, WordPress is fantastic. This is awesome. But when I fully understood the whole aspect of it being an event driven software application where I can hook into these things and change the behavior, that's when, as the meme goes, that's when everything illuminated for me. I was like, oh, yes, it is. And from there on, I could fully have even more control as to what I could do or could not do as a developer. So plugins, as a developer, and I say this also to business owners, start using as little plugins as you can. People usually ask me, well, how much is enough? I can't give you a ballpark number, but when I go to a website and see a client and then when I see over 20, I start to worry a little bit about it because I'm like, okay, performance-wise, it could be a hit or it could be code that you don't really know what's in there. And if you want to start drawing as a developer, start making your own little plugins. It doesn't matter if it's something that it has already been made. I'll give you an example, like metadata or creating your own custom posts. Yeah, there are plugins that can do that, but you could also make your own little boilerplate plugin where you as a developer can configure that stuff and start making your own. And that way, you will have your own plugin with your own code, which it might be bad, it might be great, but it doesn't matter. It's yours and you will understand it, and as you get more and more clients, you will start to notice that you're going to start modifying that code to your own liking. So don't rely much on third-party plugins for some functionalities or try to not to rely much on that.  I mean, you did. That is how your own personal site ended up with 85 plugins. All right, to each his own. But, you know, making simple things like, you know, create your own categories or creating your own metadata or creating your own post types or having your own settings, you know, try not to rely on the plugins, on plugins built by others, but instead build your own, even if the process takes you a lot. You will also, like I said, you will find yourself using that code over and over again for different types of clients, and you will grow as a developer as you use it more and more, because you're never going to be satisfied with what you do. You're going to say, man, my code is horrible. I need to redo this. Or, man, I just saw a tutorial on Twitter that this guy is doing this, this, and that.  And that's how you get started. Same goes with themes. I don't know which talk it said. They asked, what theme do you use? And they were like, oh, I use this, but I've modified it to yada, yada, yada, yada. And that is exactly it. You're going to start with a boilerplate theme. I don't know which one. I mean, there are pros and cons to each, but what you will find, what will happen is that you will find yourself modifying that theme to your liking. You're going to modify it like, I don't need this. This theme should do that. This theme, I don't know, this part, you know, and before you know it, you start modifying it more and more. I started like that. And next thing I knew, I had a theme that did custom post types, that did metadata, that did tags, that did settings, all to my liking. All I had to do in the end was just configure arrays. Just configure a couple of objects and say, okay, this is going to be for my theme options. These are going to be for my settings. And everything, I had it under control, which brings me to the subject of the whole builder aspect of the talk that I saw today. Yes, with builders, you can give clients the ability to, they can do pretty much what they want. That is true. But when you develop, you can also control the theme to do exactly what you as a developer want. And you can limit the way the client interacts with them, because he said it. They only call me when it breaks. And I'm like, yeah, exactly. I don't want to recall when it breaks, because when you develop, you can disallow clients to even breaking it, because clients will be clients. It doesn't matter which part of the world we're in. Clients will always be clients, and clients will break things. Clients will break things. So when you start doing your own stuff, you can limit the way it behaves, and restrict clients from breaking your site or doing stuff that you as a developer definitely do not want to be called for. And I think that's a win-win situation. Documentation is your friend. I do have to say, WordPress has fantastic documentation. It's one of the best that I've dealt with, and I've dealt with quite a few bad ones. But these are the URLs. I'm not going to go over the documentation, of course. But I don't know, maybe Topher knows, why are we getting rid of Codex? I don't know either. I love the Codex as well. And I've even had a friend say, don't call it Codex. Call it developer resources. I'm like, man, I started with Codex. It will always be Codex for me. But the second one is like the new one, and the Codex is like the first one. And I heard through the grapevine that they're trying to migrate it from the first one to the second, but it hasn't really happened yet. So, you know, you can go. Yes? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, but I still go to the Codex, and I still love it, and call me old, but it's Codex for me. So, use it. It's great documentation. It usually has examples by the community so that you can see it in action and see how it behaves. I would say you need to learn about the loop. The loop is the way WordPress fetches post for the type of page, for the type of the URL it's currently in. So, depending on what that address bar is, WordPress will infer what type of loop it needs to go over in order to fetch that post information. Once you are in the loop, you can obtain information about a post. What kind of information? Content, title, date, the offer, metadata, tags. Yeah. So, pretty much when you're in a loop, you can fetch all of that information and adjust it to your needs. So, it's important that you know what the loop is because you can have multiple loops within a page or you can have just one loop which is the way WordPress deals with it. One of the things I learned and I loved it was template hierarchy. How does WordPress know which files to load within your theme? The answer is template hierarchy. In that URL, it will explain what the hierarchy is and it has this beautiful graphic, well, it's not beautiful, but it's really useful, of how WordPress determines based on your theme architecture which file to load and why. And that was also an aha moment for me because when I discovered it, I said, well, now I can have a different design layout for a category versus the block post or I can have a different design for my taxonomies versus the block or even within the same categories. I could have a category called real estate which would have a different design versus a category of, let's say, sports. So as a developer, you have greater control as to how to make those layouts within HTML or CSS or even the data that you grab. So knowing about template hierarchy is really, really important. The WP query class is also important. The WP query class allows you to do custom loops how do I make a custom loop and what do you mean by a custom loop? Let's say, for example, I have a website that is about recipes and you have the recipes and they're all listed in a chronological order. So recipe one, two, three, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you're like Italian cuisine has the best click rate. They tell you from marketing, you got to put Italian cuisine posts at the end of those things. And you're like, how do I do that? And the answer is WP query class. That class would allow you to make a custom query based on the parameters that you as a developer want to set.  So I'm only going to fetch posts that are Italian category. How many do I fetch? And published, of course, yeah, very important. That's true. See, that's also part of the computational thinking. He just said published. I assumed and I would have probably posted drafted had I not looked at that point he made. So do I want them to be random? Excuse me, Mr. Marketer, is there a metric that you have for me that I could say, oh, these are the posts that I need to publish? And he will say yes. Within each post there is like, I don't know, a counter. So that is metadata. That's information about a post and it's a number. Let's say it's a number. So high posts have this high number whereas articles that don't interest people have a lower number. So you can grab that metadata and say, okay, give me the five most recent posts that are of Italian category that are published and have this metadata, the highest metadata possible. So that way, after each recipe listing, you will have the top post. You will make the marketing guy happy and you have to think about all this, oh, what plugin can do this? What am I going to do? Because you can master the WP query class and you can make your own queries and get that information. Needless to say, this class also supports comments. I think it's also authors and I think metadata, isn't it? Yeah, so it's everything. It's so powerful that I've only used it for posts, to be honest with you. I've never used it for anything else. So it's something that you got to more or less understand in order to make your own custom queries. Wait, where am I? Custom post types and taxonomies. It's important that you know how to create your own. Like I said, it's a good starting point to make your own plugins. We always bump into clients that, you know, it's just not good enough what WordPress has out of the box. I mean, WordPress is a content management system and it has posts and pages and that's about it. But let's say you're working with this, I don't know, movie theater and you need to work with movies. So how do you solve that? Well, I can create a custom post type called movies and start displaying the information there. And you can have its own taxonomies, which is a fancy word for categories of tax. And you can have its own tax tied specifically to this type of post. So we can use genre. We can use actors. We can use directors. We can use, I don't know, yeah, that's about it. So you start to solve problems by using solutions that WordPress has to offer. So these two are URLs that you can consult in order to create your own. And again, I'm not going to get philosophical about the coding standards as to whether you should create your own plugin for that or that you can use your theme files in order to do so. It's really up to you. I used theme files for a lot of years before I started another job, where they forced me to use plugins and, you know, I swiftly adapted to that. Metadata. It's really important that you know, you understand the concept of metadata. So metadata, it's basically data about something. Most of the cases, it's going to be data about posts. And going back to the movie example, we could add a, let's get fancy here, let's get creative. We could add a year the movie was published. We could add a rating. Let's say it's, yeah? Languages. Languages, it supports. Release date. That's true. Languages, you could argue, no, no. It could be a category, a taxonomy. But it could be also metadata. You're right. So that information is information about a post. And you can have all sorts of type of data related to a post. So it's important that you understand how metadata works and you can create your own. Yes, I know advanced custom fields exist. Yes, I know it's really easy. You start creating your own little pieces of data. Even if it's a text string, it doesn't matter. You start to understand more and more as to how WordPress works. Metadata is not just related to posts. It can be added to authors. It can be added to comments. And it could be added technically to images because images are type of posts. If you ever get that interview, by the way, it's a type of post that comes out of the box. They asked me that question. They were like, name me five type of posts that come out of the box when WordPress is installed. And I'm like, yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And yeah, so images is one of them. It's called attachments. The settings API.  So you can have your own settings. You can have it for your theme. You can have it for your plugin. You could have it for whatever it is that you want. But the important aspect is that you more or less understand how can you implement one, even if it's just a text field. How can you sanitize that data? How can you display it? That sort of things. When I do client work, I usually put all the general information about a client as settings. So because clients want to modify, let's say we have a form and they have three fields and they want to customize the placeholder. So I use a settings, I use the settings API to use a panel specifically for the form so that the client can modify that. Because, like I said, comparing that to the builder, I do not want the client to go to the form, edit the form, and then mess up the form. And then say, oh, my form isn't working. What's going on? And I say, yeah, bro, you messed it up. Whereas if you go to the settings API, you had one job and that's it. Do that and modify it and be done and over with it. Actions and filters. I'm not going to go into detail a lot because Jonathan gave a great talk about that. Actions and filters are pretty much ways that you can change either behavior or data when it comes to WordPress and its booting sequence. This is the URL. They're called hooks, but there's two types of hooks. There's two flavors called action and filters. Actions modify behavior. So let's say, for example, a type of action that I can do. Oh, I could add a JavaScript file conditionally saying, I only want to add a JavaScript file if the category is real estate. So you use an action to hook into that and if the condition is met, you put the JavaScript. Because when I started, yeah, I grabbed the theme header, put the JavaScript and like, yeah, it's done. But as you grow and you mature, you're like, why am I serving this file to people who do not need to see it? I'm loading the theme more and more. Maybe I should load this file if the category or if I'm in a blog post or if I'm X, Y, Z, I should just load the file and not load it everywhere. And filters are, for example, if I need to modify something like, let's say, the post. Blocks, I mean, I can't avoid it. That's part of the reasons why I'm transitioning more and more into JavaScript. Extending existing blocks or create your own. It's been a challenge, but I'm working on it. I'm enjoying JavaScript more and more. Some of us developers get pretty protective or jealous about the technology stack that we use and we're afraid of what you said change. It's scary. It's letting go of what you knew, of all the things that you worked on for so many years and you've got to start all of a sudden doing something new. It's hard to let go, but it's also gratifying because you grow more and more even as you're letting go of all that that you loved and trashed for so many years and frustrated you. Blocks is one of those things. It has been one of those things for me. I'm getting more and more into it. I've waited a couple of years because when Matt said in Nashville okay, we're doing blocks now, it's coming. That was like a huge bomb and I felt like we got to wait for the debris, the dust to settle before we can have a positive or negative opinion about it. I have to say it's been really positive. I absolutely love the way WordPress is taking it to the future. Initially I was scared of it, but now I feel more confident about the change. I think the block editing experience is a huge opportunity for both developers, for people who are new to WordPress, for people who want to do websites out of the box. I say this from WordCamp to WordCamp, I go to, there's plenty of blanket for everybody. So we're all going to fit in, nobody's going to be left out and we just have to continue growing. A few more tips just to close. It's a little techie but it's basically like hitting an end point so that you can grab information. I'm not going to get into techie details. The WPCLI that was really important for me to know that's basically like a command line that allows you to fully administer a WordPress website. It's useful when you don't have the credentials to go into a site or the client doesn't even know what his WordPress login is. You don't know the email, he doesn't know the password, you don't know anything and he gives you a hosting access or something and the hosting happens to have WordPress. So you can go in via the command line and start administering the website, you can change the password, you can reset users, create your own or if you, yes? Exactly, exactly.  You go in there, you disable the plugins and you stabilize the condition so that you can triage as to what's going on. So it's really, really useful to have that tool and know about it. Understand your DP.  But understand tables, what WordPress uses out of the box, how do they work, what information does it store so that you can understand more and more the true inner workings of it. A workflow. I haven't discussed workflows, there's plenty of talks about that and in the end, I think workflows are like the way we dress. Everybody got their own way. Everybody got their own way. So I'm not going to say here, hey, my way is better, your way is worse. Everybody got their own way. Just make sure you have one. Make sure you don't go there. But with, you know, with just visual studio code and that's about it. Well, you can have sublime, but that's more or less my way of saying. Some people love local, others still use MAMP, others use what there you go. It doesn't matter. It's your workflow. It's how you like to work and if it works for you, that's great. And yeah, that is that. Responsibility. Responsibility in the sense that if we're doing work for our clients or others out there, make sure that you use correct standards, that you sanitize data, that you think about overhead about bloating because if we get really philosophical about this code that is bloated means in the end, technically more pollution because it's more data that you need to download which in turn it's more information that you need to fetch off a server which in turn is more power. And so if you can save a few hundreds of kilobytes here and there think of it that you're doing the environment a favor as well. I mean, you're saving off data that is not necessary for the client or users to show. So as a developer, you have the power to do that. And community. I mean I'm here. She was here at the sense of community that went tophers here. And you all are here. The sense of community that WordPress has even after 13 or 14 years of using it, it's still as strong as my love for what I do. And I think it's one of the amazing aspects of what WordPress truly is. Knowing people who are just where people that do extraordinary things and I'm really, really happy to be part of that. So with that said, thank you very very much. Sorry if I moved too much. Did I? That's right. Questions if there are, if there's time? Yeah? No? That's great. Do you know about generate.wp.com? No, I do not. It leverages gravity forms. Okay. But it just asks you all the questions you need to answer in code for things like custom code steps you want now. And then you can jump the code. Okay, that's cool. And then you put it in your own plugin. So it's sort of like a half step between actually writing yourself. True. But you're making your own plugin, but you're less likely to miss a comma and then cry really because you can't figure it out. That's true. You know what? I had a... I had a guy and it turned out he put a zero instead of an O. And yeah, he... Yeah. No? But that's also important because you can use that and you can fine tune that to your liking. And let's say you're like, man, this gravity forms was great but now I needed to do this, this and that. And you extend the code. And I think that's important. This last week for the very first time I had to use chat GBK to write a plugin. And it was very short and it leverages the WQ query you were talking about. I wanted the featured image of the most recent published post. And no other data, just the featured image. It was going to go to the top of an archive page. So that that image would change as the first post of the archive change. And it gave the perfect code. It was over-engineered and I ripped out a third of it. But it was perfect. It was fun. But using WP query I was able to get just the image of the most recent post from the post post type. You know, you got it. You know, all the drops in a row are even so weird. I've had that problem before and what I do is within the loop I ask if this is the first instance of the query. If so, put the featured image. If not, continue with but the problem I had is one of the second pages. That's where I had to engineer a little bit. And it goes back to the analogy I said about turning the lights off. His solution is way different than mine. And I probably would have used this. Yes. Yeah? You can do that within the WP config file. Yeah. That could be a good idea for a plugin. Like, hey, how do you write your WP config though? That's...  And that's part of my boilerplate code as well. WP config, no editing within WordPress, please. I don't know why WordPress has that on by default. And you should turn it on if you want, but it's not a perfect platform. Yes. More questions? Yes. You were kind of caught up with our discussion, right? Yeah. Because she was saying about the languages. Right. Yeah. And I was like, that could be metadata. Yeah. I think it could be both. But if you were to ask me which one I would prefer, I would go with Taxonomy because that would make querying it faster, better, easier for me as a developer. Because if I do it as metadata I would have to query it as metadata. And I mean... It's about the object itself. It's not about the post. So if you're talking about the post something about the metadata like the images is the easiest one for me, right? When you look at an image, it has its own metadata. When was it taken? It's information information. That's how I would always talk to it as metadata. But Taxonomy is a way of organizing posts and information. But the sizes is something you could organize as. Maybe metadata could be anything where the Taxonomy is one of a limited set of things. So like metadata could be like making like we have like an author. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Because you wouldn't want a Taxonomy for every single possible No, because you would get a lot of information. Yeah, that's true. Taxonomy queries are so much faster than meta queries that I would put everything I can in Taxonomy's point of using to avoid metadata. I would have discussion with this guy but yeah. I would discuss with him like hey, Topher, you're going a little bit overboard here. No, it's not. It's fast. I actually did talk entirely on custom growth types. I'm going to have to get back to it again. But it goes to what you said. How can you label nicknames versus like how can you organize data by nicknames? And if you think about it can you organize t-shirts by size? That's okay, yeah. If you had a Taxonomy of nickname it would be really simple to make a query that says give me the most popular nicknames. It would be much simpler. That's true because I would have to count the amount of times the nickname would appear. Okay, that's a point for you. I'll keep mulling it over. I'm going to say that.  You're not going to grill me, are you? Oh! The difference is that wait, Taxonomy wait, what did you say? Because category I think it's a type of Taxonomy The difference is that do you want the Taxonomy to behave like a category or like a tag? There's a difference between each. Hierarchical and non-hierarchical. Yes, that's one of them. And the second one, and I have to give an example of Michael Jordan. He's a basketball player, right? Right. He was, but he's now a businessman. So you can't really have a category about Michael Jordan because it's not a sports thing tied to, you know. It doesn't have the sports Michael Jordan thing related to it whereas you could have a Michael Jordan tag because it doesn't matter if the guy is a basketball player or a businessman or he goes into movie acting or Schwarzenegger for that matter.  So you can't put Arnold Schwarzenegger as a category because it has the parent-child relationship news Arnold Schwarzenegger. Whereas the tag, yes. So taxonomy is like the techie or fancy name but category and tag is how does it behave. So, yeah. So you semi-grilled me. Yeah. Yeah. Any more questions? Can you suggest they start I know that they are a lot to be intimate in trying to learn those languages. I would say when I started maybe Topher couldn't offer me some light I did the website for my dad for some friends and from people I knew that even if I you know they would not hold it back against me. So I would offer my services as a develop or you know custom theme design and start doing that. Yeah, that's how I started with custom theme development and that is a good question. Yeah. Yeah, but where do you start? That is the problem. Or set yourself a task. I'm going to do a custom theme for my friends website. Yeah. But back then I don't know if it's alive yet but back then I took a course by Chris Coyer about how to do that and that dude was amazing. He's amazing. That course was amazing. Yeah. So I started with Chris Coyer. Alright, thank you.


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