Tag Archives: WordPress
A blog questions challenge
I hadn’t checked my notifications on X.com in a while. When I did yesterday, I found Pradx had tagged me in a blog post called “a challenge of blog questions” in March. The point is to answer a short list … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes
Tagged blogging, Ghost, iA Writer, Markdown, MarsEdit, Visual Studio Code, WordPress
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The 5ftf blunder
Automattic owner Matt Mullenweg recently made a scene on Twitter when he called out GoDaddy as a “parasitic” organisation for profiting off of WordPress without making a sufficient number of contributions to the WordPress community and for developing a competitor … Continue reading
Posted in Tech
Tagged 5 for the Future, Automattic, GoDaddy, Matt Mullenweg, WordPress
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What are you doing, WordPress.com?
Be sure to check out the update at the bottom. I recently wrote that I’ve stuck with WordPress.com for so long, for all its purported limitations, because its features fully suffice the committed blogger whose content is textual for the most part … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes
Tagged Automattic, blogging, full-site editing, Gutenberg, Matt Mullenweg, Pro plan, WordPress
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If WordPress supports NFTs, should I boycott it?
“I make use of the tools available to me. That doesn’t mean I have to applaud every advance in the field.” Continue reading
Posted in Tech
Tagged blockchain, cryptocurrencies, NFT, non-fungible tokens, web3, WordPress
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Will this blog be online a hundred years from today?
For almost two weeks now, we at The Wire have been dealing with a complaint that someone from Maharashtra lodged against us with Amazon Web Services (AWS), our sites’ host, for allegedly copying one paragraph in one article sans consent … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Tech
Tagged Amazon Web Services, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, internet traffic, Persistent Web, Quiet Web, Shycocan, SLAPP, The Wire Science, WordPress
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View from the beanstalk
In early 2015, I developed an unlikely hobby: tinkering around with hosting solutions on the web, specifically providers of infrastructure as a service (IaaS). It’s unlikely because it’s not something I consciously inculcated; it just happened. Three years later, this hobby … Continue reading
Posted in Tech
Tagged Amazon Web Services, Bruce Schneier, Digital Ocean, IaaS, John Gruber, Linode, managed hosting, virtual private network, WordPress
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Good service shouldn’t necessitate support
There’s a difference between a service coming with excellent support and a service with excellent support that you rarely have to access. The latter would be any service where issues can be resolved by the user’s own agency when they do … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged customer support, UX, WordPress
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A for-publishers stack and the symmetry of globalisation
Journalism as the fourth estate has been noticeably empowered in the Information Age, with technologies like the WWW, broadband connectivity and smartphones in (almost) everyone’s pockets. However, the opportunities to responsibly exercise the resulting power have been coming at a … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, blogging, Chrome, discoverability, Google, infrastructure, online journalism, Pocket, tech stack, WordPress, WWW
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A blogging problem, contd.
Over the last three days, I’d been having a strange issue with WordPress. If you read a post I published yesterday that briefly discussed WordPress’s pros and cons, you might remember I mentioned that WordPress 4.x seems to be having … Continue reading
A dummy’s attempt to set up WordPress
If you’re looking to set up your own self-hosted WordPress blog and you also want to learn how it’s done, I highly recommend using Linode’s documentation. Continue reading
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Tagged Digital Ocean, documentation, Easy Engine, Fail2ban, Linode, log parsing, nginx, regex, SSH attacks, tutorials, uncomplicated firewall, VPS, Vultr, WordPress
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