{"id":714,"date":"2025-10-22T15:58:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/notes\/?p=714"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:32:22","slug":"midweek-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/midweek-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almost all of Scootercam&#8217;s essential functions have been rewritten and improved by AI, and rebuilt as WordPress plugins. And I&#8217;m a bit stunned. I&#8217;ve been using Claude AI ($20 a month, so I need to finish soon). I&#8217;ve run into usage limits and Claude&#8217;s propensity to overthink solutions, but it&#8217;s been pretty solid. to The code, for the most part, goes beyond what I expected. <a href=\"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/2025\/10\/21\/scootercam-sun-moon\/\">Even the documentation is impressive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, I wrote code that downloaded text forecasts for this area and for nearshore marine, and pulled chunks out so I could display it the way I liked. Now we have a WordPress plugin that uses this shortcode:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&#91;scootercam-24]<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>to do this:<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[scootercam-24]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the plugins have settings pages in WordPress, like the group below from the Sun and Moon plugin. This add a tone of new shortcodes, like<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&#91;scootercam_sunset_score]<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>which produces<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[scootercam_sunset_score]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-1024x676.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-1024x676.png 1024w, https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-768x507.png 768w, https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-1536x1014.png 1536w, https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2.png 1794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coming up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Make sure all the plugins are efficiently using the same styles &#8211; most all of them will need to be rewritten, but I want everything to look nice and clean.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create Git repositories for all the plugins and be able to pull the latest versions. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Double check the README files, make sure they&#8217;re right.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Complete the \/notes blog structure: the staged WordPress site, LLC notes, the plugins, the journal, and room for more later.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Start shopping for a new webhost.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Budget &#8211; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Take a look &#8211; These are the pages we&#8217;ve got so far: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/demo-page\/\">home page demo<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/extended-forecast\/\">Extended Forecast<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/marine-forecast\/\">Marine Forecast<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/sunsets\/\">Sunsets<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/sun-moon\/\">Sun &amp; Moon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost all of Scootercam&#8217;s essential functions have been rewritten and improved by AI, and rebuilt as WordPress plugins. And I&#8217;m a bit stunned. I&#8217;ve been using Claude AI ($20 a month, so I need to finish soon). I&#8217;ve run into usage limits and Claude&#8217;s propensity to overthink solutions, but it&#8217;s been pretty solid. to The &#8230; <a title=\"Midweek update\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/midweek-update\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Midweek update\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}