I wanted to make some changes to the excellent Autonomie theme, but because I’m yet a Wordpress development tyro I wanted an environment that I could break. At the same time I didn’t want to manually copy changes from local to the real remote env if those changes did turn out to work. There’s probably a better way of doing all this, but here’s what worked for me.
If you’re struggling to fit an operation into the REST API architecture paradigm, try adding a field to an existing model or creating a new model, such that a change to some fields in the model represents the operation.
Instead of adding the Gallery block and dropping a bunch of images onto it, open the Media Gallery, upload the images there, and then add the gallery to the Gallery block.
Mastodon has some fun questionable interesting architectural choices. When you post a link, instead of your server sending metadata about the link (such as title, snippet, and image) out to other servers, it just shares the link raw, which triggers other servers to immediately hit the URL. If that URL includes an oembed link for […]
TL;DR Follow the instructions on https://github.com/faevourite/mastodon-oracle-cloud-free-tier. When you join Mastodon you lend trust to whoever runs your server, including trust that they moderate the content, keep the service well-maintained, and back up its data. This is easy if you know the people running it! If no one in your friends/family group is running a server […]
I learned about difftastic today, which aims to show differences between files while being aware of the underlying programming language used in said files (if any). It’s basically magic when it works! I generally like the built-in diff in the JetBrains suite of IDEs. The one I use these days is GoLand, but I believe […]
In Prometheus, if one recording rule uses metrics produced by another make sure they’re in the same group.
[Edit 2023-05-21] This seems to have been fixed by Cloudflare silently at some point. I was trying to add this site to Indieweb ring last night and found that it couldn’t validate the presence of the previous/next links, even though they were clearly in the footer of every page. I cleared the WordPress and Cloudflare […]
I got an M1 mac at work recently and hit a strange issue trying to run the Goland debugger: Error running ‘<my test>’: Debugging programs compiled with go version go1.17.8 darwin/amd64 is not supported. Use go sdk for darwin/arm64. Wait, amd64? I had installed the arm64 go package after the switch to M1, so why […]
In re-reading The Wrong Abstraction recently, I’ve realized that while we often talk about code being an artifact of production, it often functions more as a decision log. In her post Sandi writes about how the Sunk Cost Fallacy plays into the hesitation we as developers feel when encountering perplexing abstractions. Part of the recommendation […]