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 me to wander down the LED lighting road. This friend saw some of my posts regarding the simplistic lighting box I created, and they suggested that I tinker with WS2811 lights....
From that previous post, you’ll note that I had a bunch of unanswered questions. Some of those questions might remain unanswered. By the time you get to the end of this post, you might be able to address them yourself. I’m going to focus on automating static WordPress updates whenever a new post is published. This similar logic should be possible to replicate when it comes to needing to update static content based upon WordPress and WordPress plugin updates....
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 so easy! 5G is Great, WiFi is Useless The new 5G was great and working just fine but my problem is that I was using the mobile network way more than my WiFi connection....
Part of the reason that I can do this is because my site is mostly static. I don’t allow comments or other dynamic plugins. The site is only used to publish my blog posts and that’s about it. I also setup WordPress to use the permalink format of /%year%/%monthnum%/%post_id%/ First Step, Mirror the Site to a Private Repo Just as the heading states, I needed to first get all of my content available outside of WordPress....
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 love for DigitalOcean, I do have one complaint regarding their Kubernetes and their LoadBalancer....