I needed to update PHP to 7.4.x on my Lightsail/Bitnami hosted WordPress site, which meant I needed to spin up my site on a new instance and re-do all the initial setup. (There may be other ways, but since Bitnami is packaged […]
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creating a WordPress staging instance
I always want to test out updates before making them on my live website, even if it’s just minor version updates to plugins, to check that the update completes and there are no obvious breaking changes. In the past, I just spun […]
New Seven Seas Crossfield
A limited number of Nanami’s Seven Seas Crossfield notebooks were available this month; I managed to get one, which arrived today. The crosses are smaller than before and a bit darker; they looked almost like dots when I opened it up. Here’s […]
Tomoe River notebook comparison
I’ve gotten a few more Tomoe River dot grid notebooks to try since receiving the Elemental Paper Iodine: The-Paper-Cuts B6, cream, 68 gsm Elia Note A5, white, 52 gsm Taroko Design Enigma (A5), white, 68 gsm The-Paper-Cuts I am finding that I […]
Elemental Paper Iodine notebook review
I’ve been a bit of a pen and notebook nut for a long time, trying out different fineliners, gel pens, pigment pens, ballpoint refills, and any notebook that looked interesting or promised a chance of better paper than the run of the […]
ghost car ride
Dear Hank & John, on episode 173, has a question of whether ghosts can ride in cars, for a book the asker is writing, in which the protagonist is a ghost who travels a lot. Hank responds that as a writer, you […]
the end of free Flickr?
Today, Flickr flipped the bird at all its free members (and possibly a bunch of its pro members, as well). For years, they have offered every member 1TB of space for however many photos that can hold; out of the blue, this […]
come on, skinny lines
I’ve made another small modification to Monza Mod. The post titles and excerpts on archive pages were very skinny in Monza, which made even a moderately not-short title split across two lines and generally looked a bit gangly. I’ve found the section […]
Monza Mod: a child theme
As I’ve mentioned, this site uses the Monza theme (version 1.0.5). For the most part, I really like it, and it’s better behaved than another theme that I tried, which didn’t quite want to cooperate with Google Fonts. Still, I saw a […]
once more, with lightsail
Hi. I’m Nicki. I make code and photographs. This is approximately the zillionth iteration of my website in the past 15 years (well, of a website of mine–I usually have multiple, because I have not tended to disable the old ones), on […]