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Facebookers guide to Twitter (Social Media/Blogging/General)

How to develop high-quality content social media feeds. For people who are overwhelmed with Twitter(or other social media platforms) or those that want to see cool stuff again.

Recently I posted about polishing copper heatsinks and adding them to my Raspberry Pi with thermal epoxy.

Follow your (close)friends, don’t unfollow them, they will notice. Some people will fill your feed so choose carefully.

Don’t follow companies, follow the people in charge. Lest you get your feed full of spam. Elon Musk and Rihanna will post about there products trust me.

Make it a stream of…

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Astrocyte

Astrocyte is a project I use to set up my home lab and private infrastructure. Astrocyte’s source can be found on Github and Gitlab.

Primary OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

It uses Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS as the primary OS for both hosts and KVM guests,

Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS was chosen because

most recent at the time of writing (2018).

used universally with abundant documentation.

Provisioni…

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Develop with Django in OS X using Pycharm

Develop with Django in OS X using Pycharm

Django is a framework for “Perfectionists with deadlines”. This is a throwback to the DRY principle eg Do not repeat yourself. Pretty much most website consist of the same things. Frameworks take all those common tasks and makes is so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time you start a new project. We’re going to use Pycharm, which comes in two versions professional edition or the free…

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Configuring OS X for Wordpress development

Configuring OS X for WordPress development

This post will cover setting up OS X for WordPress development. We go the extra mile to set up all our packages in OS X using Homebrew this include

PHP

Nginx (Better under load than Apache the default web server in OS X and for WordPress, Apache vs Nginx here)

MySQL

Unix Sockets for

dnsmasq so we can use real URL’s like mysite.domain and not localhost:8080.

  While apache might be easier to set…

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WordPress "Press This": A Complete Guide

WordPress “Press This”: A Complete Guide

WordPress Press This Feature

The WP Press Thisfeature, allows you to share clip text, images, video, posts from any website such as tweet from twitter, facebook or even other WordPress blogs and quickly give your own commentary. It’s a pretty simple thing to set up. Originally it came in the form of a now deprecated plugin. Instead it is automatically including in the WP versions higher than…

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Floral Events Houston, Texas

Floral Events Houston, Texas

Floral Events

I met Bill Ryan the owner of Floral Events one day at an AT&T store here in Houston, Texas some time in 2013. We discussed phones and what not when he mentioned that he needed IT work. They had been burned by their old website developer and left with a non function static HTML site. They wanted instead a wordpress blog in which they could add to or edit their site at will. In…

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Filter Wordpress Admin Traffic in Google Analytics

Filter WordPress Admin Traffic in Google Analytics

Ever notice a bump on you in wordpress traffic after making modifications to your site. It happens to everyone when making large changes to your site. You will need to already have created and configured your Google Analytics. In this post we will discuss how to filter WordPress admin traffic in Google Analytics. The most preferred way is by setting a cookie. You can go ahead and skip to the…

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Wordpress Host Compared

WordPress Host Compared

WordPress Host Compared

In the post we discuss the differences between WordPress host. Typically there are three different types of hosts. WordPress.com provides hosting (WordPress.org and is the open source project WordPress.com is based on) for free. If you’d like to use a custom domain you’ll need to purchase one with wordpress and pay a yearly fee of 13 dollars. Some shared hosts you’ve…

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Apple introduces Apple File System

Apple File System

Today Apple announced a new file system called Apple File System – APFS. It brings a new set of features to be used across the entire Apple Ecosystem. Thus marking the end of HFS+ and it’s predecessor HFS as they are more than 30 years old, while also bringing many standard linux features to the Apple platform.

Faster Volume and File Creation

Drives can now initialize volumes on…

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Apple introduces Apple File System

Apple File System

Today Apple announced a new file system called Apple File System – APFS. It brings a new set of features to be used across the entire Apple Ecosystem. Thus marking the end of HFS+ and it’s predecessor HFS as they are more than 30 years old, while also bringing many standard linux features to the Apple platform.

Faster Volume and File Creation

Drives can now initialize volumes on…

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New #battlestation really digging the new layout although those speaker stands where #3dprinted and took forever.#dj #producer #programmer 12" sub off screen sounds mean shout out to @rayyyvan for sponsoring the speakers and sub follow me on snapchat @ncrmro! #htx hit me up for collabs

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0:00: BlackBoy - Empty prod. by Dizzee 1:05: Keith Ape - It G Ma (LUCA LUSH REMIX) 2:20: Yo Majesty - Club Action (Smookie Illson Bootleg) 3:05: TAKE U THERE Feat. Kiesza (KAYZO REMIX) 4:20: Skrillex & The Doors - Breakn' A Sweat (Zedd Remix) 6:05: Dillon Francis - What's That Spell (feat. TJR) 6:35: Church of Ecstasy 7:00: Satisfaction - Benny Benassi 8:00: SAGE THE GEMINI - GAS PEDAL 8:30: Major Lazer - Jah No Partial (feat. Flux Pavilion) 9:15: Dillon Francis - Not butter 10:45: Knife Party - Destroy Them With Lazers 12:30: Jack Ü -Mind ft. Kai (StéLouse refux) 13:10: Kayzo - Fired Up (feat. Nina Sung) 15:20: BlackBoy - Empty prod. by Dizzee

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Mother nature be like “ugh I’m afraid if I color it I’ll ruin it but here’s the lineart anyway”

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Troupe Vertigo for LA Times Magazine

Photos by Andrew Macpherson