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Category: Development

I’ve been building some website monitoring stuff lately using self-hosted software. Here’s one that uses n8n (like Zapier) to ingest email logs (sent from a WordPress site) from an IMAP folder, parses the email…
I’ve been learning how to interact with APIs lately, and this app on MacOS (Auxl) has been fun to play with. You visually drag around Nodes on a canvas to build your requests….
I’ve decided that this year I’m going to learn how to build WordPress plugins. Not necesarily to publish to the wp.org repo, but something that will make my life just a little bit easier….
The last component of Grunt I wanted to setup before I get stuck into my current WordPress project, is LiveReload. This does what it sounds like. When it detects any file changes (based on…
Today I decided to look into Docker & Grunt. Docker doesn’t really seem like the kind of thing that would benefit me much in my workflow for building SMB WordPress websites. Looks like it…
Today I wanted to take my new knowledge of SSH a little further, so I created a Virtual Machine, installed Ubuntu and then installed Apache, PHP, and MySQL. I then installed WordPress and accessed…
So on NYE2015 I’m learning to SSH and Rsync to my server so I feel like more of a bad-ass web guy. Update: Oh, and I just setup a local install of WordPress on…