Edent

Edent, 1 month ago to wordpress

Huh! #WordPress is inviting me to update to a non-existent version!
https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-6-5-3/

404 page when I try to read the changes on their website.
Listing showing there's nothing after 6.5.2.

Edent, 1 month ago to random

The thing about ChatGPT is…

📕 Your documentation is incomplete and hard to use.
✍ The official forums are at best slow and, more likely, dead.
🛠 StackOverflow is full of condescending prats.
🗣 Asking a question on social media results in a deluge of "this is an XY problem!"

LLMs may sometimes be wrong - but they're quick, helpful, and polite.

Edent, 1 month ago to random

Oooh! I gadget I want is being listed on eBay "For Parts Only". Pretty sure I know how to fix it.

Only problem is, I think 3 other bidders have the same idea!

Edent, 1 month ago to random

The UK's first #MayDay Bank Holiday was a washout.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/news--britains-first-official-may-day-bank-holiday/zv3wbdm

Edent, 1 month ago to random

🆕 blog! “Book Review: The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel”
★★★☆☆

This book didn't really resonate with me. I enjoyed both Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquillity, so I think I was expecting something in a similar vein. Instead of ethereal sci-fi, this is a tangled tale which feels like a mish-mash of half a dozen movies. The central premise of a Ponzi scheme which warps …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/book-review-the-glass-hotel-emily-st-john-mandel/
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[#BookReview

Edent, 1 month ago to wordpress

I'm being a bit thick with #WordPress.

Given an arbitrary URl on my blog - how can I get the query which it would execute?

If you've a mind to help - https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/425043/equivalent-of-url-to-postid-for-non-post-urls - much appreciated!

Edent, 1 month ago to Theatre

🆕 blog! “Theatre Review: Pippin - 50th Anniversary Concert”
★★★★★

This has to be the campest, most ludicrously sequinned, joyous shows I've seen in quite some time. I knew nothing about Pippin, but my dad saw it back in the 1970s and loved it - so I snagged us a couple of tickets. The story itself is fun enough; an over-privileged princeling goes off to […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/theatre-review-pippin-50th-anniversary-concert/
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#review #theatre

Edent, 1 month ago to random

Mastodon is wild.

You can write something like "Imagine you had a cat - and one day it started speaking to you in Spanish. What would you do?"

And fully 75% of the replies will be "I'm allergic to cats so it would never happen."

Edent, 1 month ago to Cybersecurity

🆕 blog! “Bank scammers using genuine push notifications to trick their victims”

You receive a call on your phone. The polite call centre worker on the line asks for you by name, and gives the name of your bank. They say they're calling from your bank's fraud department. "Yeah, right!" You think. Obvious scam, isn't it?…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/bank-scammers-using-genuine-push-notifications-to-trick-their-victims/
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#bank #CyberSecurity #phishing #scam #security

Edent, 1 month ago to random

Hey! Everyone! Can we please normalise doing [thing which is entirely unremarkable but I have somehow built up in my head as being extremely shameful]?

THANKS!

Edent, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
1/3

Edent, 1 month ago to blogging

🆕 blog! “”

While attending IndieWebCamp in Brighton a few weeks ago, a bunch of us were talking about blogging. What is post? What should it contain? What's optional? Someone (probably Jeremy Keith said: A blog post doesn't need a title. In a literal sense, he was wrong. The HTML specification makes it clear that the <title> element […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/49911/
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#blogging #HTML #IndieWebCamp

Edent, 1 month ago to markdown

🆕 blog! “WordPress GeSHi Highlighting for Markdown”

I've launched a WordPress Plugin for an extremely niche use-case. WP GeSHi Highlight Redux works with WordPress's Classic Editor to convert Markdown to syntax highlighted code. That allows me to write: php $a = "Hello"; $b = 5 * 2; echo $a . str($b); And have it displayed as: $a = "Hello"; $b = […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/wordpress-geshi-highlighting-for-markdown/
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#markdown #php #plugins #WordPress

Edent, 1 month ago to random

Would you like to play a #Shakespeare based #IndieGame?

Here's my attempt from a few years ago https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/05/the-great-british-shake-off/

Edent, 1 month ago to random

Just got all of the @smashingmag eBooks for US$99
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/ebooks/
(Well, my employer paid for them out of my learning budget.)
Some absolute gems in there. Better get reading!

Edent, 1 month ago to Theatre

🆕 blog! “Theatre Review: Opening Night”
★★★☆☆

Opening Night is complex, fascinating, and flawed. It is baffling that this is somehow less than the sum of its parts. The acting and singing are incredible - Nicola Hughes in particular has a magnificent stage presence. The directing and staging is wonderfully innovative - giving even the most distant seat a close-up view. The […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/theatre-review-opening-night/
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#review #theatre

Edent, 1 month ago to fediverse

Finally fixed the weird bug which stopped people following my blog using #ActivityPub.

If you are so inclined, could you please give @blog a follow and let me know if it is working?

Thanks Midnight Warriors!

Edent, 1 month ago to random

Oh #LinkedIn, never change!

Edent, 1 month ago to Catroventos

🆕 blog! “Do That After This”

I was building some flatpack furniture the other day (my life is so glamorous) when I came across an interesting example of how not to write technical documentation. Drill a hole in part A and insert part B once you have ensured part C has been aligned after its connection to A. Most people can […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/do-that-after-this/
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#documentation #English #language

Edent, 1 month ago to random

The Thames is particularly beautiful this morning 😍

Edent, 1 month ago to infosec

What does this even mean?

I suppose a SIM might contain SMS or contact details - but those are far more likely to be on the phone these days.
Call records aren't stored on there.
So what was "downloaded"?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/27/met-police-admit-downloading-sim-radical-french-publisher-lawyer-claims

#infosec

Edent, 1 month ago to Futurology

🆕 blog! “Universal Basic Website”

Many years ago - when I was very young and you were even younger - it was standard for an ISP to provide all their users with a small amount of webspace. Both Pipex and Demon offered webspace back in 1996. If my hazy memory is correct, they offered a few megabytes - more than […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/universal-basic-website/
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#future #internet #isp

Edent, 1 month ago to Theatre

🆕 blog! “Theatre Review: The Mind Mangler”
★★★★★

This is a blast from start to finish. I haven't heard such screams of laughter since, well, the last Mischief production I saw! The Mind Manger is a crap magician dealing with his shitty home life, a tosspot stooge, and an audience full of idiots. Naturally, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Imagine […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/theatre-review-the-mind-mangler/
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#comedy #review #theatre

Edent, 1 month ago to wordpress

My blog imports replies from other social media sites and displays them as comments.
This sometimes leads to people replying on my site rather than to the original commenter.
So I've hacked my WordPress theme to say "Reply on example.com" to give people the choice to leave a public comment or a more private reply.

#WordPress #WebMention #Blog

Edent, 1 month ago to random

Turning to Mastodon for tech support in an effort to save my sanity.

Gmail is rejecting mail forwarded to it. But only some of the time.

I own a domain - example.com
It has SPK, DKIM, etc.
It has a catch-all email address.
Any email sent to it is forwarded to a Gmail address.
This works 99% of the time.
But some of the emails aren't delivered - with the reason:

> SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: 550 5.7.1 [ESA] Sender blocked.

Is that a me problem or a Gmail problem?