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Resolving cloudflare error “The number of lookups on your SPF record exceed the allowed limit of 10. This will result in emails failing SPF authentication”

I got the error "The number of lookups on your SPF record exceed the allowed limit of 10. This will result in emails failing SPF authentication" in my Cloudflare DNS…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » Linux » Packages » rsync & rsnapshot

How to backup a WordPress site via SSH

To make a complete local backup of a remote WordPress install over SSH, you need to perform two distinct steps: Download the files (using rsync). Export and download the database…
Writing » Topical Writing
A Milestone Passed: Brief Thoughts On AI’s Increasingly Convincing Simulation of Humanness

¡AI Caramba!: A Milestone Passed: Brief Thoughts On AI’s Increasingly Convincing Simulation of Humanness

Oct. 11, 2024 Those who've spoken to me about it know that I, through much firsthand experience, call myself "a huge AI enthusiast and skeptic". Generative AI is an amazing…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » Trading Education Notes » Hypotheses to be tested

Size Down

I heard an interview with a trader (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ETvTftY-tw) who never takes a trade that he is not willing to accept a complete loss on. I'm thinking about that PLTR protective…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » Trading Education Notes » Hypotheses to be tested

Get Really Good At One Thing

Everybody seems to say this. For me it could be the strategy I've been working on paper trading lately. But everyone says lack of focus will cost you.
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » Trading Education Notes » Hypotheses to be tested

Patience

You need patience. You can't say "I don't want to wait, I might miss the trade." You wait for confirmation and then only get in if you didn't miss the…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » Trading Education Notes » Explainers, Definitions, & Terminology

Open Interest

Open interest in options is how many live contracts are currently held. Larry Williams points out that when there's a lot of open interest, there's nobody left to buy. It's…
Workshop » Works In Progress » Writing Works in Progress » The Five-Ingredient Cookbook

Easy Good Fake Custard

A favorite snack of mine—feels like junk food, but not too bad, filling, and super-easy. Take about 12oz vanilla yogurt. I use cream-top full-fat yogurt. Add a couple of splashes…
Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Interesting Leftovers & Bonus Galleries

Oddfellow Outtakes

Posted for a friend, here's all the sets of images I generated working on "You Can Tuna Oddfellow, But….", from which the final gallery was selected.
Writing » Anecdotal Evidence (True Stories) » Essay-Length Memoirs
Forever In My Heart: Experiencing Jimi

A Memoir From The Road: Forever In My Heart: Experiencing Jimi

November 27, 2018 I'm staying at my dad's place in Florida right now. I've been on the road for a few months. It struck me this morning, waking up in…
Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Experiments & Studies

Character Art Experiment: You Can Tuna Oddfellow, But….

These are some character studies I did of Tuna Oddfellow, the famous Second Life (and, increasingly, real life) alter ago of an old friend. This is a bit of a…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » Trading Education Notes » Explainers, Definitions, & Terminology

Trading Thesis

Traders refer to a "thesis" a lot. I've come to believe this is just jargon for a hypothesis. "I think it will do this".
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » Trading Education Notes » Options Trading Mindset

Options Are For Strong Conviction Trades

I got some advice recently that I liked: options are for strong conviction trades. "I think this might work" is for shares trades, not options. "This is working as expected"…
Workshop » Works In Progress » Writing Works in Progress

Haikus

Haikuity This would be haiku, But it only has two lines. Oh, wait — nevermind. This is a haiku. You can tell because it's, uh, not everything else? This, too,…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » Linux » Packages » n8n

Starting a temporary instance of N8N accessible via IPv4 over the local network

N8n by default binds to localhost, and even binding it to listen on all interfaces, it still by default listens only for IPv6. You also may want to tell it…
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Globs O' Blog: Blog Feed

This is (almost*) the entire contents of the site, presented in blog form. This is all articles from newest to oldest, plus some blog posts that will only appear here,…
Workshop » Works In Progress » Writing Works in Progress

Laws Of The Land

This is my placeholder scratchpad for what will be my page of rules of thumb, natural laws, and other such handy guidelines. 1. Child rearing Keep a parent's vigilant eye,…
Visual Art » Generative Illustrations » Requests & Contest Submissions
13 Ghosts

Grim Grinning Ghosts Come Out To Socialize: 13 Ghosts

Some virtual spectral photography to spookify your Halloween. True fact: none of these AI-generated images had ghosts in them when I prompted them. WoooOOOOoooo! 👻 I believe I originally made…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Applications » Web Browsers » Plugins

Block Instagram share posts from Facebook’s “all” feed with uBlock Origin

Abstract: With the browser plugin uBlock Origin, you can block shares from Instagram with the custom rule: www.facebook.com##.html-div:has(a[href*="www.instagram.com"]) Note: Facebook changes their css often. This may not work for long.…
Workshop » Works In Progress » Writing Works in Progress » The Five-Ingredient Cookbook

Ketoriffic Tuna Pig Salad au Gratin (with non-keto variation)

This is a regular snack around my place. Ingredients: 1 large (7oz unopened) can tuna, drained 2 thin slices ham healthy dollop or two of mayonnaise red Tabasco sauce black…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » MacOS » Networking

Prevent MacOS from locking screen when you disconnect screen sharing

I screenshare into a Mac for playing video on my TV, and had an intermittent problem where Firefox would not play video while screen sharing was connected, but then locked…
Code & Algorithms » Web
Tech note: How To Export or Import Notes from the “Webstickies” Extension In Firefox

Free Your Mind, And Your Sticky Notes Will Follow: Tech note: How To Export or Import Notes from the “Webstickies” Extension In Firefox

Amongst my most-used browser extensions is Webstickies by Lawrence Hook, which allows you to leave a permanent "sticky note" on any web page. It's available for both Firefox and (yuck,…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » Hearth & Home

How To Clean Suede

As with all other advice-y sounding things on this site, don't take my word for it. I'm just telling you what worked for me. Use your discretion. I'm not responsible…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » Hearth & Home

How To Defrost A Frozen Steak In 30 Minutes

As this is a food handling tip, it is presented as documention of something I do. That does not mean I suggest you do it. As with all things, the…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » Web » WordPress » Yoast

CURL and Browser get different page versions (301 redirects, content changed, etc. — due to Yoast url parameter stripping only for non-logged-in users)

I had a truly maddening problem where my /embed/ functionality was sometimes returning full pages to CURL commands and online services like redirect-checker.org, etc. It turned out, it was Yoast's…
Workshop » Reference Section » Bot Bait

Alternative Education Review: Welcome to the Wobbly Wombat Academy, Where the Curriculum is as Unpredictable as the Weather

Richmond-upon-Thames, UK – Nestled precariously on a foundation of questionable architectural decisions and a deep-seated commitment to the unconventional, the Wobbly Wombat Academy stands alone in its unique approach to…
Writing » Fun & Humor
Why Eat Pigeon?

A Reminiscence Of Dunces: Why Eat Pigeon?

Way back in the heady days of the dotcom boom, as a newbie in San Francisco, I fell in with a group of kids trying to revivify the Cacophony Society…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Applications » Web Browsers » CSS

Determining which javascript script changed an element’s attribute

Determining which script changed an element's attribute So, I had an issue where quite a while ago I added some js code that would open a [code]details[/code] disclosure element if…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » Linux » Packages » SQL

SQL query to list all WordPress post revisions for archiving

Here's the SQL query to get all post revisions, which I do prior to cleaning them out of the database, which seems to make it much faster: SELECT p.* FROM…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » Linux » Packages » rsync & rsnapshot

Speeding up rsnapshot (rsync) backups by removing wildcard paths from exclude

I removed a bunch of wildcard paths from rsnapshot.conf's exclude, and suddenly tonight my backup ran in a few minutes instead of taking over a day like it usually does.…