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Systm.host… and end of an era.

Systm.host… and end of an era.

Yesterday marked a big day when it comes to the services that I have provided for years, I finally notified all of my hosted clients that I am getting out of the hosting service to free up some time for myself and concentrate on other areas. This was a hard email to send out as some customers have been with me for many years, and I have helped grow, and maintain their sites so they were like…

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Upgrade Redis to 6.x on Ubuntu 20.04

Upgrading @redislabs on @ubuntu 20.04

I was looking to upgrade Redis from 5.x to the new stable 6.x release on Ubuntu Redis and at this time Redis that is in the apt source will not allow you to get to the 6.x branch. In order to upgrade to 6.x you will need to add the official beta apt source by running the commands below. curl -fsSL https://packages.redis.io/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o…

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Ubiquiti G3 Instant Camera Setup

@Ubiquiti G3 Instant camera setup #security

I recently was able to grab a couple of Ubiquiti G3 Instant Cameras… and then I couldn’t stop myself from getting a handful more (6 in total now). I have been dabbling for a while with getting cameras set up in order to have some home security to monitor the various entrances to the house, and at $29 apiece I figured if they were not that great then it would not be much of an investment and could…

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Migrating content

While you might have thought from the topic of this post, that it was likely going to be a how-to about migrating content from WordPress site to another you are not entirely correct. While I am planning on some content migration over the coming weeks I am not planning (yet) on creating a how-to on this subject. Rather I have been looking over my personal blog which I have been utilizing since…

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Friends in tech: Syed Saadullah Gillani

Friends in tech: Syed Saadullah Gillani

CEO Syed Saadullah Gillani Company FK Media Industry WordPress Time in this Industry 3-4 Years Origin Story I get started in this industry in 2017.I love to create new websites for my clients.I develop multi-vendor websites for local e-commerce businesses. Favorite plugins or themes GeneratePressGenerateBlocksPerfmattersWP FormsOptinmonster A Typical Day I get up early in the morning…

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Revisiting ValetPress

I was chatting with my co-worker Adrian the other day about some code that he was working on, and it got me in the mood to revisit some of my old ValetPress code. I haven’t really gotten into much coding over the last couple of years as my role has not really called for it, and the other code that I run on my own Digital Ocean server has been purring along just fine, and while I have not been…

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WordPress 5.9.1 Maintenance Release

@WordPress 5.9.1 Maintenance Release

WordPress 5.9.1 is now available! This maintenance release features 82 bug fixes in both Core and the block editor. WordPress 5.9.1 is simply a maintenance release, the next major release will be WordPress 6.0. I went ahead and updated all of my sites, as well as clients’ sites and everything seems to be working as expected. You can view all of the fixes at the following link.

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Enabling comments?

For the past couple of years on all of my sites, I have had comments disabled. I disabled comments for a handful of reasons, such as but not limited to the following: SpammersTrollsTime The biggest ones are the spammers and trolls that just post about viagra or want to try to prove that what you posted is incorrect as they have nothing better to do. I figured with the usage of social media,…

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Ubiquiti Protect

@Ubiquiti Protect

In my previous post, I mentioned how I upgraded my home network with the Ubiquiti Ultimate Dream Machine Pro, which while I know it was just installed I am really enjoying the speed and stability that it has brought so far. The Ubiquiti Ultimate Dream Machine Pro also has the ability to make use of the Ubiquiti Protect system, which is a video prevalence setup. With that being said I couldn’t…

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Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro Upgrade

@Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro Upgrade

In a previous post, I had mentioned how my internet had been “upgraded” by Xfinity and how to install speediest-cli on the Ubiquiti USG Pro 4 in order to get some speed test results. Since dealing with that issue I took a look at my networking setup and what upgrades could be made to not only prolong the use of the equipment but also in order to stabilize the connection that I currently have and…

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Font: Adobe Source Code Pro

Font: Adobe Source Code Pro

I recently had a conversation with some friends about their terminal setups, and one of them had a really nice-looking font. He shared with me that he was using the Adobe Source Code Pro font on his terminal, so I went out and grabbed a copy and set it up within iTerm2. I did have to increase the font size quite a bit more than it was set up as before, but it has grown on me and I am slowly…

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Does my WordPress site need a Caching Plugin?

Does my WordPress site need a Caching Plugin?

The answer is maybe!, is of course depending on who you host with, and even then I would probably sway towards using one. Why? My host already provides serverside caching! While that might be the case you can still often benefit from using a caching plugin as they tend to offer other bells and whistles that hosts are not able to provide out of the box. Most serverside caching is achieved either…

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Headless Wifi setup on the Raspberry Pi

Headless Wifi setup on the Raspberry Pi

If you are looking to have a headless Raspberry Pi setup that you can get configured 100% remotely right after you plug it in you will want to make sure it joins the proper Wifi after the first boot if you are not connecting directly to ethernet. To get started once you have an SD card with the newest Raspbian OS installed on it, you will want to create the wpa_supplicant.conf file on the /boot…

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Installing speedtest-cli on a USG-PRO-4

Installing speedtest-cli on a USG-PRO-4

I received an email from today Xfinity/Comcast letting me know that they increased my internet speeds, all for free. I made a screenshot of the email that was sent, as shown in the image below. As with most things that Xfinity/Comcast promises I am skeptical since I currently am paying for their top tier 1000Mb/40Mb connection speed and have yet to ever be able to achieve that successfully. With…

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Securing your WordPress site

Securing your #WordPress site

When it comes to securing your WordPress site there are many ways to go about doing just that. Please allow me to outline a few basic things that can be done to help secure your site outside of having a secure hosting provider for your WordPress site. Choosing a Host As mentioned the first thing you want to do is find yourself a reputable host that provides a real managed environment. Sure…

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Why do you need my WordPress login?

Why do you need my WordPress login?

This question oftens comes up when cloients reach out to me for help on their site. I know it can be a scary thing giving out Administive credentials for your WordPress site that you have worked so hard on and have likely put in countless hours, but in order to work on a site you developer, designer, or consultant will need this access in order to get to work. There is certainly a level of trust…

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lsusb on macOS

For anyone that is using/has used Linux you are likely already familiar with lsusb, which is missing on macOS. Well, you are in luck as there is a bash script available on Github that can be installed via Homebrew. To get it installed you need to run the following commands and its as easy as that. brew update && \ brew tap jlhonora/lsusb && \ brew install lsusb Once installed you can run lsusb…