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August 2024

  • I’ve found myself tinkering with WordPress stuff a lot lately. Here’s another quick change I made for nicer shortlinks with a shorter domain that I have. This was inspired by trawling through jwz’ archives and hacks. This post in particular. The first piece of this puzzle is adding this location block to the nginx configs…

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  • I’ve been tinkering around with IndieWeb integration on this site and wanted to document some notes getting all this running with a block theme. Theme I’m running a mildly customized version of Pulitzer. I’ve used the Create Block Theme plugin to export my changes and have published it as a standalone child theme here. Changes…

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  • WordPress block themes have grown on me. Spent a couple hours this weekend sprucing up tcpinball.org. Found this lovely block theme and it all came together quite nicely. Had a strange bug where the Navigation block stopped working on certain pages. Didn’t find the actual cause but it fixed itself when I disabled the Gutenberg…

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  • [… we] estimate that DNSSEC validation is performed around 1% of the time, given the DNS query profile of today’s data I run my own authoritative nameservers and have had a slight nagging feeling that I should’ve enabled DNSSEC years ago. It’s been on my perpetual to-do list but I’ve never gotten around to it.…

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  • Stumbled upon a silly blog I made for one of the German classes I took in undergrad. The account it was under used my long-dead @nmu.edu email so I ended up having to contact support to get back into it. Also found the final project page. I imported the posts and pages to this site…

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  • Importing matchplay results to wordpress for tcpinball.org posts

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