A blog questions challenge
I hadn’t checked my notifications on X.com in a while. When I did yesterday, I found Pradx had tagged me in a blog post called “a challenge of blog questions” in March. The point is to answer a short…
WordPress
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The 5ftf blunder
Automattic owner Matt Mullenweg recently made a scene on Twitter when he called out GoDaddy as a "parasitic" organisation for profiting off of WordPress without making a sufficient number of…
What are you doing, WordPress.com?
Be sure to check out the update at the bottom. I recently wrote that I've stuck with WordPress.com for so long, for all its purported limitations, because its features fully suffice the committed…
If WordPress supports NFTs, should I boycott it?
"I make use of the tools available to me. That doesn't mean I have to applaud every advance in the field."…
Will this blog be online a hundred years from today?
For almost two weeks now, we at The Wire have been dealing with a complaint that someone from Maharashtra lodged against us with Amazon Web Services (AWS), our sites’ host, for allegedly copying one p…
View from the beanstalk
In early 2015, I developed an unlikely hobby: tinkering around with hosting solutions on the web, specifically providers of infrastructure as a service (IaaS). It's unlikely because it's not s…
Good service shouldn't necessitate support
There's a difference between a service coming with excellent support and a service with excellent support that you rarely have to access. The latter would be any service where issues can be resolv…
A for-publishers stack and the symmetry of globalisation
Journalism as the fourth estate has been noticeably empowered in the Information Age, with technologies like the WWW, broadband connectivity and smartphones in (almost) everyone's pockets. However…
A blogging problem, contd.
Over the last three days, I'd been having a strange issue with WordPress. If you read a post I published yesterday that briefly discussed WordPress's pros and cons, you might remember I mentio…
A dummy’s attempt to set up WordPress
If you’re looking to set up your own self-hosted WordPress blog and you also want to learn how it’s done, I highly recommend using Linode's documentation.…
An opportunity to understand the GPL license
Matt Mullenweg pulled up a WP-competitor for not abiding by the terms of a license that allowed it to emerge in the first place.…
Returning to WordPress... fourth time round.
My blog got me my job. After all, it did make a cameo appearance during my interview, drawing an "Impressive!" from the Editor of the newspaper sitting opposite me. Ever since that episode i…