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  • Leaving Google+ – a multi part story about “the how to what”…?

    Leaving Google+ – a multi part story about “the how to what”…?

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    Being a long time, albeit sporadic, user of Google+, it’s with some resentment sadness surprise rage sense of meh I’m now trying to find a new place in the Wide World of Memes. I’m going to ramble a bit about the problem space, where I’m at, and what I’ve been faced with in terms of…

  • WP permissions

    WP permissions

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    Installing WordPress and keeping some sanity for the inevitable Upgrade Plugin modification Theme modification needs this link and excerpts: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18352682/correct-file-permissions-for-wordpress Excerpt one: When you setup WP you (the webserver) may need write access to the files. So the access rights may need to be loose. chown www-data:www-data -R * # Let Apache be owner find…

  • Port forwarding over SSH to an Android Thing(s)

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    I was a bit frustrated on this one, because even if the commands are fairly easy, the results are hard to debug when they show up. I wanted to be able to connect to my Android Things RPi3 device over SSH. This is pretty much simple port forwarding shenanigans but I got stuck for it…

  • I’ve Framed! my hosts

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    And it feels great! For a couple of days I’ve been poking around with a small tool to ease the burdens of keeping track of different web development environments. The problem Nowadays a lot of developers have a number of different environments set up to improve the way they work. It’s often safe to tinker…

  • Taking back your control after Windows reinstall

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    We all do it. I mean, it’s not really a choice is it? It’s just something that has to be done more frequently than changing socks. I’m of course talking about reinstalling Windows. Because, man, is this a totally non-hardened OS or what? You can go to one ad-powered website and get a whole slew…

  • Just a small note on add_filter in WordPress

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    add_filters seem to have its use in a WordPress context. However, debugging them is shit. And there are not a whole lot of good examples around to explain how to work with them. I was trying to figure out a way to modify the colour defaults for the quotes component in AESOP Story Engine, and…

  • Adding _your_ fonts to TinyMCE (WordPress)

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    This took me a while to figure out, mainly because I: Went the quick and dirty route Found a TON of tips on how to add Google Web and other web fonts, which I didn’t want because I Wanted to load custom (TTF) fonts I was about to use a WordPress plugin called Fonts, because…

  • Package, where the hell are you??!

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    Simple solution to a simple problem; Problem I can’t figure out where in the wholey hell of Linux-operating-system-paths-and-specifications, a package is spread out. Solution dpkg -L [package]

  • Tunneling Gerrit

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    Tunneling and Gerrit was a really interesting happening, as it wasn’t all clear how to do the following things Allow cloning and interaction with Gerrit Git Allow interaction with Gerrit’s web UI The first part was easier than the second. So let’s look at the second first. Allowing interaction with Gerrit’s web UI In order…

  • Gerrit commands and other bits

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    Gerrit is a really interesting code review tool. When I worked for one of my former employers I got to test it out and I was both intrigued and daunted by it. The learning curve is sky-high with this one, but there’s a lot of things done right, when it comes to running huge code…