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shawnhooper

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Long time web developer. #PHP, mainly #Laravel & #WordPress. I'm an advocate for an accessible & open web. Also learning more about engineering management, security, and privacy.

I'm a conference speaker, teacher, co-organizer of WordCamp Canada. I'm the Director of Engineering and Security @ Actionable.co

I live in #Ottawa, Canada (Unceeded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation)

Still sometimes do live event sound/lighting, retired Karaoke Host & Wedding DJ.

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bobmagicii, to random
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we owe composer for a lot of things, but this is the one thing that makes me wanna buy em a beer the most. and it didn't need ai to do it.

shawnhooper,
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@bobmagicii so useful. I had to dig into how recommendations like that work. Then I blogged about it.

https://shawnhooper.ca/2024/01/16/php-levenshtein-function/

shawnhooper, to Canada
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Hey #Canada - When you fill up your gas tank, do you see the Carbon Tax listed as a separate line item on the receipt?

I just got home from ours that shows Regular Gas, and the Carbon Tax. Weird to split it out, but not the other taxes built into the gas price?

shawnhooper, to retrocomputing
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I’ve seen many posts about the Apple II computer written Apple // or Apple ]

Why?

[#retrocomputing

shawnhooper, to random
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Quite the storm in Ottawa this evening. (Photo from FB)

shawnhooper, to random
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Let the enshittification continue. iTerm2 adds ChatGPT support.

https://iterm2.com/downloads/stable/iTerm2-3_5_0.changelog

holger, to wordpress German

A related question:

I just noticed that stuff on my blog (which was hosted on URLold and now is hosted on URLnew) still points to URLold.

A quick inspection has shown that this is not a cache issue. When I look into the database, I can see that Wordpress introduced hard links for images like URLold/path/to/whatever/foto.jpg and similar stuff for other content.

The probably dumbest solution would be to replace all appearances of URLold with URLnew using sed or just an editor but ... there must be a better way? They cannot make their users edit the data base when the site migrates from URLold to URLnew. Right?

RIGHT?

shawnhooper,
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@holger A search and replace is in fact the solution. But you need to beware of URLs stored in serialized PHP arrays. Doing a simple search and replace will break them.

I would use WP-CLI’s search-replace command to do this safely.

shawnhooper, to random
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I can’t believe how pervasive Ring doorbells have become. (Never mind all the other brands out there.)

They’re everywhere.

I don’t like it.

shawnhooper,
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@casseagull I go for late night walks. The glowing doorbells in the dark - so ominous.

I understand having surveillance with porch thieves etc. but dear god, use something with local storage. Don’t send it to the cloud.

shawnhooper,
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@Auxonic @casseagull Huh, I was just browsing through Ubiquiti's products last night. That's the same direction I'm thinking.

hashraydamon, to wordpress
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Any experts on here that could answer me a question?

Is there a way to bulk move a bunch of entries from one category to another ?

shawnhooper,
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@hashraydamon This plugin should do it: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/bulk-move/

shawnhooper, to random
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I can't help but sigh, in 2024, when organizations still fail to prepare for an onslaught of traffic to their websites. It is, generally, avoidable, if you see it coming.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/05/toronto-public-library-crashes-free-cn-tower-passes/

shawnhooper, to opensource
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Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.

https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code

#opensource
#WhipTheLlamasAss

shawnhooper, to random
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If you hire a band, please read their technical rider.

#subtoot #proaudio #liveevents

shawnhooper, to random
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Every time I'm forced to use Chrome, I find it so so slow compared to Firefox.

shawnhooper,
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@phaedral I'm on those daily for work in Firefox, and they work quite well.

Haven't compared to the Chrome experience.

shawnhooper,
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@phaedral I've heard that before too, I just don't find it to be my personal experience.

shawnhooper, to random
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Website builder Squarespace is being taken private by U.K.-based private equity firm Permira in an all-cash deal that gives the company an enterprise valuation of $6.9 billion.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/13/permira-is-taking-squarespace-private-in-6-6-billion-deal/

shawnhooper, to Poutine
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When you drive by the cheese co-op, you stop at the cheese co-op.

shawnhooper,
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@Dianora St. Albert, just east of Ottawa.

I got here about 30 minutes after they packaged today’s curds. So fresh, so squeaky. 🤤

shawnhooper, to random
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Foo Fighters pay tribute to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XQoTofHU7E

shawnhooper, to Quebec
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Keep going outside every little while to look for the #Aurora. Nothing much visible yet.

I’m in #TroisRivieres #Quebec at the moment. Clear skies. Hoping I get to see something.

shawnhooper,
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@geneapleau Do you have a phone with a night mode? Mine doesn’t :( Some of my colleagues here are getting some ok shots.

shawnhooper,
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@geneapleau oh well, at least I’m getting to watch the fly over.

alda, to random
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Just sent my StackOverflow account into the deletion queue.

shawnhooper,
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@alda Any reason in particular? I've been mostly offline this week - wondering if I missed something in the news.

shawnhooper,
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@alda Crap.

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