The site took a dive yesterday; completely fubar’d. So today I sftp’d my backup of the old wp-content directory into a totally new GoDaddy server instance, which then required hand-jamming the mysql backup into a parallel reality complete with new host locations, logins, and passwords for everything. It took about…
I hate spam. I mean, I really really hate spam… And due to this I spend a borderline insane amount of time creating filters, building heuristic systems, and blocking entire countries to keep my personal email junk-free. Which is great if you own your own mail server, but harder if…
Today I fiddled with ye olde website a bit; adjusted some look and feel, added search functionality, and imported everything from LiveJournal just in case Livejournal becomes a casualty of global tensions. I’m still missing everything from March 25th 2021 to March 2nd 2022 due to a database kerfluffle with…
The new M2 Max MacBook Pro arrived today… Even the shipping box is an origami masterpiece designed to protect the laptop box, which is another origami masterpiece… Apple just loves to engineer things. It took about an hour to transfer my life from the M1 to the M2, and with…
As is tradition for me; new year, new Mac. Apple is giving me a bit over $1300 in trade for my current M1 Max laptop, so the New Hotness is only running me $2200 and change… Happy Birthday to me I suppose. I talked myself out of the upgrade a…
It’s a cold, grey, and somewhat snowy day outside and things are a bit slow here at the office, so I figured I’d show off my work setup while waiting for the first emergency… There’s my workhorse M1 Max 16″ MacBook Pro, hooked to a Satechi USB-C hub, which runs…