Thrifted these 3 clamps this week for € 1,20 each. I will be clamping all the things from now on!
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Nuxt 3 public files
Read more: Nuxt 3 public filesRemember, if you have set a srcDir, your
publicdirectory needs to be within that srcDir.That’s all.
Should I move to a Hetzner VPS to improve WordPress speed?
Read more: Should I move to a Hetzner VPS to improve WordPress speed?Interesting thread on Reddit: What makes WordPress websites super-fast nowadays?
I plan to test drive Hetzner and move away from DigitalOcean (moving to a European service seems like a good idea in these times) so maybe a good time to try to move some WordPress instances from shared hosting to a VPS.
the JagersToren in Boekenbergpark
Read more: the JagersToren in Boekenbergpark
A longer run today with my son on the bike. And a long stop at Dries’ for a chat and a cup of tea ❤️.
Lucie Antunes pre-show
Read more: Lucie Antunes pre-showWatch these artists prepare for their show:
I’m really into Lucie Antunes percussive electronic/classic mashups recently. Have been going through a lot of their music in the last days.
New WordPress Plugin: Photoblog
Read more: New WordPress Plugin: PhotoblogI started a new Git Repository for a WordPress plugin I’m creating to contain the features that I want on this website related to Photoblogging.
- I want to display a grid view of photos, in columns of 3, as I do on my photos page
- I want to be able to add landscape and portrait photos, without breaking the grid view
- I want to be able to navigate the photo’s with the arrow keys on the keyboard
- I want to be able to add Galleries and make these appear as. a single image set in the grid
- I want to enable zooming on all images by default
- I want to display a short paragraph below the photo
- I want to support video’s as well
Currently only the first two bullets have been implemented. I’ve created a custom renderer for the Post Content that extracts the first image block (in the future I’ll add gallery and video blocks).
Then I added some styling to make the images always fit within the designated grid square, without stretching it to the image’s original size.
Using ddev for local PHP development
Read more: Using ddev for local PHP developmentFor me, one of the discoveries of 2024, has been ddev, a tool to manage PHP (and other) environments, based on Docker images.
Docker-based PHP development environments. In the last months I have been very happy using this project. It allows me to work locally on my source files and assets while at the same time have a specific environment with the exact server configuration that I need.
Let me sum up some cases where it really came in a handy:
- I ran into ddev for the first time when trying out a sample project for craft cms. The instructions to get the project up and running were surprisingly concise:
git clone https://github.com/craftcms/europa-museum.git cd europa-museum ddev start ddev craft db/restore seed.sql- Converting an existing WordPress setup? Just run
ddev configandddev start. - Pull in a database dump from production? Configure a provider (ok that’s a little bit more work if you’re not on one of the predefined hosting providers)
- want to add an extra container, say ElasticSearch? no problem.
- Want to inspect the database? I run
ddev sequelaceand I’m in the database, editing the data. - run
ddev mailpitand see the mails that have been sent out, in a Gmail like UI, or download them as a PNG screenshot - Boot that old Magento shop? Set the right PHP version, composer version, mysql version, run some terminal commands with
ddev sshand we’re up and running. - importing a database throws an error
Unknown collation utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci? just switch frommariadbtomysql, runddev restartand import again. - Want to run PHP with Xdebug? just drop an
xdebug.iniin the correct config directory - I’m working on a Django setup, with extra startup scripts, an MQTT client and a Nuxt/Vue frontend and I hope to find the time to configure that for ddev as well. That would mean that starting ddev starts the full stack, all on the right ports and the paths mapped correctly
I guess it’s clear that I’m excited about this addition to my toolchain.
I’ve always been running Apache, MySQL, mkcert, MailHog through homebrew. And while that served my needs, I had to reconfigure quite a lot every time I ran
brew upgrade.PS: last week I sent a toot at @atpfm suggesting ddev as a solution for Marco’s work on Overcast. I was happy to hear Casey read/butcher my name on the podcast 😄.
Tailscale killed my DNS
Read more: Tailscale killed my DNSI am working on a remote location today, on a shared venue network.
After rebooting my Mac I could no longer connect to any website domain, which led me to believe that DNs was not resolving. And indeed, pinging www.google.com gave no results. Even when tethered to my iPhone, I could not connect to any website. Connecting to VPN by IP did work though, and pinging 8.8.8.8 worked fine as well.
Luckily, I could search for clues on my phone, and ran into this command that I have not used before:
scutil --dnswhich gives you a nice list of DNS resolvers as they are used by the system, and, on top of that list this entry:resolver #1 search domain[0] : tailf67a92.ts.net nameserver[0] : 100.100.100.100 if_index : 24 (utun4) flags : Supplemental, Request A records, Request AAAA records reach : 0x00000003 (Reachable,Transient Connection) order : 102000I restarted Tailscale, and we are online again 🎉.
