Idea: CSS-only spam prevention with a simple allow-list and CAPTCHA
An idea for a CSS-only spam prevention system that uses a white list and simple CAPTCHA, complete with WordPress plugin code.
Author: Ross Wintle
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Getting to grips with Docker and Laravel Sail (on Apple Silicon/M1)
So I wanted to have a play with Laravel Breeze and Jetstream. In doing so I noticed that the instructions for Breeze (and for Laravel in general) suggest a Docker-based Laravel Sail install by default. I had not looked into Docker despite a lot of hype around it recently in my tech world. So I […]
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Sustainable Web Design: Book thoughts
Some brief and random thoughts on the excellent book "Sustainable Web Development"
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Simple free domain redirection with Netlify
How to host domain redirects for free with Netlify.
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Building WP-UI
A very scattergun, brain dump of thoughts about the WP-UI app that I'm developoing in Electron.
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Tech note: WordPress multisite in sub-domains redirects without path when you have a domain alias
Well this is a super-niche issue that I came across today. I don't have an answer - maybe you do?
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Where are my MySQL database files on MacOS?
My 7-year-old MacBook got bricked. So I needed to recover some MySQL files from a Time Machine backup and load them onto a new computer. And so I've been digging around finding out where all my homebrew and MySQL files are. While running mulitple instances of everything! Here's a fairly unstructured brain-dump of all that I've learned (or re-learned) along the way.
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Apple M1/Apple Silicon Day 1 LIVE
Follow up – day 3! So, overall I’m pretty happy with the 8GB M1 Air. Outstanding issues I have are: ScreenFlow and some Rogue Amoeba audio apps don’t work – I guess these are doing some clever low-level stuff. I’m having issues importing my MySQL databases from backup. This is not really an M1 specific […]
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Remote work and the future of the high street
The high street is dying. Remote/home working as a result of COVID 19 is exacerbating this. But I think there's an opportunity to do everything better.
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LiveStreams: Discovering Gutenberg
I'm live-streaming reviewing Gutenberg block-editor plugin releases and exploring new block editor features. Here's some info and thoughts on that.