By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-27.
WP-CLI can make WordPress maintenance faster, but speed is only the immediate benefit. For business owners, operations leads, and agencies, its real value is consistency: recurring jobs become easier to document, review, delegate, and repeat across multiple sites.
By Greg Nowak. Updated 10 August 2026.
A MySQL restore that stops at '0000-00-00', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', or an incomplete date such as '2012-00-00' is exposing more than a bad line in a dump. It is usually an old application rule colliding with stricter database validation.
Install latest version of R-studio
Install R-tools 35: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/Rtools35.exe
Install R 3.6.3: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/old/3.6.3/
Install JRE 8 from https://www.java.com/en/download/ and add it to JAVA_HOME system variable name. For example system variable value: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_281
In bash: R -e 'update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE, ask = FALSE)'
Source: https://community.rstudio.com/t/reinstalling-packages-on-new-version-of…
I have an old external seagate ssd 2TB for backup called "BUP Slim BL". It was a challenge to enable the SMART capability on Ubuntu 20.10.
You might give this a go: sudo smartctl -d sat -T permissive --smart=on /dev/sda1
If that does not work, you might need:
echo options usb-storage quirks=$(lsusb | awk '/Seagate/ {print $6}'):u | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/ignore_uas.conf
sudo update-initramfs -u
If you run Ubuntu servers, it is easy to treat every dashboard and monitoring tool as the same buying decision. That usually leads to overlap, unclear ownership, and one more admin screen nobody checks consistently. Cockpit, Monit, ISPConfig, and Landscape can all improve operations, but they solve different problems.
By Greg Nowak. Updated 11 August 2026.
If you are searching for browser-console JavaScript to bulk-delete Cloudflare DNS records, the real problem is probably an untidy migration, an old vendor setup, or a large import that needs reversing.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-12.
Scraping and browser automation projects rarely fail because one selector changes. They fail because the team automates the wrong layer, overlooks operational details, or builds something nobody can diagnose after its original developer moves on.
For business owners, operations leads, and agencies, the important question is not which library is fashionable. It is how to complete the workflow reliably without creating unnecessary infrastructure and maintenance costs.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-17.
Drupal Commerce is a strong option when selling is only one part of a larger digital platform. It gives you Drupal’s content modelling, permissions, multilingual capabilities, and integration flexibility alongside a capable commerce framework. The trade-off is that important business decisions are yours to make: Drupal Commerce provides building blocks, not a pre-packaged operating model.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-20.
A Drupal 9 site still running in 2026 is not simply behind on updates. Drupal 9 has received no official releases since 1 November 2023, so the site should be treated as a managed business risk. That does not automatically justify a rushed rebuild, but it does rule out ordinary maintenance as a sensible long-term plan.
Only High Score is saved on the mobile phone and is not shared with anyone.
Fix with: pkill -U $USER pulseaudio
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-lib/+bug/1865499)
By Greg Nowak. Updated 10 August 2026.
Installing Postfix takes minutes. Making sure password resets, enquiries, invoices, and server alerts actually arrive is the operational work.
For most business and agency-managed servers, Postfix should be a small outbound component rather than a complete mail platform. It accepts messages from local applications, queues them safely, and hands them to an authenticated SMTP relay. This keeps useful retry and logging behaviour on the server while moving much of the public-delivery burden to a specialist provider.
Notes to help others with tonsil stones and pain in the tonsils.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-13.
When Drush fails with a Symfony or PHP fatal error, the stack trace can make the problem look deeper than it is. Often, the command is loading Drush from one installation and Symfony from another. A global Drush binary, a project’s vendor directory, and different PHP runtimes can combine into a toolchain that Composer never resolved or tested as one unit.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-15.
A Drupal 7 site that fails after a move to MySQL 8 can produce an intimidating SQLSTATE[42000] message about NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER. The immediate cause is usually straightforward: Drupal is asking MySQL to enable an SQL mode that the database no longer recognises.
By Greg Nowak. Updated 6 August 2026.
A tidy composer.json will not fix weak dependency decisions. It will, however, make those decisions much easier to see. When formatting, key order and package lists vary from one edit to the next, a simple dependency update can produce a surprisingly noisy pull request.
curl tags: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3074288/get-final-url-after-curl-is…
How to solve CloudFlare protection: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18500088/curl-load-a-site-with-clou…
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-07-28.
Testing whether the current request is the front page looks like a one-line PHP task. On a live site, however, that decision may control the hero, navigation, lead form, analytics or campaign content. Query strings, trailing slashes and subfolder deployments can turn a casual string comparison into a surprisingly expensive bug.
The practical answer is to compare normalized paths, keep the application’s base path configurable and let your CMS or framework decide whenever it already owns the routing.
https://blog.joshlemon.com.au/protecting-your-pdf-files-and-metadata/
https://gist.github.com/hubgit/6078384
exiftool -all:all= $FILE ; qpdf --linearize $FILE output.pdf
imagemagick: mogrify -strip NAME_OF_FILE
Test with: exiftool -all NAME_OF_FILE
