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Month: July 2020

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Honestly, @automattic, the relationship between Jetpack, Vaultpress, and Jetpack Backup is so confusing, and the Support section does not help.

    Remember how I asked about WordPress hosting? I’ve just finished migrating my two big hobby sites over to Amazon Lightsail, and I documented the steps I’ve taken so far here: https://t.co/P1qUAqrJU7. 😅 https://t.co/CGGxfqjgkc

    Truthfully, setting up a new site on Lightsail was super easy. All of the complexity was due to the fact that I was moving existing websites and trying to maintain full backwards compatibility for 20 years of URLs!

    @dannysteenman Thanks! Some of that I’ve already done, but I’ll definitely look through and make use of that.

    @wabzqem @jim_mussared @DTA Ahhh, this will be why my Withings smart watch keeps disconnecting from my iPhone, I’m guessing. Definitely started when I installed COVIDSafe.

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Ep 11: The Snook makes a “Between the Sheets.”

    Fun trivia – see if you can spot the moment he cuts his finger and then smoothly continues while managing to keep the blood off-screen. 😳

    Just finished migrating both my blog and RoaldDahlFans over to Amazon Lightsail. 😅 These sites have each been around for 20 years, so there were a lot of complexities to deal with!

    A new home for w-g

  • A new home for w-g

    Well, that was an ordeal.

    A few weeks ago I got an email that my shared web hosting account (that I use for both this site and RoaldDahlFans) was up for renewal, and it reminded me that I didn’t like the host I was using. I was stuck on PHP5 and they were going to charge me more to move to a server with PHP7, and that pissed me off. So I asked Twitter what to do.

    Wordpress hosting tweet

    I got a lot of different answers, most of which were a LOT more expensive than I was spending. I was okay with going up a little bit, but these are both hobby sites rather than professional so anything over, say, $20/month was too much. A few folks threw out the suggestion to use Amazon Lightsail, which was intriguing. After all, it’s always a good idea to eat your own dog food. (I should also mention that these sites are and have always been hosted and paid for by me personally, so they’re not running on my employee AWS account or anything like that.)

    I thought I’d document the process that I followed for the sites, which was based on this blog post and this AWS tutorial. Truthfully, setting up a new WordPress site on Lightsail is super easy and takes less than hour. All the complexity was because I was migrating two very old and very crufty sites from PHP5 to PHP7 and trying to preserve twenty years’ worth of old URLs. So even though I encountered a few hurdles not described in the tutorials, I wouldn’t let that stop you. Read on for the details…

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  • Shared today on Twitter

    Thanks to @SallyPompom and @Yarna_ for inviting me to speak to @KnitGuildNSW about @ravelry today! That was such fun (even despite multiple technical glitches on my end)… 😂

    Celebrating the 4th of July with the Liberty Bell episode of It’s Always Sunny. 😂🇺🇸🎇🎆 https://t.co/T1KaYcQAOB

    RT @devinDford: This thread is incredible!! Know your worth, @ChloeCondon does an amazing job at explaining why it’s important and offers…

    Happy 4th of July!! Who’s ready for a #hamilparty? 🎆🇺🇸🎇 https://t.co/S52kqn2y2n

    @lynnlangit Making stuff.

  • Shared today on Facebook

    Happy 4th of July!! Who’s ready for a #hamilparty? 🎆🇺🇸🎇

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    Happy 4th of July!! Who’s ready for a #hamilparty? 🎆🇺🇸🎇

    Happy 4th of July!! Who’s ready for a #hamilparty? 🎆🇺🇸🎇

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    WIP – Milo Socks from @the.cookie.a. #ravelry

    WIP - Milo Socks from @the.cookie.a. #ravelry

  • Shared today on Twitter

    RT @honeycombio: We’re excited to announce two new openings on our engineering team! Come join the hive! 🐝🍯🎉🌈

    – Product Engineer
    – Platfor…

    RT @OzKitsch: The world is gonna know your name. What’s your name, man?
    #hamilfilm https://t.co/IIxx4fZ0v2

    “Wait, I’m pretty sure I made the bed this morning…” 😺 https://t.co/qZROZ6tTxX https://t.co/Voe30Mc2wQ

    RT @Lin_Manuel: Stage Manager: half hour ladies and gentlemen, this is your half hour call. Remember there will be cameras at tonight’s sho…

    @sdwagar 5pm Friday night here – PERFECT!

    @mmastertheone Oh wow! Hmm, normally I’d say yes but given that we’re getting ready to move, I’m trying not to accumulate more stuff. 😂

    @mmastertheone But thank you though!

    Knitters – tomorrow morning I’m leading a workshop for @KnitGuildNSW on how to use @ravelry. What’s your favourite lesser-known feature? Any groups you’ve stumbled across that are worth highlighting?

    RT @DaniConnorWild: I put my microphone in front of a baby red squirrel. Part 2 https://t.co/FpuJJSAhqw

    @jrhunt Congrats!

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    “Wait, I’m pretty sure I made the bed this morning…” 😺

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @hannahcancode AMAZING. I keep trying to convince @the_snook to make them for me but he is a lazybones. 😛

    @stibbons @pjf I’m so happy to hear it! That’s awesome. 🙂

    RT @futuregarfield: 06/08/2050 https://t.co/hUM9jOm84c

    RT @thingskatedid: Adding important things to my http responses https://t.co/HSleKH9yO1

    😳 As a transplanted Yank, I feel strongly the answer is JUST PEANUT BUTTER. https://t.co/MOkBunaP5o

    @twasink Honey… I will allow. Carry on.