Little Bits of Cheese

Little Bits of Cheese

  • February 17, 2018

    Keeping It Clean

    I went through my debug log tonight, which had been a bit long mainly due to older plugins throwing warnings in PHP 7.

    Of four plugins generating PHP 7 warnings, two had merged-but-unreleased fixes, one has a pending PR that I could apply and confirm working, and wrote a PR for the last one.

    Clean logs here I come!

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    php, php7
  • January 29, 2018

    Children’s Allergies

    Over on the Daddy Blog, I shared a video of a 4-minute presentation I gave on one of the challenges of having a kiddo with food allergies. Watch the video below or click the link above to read the transcript.
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    Daddy’s Corner, Food, Microblog
    allergies, olivia
  • January 25, 2018

    Venmo’s Defaults

    Venmo’s default settings are very uncomfortable. I’ve never used this payment service by PayPal before and, by default, I am friends with all of my phone’s contacts—I opted out of linking to Facebook—and I would automatically make public anytime I exchanged money. Not only to my “friends”, but totally public.

    I shouldn’t know that someone I worked with 20 years ago gave someone else money to fix their hot water heater.

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    • X
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  • January 16, 2018

    Calendar Scratchpad?

    My dentist's calendaring program had a "scratchpad" where they could drag an appointment, then find where on the calendar they wanted it, then drag it back into the calendar grid. Anyone know of a Google Calendar-compatible OS X app that has something like that?
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    • Facebook
    Microblog, Technology
  • January 8, 2018

    Criminals… What?

    In our neighborhood Facebook group, a neighbor reported her car was broken into with stuff stolen. And they vomited in the passenger seat.

    Any suggestions for home security cameras?

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    • Facebook
    Austin, Microblog
    crime
  • January 6, 2018

    Dropping Google Apps

    I’ve been using a G Suite/Google Apps/Gmail for your Domain address for a decade at least. Generally, this had been fine for me until relatively recently. I can’t do the following with them:

    • Google Fi
    • Google Fiber
    • Family Sharing for Google Music/Apps/Movies

    All in all, it hasn’t been that much of a pain but with Google Fiber, I get 1TB of storage that is attached to an account I don’t do anything with, our Google Music account is tied to a different account than my Google Assistant so “Okay Google play (something)” doesn’t work right and so on.

    I’m thinking about consolidating everything to a single Gmail.com-based account and setup Gmail to send as my actual email address.

    Anyone gone through a similar process? Ideally, I’d like to lose as little data but will assume there will be some along the lines of playlists, etc.

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  • January 4, 2018

    Home Again

    I’ve spent at least one night not in my own bed in each of the last nine calendar weeks. I’m now home with no travel scheduled for at least this month. Whew!
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  • January 2, 2018

    More blogging and less social media

    Entering 2018, I plan on setting a New Years’ resolution of using social media less, and blogging more.

    Source: More blogging and less social media

    The founder of Drupal, a “competing” CMS to WordPress hits the nail on the head here. I’m planning on doing the same.

    I do like that I look up old friends on Facebook. I like it as a directory, but as a content consumption tool, it seldom brings joy to my day. Maybe if it had a filter to only display “life news”—weddings, births, illnesses, deaths, new jobs and the like.

    So yeah, here’s to blogging more and owning my own content more in 2018.

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  • January 1, 2018

    Peace in 2018

    Today is January 1st, which in the Catholic tradition in the Solemnity for Mary, Mother of God and, since the 1960s, World Day of Peace.

    Global peace is a hard nut to crack and something I feel powerless to directly impact. But, for 2018, I pray that we all can create for ourselves a little sliver of peace in our day-to-day life with the hope that it will inspire others to do the same and, in the end, makes the world a little better.

    Being at peace doesn't mean inaction or acceptance of the world as it is, either. It is a calmness that centers us toward our Creator, hearing the whispers of the Holy Spirit guiding us to know what we can or can not do, strengthen us to do those things we can do but are afraid to, and settles us when we worry about the things we can not do.

    I look forward to 2018 as a year of hope and of hopeful action.

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  • December 31, 2017

    The Gift Card Isn’t Quite Enough

    I'm both proud of being so close to the gift card amount and upset at Target for not eating the one cent. They spent more on processing than they gained on the transaction.

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