WordPress uses a concept of Roles, designed to give the site owner the ability to control what users can and cannot do within the site. A site owner can manage the user access to such tasks as writing and editing posts, creating Pages, creating categories, moderating comments, managing plugins, managing themes, and managing other users, […]
Back in April Substack founder/CEO Chris Best gave an interview to Nilay Patel in which he refused to answer some fairly basic questions about how the company planned to handle trust & safety i…
I’m always happy I use Ghost and not Substack, but I’m extra happy today
Hamish McKenzie in a note on Substack: We believe that supporting individual rights and civil liberties while subjecting ideas to open discourse is the best way to strip bad ideas of their power. We are committed to upholding and protecting freedom of expression, even when it hurts. Here’s what
This post is a component of my coursework at the CUNY Graduate Center in the M.S. in Data Analysis and Design, for a special topics course about Large Language Models taught by Professor Michelle A…
If you can't use your camera or video output device after updating to macOS Sonoma 14.1
Starting in macOS Sonoma 14.1, cameras and video output devices that don't use modern system extensions won't be available to use unless you restore the legacy settings.
Wget get past "infected with a virus" screen on Google Drive
So I've been trying to get wget to download a Google Drive file that I uploaded. Unfortunately, Google Drive incorrectly flags the file as a virus, so wget can't get the direct download link.
Thi...
abi/screenshot-to-code: Drop in a screenshot and convert it to clean code (HTML/Tailwind/React/Vue)
Drop in a screenshot and convert it to clean code (HTML/Tailwind/React/Vue) - abi/screenshot-to-code: Drop in a screenshot and convert it to clean code (HTML/Tailwind/React/Vue)
Over the past few months I've been having many conversations with people who all have a particular set of skills but whose job titles are all over the place. I believe that we form a more coherent group than we realise, that this novel role exists for a good reason, and that we would benefit from making that known.
Several admins and developers like automatically updating their servers with new builds as they become available. Commonly known as “CI/CD”, this process allows teams to iterate much faster and speed up product development.
Often, this is simply pulling from a repo and running a couple docker-compose commands, which is very easy to automate.
A bad way to do this is using a cron job that runs every 10 minutes to pull from the repository and execute any commands.
Today, I’m wrestling with the question that’s on everyone’s mind… if software emulators are so good and inexpensive, then why are there people spending the m...
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Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs
We at Duke University Libraries have decided to stop using the project management platform, Basecamp, to which we have subscribed for almost a decade. We came to this decision after weighing the level of its use in our organization, which is considerable, against the harms that we see perpetuated by the leadership of Basecamp’s parent … Continue reading Why We’re Dropping Basecamp →