Those of us old enough to have worked with actual continuous form printouts have a certain soft spot for printed code. Oh, not on that nasty loose white paper which comes out of our laser printers, but that always in the right order continuous stuff. It made great scratch paper. Most WordPress themes don’t even try to get close to the look and feel for either the <code> or <pre> tags. On rare occasions you … A Bit of Green Bar for Your BlogRead more
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How Many Browsers do You Test Your Blog With?
It was Friday and I spent the morning visiting my father. When I got home I didn’t feel much like doing “real” work so once again I spent time changing the theme on my blog. Been looking for the “right” theme for a while. Don’t know what it is but will know it when I see it. Today I experimented with Blog Way. I actually spent time going through all of the customization options tweaking … How Many Browsers do You Test Your Blog With?Read more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 6
The Backup Script As I started to get back into this I realized I skipped one final yet critical piece of the system. The backup script. I imagine some of you questioned where I got the csv files for Postgres to import. As I said, one of the main reasons I went with Postgres all of those years ago is that I was tired of dealing with the oddities of backup and restore with DBF … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 6Read more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 5
Copying from a thumb drive into our Termux world takes a bit of doing. It’s actually yet another “expert friendly” part of Android. If you don’t already know where things go you can’t find them. I had an 8 Gig thumb drive in my Android 2 in 1 while doing the other Termux stuff. I mention that because I don’t know if the Android device did it or running the program to make storage available … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 5Read more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 4
Keep in mind I have not yet rooted the sacrificial lamb. For the initial stages I’m trying to muddle through it as the average user would. Having had Android on this device for a while now I can tell you I cannot wait for this experiment to be over. I have a massive itch to wipe this device and put something like Elementary on it so it is both useful and without an incessant fount … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 4Read more