Edit: Nevermind! Just follow Kendra Little's blog post if you're looking to move from WordPress to another platform. Doing it the way this tutorial suggets makes it impossibly hard to add new posts.
After getting hacked one too many times, I've decided to move all of my blogs and URL-shortening sites from a Virtual …
Read MoreRecently, I moved many of my blogs/shortlink domains to GitHub Pages. With that, the security of my sites increased dramatically, but I lost some functionality including search and 301 (Moved Permanently) Redirects using .htaccess, which I use extensively for shortlinks.
Because GitHub Pages don't support .htaccess or …
Read MoreAfter reading a number of Windows Terminal posts by Thomas Maurer and seeing Windows Terminal Preview available in my Windows App Store, I finally decided to dive in again.
I was sooo excited when Microsoft first made the announcement but was disappointed when I found out I'd have to run a specific version of Windows …
Read More- Just ran into this issue and solved it by using
powershell -ExecutionPolicy bypass C:\path\to\script.ps1. Seems there was an issue with the signed module so I just set it to not check the sign.
Read More - Recently, I ran into an issue after applying a few security updates and subsequent reboots: a number of the SQL services did not start successfully. After running the following script, I've had success with SQL services starting as expected after reboot. It's basically a built-in service start retry. You can read more …
Read More I really abhor the new ad in the PowerShell 5.1 console and it seems there's no hope of Microsoft making it go away.
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Read MoreWhen performing file migrations, PowerShell's
Copy-Itemis not ideal. I've since forgotten the original reasons I concluded this with the rest of the Internet, but this quote from reddit covers it pretty well.The Copy-Item and Move-Item cmdlets are general purpose commands. They have the ability to handle many …
Read MoreBack in 1996, as I watched a movie about Italy at the Drexel Theatre in Columbus OH, I decided that one day I'd live in Europe.
I didn't need to move immediately. I just put it on my long-term agenda and figured things would eventually work themselves out with gentle guidance.
Part of that gentle guidance was to …
Read MoreBack in January and February, I wrote couple posts that highlighted my journey into livestreaming, from understanding the different services/platforms to the lighting I used.
Since then, I got pretty deep into the hardware part but actually returned to a simplified setup. The third iteration was pretty intense. I even …
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