Why StackOverflow is Toxic, and a Way to Improve It
March 2, 2024
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People ask questions when they don’t know enough to solve a problem on their own. This means, by definition, they are very likely not to
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Where It All Began
October 11, 2023
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I recently attended my 50th high school reunion, which, among other things, included a tour of the school itself. I actually started going to the
A Thousand Suns Isn’t Even Close
August 8, 2023
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You know that phrase “I [hate|despise] you with the fire of a thousand suns”? Well, that doesn’t begin to describe the way I feel about
OMG, It Works!
June 2, 2023
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Which is not at all what I expected when I hit F5 to debug an app just now. One mark of a well-architected software package,
Keychron Keyboard: Yet Another Exercise in Frustration
March 25, 2023
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I’ve had my eye on a clickier keyboard for some time. But I put it off because it was hard to find a place where
A Better WordPress Debug/Diagnostic Environment
October 17, 2022
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I’ve used WordPress for years. I’m also a long-term amateur programmer, mostly specializing in C# these days. One of the wonderful things about WordPress is
Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro VPN
July 21, 2022
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I use a Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro (UDM) as the firewall/router on my home LAN. It’s a very powerful machine1. With a very good web-based
Changing WordPress File Upload Limits
July 2, 2022
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I can’t tell you how much time I’ve wasted over the years trying to get WordPress to accept larger upload file sizes. If, like me,
Running the Right Version of PHP in WordPress
June 17, 2022
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Today’s hair-pulling exercise brought to you by WordPress, Apache and PHP! WordPress is a wonderful blogging/website platform…but it isn’t terribly well-documented, in part because it
Hyper-V Gotchas
June 16, 2022
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I’m looking to decommission an older Windows 10 desktop I keep around for testing software. It finally occurred to me I could use my spanking