• Shared today on Twitter

    Spent 20min trying to pick new USB-C dock because mine is short one slot that I need and they’re all stupidly expensive and I was getting cross and then the Snook pointed out that my MacBook does, in fact, have an audio jack that I somehow overlooked, and it solved everything. ๐Ÿ˜


    @moylecroft Why do they all have memory card slots? Who actually uses a memory card in 2020??! *tears hair out*


    @moylecroft Yeah, but that number is vanishingly small and getting smaller by the day. https://t.co/Nk1FsJgx0H


    Big news – I am soon going to be transferring to a new role at AWS, which means @frankarr is now recruiting another SA Manager to my team! If you like helping businesses with the Cloud and coaching amazing technical people, you should get in touch: https://t.co/QrdGOuUPDy


    @frankarr And my DMs are now open if you want to ask me more about it…


    And should have also mentioned – role is open to both Sydney and Melbourne!


    I’m really sorry to hear this. I know how hard @charis works on this great event every year, and it’s one of the best web confs I’ve had the pleasure of attending! https://t.co/yNZ52qfWfN


    @msharp Wow! Have you been to Tidbinbilla?



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    Big news – in the next couple months I’m going to be transferring to a new team at AWS (more on that later), which means that my existing team has an opening for a Solutions Architect Manager! We’re looking for someone who is passionate about helping Aussie businesses reap the benefits of moving to the Cloud, as well as growing and coaching an amazing team of technical folks. Bonus – you get to work with absolute legend @Frank Arrigo! Feel free to ping me if you want to hear more about the day-to-day…

    Oh, and the role is open to both Sydney and Melbourne!


    The Snook has levelled up his baking skills – homemade Turkish pide bread! ๐Ÿ˜



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    The Snook has levelled up his baking skills – homemade Turkish pide bread! ๐Ÿ˜

    The Snook has levelled up his baking skills - homemade Turkish pide bread! ๐Ÿ˜


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    RT @AmberBenson: Kanyeโ€™s announcement is a great reminder that men look at job descriptions and thinkโ€”โ€œhey, Iโ€™m not remotely qualified, butโ€ฆ


    @parisba @The_McJones Rodd knows the “real” version, but this is the type of thing I say every time I have to spell something over the phone.


    RT @DevOpsGirls: We are taking our “DevOps Girls in Testing” workshop, online. ๐ŸŽ‰

    https://t.co/HKOMc1UMcX

    #devops #devopsgirls #testing #โ€ฆ


    @Gaohmee I’m so sorry you’re going through this. That really sucks.


    Guess who just got a ring light? ๐Ÿ˜‚ Trying out different settings, as well as propping behind my laptop… (Clockwise from top left: none, 100% white, 50% blue, 100% blue) https://t.co/Tx1ayNcRro


    @AndyDentPerth I need some sort of anglerfish contraption that holds out in front of me 2 feet. ๐Ÿ˜‚


    @BronwenZ Neewer – https://t.co/ryAUpdOGpQ


    @StokesXandra Up close with the phone out definitely did. For the laptop itโ€™s not too bad. Iโ€™ve got it dimmed to about 50% and thatโ€™s still enough to make a positive difference visually without making me feel like Iโ€™m on the nightly news. https://t.co/YceJjlRX96


    Winnie the Bish as a better Phoebe is a hot take that I can get behind! https://t.co/c0rzj5wSJm


    RT @JuddApatow: All to sell shoes and cars. https://t.co/5bpvujqlu8



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    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. ๐Ÿ˜… 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, Iโ€™m guessing. Definitely started when I installed COVIDSafe.



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    Ep 11: The Snook makes a โ€œBetween the Sheets.โ€

    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. ๐Ÿ˜ณ


    Just finished migrating both my blog and RoaldDahlFans over to Amazon Lightsail. ๐Ÿ˜… 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…

    (more…)


  • 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)… ๐Ÿ˜‚


    Celebrating the 4th of July with the Liberty Bell episode of Itโ€™s Always Sunny. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐ŸŽ‡๐ŸŽ† 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 offersโ€ฆ


    Happy 4th of July!! Whoโ€™s ready for a #hamilparty? ๐ŸŽ†๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐ŸŽ‡ https://t.co/S52kqn2y2n


    @lynnlangit Making stuff.



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    Happy 4th of July!! Whoโ€™s ready for a #hamilparty? ๐ŸŽ†๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐ŸŽ‡



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    Happy 4th of July!! Whoโ€™s ready for a #hamilparty? ๐ŸŽ†๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐ŸŽ‡

    Happy 4th of July!! Whoโ€™s ready for a #hamilparty? ๐ŸŽ†๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐ŸŽ‡



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