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… a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close … Continued
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Notes on my process of building a mail server for aidanmontare.net. Follow the Linode Guide It’s easy enough to follow, just don’t rush through the steps too fast. Some warnings: Make sure you are in mysql when you runs commands. Make sure postfix config files have no space before lines. Make sure you set the … Continued
Releases of projects at code.aidanmontare.net will now have SHA512 checksums and GPG signatures available. Additionally, many projects will have their Git commits signed. After learning how to create signatures and sign them, I went on a pushing spree. Most projects should now have signatures of their code available. I realize that many of these projects … Continued
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I chose WordPress Plugins as my introduction to serious development and contributing to an open source community. This page contains notes on the things I learned through the process. It might be helpful to those who have a plugin idea, but don’t no much about programming. Before You Begin Do you have an idea? If … Continued
This week I began reading the WordPress Core Contributor Handbook. I have decided my first programming project will be to create a WordPress plugin (so next I need to read this and then most of this). I won’t announce what the plugin will be yet; you’ll have to wait and see. This begins my long-awaited … Continued
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Git is pretty awesome. However, forgetting how to use all this awesomeness is not awesome. To try to keep the git as awesome as possible, I have collected here a list of commands and notes about using Git. This is not intended to be a definitive guide to Git, nor is it a good introduction … Continued
I recently increased the swap on my server from 256MB to 1024MB. I seems to make GitLab run a little faster when loading the details of large commits. Annoying that I had to throw more memory at the problem instead of actually fixing it. At least the site works, and you can now view details … Continued
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Having broken links on your website is really annoying. Especially in WordPress, where simple errors like forgetting http:// will leave you with a messed up URL (the browser appends the link to your site’s URL). And if you move pages on a large site, the amount of broken links to deal with will soon be … Continued
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Just to help spread the word… If you run either WordPress or GitLab, update now! There are importance security fixes that could allow a malicious visitor to compromise un-patched sites.
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Shopping Advice I have a Kindle Fire tablet. For those who don’t, I would really suggest buying a standard Android tablet instead, unless all you want to do is buy things from Amazon. Or if you actually want to read with your e-reader, buy a normal Kindle with the e-ink screen. Some of us are … Continued