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WordPress Meetup in Londonderry

22 April 201822 April 2018 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I’ll be speaking next month at the WordPress Meetup about the using Docker to host a development WP server on your laptop. Here’s the writeup: Docker for WordPress Docker enables …

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Life / Software

How to Write Wiki Pages So People Will Read Them

15 January 201829 August 2019 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

So you’ve just learned something cool on a new subject, and you want to let the world know about your discovery. You go to the project’s wiki, and jot it …

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Software

DRY Documentation…

7 November 20178 November 2017 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself – is it relevant for documentation? I recently saw this comment on a forum… I’m not sure how useful it is to remove duplication [from …

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Software

Getting Started with React!

26 August 201627 March 2017 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I’ve been playing with the spate of new Javascript technologies, and ran into a problem. As a beginner in this new ecosystem, I chose one of those big “starter kits” …

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Networking / Software

Bufferbloat on Packet Pushers

23 March 201626 August 2016 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

Back in October, I had the pleasure of chatting with Ethan Banks on the Packet Pushers podcast. In it, we talked about the definition of bufferbloat, and how it harms …

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Software

Debugging Webpack app’s with WebStorm 2016.1

16 March 201629 September 2016 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

[Update Sep 2016: I just posted a support request with Webstorm asking for an updated tutorial on this subject. It’s Ticket WEB-23528] It recently became possible to debug both server-side …

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Software

Hacking with React – A great book

22 February 201626 August 2016 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I wanted to learn React, and I have been wandering around the Internet, looking at a zillion “how to get started” tutorials. I’m not sure what made me stop and …

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Software

Cmder for Windows – Alternative to PuTTY

1 January 20163 November 2017 - by Rich Brown - 1 Comment

For some unfathomable (to me) reason, Windows doesn’t seem to ship with a SSH program out of the box. I’ve used the venerable Putty in the past, but it makes …

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Networking / Software

Bufferbloat and the Ski Shop

1 May 201512 March 2021 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

Bufferbloat is undesirable latency caused by a router buffering too much data. It makes your kids say, “The Internet is slow today, Daddy”. It’s caused by routers and other network …

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Networking / Software

New CeroWrt Router scripts

1 May 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I posted a set of scripts that people can use to test, configure and debug their CeroWrt router installations. CeroWrt router firmware is a test bed for learning about and …

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