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- You can see just the articles: on the Articles category page (not to be confused with the /Latest news page, which is more conversational than a list of posts and may include personal news about me in addition to site news)
- Just the blog posts: on the dedicated Blog or nearly-identicalBlog Posts category page.
*Individual movie reviews won't get posted on this page. I write too many of them, it would drown everything else out.
Server Changes Summary — July 24, 2026
July 24, 2026Context: Investigating a WordPress site freeze on michaelkupietz.com. Root cause identified as a burst of 504 timeouts when a bot/crawler hit ~20+ uncached taxonomy archive pages (/genre/*, /topic/*) in rapid succession around 11:42.
File: /etc/php/8.3/fpm/pool.d/17002707405366737.conf
Uncommented:
slowlog = /var/log/php-fpm-slow.log request_slowlog_timeout = 5sReloaded with systemctl reload php8.3-fpm.
Purpose: Logs a full PHP stack trace any time a request takes 5+ seconds, to help diagnose future slowdowns. Negligible performance/disk impact — only…
FileMaker’s consistency check is not thorough, files can still be corrupt
July 24, 2026https://help.claris.com/en/pro-help/content/file-consistency.html - Information that FileMaker's consistency checks are not as reliable as the Recovery function—they don't check as much. (Bear in mind that the recovery doesn't even tell you everything on the front end, you have to read the recovery log to get full info.)
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I've just discovered BullshitAI-GeneratedContentFarm.com is available. I'm not registering it.
I feel like this might be the most adult thing I've ever done.
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To Timeshift Or Not To Timeshift
July 7, 2026Damn. I need to shift my clocks again.
Most people don't know this but, even living in CA, I live on east coast time. For about 5 years now, all my computers and clocks have been set 3 hours ahead of my neighbors. Everybody else at my company starts work at 8AM. I start at 11. They don't know.
But, man, I took a full-time job recently. And I remember this from the last time I had a full-time 9-5 job back in 1995... it's exhausting. A full day of selling your time, the discipline required to do anything with my evening other than recuperate is beyond me.
So, I'm thinking. Let's see, I get off at 7:30 Mike Standard Time (4:30 Pacific)... I go to bed around 3AM Mike Standard Time (Midnight Pacific)... if I shift my schedule 7.5 hours earlier, I could have my full evening…
Bonus Gallery: Fireworks Study Extras
July 4, 2026I had a lot of leftover images from the Fireworks Studies gallery that I had to cut out to keep the album focused, but which I liked a little too much to just let languish on my hard driver... a bunch of images that came out more figurative, plus some more fireworks landscapes and abstracts that didn't make the cut of the main album but which I still liked.
Fireworks Figuratives
Some extra fireworks image leftovers
You're Gonna Lose A Finger: Generative Art—Fireworks Studies
July 4, 2026Studies originally done for a July 4 online generative art competition, I believe? I can't quite recall.
Bonus Galleries: Fireworks Figuratives, plus some extras I liked
(Bonus Gallery Page: Fireworks Study Extras)
Make #named-anchors open under sticky header
July 3, 2026:target {scroll-margin-top: 120px; /* match your sticky header height, to make named anchors always appear under it */ }
Developer WordPress Plugin: Raw HTML Shortcode WordPress Plugin—preserve raw HTML formatting in the classic editor
July 3, 2026I've written a WordPress plugin which gives you a short code [raw]content[/raw] that exempts the enclosed content block from WordPress's wpautop() processing, so you can include raw <style>, <script>, or other html into posts in the code tab of the classic editor without WordPress breaking them by inserting paragraph or line break tags into the code.
If that's enough explanation for you, the plugin can be found on Github at https://github.com/kupietools/ktwp-wp-plugin-raw-html-shortcode.
The longwinded versionIn HTML5, it's acceptable to put [code]
...[/code] tags in page bodies. Even if it wasn't sometimes it's expedient in WordPress to include custom CSS or javascript in a single post. The correct WordPress way to do this is to enqueue CSS and javascript... but this requires writing PHP, and, if you ask me, is one of those case where the "correct" way of doing things doesn't…
“Underwater Moonlight” by the Soft Boys, released this day in 1980
June 28, 2026The Soft Boys released "Underwater Moonlight" 46 years ago today, to absolutely no acclaim from anyone... at the time.
Jangly pop before REM revived that, dark like a Baudelaire poem before goth music hit it big, obscurantist and surrealist (and occasionally as silly) as Bob Dylan 10 years after he was out of fashion, trippy as Syd Barrett while their peers were all listening to punk rock, this might be the worst-timed masterpiece in rock and roll history. To this day, I have never once heard any song from it on the radio, ever. I recall even well into the 90s trying and failing to turn people on to it.
But everyone who knows it, knows.
It was an instant favorite of mine when I heard it 41 years ago, and still is.
