Tag: siteupdate

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]