When adding a site to Google Search Console you’ll probably need to add it four times. One for WWW, one for without, one for secure WWW and one for secure without. From bullet point #4 from here: If your site supports multiple protocols (http:// and https://), you must add each…
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New wp-cli commands
wp profile Installation This command requires at least v.0.23.0 but you should probably be running at least 1.1.0 anyways. You also need to define SAVEQUERIES as true in your wp-config.php file. Install via wp package install wp-cli/profile-command. If you run into errors you might need to temporarily up your PHP memory…
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Fun link of the day: Why are so few foods blue?
Why are so few foods blue? Short answers Blue color is not only rare in edible organisms – Blue color is rare in both the animal and plant Kingdoms in general.http://biology.stackexchange.com/a/56478 and… Blue light is the most available, most high-energy light that continues to reach plants, and therefore plants have…
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Cross-platform mobile non-HTML flexbox
A cross-platform layout engine Yoga is a cross-platform layout engine enabling maximum collaboration within your team by implementing an API familiar to many designers and opening it up to developers across different platforms. Do you already know Flexbox? Then you already know Yoga. Write code in a language familiar to…
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How to test an HTTP TLS cert from the command line
If you want to look at a web server’s cert from the command line you can just do: openssl s_client -connect REPLACE_WITH_DOMAIN_OR_IP:443 -servername REPLACE_WITH_DOMAIN For instance: openssl s_client -connect microsoft.com:443 -servername microsoft.com If your DNS isn’t resolving to the host yet (maybe you have launched the site yet but you want…
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Let’s Encrypt certificate log
You can browse all 46+ million certificates ever issued by Let’s Encrypt here: https://crt.sh/?Identity=%25&iCAID=16418 The %25 in the identity URL parameter is the percent sign and used in a LIKE query so you can do things like this to find specific certs: https://crt.sh/?Identity=microsoft.com%25&iCAID=16418 I don’t have a specific use for…
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Fun link of the day: When back country camping, how do you avoid being attacked by a cougar in your sleep?
When back country camping, how do you avoid being attacked by a cougar in your sleep?
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PHP RFC: Make Libsodium a Core Extension
Yes!!!! A unanimous vote to add libsodium as an official PHP extension to the next version of PHP, 7.2.
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Adobe Flash and Google Chrome
Chrome 56, which launched on February 1, will start blocking Adobe Flash under most common conditions: https://blog.chromium.org/2016/12/roll-out-plan-for-html5-by-default.html This block will stop ads, banners and most in-page elements that use Flash. Sites that rely 100% on Flash will (probably) not be blocked in this release but here’s where it gets tricky….
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Space fountain
First, take a really long tube that extends into space, bend it around a space station, have it come back to earth and form a circle with the start of the tube. Next, shoot a gun up the tube really fast. The bullet’s momentum will lift the tube and you can…