Image Attribution: Alpha Stock Images – http://alphastockimages.com/ I have been on a tear on social media channels and more specifically on my Google/Opentable reviews when it comes to merchants and restaurants incorrectly using of so-called convenience fees. The problem lately is everyone is starting to do it because they THINK it’s …
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James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons This past weekend and the subsequent days since have literally been a roller coaster of emotions. It has ended up resulting in not only the single worst vacation to date, but also created such a blast radius of mis communication, …
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Just about 8 weeks ago, as many people may know, I went in for surgery to repair my left distal bicep tendon. Back in 2022, I was lifting a sheet of plywood in Lowes and ended up with a “high grade partial tear”. I won’t go into the mess that …
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Recently, Cloudways announced the new release of their Autoscale solution for WordPress. Naturally as a Cloudways fan, I wanted to try it out so I signed up for the public beta. The idea behind such a solution for WordPress honestly is the first I have seen. Most folks have been …
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I have sparked a lot of interest with the home lab and tech community about the use of CloudFlare Tunnels and CloudFlare Access. These offerings have a great potential for people like me and others as well as legitimate use for enterprises. That being said, I put on my “what …
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The other day I posted about CloudFlare Tunnels which has gotten a bit of interest around the community. CloudFlare Tunnel on their own are “good” because they allow you to publish an external routable hostname without opening firewall ports and port forwarding. As I have had to address on Twitter …
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Last week I was chatting in the OMBI Discord channel about CloudFlare in general and someone turned me on to the use of their free tunnels. I was not sure what it was all about so down the rabbit hole I decided to go. What became fascinating to me was …
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Late last year I had a new project for STK Promotions to build out this new store for Peacemaker Project 703. As part of that build we setup a new domain which also meant needing to setup new mail senders from the store. Well, really we needed more than that …
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