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Start Here—What is the General Reference Library section?

What It Is: Start Here—What is the General Reference Library section?

I have always been a dedicated archiver and curator of interesting information: trivia, facts, tidbits, how-tos, items of possible future interest. In the internet age, some of this it makes…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » Linux » Packages » rsync & rsnapshot

Reducing rsnapshot or rsync resource usage

I've had sporadic problems with clearing the WP cache causing the server to return 520 errors for a few minutes. Usually other sites on the same server are fine, it's…
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Software Index Placeholder

This is a placeholder page left here to remind me to set up a single-page index of links to all my various software projects.
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » Linux » Packages » Git

Force Git to overwrite local changes if there is a branch conflict

Use code you find here at your own risk! I am not responsible if you damage your data or system by following any instructions you find here. Navigate to your…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Applications » Web Browsers » CSS

Getting Web Browsers Not To Blur Images on Retina Screens

Unfortunately this must be set by site, but on retina screens on MacOS, many browsers blur small images, such as 88x31 buttons. You can overcome this, at least for the…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » MacOS » Apps

How to fix if the “Save” button is grayed out in Photoshop CC 2017 save and export dialogs

I don't know if this affects other versions of Photoshop, but on MacOS Photoshop CC 2017 frequently starts unexpectedly graying out all save buttons when you have made changes to…
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Draggable Elements WordPress Plugin

Nothin' But A Drag: Draggable Elements WordPress Plugin

This will be written up in detail, but for now, this is just a demo page for my KupieTools Draggable Elements WordPress plugin. If you select "View Page Source" in…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Applications » Web Browsers » Addons

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…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Troubleshooting log » WordPress

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…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Troubleshooting log

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…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Applications » FileMaker Pro

Get names of all input fields in a FileMaker Pro table

ExecuteSQL ( "SELECT FieldName FROM FileMaker_Fields WHERE TableName='[TABLE NAME]' AND FieldClass='Normal'",",","¶")
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » Linux » Packages » PHP

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…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » Linux » Packages » cron

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…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » Linux » Packages » Apache

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 =…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » Linux » Packages » Apache

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"…
Linux

Linux PHP tuning utilities & commands

1. See memory consumed by php-fpm8.2 (change this to match different PHP version if necessary) ps --no-headers -o "rss,cmd" -C php-fpm8.2 | awk '{ sum+=$1 } END { printf ("%d%s\n",…
Linux

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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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

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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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!)

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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Vocabulary list featured image

Word Salad: Vocabulary List

An unsorted list of words or phrases that I like. Aposiopesis (pron.: /ˌæpəsaɪ.əˈpiːsɪs/; Classical Greek: ἀποσιώπησις, "becoming silent") - a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off…
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Vocabulary

[could probably have a whole website section on words & language] This is a placeholder for a page suggested by captJamesG in the Indieweb writing group meeting at https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-02-04-writing :…
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Insert Clever phrase here: Artificial Stupidity thoughts & references

I write down a lot of thoughts on AI but have never gathered it into a cohesive essay or collection. This is the beginning of loosely collecting my thoughts and…
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Work-In-Progress Preview—#WrappedInPink

Think... Nah, Not Gonna Say It: Work-In-Progress Preview—#WrappedInPink

They've been doing this "#WrappedInPink Challenge" generative art meme on LinkedIn. Here's just a preview of studies of some things I've been working on for it. Not entirely sure what…
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By Request, Wild SF & Wild NYC (Work In Progress)

More Wild Styles: By Request, Wild SF & Wild NYC (Work In Progress)

A cousin of mine was helping work on a volume of poetry and asked if I had more images specifically of San Francisco or New York City in the style…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Troubleshooting log

/Devlog

2025dec3Added KTWP CSS Holiday Lights pluginRemoved lightrope CSS in preparation for moving into a plugin.2025nov27Made under construction message 80% size until hover2025nov16Added "preventduplicates" option to othercatposts shortcode with a default…
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Mike Kupietz, Arctic Explorer — Bio

Michael Kupietz (1848-1922) was a pioneering British Arctic explorer best known for his controversial claim of discovering a tropical paradise at the North Pole and his unorthodox expedition methods, which…