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wp: Outstanding WordPress bugs with redis, Disqus, and JetPack
Well things are working pretty well, here are my outstanding bugs: Of these, the Redis one is the most concerning, if it keeps happening, it looks like it is PHP log time.
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wp: Now make WordPress integrate with Mastodon
This isn’t super well documented but Alex explains it pretty well. As more people try to migrate to the fediverse there are four distinct goals for Mastodon WordPress integration I think in order of difficulty Keeping your content on your site with ActivityPub, Those were the simple things to do, but you can go farther…
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wp: New fix for redis max memory worked!
It took a while for all this to propagate, but looking at the Digital Ocean plots, you can see what was happening was lots of thrashing as the redis cached into the disk-based swapfile. While the memory load remains high at nearly 100%, you can see the CPU utilization has dropped from 75% to more…
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wp: How to fix WordPress crashes due to Redis memory
OK, so after I got the performance of WordPress up to decent with the help of redis and other tricks, this site went from a horrible 9 seconds to a very decent 1.5 seconds. But, I did find that it would become unavailable 4-6 times a day. I thought this was because I had exceeded…
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web: New Google Workspace AI, browser sync, and OLCP fixes
OK, some gentle reminders on making everything work. The first is that if you are using Google Workspace, you currently have to allow Bard for all your users. This also enables Google AI Studio which you can use to manage your prompts for vision and test them and NotebookLM which is similar to the studio…
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Protected: fam: dct4. Rich and Dave debate grandma
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Mac: New life for MacBooks 2010-2017 with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Well, I’ve had some pretty good luck with OCLP to update old Macs to the latest MacOS Ventura, and Sonoma. Right now I’ve got running and it’s a pretty good list. The main thing to do is to make sure you are using the latest Open Core Legacy Patcher. So the idea is you get…
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tech: New 32″ monitor? waiting for next Apple Cinema Display…
OK, this is a painful one, but our trusty Benq BL3200 which five years ago was an amazing 2550p monitor has been rained on (roof leak, argh!) and now has a failure in one of the vertical pixels which is pretty annoying, so time to check out rtings.com and get a replacement before the whole…