I recently ran into a minor inconvenience with a configuration on one of my Vagrant machines. You see, I’m implementing a queueing service on an application and I needed that service to be started whenever the machine starts up. Normally,… Continue Reading
Over the past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending Kernelcon 2019 in Omaha, Nebraska and this conference has become my new yearly pilgrimage. If I never go to any other conferences ever again and only went to this one,… Continue Reading
I recently had the opportunity to give a presentation in front of a live audience with real human beings at the WP Omaha meetup group. For my first technical talk, I thought things went pretty well. There were some minor… Continue Reading
Cloudflare is fantastic but they aren’t a common option for setting up DDNS on your average home router like other services are. Fortunately, it’s super simple to get around this minor inconvenience with the help of their thoroughly documented API.… Continue Reading
This year, I had the pleasure of giving back to the WordPress community by helping organize WordCamp Omaha 2018. Not only did I lend a hand with the website, I also planned and managed volunteer activities. I learned a lot… Continue Reading
Not long ago, I was looking through my container configurations in the Proxmox GUI and noticed that one very important container had been running as privileged. I must’ve forgotten to click the “Unprivileged” checkbox when I was creating it. For… Continue Reading
This is a fun quick one that you can do right in the Firefox browser, like I did! Open up Firefox, press F12 to open the developer tools, and open the scratchpad. If you don’t see it, don’t worry; you… Continue Reading
I hate typing the same commands over and over into the terminal. I hate it so much that every time I have CLI deja-vu, the first thing I say to myself is “How can I automate this?” Usually, it’s as… Continue Reading
I threw together a simple bash script to be run via cron jobs that will backup an entire WordPress site. Technically, it will work for a lot more than that assuming the site you’re backing up has a single directory… Continue Reading
In keeping with my previous posts discussing deployments with Git and Capistrano, I thought it appropriate to mention the latest tool I’ve been using to automate shipping code; Deployer. Since discovering Deployer, I’ve dropped Capistrano and git deployments. Those tools… Continue Reading