#NOSTR #VLOG VOLUME 3
“You hope and you hope and hope. And it keeps getting worse. Your last hope is to become hopeless.”
— A note from my journal, July 5, 2025
I recorded this video as I was in the process of working through and making sense of my thoughts on this subject for my own sanity, first and foremost, but also for the creative non-fiction week on @Stacker News, for which I wrote "The Last Hope:"
Sometimes I read the notes in my own journal and I’m like:
1. Who writes these?
2. Whoa.
3. Am I listening to too much David Goggins?
Case in point - May 7, 2025:
Remember: on the path of the Warrior, there will be no comfort, no certainty, no glory. You will suffer like Jesus did, but without the followers, without the Divine guidance, without your name ever being written in any history book. Perform without a cause; sacrifice without redemption. Taking that path and taking those risks though - it’s the only way to truly live, to truly evolve and individuate. Perhaps there is something there along the journey, but you cannot expect that. You must accept suffering for the sake of suffering.
Web developers / Wordpress experts / Code wizards! I need help with the following issue: WooCommerce referral links only trigger on 2nd visit.
25k sats + lifetime Gold membership on SATOSH.EE and my eternal gratitude to whoever helps me solve the problem.
I’m running into an issue with referral links on a WooCommerce site (WordPress + WooRewards paid version + Referral Codes (WooRewards and Referral Codes are LongWatchStudio plugins); also tested with the Affiliates plugin - the issue also occurred with that one). The goal is to establish referral bonds between users for a loyalty/affiliate program.
The problem:
Referral logic only triggers on the second visit to a referral URL.
On first visit, cookies for tracking (e.g., lwsadmsession…) either don’t appear or the plugin code never runs.
Reloading the same link triggers the referral logic as expected.
This behavior occurs with multiple referral plugins, not just WooRewards.
What I’ve tried:
Disabled all other plugins, switched to default theme
Cloudflare + Rocket.net: disabled query string caching
.htaccess rules to bypass server caching
Early hook code to force session/logic execution (relied on ChatGPT to come up with those codes, would not be surprised if they were faulty in and of themselves)
Verified no Varnish or server-level caching interference
Developer insight from WooRewards:
“Our code is never called. Something else takes charge before WordPress, and (even if unintentional) fakes our redirection.”
Looking for ideas why referral plugin code isn’t executing on first visit, even when cookies or sessions should be available.
Happy to provide more details, just drop a comment or email me kontext@satosh.ee
Thanks!
#asknostr #devs #wordpress #woocommerce #bounty
"A Stoic Resurrection" is a collection of thoughts and reflections drawn straight from the journal of a modern man trying to make sense of his life, purpose, and place in the world. Covering topics from spirituality and love to economics and motivation, it explores the full range of human experience — or at least as much as one can encounter and meditate upon over a two-year period.
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The job of the artist is to get high. To reach out into the ether - the spaceless, timeless, shapeless void that contains within itself the whole of human potential - to let that silence talk to and through them, and to bring ideas, concepts never before conceived down from the shadow realms from a formless state into the lower layers of mental and physical constructs i.e. what we generally perceive as reality.
This is why the artist should never be concerned with what the audience wants. His only concern is offering them what they need - and since they’ve never had it - they don’t know what they need. The whole process mimics the creation of life itself and is what empaths, priests, parents, shamans and masters of various disciplines have been doing throughout history - and it is, essentially, being in contact with God or the Universe and simply following the Tao or the Way.
Life is art, we are all artists.
