New book progress
Making great strides on my new book. Planned release in December :)
Web Dev + WordPress + Security
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Organizational tools
To organize my life, I keep it simple. online: plain text files, offline: sticky notes.
Googlebot IP list
Official list of Googlebot IP addresses.
Ones
Lot of 1s in today’s date 20211111.
New book
Working on a new book :)
Star Trek
I enjoy listening to original Star Trek and NG episodes while working online. After a while it feels like I’m working on the ship as part of the crew, going on adventures.
shapeSpace theme update
New version (2.6) of my shapeSpace starter theme now available! Always free & open source for everyone :)
Book updates!
Finished updating all of my books! As always, book owners can download the latest versions for FREE :)
Accessibility Tools
W3C.org has a very thorough list of accessibility tools.
Waking up
The more you wake up, the more you realize you are still asleep.
7G Firewall Update
7G Firewall v1.4 now available!
Big phones suck
I would pay twice as much for a shorter/smaller/lighter phone.
August 2021
Taking a much needed break in August :)
Social Media
The Web was better before social media.
Classic Widgets FTW
WP 5.8 Gutenberg/Block Widgets is breaking many sites. Fortunately Disable Gutenberg makes it easy to restore Classic Widgets with a click.
Hot scans
Easily the most common exploit scan for WordPress is /{path}/wp-login.php.
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REST Pro Tools: Granular control of the
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Thoughts
Working on a complete redesign of Perishable Press :)
The Office is Cheers with more irony.
More fine-grained control of macOS screen brightness: hold down Option + Shift before pressing either of the brightness keys. You get 64 increments instead of the usual 16.
REST Pro Tools featured in David McCan’s new video on locking down WordPress.
Gonna try exercise.
Launching my new plugin, REST Pro Tools 🛠️ Granular control of the WP REST API.
The algorithm is way too hypersensitive.