I recently tried to install vagrant on a Mac OS X.11 (El Capitan) machine, but ran into trouble.
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Checking if WordPress post has more
WordPress offers the has_excerpt() method to determine if you create a separate excerpt on a post, but does not seem to have a built in function to ask if it uses the special comment <!--more--> for an excerpt coming from the beginning of the post content.
As if Amazon was celebrating my recent purchase of the domain <macn.me>, which reminded me of Mac and Me, they added the movie to Amazon Prime this month.
Continue reading post "#2684"I had to manually force renew the TLS certificate for my site (the thing that makes it encrypted over HTTPS) because of a bug in LetsEncrypt’s software.
Continue reading post "#2674"Short-domains bought
I finally made it happen: I bought a short “vanity” domain. Two, in fact: <macn.me> and <tobm.me>.
Continue reading post "Short-domains bought"Last night, I decided to finally take the plunge and buy a short vanity domain I had been considering for several years (2b1.me), only to find it had been purchased just 48 hours beforehand, at the very registrar I was planning to use (Porkbun).
Continue reading post "#2656"PHP: Fallback for old constructor style
In versions of PHP before 5, constructors were functions with the same name as their class. PHP 5 introduced the __construct() unified name, and has deprecated the old style in PHP 7. Cogneato still has code remnants from long ago, with the old style. I recently worked on improving the compatibility of our old code with PHP 7.
Up way later than I wanted to be, fighting with Symfony’s framework bundle trapping PHP errors from getting to my Apache logs, and Apache’s ErrorLogFormat not being able to display REQUEST_URI. Gonna have to come back to these later.
Letsencrypt: Shared verification web-root for all domains
I use Letsencrypt with certbot for the HTTPS certificates of my personal sites. I use the certonly method to allow full control over my server configuration. This means specifying one or more web-roots for each certificate.
Ansible: Share handlers between playbooks
A StackOverflow question showed me that Ansible handlers can be stored in their own YAML file and included into any playbook to avoid repetition.
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