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GNU Screen Tip #1
I just wanted to share this simple thing I learned about GNU Screen and also get some of my quirkiness out this morning before starting real work. 😀
Nextcloud 18 + PHP 7.4 upgrade means you may have to reset your passwords
The mildly interesting story of upgrading to PHP 7.4 leading to a password issue with Nextcloud 18.
Missing the point of a framework
This may be one of the most frustrating things I’ve had to deal with.
Testing ActivityPub
Trying out the ActivityPub plugin for federated social media sharing.
Upgrading to PHP 7.3
The exciting world of self-hosted server administration brings me back upgrading my version of PHP finally!
How not to send service outage status updates
I woke up this morning to Intuit’s status alerts blowing-up my phone due to a severely large number of service outages related to their developer portal. After the 20th-or-so notice within a few minutes, I figured I should have gotten the message…
WhatsApp & Opus
Despite many sites espousing WhatsApp and its usage of Opus for audio messages, I am unable to actually send an Opus file through WhatsApp that is playable within the app itself.
It’s time to replace GIFs with AV1 video!
Over at #aomedia on FreeNode, I saw a link (above) posted to this neat blog showing the effectiveness of replacing animated GIFs with AV1 videos. While the general idea of using true video formats to replace short GIF animations has been implemented, with the industry support for AV1 and its clear superiority over other existing…
Retailers – don’t make it hard to checkout!
While online retailers struggle to maintain profit with increasing competition, this one tactic is a sure sign they are going to lose customers.
LOLWUT: a piece of art inside a database command
antirez, developer on Redis, shares an “easter egg” in the spirit, and perhaps in lamenting the loss of, traditional hacking.
Switching back to MATE
I tried GNOME again for a few days, and after two crashes and progressively slower performance, I’m switching back to MATE on Fedora.
Note to self: check out git-bug, fossil, vimwiki, forgefed, and ActivityPub
It’s no secret that HackerNews is one of my daily (sometimes hourly) reads due to the excellent signal-to-noise ratio and deep hackish nature of many of the contributors. However, even I am a little impressed at the depth of information found in this one discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782121
Trying out the new Gutenberg editor for WordPress
The latest update to WordPress comes with the addition of a new, experimental editor appropriately entitled Gutenberg. It brings with it the concepts of blocks which brings a sense of structure and modularity to your blog posts as opposed to a single monolithic chunk of editorial.
Empathy and leadership
A comment I made on LinkedIn may be the kernel of something I would like to expand on more.
Griggs Park
Some photos from our outing at Griggs Park in Columbus.
Moodle 2.0 released!
Alḥamdulillāh, Moodle 2.0 has been released! This is important for a lot of reasons, amongst them being that I work with Moodle on a day-to-day basis in my daytime job, and I use it on some of my own sites. However, most important is the fact that Moodle provides a platform for education that is…
Updated to WordPress 2.8.2
Bismillāhir Raḥmānir Raḥīm Alḥamdulillāh, I’ve just successfully upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.8.2, along with several other blogs that I maintain. I’m really looking forward to the merger of WordPress & WordPress-MU, which, ideally, will make managing multiple WordPress sites on the same server easier to deal with, in shāʾ Allāh.
Getting back on track
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, nothing can take away from the blessing & joy of being a father, but one of the obvious side effects of having an infant is the drastic change in priorities. So, naturally, most of my projects have fallen on the wayside. Even work has suffered. But, alhamdulillaah, this just means I…
Unfinished Projects
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem I have the bad habit of starting things and not completing them. This is bad for numerous reasons, just a few of which I’ll list shortly. I will warn you now that as this post is meant to help me organize my thoughts, it will list-heavy, as I do find lists and…