Category: Web Development
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Let’s start from the Beginning
I hate my current website. I liked it better before, but then I decided to get rid of all my JavaScript and wanted to use new things I learned. The point is… I got lazy. I have the day off, I’m going to try and baby-step my way into making a decent theme. We’ll start…
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Does Text-transform cause CLS
It doesn’t seem so. I used GPSI on my site and had 0 CLS. I then used text-transform on my h2s to make them all caps. Even though they shifted to the second line, the load was fast enough that it didn’t cause CLS.
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I Broke My Server
There is no real reason why I should be able to even make this post. It started when I noticed I couldn’t edit a post on my WordPress on a subdomain. That lead to changing some Nginx site configurations. I added a bunch of new lines because the error is that I broke the REST…
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Rate Limiting
This is a very quick post, it is very late, I need to sleep. I just wanted to talk some tech. So I use Cloudflare. That is cool and easy and all, but then there was a problem with me wanting to rate limit. How can I rate limit if I do not know the…
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E-mail Issues I’ve Had
Both recently and a long time ago I had some e-mail issues that have been a bit difficult to fix correctly. My e-mail is the default PHPMailer. The e-mails were being blocked as spammed. This was a problem as my sites contact form would never work. I tried installing my own mail server so I…
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Nginx The Installation, Chapter 1.01.01
Oh Boy, hold on to your keyboards for this shit. I installed Nginx for my viewers (me). To make the site faster. It was quite the hoot.
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Elementor Stretch With JavaScript.
I used that technique to make a quick landing page. You may have seen said landing page. It is cool and pretty, and I am happy Elementor made it easy to do. That said, if it is above the folds at least, it will lower your CLS. CLS being a metric that Google looks at.…
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Operation Blazing Saddles
I attempt to rebuild my website for optimization, all while juggling watching crappy movies and working a job.
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Core Web Vitals
A non overwhelming look at Google’s new metrics and some basic information on how you go about it
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PHP 8 on WordPress
I do not recommend updating. Unless you know what you are doing and if you are reading this I assume you do not.