Nerd Talk
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Moving Backups Off Server
If you’ve been following along last week, I wrote a tutorial on how to roll your own backups using a custom bash script. At the end of that article, you were essentially left with a script that squeezed your entire WordPress site into a tidy .zip archive, ready to store anywhere. Now it’s time to…
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Roll Your Own Backups With Bash
So you wanna roll your own backup solution, eh? Sure you could pay for some premium solution, but who are you kidding, they’re just copying files back and forth. How hard could it be? In this article, we’re going to take a look at writing our own backup solution. While technically, this solution can be…
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Actually Using Oh-My-ZSH
Preface Okay, so for the uninitiated, there’s actually a ton of different ways you can interact with a linux terminal. Without getting too technical, there are things called “shells” and different shells, you can kinda think as different “flavors” or “styles” of using a terminal. Each of them with their own pros and cons, but…
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Self Hosting a VPN on Raspberry Pi
If you’ve followed me for any amount of time, you’ll know that I’m most likely addicted to Raspberry Pis. They can be used for SO MANY things. It’s really just incredible how much you can learn from tinkering with a pi. A little bit of context I recently set up a new NVR security camera…
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Can We Talk About TMUX
What the heck is tmux? I gotta be honest, I didn’t really know or care what tmux was or what it could do until I came up against a problem I didn’t have a solution for. If you’ve been reading along, last week I dusted off my unused Raspberry Pi and hooked it up with…
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Connecting a 20×4 LCD to a Raspberry Pi
I’ve had an unused Raspberry Pi laying around the office for quite too long! It’s high time I did something about it. I’ve had several ideas over the last several months as to what to do with it exactly, but they were all similar ideas. I wanted to run some sort of automated task on…
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WordPress Site Stuck in Maintenance Mode
Plugin Error Code 500 During Update While I was updating a WordPress plugin locally, something happened on my local server to trigger a 500 error code as the plugin was updating. On the frontend, I refreshed the page and was greeted with “Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance. Check back in a minute” This message is…
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Creating a WordPress Plugin Downloader
How it Started I was recently tasked with the challenge of creating a WordPress theme generator. The idea being, instead of writing your style.css file from scratch, you’d be able to just answer a few simple questions about how you’d like your theme set up, and those starter files would be automatically generated. How it’s…
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Fix Audio on XFCE Chromebook
The Problem After moving from GalliumOS to Xubuntu, I noticed that playing YouTube videos on both Firefox and Chromium would result in decent playback for a few minutes, but suddenly the audio would turn into a solid beeping tone while the YouTube video displayed the white loading circle on top of the video as it…
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Adjust Trackpad Sensitivity XFCE
What are the values 1 1 1? This sets the sensitivity as close to the original ChromeOS as possible. Larger numbers will decrease sensitivity of various aspects. I never looked into which individual value represents. I’ve really enjoyed using GalliumOS on my Chomebook for genuinely the last 5 years. It’s been an essential modification that…