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Category: Site Notice

Additional ways to follow my blog posts – 15 Sep 2019

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I’ve added a Telegram Channel today for those who use Telegram Channel. I’m still deciding whether to post headlines only or full posts as I don’t want it too cluttered. But anyone can view it […]

Site Notice#siteupdate

Ham Radio Pages created – 9 Sep 2019

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A new page was started at https://gadgeteer.co.za/hamradio about my new hobby from 2019. I’ve added a page at https://gadgeteer.co.za/winlink about Winlink for sending e-mails over radio without the Internet.

Site Notice#siteupdate

Original Domain Name URL restored now for new site – 4 Jun 2019

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I have managed to transfer and restore the original URL https://gadgeteer.co.za across to the new site so all old links should connect fine now. I’m still checking for any minor bugs or issues but everything seems to […]

Site Notice#siteupdate

Catastrophic Site Outage 19-28 May 2019

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This is the first time I have ever lost site data in over 10 years. Even when I migrated from WordPress to Drupal I managed to bring all my pages and posts over. The outage […]

Site Notice#siteupdate

Major site outage – 8 Jan 2019

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Last night was not a good night… just after I had finished putting the last touches to adding Disqus comments (I’m still trying to remember how I restricted them to only certain pages) I made […]

Site Notice#siteupdate

Enabled easier to use Disqus comments on my blog – 8 Jan 2019

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For a number of years, I have been publishing all my posts to my own hosted blog (first WordPress and then I migrated it all to Drupal) as insurance against social networks disappearing (which they […]

Site Notice#siteupdate

Mixed Content Removed so Some Pages will Load Quicker – 7 Jan 2019

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Unfortunately an .htaccess file update yesterday evening broke the SSL loading for my address at https://gadgeteer. Whilst fixing this and checking the SSL I noticed three pages (including Home, Open Source Software, and Reading) that […]

Site Notice#siteupdate

Subscriptions via e-mail – 15 Dec 2018

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On the My Blog page I have added an option to subscribe to a daily e-mail with excerpts of my blog posts for the prior 24 hours.  This may be preferable to some followers who don’t want […]

Site Notice#siteupdate

Site should be navigating quicker with PHP Opcache installed – 24 Jun 2018

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With Opcache enabled on PHP 7.2 the site should now navigate much faster.

Site Notice#siteupdate

I now have a Riot.im room for blog comments – 11 Mar 2018

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I have created a dedicated room on Riot.im at https://chat.librenet.co.za/#/room/#gadgeteerza:librenet.co.za where my blog posts will also be appearing, and anyone can comment or post there. Riot.im is an opensource alternative to Slack, and can also be used for […]

Site Notice#siteupdate

Viewport settings for mobile devices – 9 Jan 2018

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I have set Viewport settings on my site for mobile devices so hope this will improve page scaling and rendering for mobile devices. Note though that images are rendered to fit on the screens, so […]

Site Notice#siteupdate

Home Assistant Page Created – 8 Jan 2018

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I’ve created the page at https://gadgeteer.co.za/homeassistant to follow my journey as a newbie in setting up and configuring Home Assistant to work. I’ve got as far as the basic set up and editing of config files. I’m currently exploring […]

Site Notice#homeautomation, #siteupdate

Useful Google Home Commands – 6 Jan 2018

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I’ve added a new page today that has a useful grouped selection of commands that can be used with a Google Home device (or with Google Assistant app on the phone). It’s list I previously […]

Site Notice#homeautomation, #siteupdate

Home Automation page added – 6 Jan 2018

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I just added a new page to the site which will deal with home automation devices and projects I’m busy with. It will grow and improve over time as I add more information and upgrade […]

Site Notice#siteupdate

Site upgraded to Drupal 8.4.4 – 5 Jan 2018

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Some downtime today between 14:00 to 15:00 whilst the site was being upgraded. The upgrade is finished and looks like everything is working fine.

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