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It’s the Lunar New Year tomorrow, and I suppose this blog, metaphorically, could do with some spring cleaning. I had really wanted to do a visual overhaul, but unfortunately, I only found time to do some simple ...
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I’ve run my personal blog website for over ten years. Although it may be just a personal website, not a busy e-commerce platform or high-security outfit, I’ve always made sure it’s run professionally, and ...
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A brief outage happened on my website this afternoon. While applying some package updates that didn’t happen automatically on the Linux server hosting the WordPress blog, the upgrade broke, and then Apache httpd server ...
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Google is determined to make the web better. PageSpeed Insights, which I mentioned last year, is a great tool for owners to quickly determine how their websites fare, in terms of mobile speed, desktop speed, and usability on ...
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The year end holidays are here. Thanksgiving is coming up next Thursday and although we don’t really celebrate that holiday in Singapore, we do keep watch on Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Then, there’ll be ...
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Fonts, and more generally, typography, are important components of a website that impact user experience. I’ve always given considerable thought in selecting the fonts to use in my blog website. Over two years ago, I chose ...
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Of late, I’ve been struggling to fix an annoying anomaly on my blog. I had noticed that posts shared from my blog to Facebook were showing with the wrong post details. Instead of showing the specific title and content ...
| Technology
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Not too long ago, while checking out Google Analytics for my blog website, confirming NetMarketShare’s declaration that Chrome is the most popular web browser on the Internet, I noticed a few other interesting analytics ...
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I’ve been running my WordPress blog for about 9 years. During this time, there have been many changes, both front-facing ones as well as the underlying technical bits. As a techie, I like to build and tweak ...
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Earlier this month, Facebook made their new Instant Articles feature available to all publishers. In a nutshell, when a content publisher puts an article on Instant Articles, users browsing Facebook using its mobile app can see ...
