Finally, after way too long time I’ve given some attention to this site. I had already replaced the main page with a profile (kind of like a resume page) a few months earlier, but that was more of a hack that kind of broke WordPress. This new design makes use of a custom made WordPress […]
Category: Web Development
Hemingway Editor review
To improve the content of my websites I looked into writing tools recently. It is easy just to hit the “ABC” button in WordPress or copy your text in Word, but that won’t tell you if your text has style errors. The first tool I stumbled upon was Grammarly, but some digging suggests they have […]
Corrupted files during development using PhpStorm & Vagrant
I’m currently trying to develop my own WordPress theme from scratch (called “Tengu” but be warned: at time of writing it’s nowhere near usable yet). And I encountered a rather odd bug: part of the style.css file would get corrupted when viewing through the browser. I am using PhpStorm on Windows and for live testing […]
Free image hosting: lessons learned (Part 1)
This is probably going to be a series of posts, hence the “Part 1” in the title. I have now ran the same free image hosting site (ImageHost.org) twice: the first time was in the fall/winter of 2004 (only a few months indeed) and the second time was while a lot longer: from fall 2007 […]
Keep WordPress & phpMyAdmin up-to-date with a single command
Notice: see this follow-up post for better ways of keeping WordPress & phpMyAdmin up-to-date. Keeping up-to-date with the latest versions of commonly used web software such as WordPress and phpMyAdmin can be a bit of a drag if you would have to manually download, unzip and upload new files through FTP each time a new […]