I started messing around with my WordPress by first adding in a layer of security in Adding Nginx in Front of WordPress. After putting Nginx in front of my WordPress, I decided that I would further secure it by also Building a Static WordPress. That’s great and all but maybe it was time to make … Read more
It’s time to get back to some lighting as I spent a little time enhancing my setup that I left off configuring in Making the Lights Dance. In my Building the RaspberryPi Christmas Light Box post, I blamed a friend for starting me down this path. Once again, I’m blaming a different friend for causing … Read more
In my previous post, Building a Static WordPress, I setup my Nginx sitting in front of WordPress to load static content from a private repo. This is great but could become tedious long term. Most notably, this becomes challenging as you begin to post more content. Each time content is posted, we need to fetch … Read more
I was getting so frustrated with my new phone. I got on the preorder list and was all excited to get my brand new Samsung Note20 Ultra. After it was delivered, I did the standard switch to the new phone. Thank you AT&T and Samsung for making the upgrade from my Note8 to the Note20 … Read more
Now that I have Nginx in Front of WordPress, I thought the next logic step was to try and hide my WordPress even more. What exactly would this mean? In my mind, I figured that I would restrict access to all of the backend functions of my WordPress site to just my IP Addresses. From … Read more
I’ve talked about it in previous posts about my thus far overall enjoyment running in DigitalOcean. While I had tinkered with a number of other cloud providers, I settled with them for many things. I do still run in some other providers like OVHCloud (maybe more on my project there for another day). Despite my … Read more
The future is here! In my previous article, Testing Out the Digital Ocean Container Registry, I talked about using the Digital Ocean Container Registry to build a custom nginx. In that article, I talked about the future, aka a future, aka this post. When I moved to WordPress, I did so using Digital Ocean’s 1-Click … Read more
Disclosure: I have included some affiliate / referral links in this post. There’s no cost to you for accessing these links but I do indeed receive some incentive for it if you buy through them. The house use to be full of random computers and networking gear but I’ve reduced the home presence over the … Read more
My previous post, Making the Little Lights Twinkle, covered my coding of the NodeJS server that could take simply relay numbers and command (on|off) and put them to use. Now that I have a server/service up and running, it was time for me to be able to control the lights. I removed my Orchestra of … Read more
My previous post, Building the RaspberryPi Christmas Light Box, explained at a hight level building out the hardware. That step was a little scary than I think it should be but it all worked out just fine in the end. Now that I had everything put together and powered on, I was stuck here: What … Read more