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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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • tech: Easy tips on listening to Audiobooks

    Well, I find that I’m way more efficient listening to audiobooks than having the time to read. For some reason, I can multitask pretty well particularly when driving or trying to reset Apple Home problems (argh!). So if you are like me and you have a book that you need for a book club, then…

  • 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…

  • web: I Love Fedistar for a Mac Mastodon clients

    Man, there is “let a thousand flowers bloom in the world of reading Mastodon”. In contrast, you get just one for Threads and in some ways, there are so many clients. I haven’t settled on a client for iOS or the Mac yet, but here are some notes on the Mac clients (hat tip to…