Month

October 2020


We got chilly waiting for trick-or-treaters, so we pulled out the patio heater. ??

Posted on October 31, 2020

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Preparing for socially distant tick-or-treating.

Posted on October 31, 2020

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I just paid a contractor to fix in two hours a problem that would have taken me days to fix. Feeling pretty good about trading money for time in this particular case. ?

Posted on October 30, 2020

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Pro tip for all you pollsters out there: I’m much more likely to take your call and answer your questions if you time your call to fall after my second glass of wine. Do with that information what you will.

Posted on October 26, 2020

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Brigit, surveying her domain.

Posted on October 23, 2020

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Today’s coworking space: Aisling House

Posted on October 23, 2020

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PSA: Brute force attacks on WordPress were regularly spinning up enough instances of PHP-FPM to bring my server to its knees. Protecting wp-login.php, wp-admin and xmlrpc.php (via .htaccess) has virtually eliminated this problem. It’s now part of my process for all new WP sites.

Posted on October 20, 2020

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Looking at yesterday’s iPhone 12 announcement, I would have been more excited about the return of TouchID than I am about them adding 5G radios. The iPhone 12 mini looks nice, though.

Posted on October 14, 2020

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