In my book Read Write Code, I give an example of setting up web hosting and a domain with NearlyFreeSpeech.net since it is a very low cost option. Well, I got a notification about the site because the domain was expiring so I had to renew that. I deposited funds and renewed it for a … Continue reading Enabling HTTPS on NearlyFreeSpech Websites
So I’ve been very interested in crypto for a number of years and one of the major innovations and trends over the last year is yield farming. I’ve been trying to figure out what it is, so this post will be a bit of explaining it to myself. So, first: There is bitcoin. Bitcoin is … Continue reading Explaining Crypto Yield Farming to Myself
My new book, Read Write Code, is live on Amazon today! Read Write Code: A Friendly Introduction to the World of Coding, and Why It’s the New Literacy If you want to check out the book website right away head to: https://readwritecodebook.com/. You can also get it on Amazon here: https://geni.us/ReadWriteCode. Read Write Code demystifies … Continue reading My New Book Read Write Code Launches Today!
I’ve signed up for hey.com for email and have used it for personal email for about 7 months. Here are my thoughts and review on it so far. First, I think it’s a challenge to build a new email service and compete with something like Gmail. I think there are a lot of good parts … Continue reading Review of Hey.com Email
With Twitter finally suspending Trump’s account, and other social networks finally starting to take actions, the natural debate has followed on the role of moderation, censorship, and power in social networks. Should there be moderation, or should everything be allowed? Who should be in charge of the moderating? Should the companies be able to de-platform … Continue reading Potential risks of blockchain-based social networks
I set up this website yesterday: https://wherecanigetavaccine.com/ It’s a link to various sites by state with vaccine location availability information, and general vaccine information by state. In researching this, I found most states really don’t give enough info for people to find how they can get a vaccine. There have been a few crowdsourced efforts, … Continue reading Where can I get a vaccine? A vaccine availability directory
Buy a domain (misk, namecheap, google domains) Set custom nameservers, I’m using Linode ns1.linode.comns2.linode.comns3.linode.comns4.linode.comns5.linode.com 3. Clone the dns entry in linode (just Domains, then Clone) 4. Setup Up Name Based Virtual Host and Destination Directory I have an apache server setup, so I need to make a new file to configure the virtual host. // … Continue reading Setting up a new website, 2021 version
I was looking for an easy Scrabble 2-Letter word list/pdf to use. Here is the source from Merriam-Webster, but this is not very clean or easy to use: https://scrabble.merriam.com/2-letter-words Here is a cleaned up google sheet with the list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xaldUbKrGVcV2M_qjO-adTIZw7BrFUDmlEoLiUZfEEw/edit#gid=0 Here is a PDF file: Here is the image file: Also here is the InDesign … Continue reading Scrabble 2-Letter Word List/PDF
Here is a blog/tweetstorm, just to try it (view on twitter) Internet:Me: Ok, I will give you my opinion on distributed work now vs. before the pandemic, and after. We’ve been doing remote work for several years now, though I prefer to call it distributed work–I think it is a better way to describe the … Continue reading Remote/Distributed Work Thoughts Amid the Pandemic
I got email notifications that my Let’s Encrypt/certbot certificates were expiring, and these should auto-renew. I had explored certbot a bit ago to organize it more, but did not look into all aspects I looked into it a bit more and saw that everything with certbot was getting errors. First there was a misconfiguration due … Continue reading Certbot renewal fixes
