The terrible state of my tech

4 Comments

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   Rowan Rodrik (Post author)

   July 18, 2017 at 23:10

   select distinct comment_status from wp_posts;
   +----------------+
   | comment_status |
   +----------------+
   | open           |
   | closed         |
   +----------------+
   2 rows in set (0.02 sec)
   
   UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = 'closed';
   Query OK, 2687 rows affected (0.05 sec)
   Rows matched: 2745  Changed: 2687  Warnings: 0
   
   UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status = 'closed';
   Query OK, 2680 rows affected (0.06 sec)
   Rows matched: 2747  Changed: 2680  Warnings: 0
   
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   Rowan Rodrik (Post author)

   July 19, 2017 at 19:44

   Spam is actually not that big of a problem once you realize that you have a fancy phone in your pocket, that—unlike my visitor-facing theme—the admin theme is mobile-ready, and that you can just delete spam during lunch, while talking to colleagues.
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   Rowan Rodrik (Post author)

   January 7, 2019 at 22:58

   According to my SVN log—yeah, I still have to convert that project to Git—I finished the redesign of the http://www.bigsmoke.us index page on 2018-10-28. Here’s how it looks now.

   
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   Rowan Rodrik (Post author)

   January 26, 2019 at 21:54

   This week, I finished moving all my websites from NFSN to the Tilaa cloud. Next stop, marilisa.online.