General Blather

Not a big income driver for me, but a bit of knowledge and trickle of pennies, I've got some Google Ads on my various pages. They've been warning for a while that changes are afoot and that those of us who do this need to make changes. I didn't change,… more »

In an unexpected move, the software for this blog got an update! A security fix and some things that were lingering in its between releases repository state. This meant I had to rebuild the blog software, which led to some different observations. more »

I'm not trying to solicit, but explain. I write this blog as a bit of a shared journal. Not shared in the sense that others are invited to contribute, although comments are allowed and appreciated. Shared in the sense that it's out in the open. more »

I've had some time while the kids are facing their tablets for afternoon entertainment, so I've kicked in some progress on making the Docker container version of this blog software work. more »

After one too many PHP error messages in the middle of content, and too many too many failures to connect from the CDN (probably related) when trying to publish posts, I sought to put the next version of the blog software on, even if still beta. more »

Maybe it's been broken for a while, but I've noticed if one hits the "comment" links from the main feed, the aggregation of everything, a 404 error occurs as it can't find the post for the comment. It seems the blog name is missing from the comment;… more »

For no good reason, I'm running the next version pre-release software on this server. It ends up running about 100 updates a day. Today's update seems to have caused problems with this (and probably other) software. more »