Tag: Automattic
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Pet Shop Boys on Social Media
New Pet Shop Boys EP ‘Agenda’ is out, and everyone is going on about the Trump-baiting track called Give Stupidity A Chance. I’m loving another catchier track with a wonderfully shady lyric video ‘On Social Media’. Might seem odd for someone who looks like the poster child of all things social to post this, but…
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Tumblr Is Dying
And these images are why Tumblr is still broken, dying 6 weeks later AND the appeals process is bullshit. Some of you might know about Tumblr’s laughable attempt to expunge adult content from their system using AI. That I moved the really ‘adult’ and pron-tastic ‘Retire To The Parlour’ blog to my own server as…
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The Guerrilla Guide To Podcasting Part Five
The fifth and final part in a series on making your own podcast that won’t break the bank, concentrating on DIY and low-cost podcasting. Read part one, part two, part three and part four first. Site specific So as soon as you have recorded your first podcast, you need somewhere to upload it, and a…
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The Misadventures of Tobias and Guy by Daryl Toh Liem Zhan
Love this cartoon series from Daryl Toh Liem Zhan, ‘The Misadventures of Tobias and Guy’ or the tales of a demon and his human boyfriend’. Humorous demon/human bara, needs to be a thing. Well it already is a thing, but a bigger thing 😉 (via Toby Dylan) (link removed cos it now weirdly redirects to a…
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WordPress Security 101
Running several WordPress sites, especially ones that gather a lot of welcome and unwelcome visitors, is a crash course in security. I’ve been using WordPress since version 1.2, where hacks were much more common, and thankfully have only been hacked once *touch wood*, back in the 1.5 days. For those not part of the WordPress…
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How to secure WordPress
Horrified by the amount of login attempts my WordPress sites gets (something in the region of 1-5 a day, sometimes more – and this is after each one being blocked), I tweeted today about locking down your WordPress. I’ve already had a few responses confirming that they too have this deluge of hackery, some of…