Books Read: 23 Pages Read: 5,789 Shortest Book: The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito (33 pages) Longest Book: Penguin Minis: Paper Towns by John Green (648 pages) 2018 Book(s): I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara Favorite Book Read in 2018: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste […]
TCP/IPv4 Settings Keep Reverting to Static DNS Server on Windows 10
The Story The other day (Wednesday), my WiFi wasn’t working on my laptop. I would connect successfully, but the network showed “No internet, secured.” I needed to put some time into the WordCamp Kent 2019 site, so I ran back to the office, worked on 2 blog posts, then returned […]
Powerful git Commands
Pickaxe (with & without specified file) Search diffs for a particular string. Purpose: If you’re trying to figure out when a particular line was changed and by who. Across all diffs In a Specific File Source More Documentation on git log –merged Purpose: When you’re trying to identify branches that […]
Sublime Text 3 Performance Tips
Sometimes when I’m opening a really large file, Sublime Text 3 will just crash with no warning. It loads roughly 15% of the file and then just closes unexpectedly. From what I’ve read on the Sublime Text forum, it’s likely due to the processing it takes to perform syntax highlighting […]
7 WordPress Features You Can Write a Simple Plugin For
Here are 7 examples of simple plugins you can write to get started with WordPress plugin development. Plugins in the WordPress repository should try to serve a single purpose. The “single purpose” concept is so the author can maintain the code more easily and so the end-user that doesn’t have […]
Cleveland GiveCamp 2018 Recap
Note: I wrote this recap back in July, but somehow forgot to publish the blog post version and only sent this recap to my coworkers. Whoops! 🙂 Figured I owed it to the organizers to get this post out, though! This year I volunteered at an event called Cleveland GiveCamp. […]
Password Security During Reset Process
I wanted to share this article about websites/applications’ password reset process by Troy Hunt. It has a ton of information and examples of how to securely store passwords (with encryption and 1-way hashing), what username enumeration is, what a persistent password is, the purpose of CAPTCHAs, secret questions, etc. On […]
Why is my shortcode content showing before other content?
If you have created a shortcode but it’s showing up before the other content on your WordPress site, it might be because you used an “” instead of a “” in your callback function. add_shortcode() Incorrect: Correct:
How Much Do I Want To Spend on Housing?
I’ve been reading and listening to a ton of personal finance blogs and podcasts lately. Namely, Mad Fientist, the YNAB podcast, and starting to dip into MMM. I’m trying to wrap my head around if I want to be spending 25% of my income on my house. I realize that the […]
My Name is Changing Wednesday!
I’m reinventing myself as my original self on Wednesday. The last 11 months have been a wild ride. One where I’ve learned a lot. I learned a lot about those around me, their capacity for supporting me, about Ohio dissolution law (and about interesting tangentially-related laws that seem decades behind where […]