fighting the lack of good ideas
After running my new server for a while, I was noticing an unusually-high level of bogus email arriving in my inbox – mail that was being spoofed to look like it was coming from myself (to myself). After a great deal of research, I learned there is a component of the DNS specification that allows…
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I rely on MagpieRSS to run one of my websites. (If you'd like to see the basic code for the site, see my GitHub profile.) One of the drawbacks to Magpie, and dynamic websites in general, is they can be bottlenecked by external sources – in the case of Magpie, those sources are the myriad…
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I’m sure folks have tried to explain this to me before, but it wasn’t until today that it finally clicked – using .ssh/config will save you a world of hurt when managing various systems from a Linux host (I imagine it works on other platforms, too – but I’ve only started using it on CentOS)….
As promised last time, I now have a page dedicated to the WordPress plugins I use. Check it out, here.
Like my list of used Chrome Extensions, I’m building a list of recommended WordPress plugins. But until I get it done, I have to give some pretty big props to PrettyPress. It’s a plugin that lets you edit in Visual, Text, and Markdown – the markup format of sites like reddit, GitHub,, GitLab, and the…
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Tesla’s Model 3 is debuting at $35,000. That is distinctly in the range of most “normal” people to obtain. It should be shipping sometime in 2017. I’d buy one.
A few years ago, I ran into a known issue with one of the products I use that manifests when the Red Hat Linux server it’s running on has a low entropy pool. And, as highlighted in that question, the steps I found 5 years ago didn’t work for me (turns out modifying the t…