Geek | Programming

The Quest For Configuration Management

ByTim Nolte March 21, 2017March 23, 2017 Updated onMarch 23, 2017

Configuration Management vs. Application Release Automation

Tim Nolte

Technical Architect

A Christ-follower, husband, father, and WordPress Developer with Forum One.

Geek

I’m A Geek…Of Course

ByTim Nolte April 5, 2011July 18, 2014 Updated onJuly 18, 2014

Well, this is just a short post to test out my own new URL shortening service thanks to the help of bit.ly. So now when I post something my links should us http://nltf.am. Yes, I’m a geek. 😉

Featured / Geek / IndieWeb / Social Networking / Tech

Fixing OpenLiteSpeed Caching for ActivityPub on WordPress

ByTim Nolte April 9, 2023March 10, 2024 Updated onMarch 10, 2024

After some conversation with others on #Mastodon about other caching issues with #ActivityPub & #WordPress it was revealed that it came down to the Accept headers being received by requests to the caching services. The caching services could be things like #Cloudflare or web servers such as #OpenLiteSpeed, or even WordPress caching plugins. In my case I use the OpenLiteSpeed web server caching and I started digging into how caching works in OpenLiteSpeed and how I could fix it for my WordPress site.

Links / Programming / WordPress

Free Unlimited WordPress Test Installs

ByTim Nolte May 15, 2017July 1, 2019 Updated onJuly 1, 2019

Development / Geek / Notes / Programming / WordPress

WordPress Meetup 3/21/19

ByTim Nolte March 21, 2019March 21, 2019

Show & Tell WPRig – Morten Rand-Hendrickson (to be next guest speaker) Bold Grid Cloud WordPress Repo Testing – WordPress Theme/Plugin Tester Poopy.Life – Temporary WordPress Installs BrowserStack – Website/Browser Testing Service Grav – Static Site CMS Statamic – Static Site Generator Hugo – Static Site Generator Strattic – Static Site Generator for WordPress Caldera Forms – WordPress Form Generator https://www.simplystatic.co/ https://www.hardypress.com/ WordPress Related Job Market Job Options Non-Technical WordPress Website Work Content – articles, documentation Editing Strategy Auditing SEO – implementing, auditing, specialization Services Marketing Social media management community engagement Help Others Administration Business Management Project Management Support Non-WordPress Businesses Looking to start something new in WordPress Finding A Job Continue Where You Started Examine Your Experiences Get Out There Have Conversations Getting Hired…

Notes / Programming

WordCamp GR 2017 – Underscores & Me – Frederick Polk

ByTim Nolte August 26, 2017August 26, 2017

Frederick Polk – http://oneblackcrayon.com/ Generate your Underscores Theme: Use a custom build, with the Advanced Options, in order to tailor to your project needs. – https://underscores.me/ Underscores is Pre-built With: Sidebars Custom Logo Comments Featured Images Custom Headers Standard Core Theme Templates (404, comments, archives, header, footer) phpcs Sample Sites: amplifygr.com – Underscores, Visual Composer (Page Builder) bigdataignite.com – Visual Composer, Paid Theme oxx.com – Layer Slider, Visual Composer, Underscores Grand Valley State University, Pew Campus, Grand Rapids, MI

Geek / Programming / WordPress

WordPress Development On A Chromebook, Termux, & Neovim

ByTim Nolte June 13, 2018July 1, 2019 Updated onJuly 1, 2019

So about 6 months ago I decided to make some changes to my personal development environment. I’ve been using a Chromebook as my primary machine since about 2013. I first purchased an Acer C710 for my wife to use but compared to our Macbook Pro it was a frustrating and subpar experience for her, not to mention she was a heavy Adobe Suite user. Since sharing the Macbook Pro was challenging I set out to use the Chromebook as me development machine. Originally I went with the crouton option. It was pretty sweet to have a full Linux environment alongside Chrome OS. I was then running a full LAMP environment with PhpStorm as my IDE. This worked OK, I had performance and stability issues at…