So this might actually apply to more than just Blacknight’s shared hosting but I’ve been using letsencrypt to generate SSL certs for a while now. I’m going to guess when I recently upgraded things with certbot the generation tool everything went to hell. I had certbot setup in two locations though so I just generated […]
Warning: Using tools to automate certain things may be against twitters / x’s terms of use. In the EU I believe we’ve got the right to delete our content. So using this tool could potentially get your account shutdown. Truth be told I mostly stopped using twitter a couple of years ago. It’s a incredible […]
This is probably one of those edge-case situations that only arise with certain server configurations. In this case I don’t control the server or have much power to get the configuration changed. This causes umpteen issues when working with students but such is life and it’s probably a good learning experience as we get to […]
After yesterday’s post on Speeding up your website I decided why not see what we can do on a customer site. So I ended up taking a look at a few sites I’m the webmaster for (Yep I just said webmaster I’m old school). The Town Hall Theatre Galway struck me as a good example. […]
I’m slightly obsessed with website speed. Taking a website from a sluggish unresponsive mess to a fast and optimised site gives me a lot of joy. I guess it’s a bit like a puzzle. Find bottlenecks. Figure out what you can tweak then change, test, and repeat. Dropping from a couple of seconds down to […]
Last week for the second year running saw me hosting a two day workshop on WordPress at L’école de design, Nantes. Roughly three years ago I needed to put together my CV and a quick portfolio for said work at the school so I launched my website. It was built with a rather basic HTML […]
Update: 27th Sept 2019 – I’ve moved this blog post from my old blog which I’m in the process of shutting down. So an Irishman, an American, and a hell of a lot of french people walk into a bar … but wait … I’m getting ahead of myself here let’s start at the beginning. […]
