Nov 26, 2023

One of the things I really like about Astro is the options you get. Astro is a fantastic static site generator (SSG), which is what I use here, but it also provides you with the ability to run using server side rendering which is more like a traditional server model

Nov 1, 2023

At one time the whole point of creating a blog was to engage with your readers in discussion in the comments section. Times have changed. Now comment sections have turned into giant dung heaps of vitriol. One only needs to look at the discussion that takes place on the majority

Oct 30, 2023

One of the things that has been a learning curve for me with this website rebuild is the switch to using Markdown. I have been using HTML since 1995 and to be honest it has been a bit of a challange to not write posts using HTML. In WordPress/ClassicPress I

Oct 25, 2023

Over the years I have hosted websites on many different web hosting providers. From simple shared hosting plans to having my own dedicated web server but in this move to Astro this website is now not really hosted anywhere, instead it is hosted everywhere. In this case everywhere Cloudflare has

Oct 16, 2023

One of the first steps I had to sort out in deciding to move from WordPress/ClassicPress to Astro is how do I get the content out of WordPress/ClassicPress to a format that Astro would be able to deal with. Fortunately Astro accepts content in markdown so a quick search for

Oct 15, 2023

This has been in the works for awhile, but it was finally time to move from ClassicPress to Astro. The site is not complete yet, but I have ported the posts and several pages over and I feel confident that most of the content is here. I am still in

Apr 13, 2023

TL;DR: Cloudflare needs to disable IPv6 that they use to communicate with the Gmail servers to stop Gmail from bouncing all routed email. Don't let Cloudflare support tell you that email routing to Gmail addresses is your fault. Support tried to brush me off and tell me that the problem was

Mar 18, 2023

TL;DR: Cloudflare email routing and support sucks, move your email forwarding to ImprovMX. One of the problems with hosting your website on a service like DigitalOcean is the fact that they don't offer email. If you want an email address associated with your domain you had to go elsewhere.

Mar 1, 2023

Two companies I really like are Backblaze and Cloudflare. I have trusted Backblaze for years with my personal computer backup and I have been a long time customer of Cloudflare since 2011 at least. Both companies are part of the bandwidth alliance, meaning you don't have to worry about bandwidth

Feb 19, 2023

I saw this plugin mentioned on Mastodon today and thought I would give it a try on ClassicPress and see if it worked. Install in ClassicPress went easily, like most WordPress plugins do. There were no warnings and ClassicPress says it is compatible. The only hard part was finding the