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  • Simple free domain redirection with Netlify

    2021-02-05

    How to host domain redirects for free with Netlify.

  • Building WP-UI

    2021-01-01

    A very scattergun, brain dump of thoughts about the WP-UI app that I'm developoing in Electron.

  • Tech note: WordPress multisite in sub-domains redirects without path when you have a domain alias

    2020-12-04

    Well this is a super-niche issue that I came across today. I don't have an answer - maybe you do?

  • Where are my MySQL database files on MacOS?

    2020-11-19

    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.

  • Apple M1/Apple Silicon Day 1 LIVE

    2020-11-17

    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 […]

  • Remote work and the future of the high street

    2020-09-03

    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.

  • LiveStreams: Discovering Gutenberg

    2020-07-12

    I'm live-streaming reviewing Gutenberg block-editor plugin releases and exploring new block editor features. Here's some info and thoughts on that.

  • What is “kindness”

    2020-05-18

    This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the topic is "Kindness". In one online community I hang out in the question has been asked: "What does kindness mean to you?" I thought my answer was worth posting here in public. So...

  • Video: Investigating WPForms email issues with clever developer tools: wp-cli, HELO, and Querious

    2020-04-16

    I recently had an issue with form notification emails not sending from a local development site. I used some advanced developer tools to diagnose this. This is a tour of those tools and how I used them to solve this problem.

  • Video: JavaScript, reduceRight() and function/operator symmetry

    2020-04-14

    A friend of mine asked for use cases for the reduceRight JavaScript Array method the other week. I made a little video explaining it.

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  • Wrote a blog post and FINALLY updated my now page
  • Did a firework party for the kids with hot dogs, a fire pit and smores!
  • Updated my website to reference fosstodon.org and tidied widgets.
  • Sent email to clients about new working arrangements
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