I recently acquired a set of AirPods Max after something like six years of using Beats3 OTE headphones. They sound fantastic, and, as with any Apple product, they work seamlessly with the rest of my Apple crap. One day in the last week or so, the buttons on my AirPods Max stopped working. It also […]
If your AirPods Max buttons stop working, try this… Read More »
Had this come up with a client recently… A software vulnerability was discovered that could—potentially—result in a WordPress site throwing 500 errors. My client operates dozens of sites and needed to know if any of their sites were affected. Shell to the rescue. First, I exported a complete list of sites from their host (WP
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This has bitten me more than once. When using the requests Python package to make REST API calls to a WordPress site hosted on WP Engine, their security dingus will throw a 403 for no apparent reason. If this happens to you, change the User-Agent string in the request header before sending. It can honestly
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A client wanted an animated image effect similar to somebody whimsically underlining a few words of text with an equally whimsical colored writing instrument. Thankfully, this is pretty straightforward with the use of keyframes in CSS. In a nut, we start with a width attribute of 0 on the element we want to animate, then
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I’ve wanted to learn how to do this for ages, and today I got the chance. This simple WordPress shortcode will find all of the children of the current post and spit out an <ul> of them with titles and links. The shortcode has two optional parameters: In reality, the shortcode looks like this: [foo_generate_inline_menu
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A client asked me to do a bit of data collection and collation from a few sites he visits. Specifically, he was looking for a list of articles and their authors from popular sites in the circles wherein he operates. So, as I often do, I reached for my beloved Python. Ahem. The goal was
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None of us poor schlubs even know what the hell day it is anymore. TGIF? No mas, compadre. I give you a humble beverage I call the “GLIOW.” Good Lord it’s Only Wednesday. Teaspoon of sugar 2 tablespoons blood orange juice The peel of said blood orange 3 good spurts of Angastoura bitters Whatever gin
