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Watercolor Video

by Matthew Jones | Nov 4, 2018 | Video Editing, Video Portfolio

The 24 Before This was a project that started off as raw video. After several layers of After Effects work, we ended up with a final result that mimicked a genuine watercolor video. Somewhat inspired by larger projects like Loving Vincent, the initial...

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How to Generate a Ranger Config File

by Matthew Jones | March 20, 2024 | Linux, Web Development | 0 Comments

ranger --copy-config=all This will copy all the default config files from /usr/local/lib so you can make edits without messing anything up. Huge shout out to https://dquinton.github.io/debian-install/config/ranger.html for explaining this and so much more. Took me a...

First Open Source Contribution

by Matthew Jones | February 6, 2024 | Web Development | 0 Comments

Surprise! I genuinely did not plan on making my first ever open source contribution today. In fact, I didn't plan on a lot of things happening this week at all. I recently got an awesome opportunity to work on a site that is being hosted on a platform called Pantheon,...

How to Exclude Specific Posts and Pages from WP_QUERY

by Matthew Jones | January 30, 2024 | Web Development | 0 Comments

For the sake of having something to work with, let's suppose we've got the following query:In this query, inside the $args array, there's a special parameter that allows you to exclude specific posts and pages from the query. This parameter is called post__not_in and...

Configure SSH For Password-less Connections

by Matthew Jones | January 29, 2024 | Web Development | 0 Comments

Preamble I'm slightly embarrassed to admit this, but it was a long time before I figured out how amazing this little file is and how exactly to put it to good use. The file I'm talking about is the SSH config file. By default, when you first connect to a server via...

WordPress Site Stuck in Maintenance Mode

by Matthew Jones | December 20, 2023 | Web Development | 0 Comments

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...

Creating a WordPress Plugin Downloader

by Matthew Jones | November 12, 2023 | Web Development, Web Portfolio | 0 Comments

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...

Fix Audio on XFCE Chromebook

by Matthew Jones | May 30, 2023 | Linux, Ubuntu | 0 Comments

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...

Adjust Trackpad Sensitivity XFCE

by Matthew Jones | May 15, 2023 | Linux | 0 Comments

xinput set-prop "Elan Touchpad" "Synaptics Finger" 1 1 1 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...

Fireworks (Short Film)

by Matthew Jones | February 1, 2023 | Video Portfolio | 0 Comments

https://vimeo.com/395077249 About the film Year: 2020 Director/DP: Tim Searfoss Writers: Matt Jones, Tim Searfoss Sound Mix: Matt Jones

Hosting Multiple Sites Using LocalWP

by Matthew Jones | January 4, 2023 | Web Development | 0 Comments

I've done a write-up on hosting local WordPress sites before, but I definitely prefer this method over the previous one. If you've never tried hosting multiple sites using LocalWP, then I'd encourage you to check it out. I've had really bad issues with it in the past,...