NCweb 0.0.5, your Nextcloud Web Server
NCweb 0.0.5 has been released, yay 🙂 You can grab a copy here if you’re curious about the changes, if not, carry on. If you want to read more about …
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Displaying WordPress roles in the current language
While writing a WordPress plugin that displays the available user roles, I came across a snag: the user roles that I had fetched from WordPress weren’t translated into the site’s …
Listing all settings in WordPress with options.php
Sometimes it’s a lot faster to simply get a list of all of your current WordPress settings by using the direct options URL: https://yoursite.tld/wp-admin/options.php WordPress will gently nudge you to …
Where did my Emacs color-theme go in Ubuntu 20.04.LTS?!
Having recently upgraded a small VPS from Ubuntu 18.04.LTS to Ubuntu 20.04.LTS, I ran into a little snag with Emacs and its color-theme (from the emacs-goodies-el package). After some digging, …
Checksum of file using Windows certutil
After getting files from a remote source, it is often a good idea to get some sort of fingerprint or checksum of the file, and verify it against a known …
pdftk and php-pdftk on Ubuntu 18.04 without using snap
During a product launch I recently came across an “interesting” issue involving pdftk (and php-pdftk). Some of the developers had made assumptions (ever heard that one before?) about the operating …
The Delta Felter reincarnate
The Delta Felter reincarnate has been located! While visiting a client yesterday, I noticed this laying on the table. Who would have known someone actually thought this dueling tool was …
Monitoring redis access and activity
Use redis-cli to monitor redis access and activity. redis-cli monitor or telnet localhost 6379 When the connection has been made, type MONITOR Use Ctrl+C or send SIGINT to get out …
Disable Gravatar lookup in Jitsi Meet
Jitsi Meet is a wonderful open source video conferencing platform. Most things can be tweaked and configure to your needs. If it’s important to you, that Jitsi Meet does not …
NCweb, serve static website content from Nextcloud
NCweb is a reasonably small (ish) PHP “application” that will allow you to expose a given folder of a Nextcloud instance and serve documents from it as if it would …