The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 ANC headphones are a pleasant surprise
The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 ANC headphones are possibly the best on-ear active noise cancellation headphones you’ve never heard of.
var_dump() for Javascript
PHP, for example, has var_dump() and print_r() to facilitate quick variable dumps to log files, etc. For Javascript, one can use console.log() in combination with JSON.stringify() to achieve something similar. console.log( JSON.stringify(object) ); It’s also possible to “pretty-print” the output like so: console.log( JSON.stringify(object, null, …
Ubuntu 20.04, Nginx, Redmine, Ruby, and Passenger-Phusion confusion
Redmine, Ruby, Passenger-Phusion, and Nginx makes for an extremely confusing situation with dependencies, installation “instructions”, and “mismatching” package versions. Redmine wants Ruby x, your Linux distribution has Ruby y, Passenger-Phusion only works with Ruby z, and you quite often end up in a loop somewhere. …
Checking LSI RAID storage status in Linux
Flying blind is no fun and many hardware manufacturers are notoriously bad at providing info tools form their hardware for Linux. If you have an LSI-chipped RAID controller, this may come in handy. The `storcli`utility replaces the MegaCLI utility and is provided by Broadcom. You …
Probably the best Mud Cake in the world
Saffron Mud Cake, made to perfection.
Shortcodes for Font Awesome 1.1.0
The WordPress plugin Shortcode for Font Awesome (SCFA) 1.1.0 has been released: Tested with WordPress 5.6 Tested with PHP 7.4 Updated to Font Awesome 5.15.1 You can get it from: wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-for-font-awesome/ code.webbplatsen.net/wordpress/wordpress-shortcodes-for-font-awesome/ The GitHub repo is here: github.com/joho1968/SCFA
Cloudbridge Mattermost
Cloudbridge Mattermost is a WordPress plugin that provides integration between WordPress and Mattermost. In the initial release, we focus on login notifications (successful, failed, unknown) from the various WordPress user roles. We will, of course, be adding more functionality in the future. You can download …
NCweb 0.0.5, your Nextcloud Web Server
NCweb 0.0.5 has been released, yay 🙂 You can grab a copy here if you’re curious about the changes, if not, carry on. If you want to read more about NCweb, check out the GitHub repository The initial announcement can be found here Spoiler alert: …
Displaying WordPress roles in the current language
While writing a WordPress plugin that displays the available user roles, I came across a snag: the user roles that I had fetched from WordPress weren’t translated into the site’s current language. I’m not quite sure I understand the reasoning behind this since WordPress offers …
Listing all settings in WordPress with options.php
Sometimes it’s a lot faster to simply get a list of all of your current WordPress settings by using the direct options URL: https://yoursite.tld/wp-admin/options.php WordPress will gently nudge you to be careful when using that URL, but it may help you track down settings that …