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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge – 2025jun29, “Deleted Scenes Monsters” – Casablanca Uncut
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Slay It Again, Sam: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge – 2025jun29, “Deleted Scenes Monsters” – Casablanca Uncut

This week's LinkedIn Saturday Monster Challenge generative art theme was "Deleted Scene Monsters": show the monsters that ended up on the cutting room floor. And so, I am pleased to…
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Links — Mike’s Other Sites & Pages
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Links — Mike’s Other Sites & Pages

More Kupietz for you? Links to Mike's Other Sites & Pages Music & Sounds: GuitaristInProgress on YouTube - my old YouTube channel, mostly me playing sloppy covers on guitar. Once…
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Contact
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Contact

If you have any questions or concerns, I'm absolutely here to help. To get in touch, come to San Francisco and walk down each street shouting my name. Here's a…
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Filtering LinkedIn Posts, Notifications, and Comments by keyword

Filtering LinkedIn Posts, Notifications, and Comments by keyword

I use the uBlock Origin browser plugin to filter my LinkedIn Posts, Notifications, and Comments to hide anything containing objectionable topics. uBlock Origin allows you to add custom rules to…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Rising Monsters”
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By the time I get there, she'll be rising: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Rising Monsters”

The Saturday Monster Challenge on LinkedIn for June 21 2025 was "Eternal Rise Monsters". I took the theme and decided to do Phoenixes (Phoenices? Phoenixen?), as in "rising from the…
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Deactivating, deleting, and completely removing a plugin that WordPress won’t let you deactivate

Deactivating, deleting, and completely removing a plugin that WordPress won’t let you deactivate

I installed the WordPress plugin LWS Optimize, which turned out to be unusably broken (which is the reason I'm not linking to it) and made my site unusable. To make…
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Website returns 503 server errors, but no errors in logs

Website returns 503 server errors, but no errors in logs

Had a weird one today. Last one website of the several of on this server suddenly started returning 503 (service unavailable) errors. There was nothing in the PHP error log…
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Get names of all input fields in a FileMaker Pro table

Get names of all input fields in a FileMaker Pro table

ExecuteSQL ( "SELECT FieldName FROM FileMaker_Fields WHERE TableName='[TABLE NAME]' AND FieldClass='Normal'",",","¶")
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How to monitor RAM for tuning pm.max_children

How to monitor RAM for tuning pm.max_children

How to monitor RAM usage: free -h: This command shows your system's total, used, and free memory in a human-readable format. Key metrics: total: Total RAM. used: RAM currently in…
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Add sar logging for CPU, RAM, and disk I/O

Add sar logging for CPU, RAM, and disk I/O

Add or change /etc/cron.d/sysstat to this. This creates a cron jobe to write file /tmp/outage_resource_log.txt that keeps minute-by-minute stats, sometimes useful in troubleshooting slowdowns. However, it's not a great way…
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Add /fpm-status page to Apache virtual host

Add /fpm-status page to Apache virtual host

Add this to virtual host file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/, right below DocumentRoot, in both :80 and :443 sections SetHandler "proxy:unix:/var/php-fpm/170027027353667.sock|fcgi://127.0.0.1" Require all granted May need in /etc/php/8.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf, not sure: pm.status_path =…
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View last 200 lines of all access logs on apache server

View last 200 lines of all access logs on apache server

find [path/to/access/logs/folder] -name "*_access_log" -exec sh -c 'tail -200 "$1" | grep -v "HetrixTools\|ok\.txt\|canary" | sed "s/$/ [$(basename "$1" _access_log)]/"' _ {} \; | sort -k4,4 The grep -v "HetrixTools\|ok\.txt\|canary"…
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Linux SQL Tuning Utilities

Linux SQL Tuning Utilities

1. tuning-primer.sh Run from Github: curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BMDan/tuning-primer.sh/main/tuning-primer.sh | bash 2. MySQLTuner.pl wget http://mysqltuner.pl/ -O mysqltuner.pl wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/master/basic_passwords.txt -O basic_passwords.txt wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/master/vulnerabilities.csv -O vulnerabilities.csv perl mysqltuner.pl --host 127.0.0.1 --user [user]…
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Social Features will go here… someday
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Pardon My Placeholder...: Social Features will go here… someday

This site started as an archive for my various art projects, previous scattered hither and yon across the web. As I've been working on it, I've come to want to…
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KupieTools Custom WordPress Plugins Overview
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Customization Is King: KupieTools Custom WordPress Plugins Overview

Pardon My Placeholder! This page is a placeholder listing my various Github repos containing my custom WordPress plugin work, loosely branded as "KupieTools", as I work on more detailed pages…
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Friend-Of-A-Friend “Chart Art” Project

Friend-Of-A-Friend “Chart Art” Project

This is a placeholder to remind me to write about this project. This was what I called "chart art". These are social network graphs created by querying a database of…
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AI Success Story Images
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AI Success Story Images

These were some illustrations I whipped up trying to come up with a header image for an article I wrote on LinkedIn asking about people's real-life experiences with using AI…
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Go
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Go

Among my fascinations and frsutrations is go. This is going to be my page for organizing my thoughts on it as I learn. I get the sense that Go is…
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The Encyclopedia Of AI Apologies (now with bonus AI Swearing and Generative Suicide Threats!)
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The Emperor's New Code: The Encyclopedia Of AI Apologies (now with bonus AI Swearing and Generative Suicide Threats!)

I've spent so much time fruitlessly trying to get LLMs (Large Language Model chatbots, commonly referred to generically as "AI") to actually help me solve coding problems that I've taken,…
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